G. K. Chesterton

The journalist, poet and author G. K. Chesterton is perhaps best known for his series of detective short stories, Father Brown, adapted into a TV series in 2013. Nevertheless, he should perhaps be best known as a leading figure in the renaissance of Catholic thought in England – his writings are known to have influenced many figures in 20th century Christian apologetics, including, most famously, C. S. Lewis, who discussed Chesterton’s influences on his life and work in his autobiography, Surprised

While doing research on G.K. Chesterton and his literary masterpiece, I came upon this question “What is the difference between progress and growth?” to which G.K. Chesterton answered “The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside of us.” This statement is just one of the plethora of quotations of a man who never attended any university, and it amazing how he can say something about everything

Mr. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a fascinating man. He weighed nearly 290 pounds. He was so large that P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud sound as “a sound like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.” Chesterton once remarked to George Bernard Shaw, his friendly enemy in many a debate and exchanged essay, “To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England.” Shaw responded, “To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it.” Chesterton originally attended the Slade

In 1911, G. K. Chesterton publishes “The Innocence of Father Brown”, a book with numerous detective stories that besides entertaining does a great job in describing the culture of England at the beginning of the 20th century. By looking into “The Hammer of God”, one of the stories, a reader also gets an insight into the life of a small English community. Mainly focusing on Wilfred Bohun, the protagonist of the story, a limited narrator gives a somewhat biased description of other characters. However

G.K. Chesterton was talented author, most famous for his Father Brown series. He was born on May 28, 1874 in England. As a child, Mr. Chesterton had a strong interest in illustration and art. Frequently, Mr. Chesterton would illustrate his own works as well as books for his colleagues, E.C. Bentley and Hilaire Belloc. Even though as a child he did not seem intelligent, Mr. Chesterton successfully ran a debate club at the age of 16, where he created a magazine for the club called, “The Debater.” Another

“ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, “ as Bruce Feirstein would say. The insane are merely the ones who are not given their chance to change the world. They are, instead, locked away before society begins to take grip on the ravings of the mad man. Genius, on the other hand, is what is created when the insane are given their time to speak out. When Renfield began to address himself to the question he was confronted with, he did so with the utmost impartiality of

The role of the artist was especially important to Chesterton in 1908 because during that time Britain was booming with unemployed anarchist; Chesterton states in his own novel that “An artist disregards all governments, abolishes all conventions. The poet delights in disorder only." (Chesterton, Pg. 8) meaning that a true artist lives free of a government; they are free to create as they please without following rules. The rules simply restrict their creativity and abilities. The role of the artist

It Might Have Gone Something Like This In “Queen of Knives”, Neil Gaiman exemplifies how unreliable our narrator is in dealing with death and derangement. Through this naïve narration, we are presented with a story in which the narrator; a young boy at that time, recalls how a magician vanishes his grandmother during a magic show. Upon closer analysis we will see that Gaiman actually implies that the grandmother has died causing the grandfather to go crazy from the death of his wife. In order for

G.K. Chesterton is implying in his quote that without education, our society is in danger of automatically assuming educated individuals are credible or correct. If education was not as highly valued or accessible, those who were educated would be falsely perceived as highly intelligent by those who were uneducated. Chesterton believes that without education, our society could become manipulated or falsely persuaded by those who are considered to have the title of educated. In a society where education

Poem Analysis: The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Lepanto” by G. K. Chesterton Poetry has been used across different contexts, particularly in historical settings. At one point, compositions such as poems were written in an effort to document certain dimensions that prevailed during specific times and periods. Interestingly, compositions written in different contexts possessed definite similarities regardless of aspects such as the setting of the poem or the time or period during which the