2022-02-20 12:26
Existentialism in Waiting for Godot
Existentialism focuses on concrete human being or “existence”. An important feature of atheistic existentialism is the argument that existenc… Read More
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2022-02-20 04:48
Santiago Character Analysis
Introduction
The Old Man of the title is a fisherman by trade. He bears the fitting name of Santiago. The word “Santiago” literally means Saint James… Read More
2022-02-19 12:02
Charudatta in Mricchakatika
Charudatta is the chief protagonist of the play The Mricchakatika written by Sudraka. The Sanskrit playwright Sudraka had adored with ample virtues to Charudatta… Read More
2022-02-19 06:04
Aeneid Poem Summary and Story
Aeneid is the first literary epic written according to the conventions denied from Homer’s epics. The poem is a national epic designed to celebrate the o… Read More
2022-02-14 16:31
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Comedy Definition
Romantic Comedy is thoroughly charged with powerful passion and emotion of love and romance. A Romantic comedy is a type of comedy that includes t… Read More
2022-02-14 14:14
Introduction
All of us in our own way know what a comedy is and yet the definition of comedy is not exactly an easy thing. The books on tragedy do not have to refer to novels and other non… Read More
2022-02-12 15:21
Humour
Humour Definition
Humour is defined by the Penguin English Dictionary as, ‘Capacity for seeing the funny side of things, cheerful and good tempered amusement.’ Humour is… Read More
2022-02-12 04:23
Indian Summer by Jayanta Mahapatra Analysis
All the three poems namely Indian Summer, A Missing Person; and Dawn at Puri belong to the kind of poetry which came into prominence in the early… Read More
2022-02-12 03:31
Keki N. Daruwalla as a Poet
While serving in the police department, K.N. Daruwalla has been writing English poetry in which he has really made a name. He has written poetry in the English l… Read More
2022-02-11 12:42
How do I Love Thee as a Feminist Poem
The penultimate and most famous sonnet of the sequence Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), How do I Love Thee celebrates the joy and confidence that th… Read More
2022-02-10 15:56
The Whorehouse in a Calcutta Street by Jayanta Mahapatra
The Whorehouse in a Calcutta Street is one of Mahapatra’s famous poems as is his poem Hunger. There is something common to the… Read More
2022-02-10 15:09
Amar Jiban as an Autobiography
Malavika Karlekar in her book on the early personal narratives of Bengali women Voices from Within (1991) notes that any personal writing by a woman is a cons… Read More
2022-02-10 14:33
Amar Jiban as a Feminist Text
Amar Jiban was written and published in two parts. The first consisted of sixteen rachanas or compositions. The second part came out in the year 1906, consisti… Read More
2022-02-09 16:25
Significance of the Title Pygmalion
Introduction
The title of a piece of literature should be apt, suggestive and attractive. It should at once attract the attention of the readers and also… Read More
2022-02-08 16:47
Closet Drama
Closet Drama Meaning
Closet drama is a play that is written for the sole purpose of reading alone or sometimes aloud in group and not to be performed on stage. It must not be c… Read More
2022-02-07 17:08
Character Analysis of Everyman
Everyman is the representative of all man of all ages and climes. Not an unmitigated villain; he has drunk life to the lees, and committed acts of sin with no… Read More
2022-02-05 04:51
Theme of Death and Pathos in O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman was one of the finest American poets who used to love to deal with the political issues as well as democracy. The poem, &ldq&helli…Read More
2022-02-05 04:03
Character of Will Mayes in Dry September
In ‘Dry September’ William Faulkner is presenting such a kind of story which is about Minnie Cooper, a lonely and unhappy woman aged 40… Read More
2022-02-04 17:10
To Helen as a Mythological Poem
In the poem, ‘To Helen’ Edgar Allan Poe uses a rare combination of archaic diction, allusions, to Greek Mythology, consistent meter. The archaic… Read More
2022-02-04 12:06
Theme of Love in To Helen and Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Romantic Movement in the history of English literature is a specific movement in which the essence of nature and human love… Read More
2022-02-04 09:33
After Apple-Picking as a Pastoral Poem
Robert Frost was a Radiant nature poet by the nature of his poetry He made an active mark in the poetic world by creating a range of poetry describing… Read More
2022-02-04 08:50
Symbolism in After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost
Robert Frost was a nature poet. His devotional performance towards nature elevates his place to a higher stand. The pantheistic philosophy o… Read More
2022-02-03 03:19
Humour in David Copperfield
Dickens is the greatest humorist in the history of English and European literature. Humour is the basic quality of his genius. In fact, it is the very soul of hi… Read More
2022-02-01 05:37
The Last Ride Together by Robert Browning
The Last Ride Together was first published in Men and Women in 1855, and was finally included in the Dramatic Romances in 1868. It is one of the fi… Read More
2022-01-30 15:32
Character of Pastor Manders
Pastor Manders is a priest from the neighbouring town. He lectures others about religion and morality. He accepts all verbal expressions of social principles. Th… Read More
2022-01-30 13:57
Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair
“Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”, this oft-quoted line uttered by the Witches occurs in the Opening Scene of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Act 1… Read More
2022-01-30 12:31
Dramatic Irony in Macbeth
Dramatic irony projects a sharp contrast between appearance and reality which convey a situation more than readers know. Broadly there are two types of irony. Ther… Read More
2022-01-30 07:35
Character of Senanayak in Draupadi
Draupadi is a story of Dopdi Majhen, it is a story of victimization of a woman who dares to confront the oppressive system. It narrates the predicament of… Read More
2022-01-30 04:29
I Cannot Live With You as a Feminist Poem
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who was born Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with a strong social background She lived an intro… Read More
2022-01-29 17:08
Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue
The dramatic monologue was cultivated and developed by Robert Browning with tremendous success. As Hugh Walker points out “Browning did not invent t… Read More
2022-01-28 13:13
Character Sketch of Oroonoko
Oroonoko is a very proud man, and an even prouder prince. His honor, courage, and heroism are respected and praised by all his people. Slavery is a situation th… Read More
2022-01-27 17:49
Oroonoko as an Anti-Slavery Novel
Aphra Behn composed the novel Oroonoko in 1688 and based on her trip Surinam. The colony of Surinam began importing slaves in the 1950s, since there were n… Read More
2022-01-24 16:30
Manolin The Old Man and the Sea
Introduction
We meet the boy Manolin on the very first page of the novel when we are told that “in the first forty days a boy had been with him,”… Read More
2022-01-24 15:05
The Old Man and the Sea as an Allegory
Introduction
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an allegory is “the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truth… Read More
2022-01-23 15:15
Significance of the Title Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Vyasa and Mahasweta Devi view their protagonists in an unusual circumstance and show how they surface their Power within in the most cru… Read More
2022-01-23 14:24
Rassundari Devi’s two sections of Amar Jiban (1868 and 1897) is prominent as one of the early autobiographies. Being the first full length autobiography written in Bengali by a woman… Read More
2022-01-21 17:39
The Old Man and the Sea Themes
A Realization of Solidarity and Inter-dependence
The relationship between individualism and inter-dependence has been one of the important concerns of Hemingw… Read More
2022-01-16 14:18
Symbolism in O Captain! My Captain!
The most celebrated American poet of the contemporary period, Walt Whitman wrote his most celebrated poem, “O Captain! My Captain!” from the… Read More
2022-01-16 13:25
Significance of the Title of the Poem Harlem
Langston Hughes has written his poetry from the perspectives of cultural and ideological Renaissance. The poem was written in the year of 1951… Read More
2022-01-16 12:27
Significance of the Title The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe was best suited for his gothic romance. His brilliant works were acclaimed by the contemporary critics and intellectuals. We c… Read More
2022-01-16 12:02
Symbols in The Purloined Letter
The Purloined Letter is such a story which discusses about high rated and intensified criminal facts. In a crime fiction a general source of knowledge a… Read More
2022-01-16 10:02
The Purloined Letter as a Detective Story
Edgar Allan Poe is considered as fit for any literary genre. Because it is thought that he wrote all the prototypes of literary genre. He was truly… Read More
2022-01-15 15:14
Daddy by Sylvia Plath Analysis
Sylvia Plath wrote the poem Daddy on October 13, 1962 which was broadcast by B.B.C. along with Lady Lazarus. It was published in the magazine Encounter on Oct… Read More
2022-01-15 14:28
Daddy as an Autobiographical Poem
The poem, Daddy was composed by Sylvia Plath in October 1962. In tone an temperament the poem is purely autobiographical. During the last phase she had bec… Read More
2022-01-14 17:02
Eurydice Antigone
Eurydice, the wife of Creon, appeared towards the close of the tragedy. More a mother than a queen, she never shared the glory of the throne. She chose to remain behind th… Read More
2022-01-14 13:31
Character of Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms
In A Farewell to Arms the protagonist Frederic Henry is presented to us as an unconventional hero. This unconventionality is discussed in r… Read More
2022-01-14 03:24
Symbols in A Farewell to Arms
Symbolism is a literary device wherein a system of symbols is used as a representation or expression of something underlying that which is being used as a symb… Read More
2022-01-13 15:01
A Farewell to Arms Summary
A Farewell to Arms is neatly divided into five books like a five act drama. Book one sets the scene, introduces the characters and gives an idea of what is to hap… Read More
2022-01-13 14:18
A Farewell to Arms Analysis
By 1930, Hemingway had already published his major novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. He met instant success and he was generally accepted as a le… Read More
2022-01-13 11:36
The Crack-Up as a Confessional Essay
In The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives insights on his personal journey through a mental crisis or “crack-up”. During his breakdown, Fit… Read More
2022-01-13 08:05
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald Analysis
F. Scott Fitzgerald borrows the title of his book, “The Crack-Up” from three autobiographical essays, “The Crack-Up,” &l&helli…Read More
2022-01-13 07:28
“The Crack-Up,” compiled and published by his friend, leading critic and editor Edmund Wilson, after Fitzgerald’s death, is a collection of writings describing the authors… Read More
2022-01-12 15:29
Daddy as a Confessional Poem
Being abundantly reduced from a civil life, Sylvia Plath wrote the poem, ‘Daddy‘. The poem was written such a level that it almost becomes à… Read More
2022-01-11 16:42
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Analysis
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is one of Hughes’s most famous poems. The poem is written in the first-person speaker where the ‘l&r&helli…Read More
2022-01-11 06:10
Lyrics To the Lighthouse
A lyric is the expression of personal emotion. It is subjective: it has emotional intensity: it is musical and is built round a single mood, emotion or impression… Read More
2022-01-10 13:55
To the Lighthouse Themes
To the Lighthouse is a complex work of art and as such it suggests a number of themes and ideas. It is for this reason that different critics have interpreted it in… Read More
2022-01-10 11:32
Mrs. Ramsay To the Lighthouse
Her Physical Charm
Mrs. Ramsay, the wife of Mr. Ramsay, is a middle-aged woman, a mother of eight children. Despite her age, she is a woman of great physical c… Read More
2022-01-10 06:16
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Introduction
To the Lighthouse was published in 1927, two years after Mrs. Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was written and it has been generally regarded as… Read More
2022-01-10 04:10
Snowball Animal Farm
Snowball is one of the two boars who takes charge of the affairs of the Animal Farm when it comes into being. He is a pig of versatile ability, is quick of speech, eloq… Read More
2022-01-09 16:00
Tiresias in Antigone
Tiresias, the blind prophet appears both in The Oedipus Rex and The Antigone. In The Oedipus Rex, he was summoned by the Ring to reveal the truth about the pestilence i… Read More
2022-01-09 15:18
To Kill a Mockingbird as a Bildungsroman
A Bildungsroman like autobiographical fiction rendering the process of growth and maturation of a character in both biological and intellectual deve… Read More
2022-01-09 14:00
In its simplest form, Southern literature consists of writing about the American South-the South being defined, for historical as well as geographical reasons, as the states of South Caroli… Read More
2022-01-08 13:31
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Characters
Hercule Poirot– He was a famous Belgian detective, retired to King’s Abbot to grow vegetabl… Read More
2022-01-08 10:50
Dr. Sheppard in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Published in the year 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, is considered to be the masterpiece of Agatha Christie. Apart from the plot, the novel p… Read More
2022-01-07 14:53
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Analysis
There are two major issues apart from the question “who did it” that is to say who is the murderer of Roger Ackroyd that looms large through… Read More
2021-12-31 17:15
Dry September Racism Theme
Faulkner’s story, ‘Dry September‘ is a forceful short story which reflects the poor condition of the then American Society which was clearly pol… Read More
2021-12-31 10:34
Character Sketch of Baby Suggs in Beloved
Chronicling a non-linear account of almost five decades of Sethe’s life, Beloved begins in the year 1873 after the death of Baby Suggs, Sethe… Read More
2021-12-31 06:05
The Discovery of India Analysis
Nehru ranks as a superb writer in English. He has a chaste expression and flowery style. In his masterpiece, The Discovery of India Nehru goes through self-d… Read More
2021-12-30 17:05
Atticus Finch To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee is said to have modeled the character of Atticus Finch on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an attorney, who, in 1919, defended two black men… Read More
2021-12-30 12:23
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird Book Review
Published in July 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s only novel, was an immediate success. It won the cove… Read More
2021-12-30 05:15
Linguistics Questions and Answers
Q.1. What is Psycholinguistics?
Ans. Psycholinguistics is the study of the understanding and production of language in its spoken and written forms. It cov… Read More
2021-12-26 13:12
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), one of the victims of the First World War, is, as Blunden says, the greatest of the war poets apart from Siegfried Sassoon. He disc… Read More
2021-12-26 12:23
Draupadi as a Symbol of Subaltern Defiance
Mahasweta Devi, the noted Bengali writer disgusted by the modes of humiliation that the lower castes, especially the womenfolk, are subjected to a… Read More
2021-12-26 06:09
A Vindication of the Rights of Women as a Feminist Text
Mary Wollstonecraft, the first feminist in the early modern time, dared to argue with the most important political personalities. She… Read More
2021-12-25 16:59
Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird
In a 1964 interview, Lee remarked that her aspiration was “to be … the Jane Austen of South Alabama”. Both Austen and Lee challenged the s… Read More
2021-12-25 13:33
Introduction
Herper Lee‘s only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was immediately successful when it was published in 1960. It won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize the next year an… Read More
2021-12-25 07:25
O Captain! My Captain! as an Elegy
The poem, “O Captain! My Captain!” written by Walt Whitman is an elegy which celebrates the heroic death and demise of the 16th former America… Read More
2021-12-25 04:29
The Old and The New Schoolmaster by Charles Lamb Summary
Lamb begins the essay with a highly exaggerated account of his ignorance and indifference. He proposes that he has a little idea or… Read More
2021-12-24 15:34
Dupin Character in The Purloined Letter
Once in his course of his writing the first story of his detective stories, ‘The Murder in the Rue Morgue‘, he once commented that,
&ldqu&helli…Read More
2021-12-24 14:44
Significance of the Title To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was called the father of the modern short stories. His thematic assertion was truly rich in colour. In most of his poem… Read More
2021-12-23 14:57
Character Analysis of Nick Carraway
Nick Carraway is not the titular hero of The Great Gatsby. But his importance as the narrator and as a functioning character makes him almost as much a c… Read More
2021-12-23 10:25
Advice to Women as a Feminist Poem
Eunice de Souza is widely known as a famous Indian English woman poet who raises her voice for the woman in contemporary world scenario. She chooses poetr… Read More
2021-12-22 17:55
The Great Gatsby Symbolism
Introduction
The Great Gatsby is rich in symbolism which functions on several levels and in a variety of ways. One of the most important qualities of Fitzgerald&r&helli…Read More
2021-12-22 05:49
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the background of jazz age in USA, The Great Gatsby is considered a phenomenal American classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel highlights t… Read More
2021-12-17 16:19
Samskara Novel Characters and Places
Praneshacharya
He is the protagonist of the novel, Samskara. He is a great scholar and leader of the Madhva Brahmin agrahara of Durvasapura. He leads an… Read More
2021-12-17 15:09
Samskara Novel Summary
Praneshacharya, the spiritual leader of Durvasapura agrahara
Praneshacharya is a very learned and orthodox man belonging to the community of Madhva Brahmins. He has h… Read More
2021-12-16 03:50
Character Sketch of Denver in Beloved
Introduction
Sethe’s daughter Denver is the most dynamic character in Beloved. Sethe had clasped Denver to her chest when she came to 124 Bluesto… Read More
2021-12-16 02:48
The Good Woman of Setzuan as a Parable
A parable is a short tale that illustrates universal truth, one of the simplest of narratives. It sketches a setting, describes an action, and shows t… Read More
2021-12-15 14:37
The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
The Good Woman of Setzuan Introduction
The Good Person of Szechwan Or The Good Woman of Setzuan (1938-43) The Good Person of Szechwan (German: De… Read More
2021-12-15 13:12
Harlem Poem Langston Hughes Analysis
Langston Hughes was titled as the African American poet laureate of democracy for his nature of writing which was inclined to native culture, Actually t… Read More
2021-12-15 11:20
The Good Woman of Setzuan as an Epic Theatre
The Good Woman of Setzuan written during Brecht’s exile in Scandinavia, tells the story of Shen Te, a young woman forced into prostitution… Read More
2021-12-15 08:18
On the Sublime Questions and Answers
Q.1. In any technical treatise two points are essential. Explain both.
Ans. The first, hat the writer should show what is subject he proposes to discuss… Read More
2021-12-14 16:22
Ghosts as a Modern Tragedy
Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian writer and outstanding dramatist whose influence spread far beyond the boundaries of his native country. Early in life Ibsen began to… Read More
2021-12-14 14:11
Charles Lamb as an Essayist
Both as a man and as a writer Charles Lamb occupies a distinct space in the arena of English literature. The circumstances of his personal life were harsh and ev… Read More
2021-12-14 12:14
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
About Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) was a famous women social activist, writer and journalist from India who worked… Read More
2021-12-13 17:21
Character Sketch of Mrs alving in Ghosts
The leading character of Ghosts – Mrs. Alving is brought up as a compliant girl to become a devoted wife. She enters in an incredible way… Read More
2021-12-13 16:12
I Cannot Live with You Emily Dickinson Analysis
I Cannot Live with You has been praised as Dickinson’s best love poem and may well be her most famous love poem. In this heavily ironic… Read More
2021-12-12 15:44
Sethe in Beloved
Introduction
Toni Morrison‘s Beloved reflects the harsh reality of a black mother, a former slave, and voices the positions of daughters, grandmothers, fathers, male… Read More
2021-12-12 14:46
Beloved as a Slave Narrative
Introduction
As a black writer, Tony Morrison is fully aware of the wrongs the blacks suffered, especially their women folk, during the days of slavery. It is a… Read More
2021-12-11 04:26
Being a student is a cool period of life. You are engaged in so many captivating activities. You discover new things every day. It’s a perfect time when you can find new friends and f… Read More
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