Monday, March 2, 2009

Poem The Cat in the Hat

Copyright 1975 by Dr Seuss

The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.

I sat there with Sally.
We sat there, we two.
And I said, "How I wish
We had something to do!"

Too wet to go out
And too cold to play ball.
So we sat in the house.
We did nothing at all.


Comparative Essays - The Little Glass Slipper’ by Perrault and ‘Cinderella’ by Dahl

The tale of Cinderella has been recognized around the world and the themes from the tale appear in the folklore of many cultures. Thus, many versions emerge based on the archetypal character of Cinderella where most of the versions always center around a benevolent, but persecuted heroine who happens to be the victim of her step-family after the death of her mother. Her father is either absent or neglectful, depending on the version. The heroine also has a magical guardian (fairy godmother) who helps her to defeat her persecutors and receive her fondest wish by the end of the tale. The same sort of clothing, usually a shoe or a glass slipper also shapes the story where at the end the heroine is recognized for her truth worth. What is an archetype? According to Bert.O States (1980: 334) archetype is best described as:

…a sort of quark in the structure of time whose existence we can only posit as being necessary to explain the phenomenon of unintentional recurrence. In fact, unlike the quark (which, as I write, we have just caught streaking boldly through matter), the archetype is not discrete at all but the ghost of a former form, endlessly migratory, infinitely tolerant of new content, ever fresh, ever archaic.


Comparative Literature - A Comparative Critical Essay

Comparative literature, the combined study of similar literary works written in different languages, which stresses the points of connection between literary products of two or more cultures, as distinct from the sometimes narrow and exclusive perspective of English Literature or similar approaches based on one national canon. Advocates of comparative literature maintain that there is, despite the obvious disadvantages, much to be gained from studying literary works in translation.


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