Tag: freedom
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Caged Bird
Maya Angelou‘s poem, Caged Bird, is concerned with the lack of freedom. This theme is established through the comparison of the two birds – one free to fly where it will, the other with clipped wing, confined to a cage. This is a blatant image and leaves little to the imagination of the reader. Of…
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Where have all the flowers gone?
God is in His Heaven and all is well with the world. To slightly misquote the great Robert Browning. Except He isn’t anymore, is He? It isn’t entirely the fault of the postmodernists – the First World War didn’t do much for the devotion to the Supreme Being – but, whereas the war had unforeseen…
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Caught on the Key
“Other than my books, there’s nothing I’ve wanted.” Vivian Bell’s explanation to her Reno lawyer of why she wants to leave a “decent marriage” leads to his remarking, “It’s a rare woman who wants out with no strings.” At this point in ‘Desert Hearts’ (1985), Vivian lets this blatant sexism slide. In fact, one of…
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The Frosted Blade
Deacon Frost – cool name. As a vampire who was ‘turned’, we can say that Deacon Frost is thricely ‘authored’. Originally, he was – as with all human beings – the product of his parents’ union and his upbringing. However, upon his being bitten by a vampire, he then became the product of this ‘Sire‘.…
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