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Reading Through The Lines


The Significance of Max Havelaar's Failure in His Attempt to Change the Colonial System
Recently, Donald Trump offered military support to Ukraine in exchange for natural resources. But as the novel Max Havelaar by Dutch...
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Jul 11, 2025


Humanity's Ecological Dilemma in Cavendish’s “A Dialogue between a Man and an Oak Cutting Him Down”
What if a tree could argue for its life? In Today's post, I look at how Margaret Cavendish explores humanity's troubled relationship with...
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May 16, 2025


Nature's Comfort and Superiority: insights from Early Modern Literature
Did the likes of Shakespeare merely portray nature a source of beauty or was it more to them? This is an issue I began to dwell upon when...
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Feb 12, 2025


Nature, Feminism and Magical Realism in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Mixing feminism, ecological awareness and a magical realist mood, Margaret Atwoods's novel Surfacing explores how reconnecting with...
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Jul 7, 2024
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