Haneen Al Ibrahim

Al-Ma'moon University College · Department of English

This paper will discuss the negative effects of consumerism on people in the postmodern American society in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985). It will examine the threat of consumerism to humans through employing postmodern theories of Jean Baudrillard and Fredrick Jameson, and argues that consumerism physically and mentally affects individuals, dep...

INTRODUCTION FEMINISM AND WOMEN'S SITUATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY The subject of women's issues in society is one of the significant subjects that many eighteenth-century writers and novelists wrote about in order to raise the awareness of society to the importance of women's roles as rational independent beings who can help develop society in...

My thesis in this paper addresses the feminist side in the 1818 version of Frankenstein and the way Mary Shelley draws the attention to women"s sufferings and weaknesses by actually creating weak female characters that die one by one throughout the development of the novel. I will portray the nature of those characters and their importance in depic...

Nineteenth century Gothic literature was deeply concerned with the threats against masculinity. Perhaps one of the most important changes that happened at that time was the emergence of the New Woman model which posed a great threat against masculinity and the male role in the Victorian society. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) portrays female characte...

Introduction : George Eliot interprets the psychological and emotional development of Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss through music and the use of musical metaphors and musical references. She also uses musical pieces that were important and well known in the Victorian society to illustrate the details and reveal the climax of the plot. Mo...