Essays on All That Glitters Is Not Gold

“All that glitters is not gold,” Shakespeare wrote this 400 years ago but humans still find themselves between the devil and the deep sea when they are to choose between superficial and real beauty. The ancient texts also explain how this psychology changed the course…

We’ve all heard the saying “never judge a book by its cover.” It’s a meaningful lesson that’s been repeated to us all countless times by our parents, grandparents, and teachers. The meaning of the words in the saying is more important than the words themselves….

To start, the concept of representation was first introduced by Plato and Aristotle with a term called ‘mimesis’ to define the imitation of character in literature and art. Both Plato and Aristotle agree that a poet imitates nature and the meaning of the poem itself…