Which is your favorite Harry Potter character? We may have a host of them! Here’re the 10 best Harry Potter characters of all time, according to us. If you ask any Harry Potter fan, books or movies we don’t judge, what attracts them to this franchise, the answers will range from having grown up with…
In the realm of literature, few movements have been as influential and boundary-breaking as modernist literature. Emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this literary revolution challenged traditional storytelling conventions and gave birth to new forms of expression. From the stream-of-consciousness narrative style of James Joyce to the fragmented structure of T.S. Eliot’s…
Halloween might be over, but the spritely fun around it still lives. Our author, here, looks into two popular ghosts in literature – Moaning Myrtle and Hamlet’s Father – and analyses their popularity and significance in pop culture. Ghosts and spirits have long captivated the human imagination. In all forms of media – literature, magazines,…
Learn why The Nixie of the Mill-pond is a fairy tale that retains its themes despite multiple translations and retellings across borders. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are no strangers when we broach conversations about fairy tales in classrooms or book clubs. Many of the universally renowned fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Red…
This essay delves into the history of Penny Dreadfuls in Victorian England and their continuing impact on the popular imagination. In the dimly lit streets of Victorian England, a peculiar form of entertainment emerged in the 1800s, captivating the hearts and minds of the masses – the Penny Dreadfuls. If the term – Penny Dreadfuls…
Before we jump into the myth pool of monsters and the various monster archetypes that became cultural touchstones, we must first ask ourselves what exactly is a monster. The Latin root ‘monere’ speaks of a portent. A monster is a messenger bearing a warning of catastrophe, a herald of the bad things to come. If…