Papers by Ala Eddin Sadeq
This study explores Alice Walker’s presentation of the double victimization of black women in the... more This study explores Alice Walker’s presentation of the double victimization of black women in the culture of African-American people in her novel The Color Purple (1985). It emphasizes the significance of Walker’s portrayal of this dilemma, since living in South America has a profound impact on black people in general, and on women in particular. Women in that society suffer from double-otherness, being subjugated not only by white people, but also by black men. Walker has both positive and negative feelings about the South, which greatly influences the accuracy of the events presented in the novel. Walker has an amalgamation of negative and positive feelings towards the South; which justifies her temptation to romanticize the literature about the region, and promotes her ability to present an authentic account. In The Color Purple , Walker gives an account of the experiences of African-Americans women in a society dominated by male and white people. Through sketching the character...
Asian Social Science
Poetry is greatly influenced by the cultural background and personal experiences of the poets. Em... more Poetry is greatly influenced by the cultural background and personal experiences of the poets. Emily Dickson’s poems exemplify this because she draws a lot of her motivation from her heritage of New England and her life experience which had harsh incidents such as loss of friends and relatives. She lives a life of seclusion, where she rarely has face-to-face encounter with her friends as she prefers communicating through letters. Her limited interaction with the society gives her adequate space to reflect and write about different aspects of life. Emily’s poetry is also influenced by the doubts she holds about Christianity, especially in relation with survival of the soul after death. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "I Heard a Fly Buzz- when I Died" are among her popular poems that indicate her religious doubt. She agrees with some of the Calvinist religious beliefs, but still has some doubts about the innate depravity of mankind and the concept of the a...
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Feb 1, 2017
This study aims at investigating the concepts of success and power, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzg... more This study aims at investigating the concepts of success and power, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned (2009). Cultural change motivates individuals to work harder to achieve success, which in turn makes them influential. The study reveals that the concepts of success and power are controversial, as their means vary from one theorist to another. Waldo Emerson, for example, believes that success is connected to happiness. He, therefore, lists down features that characterize successful people. To succeed, one must learn to follow their desires, an argument that is expounded by the ideology of the American Dream. Friedrich Nietzsche, however, explains that individuals are motivated to lead due to the fact that power brings about the superman. To achieve the status of the superman, Nietzsche believes that individuals develop the will to power and are able to influence others (Nietzsche, 1968). Fitzgerald, on the other hand, makes it clear that power leads to liberty. The novel provides a deep analysis of the quest for power and success. The main characters are Gloria, Joseph, and Anthony who helps to demonstrate the quest for success and power. Richard Caramel is also a character whose role explains the pursuit of true happiness. He is depicted as powerful because he influences the society through his writings. He has a strong determination to be a writer, which motivates him to work hard and to seek further success.
(1885-1930) is a 20th century feminist writer who focuses on the central issue of discovering the... more (1885-1930) is a 20th century feminist writer who focuses on the central issue of discovering the true nature of male and female relationship. He believes that the health of a civilization and the harmony of this existence are all dependent upon the realization of a perfect human relationship. The foundation of this relationship is the relation between a man and a woman through a marriage or bond, which is free from the instincts of domination and traditional role playing. It must also ensure the partners' acceptance of each other's independent individuality and being. This search for the criterion of perfect relationship seems to be a dominating theme in almost all of Lawrence's novels starting with The White Peacock (1911) and ending with Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The paper aims to show that The Rainbow (1915) is an experimental novel that highlights Lawrence's search for a meaningful and complimentary relationship between a man and a woman. He undertakes the task of exploring the true foundation of this relationship through contrasting three different sets of marriages between the Brangwen men and women. From this perspective, the novel becomes a laboratory for investigating the norms of a perfect relationship between the couple. Lawrence transforms his novel into a laboratory of investigation, where he contrasts the varying relationships, viewpoints, and response of both his male and female characters for the sake of discovering a reliable base for a perfect relationship between the sexes. The paper proposes that The Rainbow establishes the stone base for comprehending Lawrence's ideologies on this matter. Thus, it is virtually important to understand its experimental strategy prior to embarking on further investigation of the author's varying treatment of the same issues in his other works.
The aim of this study is to trace the origin of the concept of "gentility" and its development ov... more The aim of this study is to trace the origin of the concept of "gentility" and its development over the course of time. The meaning of the word has shifted slightly since its original use in the classification system. During the Industrial Revolution, the meaning of the word "gentleman" expanded to include the merchants, clergy, army officers, and parliamentary members. The mercantile elites were referred as gentlemen due to the wealth and influence that they had amassed. The text selected for analysis is Jane Austen's Emma (1816), which highlights the themes of social classes. The novel presents characters that belong to different classes, and sheds light on ideas such as the superiority of the upper-class over the middle and low-class people, and the attempts that people make to climb to higher classes in the society.
This paper deals with an exploration of the poetry world of E. E. Cummings' (Edward Estlin Cummin... more This paper deals with an exploration of the poetry world of E. E. Cummings' (Edward Estlin Cummings, October 14, 1894-September 3, 1962) from a linguistic perspective. For limitations of time and space, a couple of his representative poems are selected with the purpose of conducting a stylistic analysis of his poetry in the light of discourse analysis with particular reference to lexical and syntactic features that help make Cummings' style a peculiar example of style as deviation from the norm.
Linguistics Culture Education, Sep 10, 2013
Brian Moore (1921 -1999) was born in Northern Ireland. He immigrated to Canada in 1948, where he ... more Brian Moore (1921 -1999) was born in Northern Ireland. He immigrated to Canada in 1948, where he was a reporter for the Montreal Gazette. He later moved to settle in the United States. Moore's fame springs from writing about exiled individuals. Fergus (1970) is one of his poignant novels that focus on delineating the artisthero struggle with the mass media in self exile in the States. Moore believes that modern mass media can either be a means of creation or a weapon of self-destruction in any artist's life, whether an actor,a painter or a writer. In his novel Fergus, he focuses on delineating rather the negative impact of the life of publicity and mass media on the hero, who is a writer of an Irish descent like himself. He adopts the technique of presenting a hallucinatory kind of reality in which the actual world of the hero is inhabited by visiting ghosts of dead people from his past life in Ireland. Moore's purpose in using this method is to highlight the readers understanding of true nature of the sacrifices that an artist makes for achieving his dream of living a celebrity figure in a place like America. Yet, Fergus's predicament as an artist in exile is intertwined with Moore's personal crises in Ireland. The novel becomes a medium for filtering his passion and nostalgia for his parents' world, despite its stagnation and conflicting realities.
Kathleen Mansfield is one of the outstanding twentieth century short story writers. Her short sto... more Kathleen Mansfield is one of the outstanding twentieth century short story writers. Her short story Bliss (1922) describes a day in the heroine, Bertha Young's life who is preparing for a grand dinner party to be held in the evening in her own house. She intends to reveal to all her guests her utter exultation and contentment with husband Harold. She imagines that she has everything she hopes for in her marriage to him. Eventually, the experiences of the party climax into a disastrous realization both of her husband's deception of her and her own naive and unconscious perception of the true meaning of the status of the bliss in her life with him. She also discovers that complete happiness or rapture is either non-existent or superficially achieved within the social reality of male domination and female role playing.
This paper deals with an exploration of the poetry world of E. E. Cummings' (Edward Estlin Cummin... more This paper deals with an exploration of the poetry world of E. E. Cummings' (Edward Estlin Cummings, October 14, 1894-September 3, 1962) from a linguistic perspective. For limitations of time and space, a couple of his representative poems are selected with the purpose of conducting a stylistic analysis of his poetry in the light of discourse analysis with particular reference to lexical and syntactic features that help make Cummings' style a peculiar example of style as deviation from the norm.
Since each culture has its own unique identity, there is often a problem of communication gaps. C... more Since each culture has its own unique identity, there is often a problem of communication gaps. Cultural communication gaps are crucial issues that influence all types of communication all over the world. These gaps are often the underlying reason for major misunderstandings or misinterpretations among the members of different cultural communities. The first aim of this paper is to examine some of the problems that are caused by cultural differences on the basis of linguistic communication, i.e., the verbal means of contact between the source language culture and target language culture. The analysis in this study will be limited to English as a representative of the source language culture (SL) and Arabic as the target language one (TL). The second aim of the study is to suggest some methods for dealing with the problems of cross cultural communication such as understanding the source language culture from various perspectives in order to find a suitable equivalent meaning in the target language. Knowing the shared linguistic features in the language of the two cultures will help to avoid many misinterpretation problems. Adding explanatory foot notes in the case of some cultural items that cannot be easily translated will be also of great assistance in this direction. Then paper is divided into four sections. Section one deals with the meaning of culture and communication. Cultural gaps and problems of misinterpretation with some solutions are explained in section two. Section three focuses on the main problems of cultural gaps in linguistic communication and offers some solutions to them. Finally, section four is the conclusion which summarizes the major findings of this study.
Asian Social Science, Jan 1, 2011
Utopian themes reflect the spirit of the age which produces them, and echo its problems, ailments... more Utopian themes reflect the spirit of the age which produces them, and echo its problems, ailments and concerns.
Asian Social Science, Jan 1, 2010
The present paper is an attempt to explore Coleridge's critical potentialities and significant co... more The present paper is an attempt to explore Coleridge's critical potentialities and significant contributions to literary theory and criticism. The first question that will be stressed here is the reasons, conscious and unconscious alike, that have driven a leading romantic poet of his caliber to shift from verse writing to devote his time almost exclusively to criticism, public culture, religion or politics. Of equal interest is the nature of his critical enterprise whether theoretical or practical and its intellectual, epistemological and artistic foundations. The final section is a general view of the impact his critical writings have left on the literary scene and the different reactions writers hold toward his practices.
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