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Titanic and Female Christian Thought
By the time we see Rose DeWitt Bukater having (very much having and not enjoying) her first meal on the Titanic, the cynicism revealed in her opening comments about the ship and in her attitude towards her mother and fiancé’s high society affectations has solidified into total disillusionment. When Bruce Ismay, the director of the Continue reading
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‘Of Envy’ in Christian Womanhood
I recently revisited some of the Francis Bacon essays that were assigned as reading in the first year of my literature degree and was having a grand old time enjoying the transhistoricity of Bacon’s thoughts until I got to a line in ‘Of Envy’ that made my heart drop to my feet. In a single Continue reading
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Atonement Revisited: On Writing and ‘The Briony Question’
I can’t technically join the masses in saying Atonement is Ian McEwan’s masterpiece, being the only novel of his that I’ve read. But I happily join them in singing its praises as a masterful piece of literature. McEwan’s prose is spellbindingly beautiful and the novel is rich with the metaphors and biting social commentary that Continue reading