The Giaour

“…we are not asked to condemn this being with the mad heart, this being with whom there is something constitutionally wrong. On the contrary, we are invited to understand and sympathize. But there is a limit to sympathy. For though he lives among us, he not one of us” (Coetzee, 2000: 33). The afore stated quote from the novel Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, is used when discussing a poem by Lord Byron- Lara- in the novel. Yet it is directly applicable to the protagonist, David Lurie. Coetzee appeals to

Caspar David Friedrich, Graveyard under Snow (1826) https://www.wga.hu/html_m/f/friedric/4/404fried.html In this painting, the snow in the graveyard symbolizes sadness. This painting is a view of inside the cemetery and we all can notice how dry and depresses the tree branches look. The stormy sky looks empty also shows the sadness. He made his painting for mausoleums, showing his obsession with death and afterlife. Fantastic: In this painting, we can see fanaticism by the winter season and snow

and protected from danger, and can glut his ego on the stars. By the side of the pit, however, Vathek stares into a void which he knows nothing about and has no control over. He is drawn to the mystery, a child curious about the electric socket. The Giaour demands horrible things from him, but Vathek agrees, if only to feel confident, to have it all. His desires are once again akin to those of a child; he has no self-restraint or ability to self-govern. Vathek is a fascinatingly awful protagonist, a

through the power he had over her and her future, by reminding her of everything he could give her and everything she has already gotten, she was encouraged into doing what he said. Leila’s power struggle with the Pasha was shown when he killed her Giaour due to jealousy. Him killing her Giour shows that he believes he can do anything to her or her loved ones with no repercussions as he is the Pasha, and she is an orphan. This shows that although Leila might have power over other girls, she doesn't

Gothic literature and oriental tales frequently focus on different aspects concerning ethics, where the violation of ethics is often portrayed in a way not harshly condemning. Unlike his grandfather, Haroun Al-Raschid, Vathek is a proud, cruel, ambitious and voluptuous man who kills his subject even little children in order to reach the underground realm of Eblis. Encouraged by his mother, Vathek starts his exotic quest and on his way he finds the city of Istakhar where he meets Nouronihar, daughter

(1960’s), after ten years the Armenians were known as a minority; not only that but also isolated. Balancar used to live in an area called “Giaour Neighborhood”[4] (Balancar, 36). The existence of the Giaour neighborhood and the fact that even little kids know about it displays the prejudice towards Armenians. Indeed, there is somebody who taught these kids the word “Giaour”. Whether it the school or the family, this kind of teachings has one goal “elimination of native” or forcing them to leave. She states

to eternal torment. After Nouronihar and Vathek gain the forbidden knowledge and power, they share suffering as a punishment. At one point, “Nouronihar fell back. Like one petrified, into the arms of Vathek, who cried out with a convulsive sob, ‘O Giaour! whither hast thou brought us? Allow us to depart, and I will relinquish all thou hast promised. O Mahomet. There remains no more mercy’t’” (Beckford, 249) Nouronihar and Vathek suffer not only because of the sights around them, but the realization

I really hoped that Scott would accompany me to the dance, but I don't know if he felt the same way, but I didn’t want think about that. I want to go to the dance with him even if it means wearing a dress. I felt like I couldn’t meet with him in person to ask him, so I grabbed one of the small posters and wrote out Let’s Go. I roamed around his locker, debating if I should do it, thinking about what he would say, trying not to be suspicious. Then, I just did it. I slipped it into one of the three

An Education in Escape: Madame Bovary and Reading A theme throughout Flaubert's Madame Bovary is escape versus confinement. In the novel Emma Bovary attempts again and again to escape the ordinariness of her life by reading novels, having affairs, day dreaming, moving from town to town, and buying luxuries items. It is Emma's early education described for an entire chapter by Flaubert that awakens in Emma a struggle against what she perceives as confinement. Emma's education at the convent

history is false, and that they themselves are to be feared and discriminated, even today. In the Eastern Anatolia, the traditional Armenian homeland, anyone with Armenian roots can be subject to ostracization and racial slurs like “feleoglufele” or “giaour”: these are Muslim citizens of the Republic of Turkey, with maybe a grandmother or great-grandmother that was Armenian, who usually identify as either Kurdish or Turkish. So it should not come as a surprise that there are so-called “Crypto Armenians”