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Tempest is the duality between nature and society. This is made evident through the character of Caliban: the disfigured fish-like creature that inhabits the island at which the play takes place. Caliban lacks civilized influence due to the...
Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia), usually just called Utopia (trans. 2005), is a dialogue between the narrator and a seafarer named Raphael Hythloday in which the t...
use of utopias—that is, forms of thinking that depict a desirable but impractical state of things. The term utopia derives from the eponymous book (1516) by Thomas More, who coined it to designate the imaginary ideal society that he describ...
Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler is a realistic and psychological portrait of high society in the late nineteenth century. Hedda Gabler, is the daughter of a general Gabler, and after the death of her father Hedda believes that she is "tired of da...
of English Literature. Volume 1B. Eighth edition. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 2005 In Thomas Moore's Utopia, he states an ideal society different from his own life. He explores the world called "Utopia" and describes the life in it w...
and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) The Praise of Folly is one of the most important books of Renaissance Humanism and one of the most perfect expressions of the sentiments and philosophy of its author, Desiderius Erasmus. Its historical imp...
Tocqueville was a gentleman-scholar who emerged as one of the world’s great prophets. More than a century and a half ago, when most people were ruled by kings, he declared that the future belonged to democracy. He explained what was needed ...