So far, we examined Ishiguro’s short stories and first three novels. The first and the second novels were set in Japan that Ishiguro had not seen for almost 30 years and mainly deal with Japanese. Then, why did Ishiguro try to write the third novel, The Remai...
The play “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” written by William Shakespeare, contains various kinds of themes. The theme of duty and honor is one of them, and this theme can be seen frequently throughout the play. The interesting thing is that this t...
Langston Hughes’s poem, “Dream Deferred,” is about people’s hope for racial equality even though Hughes does not indicate it directly. This poem was written in 1959, and during that time period, the Civil Rights Movement took place in different areas of th...
"The English Common Reader" の第四章The Social Background(社会的背景)の冒頭部には次のように書かれている。(19世紀イギリスでは、大きな社会変化を背景に、大衆の人々の読書が広まっていった。)"The mass reading publiic developed in nineteenth-century England again...
1. Problem: Some earthquake survivors claim that they observed abnormal animal behaviors prior to the earthquakes. Do animals have a special ability to predict earthquake? If they do, how can we use it to develop a new prediction method? 3. Hypothesis 1.Long...
Comparing Sherlock Holmes with a real wizard in literature must be the interesting attempt, because their similar attributes clarify the wizardly aspect of Holmes. I would like to pick up Merlin, a famous wizard in Arthurian legend, who seems to be a suitable ...