"Trials are lessons that you failed to learn, presented once again. So, where you made a faulty choice before, you can now make a better one and escape all pain that you chose before has brought you" – A Course in Miracles. In our minds, all people construct "story of their lives" based on their l...
Despite this common thread throughout contemporary fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham choose to add a twist to this common theme in modern literature. ... It is a very strange twist that both authors have added to modern literature, because suicide is generally seen as a negative thing, while in these two novels it is seen as a positive thing; an escape from the tortures of everyday life. ... Septimus knew that his life would never get any better than it was right now and just decided to end it on that high note. ...
Travis and Barlowe (1995) make note of the fact that in the "original" myth of Ovid, Perseus "seeks the power of Medusa's evil eye, which is the ability to arrest, immobilize, and make statues of others" (pp. 47). ... It is worth noting the conclusion made by modern scholars Travis and Barlowe who point out that by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can remind us all of the oppressive disc...
