White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga is the 2008 Booker Prize Winner novel. The book has received mixed reviews in its home country of India, undoubtedly due to it being a controversial critique of the Indian socio-cultural system. Through the protagonist’s bloodstained journey from crushing poverty to becoming a successful businessman, it attacks the subjects of…

Salman Rushdie’s (1981) Midnight’s Children is undeniably a novel which was not only a landmark in its time, but is also still relevant to this day. Proof of this is it having won The Best of Booker and being thus crowned as the best novel to receive the award in its forty years of existence….

Since its publication in 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has always caused its critics trouble, for while it is obviously a powerful novel, its ‘meaning’ is hardly easy to grasp. This was doubly true to its contemporary critics who saw only “glimpses or secondary meanings” and “refrained from assigning any” moral to the work (Douglas…

The Author, like any other prominent figure in society, has been subject of fluctuating viewpoints over time. Few, however, have been pronounced dead. Barthes in his 1968 famous essay “Death of the Author” extravagantly declares the death of the Author and the birth of the reader. It is the purpose of this work to look…

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is a story settled in a 1950’s England whose main character is Stevens, a butler in a traditional English country house.  At the time in which the narrative is set, the house’s owner is an American gentleman called Mr Farraday. Stevens, however, has served the house, Darlington…