“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (1984, p. 40). It can be argued that Orwellian narrative appears multifaceted, projecting a general critique towards the communist ideals through the hyperbolised prism of a dormant future. However, the concept of the omnipresent systemic control…

Introduction As broadly defined by Mattli and Woods (2009, p.1), regulation embodies “the organization and control of economic, political and social activities by means of making, implementing, monitoring, and enforcing rules”. Hence, the purpose of regulation is to attain objectives that would not be attained otherwise. The aforementioned definition assigns an…

“Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies” — Aristotle I was always fascinated by the concept of love and its interconnectivity with the enigma of meaning. I used to immerse myself into the melancholic pseudo-reality and rummage for the definitive answers. The answers which were shaped by contradicting…

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” The following lines, written by Tennessee Williams (1996, xviii) in the play “The Glass Menagerie”, allude to the fragility of an individual’s perception of…

Who are we but glass figurines which void is encapsulated by the presence of memories which define our existence? — “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” — Tennessee Williams Who are we but glass figurines which void is encapsulated by the presence of memories which define our existence? But what…

Introduction “Two-faced Janus, god of Time! Be my Phoebus while I rhyme” (Swift, 1726) The following lines incorporate the allusion to the God of Janus, who in Rome mythology represented a gatekeeper between life and death. Throughout time, the notion of Janus became embedded within linguistics as a metaphor of duality…

or “The Titanomachy of Paradigms” “So they, with bitter wrath, were fighting continually with one another… for ten full years.” The following lines, introduced by Hesiod (700 BC, line 617) in his epic “Theogony”, allude to the Titanomachy, in other words, ‘Titan War’ between old and new gods. The future…

Exposition “Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.” The following lines were introduced by Shakespeare (2014, p.173) in his comedy “The Taming of the Shrew”. The narrative resembles the socio-economic traditions of the time marked by the inherent sexism and intrinsic absence…