Arthurian Legend in Pre-Raphaelite Art

24th September 2021

The tales of King Arthur and his knights have been a favourite for many over thousands of years and have been reworked and re-interpreted by multiple different groups and cultures. Thought to have originated as Celtic, Welsh, and Irish legends, Arthur appears as either a great warrior defending Britain from both human and supernatural enemies, or as a magical figure of folklore. Though the tale was well-known, the story’s international popularity largely came from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the King of Britain), Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and most importantly Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poems.

Arthurian Legend in Pre-Raphaelite Art

Sexism in ‘Of Mice and Men’

17th September 2021

In the 1930s, many key things were happening; women had just won the right to vote, and the Great Depression had just hit, for example. Despite the achievements of women and the opportunities they had created, it didn’t largely change the way they were viewed. In Of Mice and Men, the language the characters use to describe women is very oppressive. Women are only seen as possessions, seductresses, or caretakers of men. They often talk about how they go to the whorehouse for pleasure and a break from reality.

Sexism in ‘Of Mice and Men’

The Anchor

17th September 2021

She didn’t want to open it. She didn’t want to allow herself to feel the things that she’d kept inside for so long, and she knew, that by opening the box, she would bring to the surface everything she had forced down for the last four years. She understood she had to; if anything, curiosity alone would get the better of her eventually. The knowledge of its existence was enough to occupy her thoughts, let alone its contents.

The Anchor