Sensing the look of either a stranger or of a friend at us may trigger questions and suspicion within ourselves concerning our own subject, while it may also raise fear of exposure and “possessedness”. Gazing admiringly at someone out of affection may seem acceptable as far as social and interpersonal behavioural norms are concerned. One…
“Our wives, like their writings, [are] never safe but in our closets under lock and key,” claims Pinchwife, my favourite source of quotes when it comes to William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy, The Country Wife. The association of women and writing, which is a recurring motif in this comedy, casts light upon a serious contemporary…
“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.” (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) One of the things which might lead us to mistake Neil Gaiman’s novel for…
Whenever you hear the words ghost town, zone, or stalker, you immediately think of Chernobyl or some other distant soviet ruins. It might be surprising to many, that such places exist in our own vicinity, inside the borders of Budapest. One of the most well known ghost sites is the Istvántelek train depot. Although it is…
Manipulation of the patriarchal order by means of a letter − this is one of the main topics I am going to investigate while I continue my research in order to extend an eight-page essay I have produced during the previous semester. This essay, which is dealing with William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy The Country Wife,…
“Why didn’t adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?” (The Ocean at the End of the Lane ch.6) When I finished reading Neil Gaiman’s most recent novel written for adults, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, I realised that the above question, which was posed by…
Friday afternoon, the end of March, the sun is shining. Vörösmarty Square, the Gerbeaud, the English flag and the British Embassy, at last. I’ve never been there before. It is a very big day. The day of the International Public Speaking Competition where all the participants have to prove their thoughts about the theme: “Imagination…
The 2013 Baz Luhrman adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is regarded by many as an over stylized, extremely dramatic mixture of glitter and blood. Probably this is the reason why it puts off so many viewers and earns such violent criticism. Yet I was recommended to watch it by at least…