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She Bows…and Arrows
If I had to pick one scene from The Young Victoria as my favorite, it would be the one where Prince Albert is teaching Victoria how to shoot an arrow from her bow. Apart from reminding me strongly of a...
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Pemberly E(State) of Art
Imagine you know a guy who is, in your opinion, the most pompous, vain, and arrogant person you’ve ever met. He’s said and done some awful things (and some not so awful things), and you’ve sworn to...
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Where is my daughter?
I was in the sixth grade when I first read Wuthering Heights. It was an abridged version, thankfully, and I remember not being able to decide whether I liked it or not. Since then, I’ve read the...
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Human Suffering Down the River
Open your text of The Four Feathers, turn to Chapter XXIV – ‘On the Nile,’ then look at the passage that begins thus: “It was a common story and the logical outcome of the belief that life and death...
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The Covers of the Covers
From what we’ve learned in class so far, we’ve pretty much established that good books, especially if old and very good, will always be adapted into one form or the other— we have spin-off novels,...
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Finding Fagin
So I’d read Oliver Twist quite a few years ago and sometime in high school had also watched Polanski’s adaptation of it (which I realized around 20 minutes into the class movie screening- go figure!)....
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Catering to the Male Gaze: Miss India Menu
The fastest, easiest distinction one could make between Jane Austen’s Jane and Lizzie Bennet is this: the pretty one and the smart one, respectively. But if I attempted to describe them this way with...
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The Older Sister
A few days ago, I was talking to one of my professors about how we couldn’t figure out the ending of the novel Jane Eyre, and how it is just as difficult to write endings as it is to interpret and be...
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