http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/murder Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:10:58 -0400 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:10:58 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1795/chaos-and-dissimulation-in-ian-mcewans-modern-retelling-of-hamlet By Margherita Codurelli - This paper analyses Ian McEwan’s reuse of Shakespeare’s material in his retelling of Hamlet from the unusual point of view of an unborn child. By considering its plot, characters, setting and main issues, McEwan’s novel Nutshell will be investigated focusing on how his process of appropriation is both a study of a universal tale of doubt and indecision, and a way to transpose Shakespeare’s universal truths to a modern historical and cultural context. Specific examples from both texts are meant to provide insight into the similarities and the differences between them, lastly... Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:12 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1795/chaos-and-dissimulation-in-ian-mcewans-modern-retelling-of-hamlet http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/48/child-murders-in-medea-parallel-past-and-present-use-of-child-soldiers By Lindsay D. Clark - That wars are fought by the young for the old is a universally known truth. It is an ancient argument, a tired anti-war theme. Tired not in that it is hackneyed or obsolete, but in that its hollering admonitions have for all of time fallen on ears consistently deafened by bugles. The god of war does not discriminate among whose children his brutality destroys, though we ourselves usually tend to think of a “child soldier” as a twelve-year-old African boy hopped up on meth and indoctrinated in violence, or a teenaged Muslim boy strapping on a bomb and muttering prayers. After all, we... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:14 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/48/child-murders-in-medea-parallel-past-and-present-use-of-child-soldiers http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/25/janet-malcolm-and-norman-mailer-navigating-author-narrator-and-subject By Leslie S. Lee - Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse." (3) Malcolm focuses on what she views as the inherent imbalance in the relationship between the subject of a piece of nonfiction and the writer. Malcolm argues that the subject-writer relationship... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:10 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/25/janet-malcolm-and-norman-mailer-navigating-author-narrator-and-subject