Épisodes

  • Episode: The Crucible: An allegory of collective hysteria and fanaticism.

    Episode: The Crucible: An allegory of collective hysteria and fanaticism.
    Feb 2 2026
    The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller that uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism. It depicts a community consumed by paranoia, false accusations, and religious extremism.
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    14 min
  • Episode 15: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: The Struggle Between Idealized Love and Moral Corruption

    Episode 15: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: The Struggle Between Idealized Love and Moral Corruption
    Jan 31 2026
    Set in 15th-century Paris, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame centers on Quasimodo, a deformed bell-ringer, and his tragic love for the beautiful Esmeralda. The novel explores themes of social injustice, obsession, and fate, serving as a powerful plea to preserve the city's Gothic architecture.
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    14 min
  • Episode 14: Hamlet: The revenge that ended everything.

    Episode 14: Hamlet: The revenge that ended everything.
    Jan 27 2026
    Hamlet is a tragic play about Prince Hamlet, who seeks revenge against his uncle, Claudius, for murdering his father and seizing the throne. The story explores deep themes of betrayal, madness, and moral corruption as Hamlet struggles with his own indecision.
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    18 min
  • Episode 13: The Little Prince: Innocence Lost Over the Years.

    Episode 13: The Little Prince: Innocence Lost Over the Years.
    Jan 26 2026
    The Little Prince follows a young prince traveling between planets, discovering the absurdity of adulthood and the value of friendship. It famously explores the theme that "what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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    14 min
  • Episode 12: Frankenstein: Scientific ambition pushed to the limit

    Episode 12: Frankenstein: Scientific ambition pushed to the limit
    Jan 25 2026
    Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a sentient being through an unorthodox experiment. Rejected by its creator and society, the creature turns to revenge and tragedy, exploring themes of ambition and isolation.
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    15 min
  • Episode 11: The Tell-Tale Heart: The echo of a murderous conscience that beats louder than silence.

    Episode 11: The Tell-Tale Heart: The echo of a murderous conscience that beats louder than silence.
    Jan 24 2026
    "The Tell-Tale Heart" follows an unnamed narrator who murders an elderly man because of his "vulture eye." Despite the "perfect" concealment of the body under floorboards, the narrator's mounting guilt manifests as a hallucinated heartbeat, driving him to confess to the police.
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    17 min
  • Episode 10: Othello: Jealousy as a cause of tragedy.

    Episode 10: Othello: Jealousy as a cause of tragedy.
    Jan 24 2026
    The story follows Othello, a high-ranking Moorish general in the Venetian army, who has secretly married the beautiful Desdemona. Their happiness is destroyed by Othello’s ensign, Iago, who secretly hates him. Iago weaves a web of lies to convince Othello that Desdemona is having an affair with his lieutenant, Cassio.
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    15 min
  • Episode 9: Macbeth: Ambition for power as a source of tragedy.

    Episode 9: Macbeth: Ambition for power as a source of tragedy.
    Jan 23 2026
    Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, it dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
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    14 min