Analysis Of Sally Kempton's 'Awakening Shakti'

Her urge to kill is neither motivated by jealousy, like in the case of Medeea, the heroine in the Greek mythology. In her remarkable book entitled Awakening Shakti, Sally Kempton considers that the most dramatic story of the shadowy side of Kali comes not from the Hindu but from the Greek mythology. It is the story of Medeea, the Princess of Colchis, who due to her ardent love for Jason abandons her family and helps him steal the golden wool from two indomitable rams. Years later, since Jason leaves her to marry a younger Athenian Princess, Medeea, mad with fury, incinerates his bride and then kills her own children and herself. (cf Kempton: 135). He is accused of receiving the equivalent of around €55,000 (£40,000) from a political ally and MP. Hundreds of top officials have been convicted of fraud in

In all the spheres of absolute spirit, the spirit liberates itself from the cramping barriers of its existence in externality, by opening for itself a way out of the contingent affairs of its worldly existence, and the finite content of its aims and interests there, into the consideration and completion of its being in and for itself” (Hegel: 94) In the nineteenth century, in his Essays on Art and Literature, Goethe is the one who uses the very term Weltliteratur, the German translation of 'universal literature'. Enlarging on the cosmopolitan nature of literature, Goethe makes a memorable statement, that admirably grasps the immutable relation between a specific national literature and universal literature: “I shall merely acquaint my friends with my conviction that there is being formed a universal world-literature, in which a honourable role is reserved for us,