2021-07-07 12:28
A Passage to England Summary and Analysis
Nirad C. Chaudhuri is an outstanding prose-writer with an excellent poise of style. He bursts into sudden fame in 1951 with his Autobiography of an… Read More
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2021-07-07 11:09
PUN OR PARONOMASIA
Pun Definition
Pun or Paronomasia is a figure which rests on a duplicity of sense under unity of sound.
Puns are very often intended humorously but not always.
What is Pu… Read More
2021-07-07 06:46
Roles of The Rustics in Far From the Madding Crowd
In all the great novels of Hardy except Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure the rustic characters as a group form a… Read More
2021-07-06 13:24
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction Definition
According to Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, “historical fiction” is “a novel in which the action takes place during… Read More
2021-07-06 06:27
The Canonization Analysis
With John Donne begins a new era in the history of English lyric poetry, of English satire and of English religious verse. He was the inspirer of his younger conte… Read More
2021-07-02 12:42
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia Definition
Onomatopoeia is a figure in which the sounds of words echo their sense.
What is Onomatopoeia?
It is a figure in which the sound reflects the sense. In… Read More
2021-06-30 12:40
Alliteration
Alliteration Definition
Alliteration is a figure in which the same letter, syllable, or sound is repeated at the beginning in a sequence of successive or nearly successive word… Read More
2021-06-29 12:10
Ode: Intimations of Immortality Analysis
Ode on Intimations of Immortality is the glory of English poetry. Even Wordsworth considered it the crown of his work. This is evident from the fact… Read More
2021-06-29 11:33
Dover Beach Questions and Answers
Explain the evening atmosphere in ‘Dover Beach’.
Ans. Matthew Arnold, a luminous poet-critic of Victorian age paints a fine evening atmosphere… Read More
2021-06-29 10:53
Short Story
Short Story Definition
We know well that a short story is “a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. A short story usually deals with… Read More
2021-06-29 09:22
Introduction
Ode: Intimations of Immortality was composed between 1802 and 1804 and was published in 1807. William Wordsworth‘s note on the composition of the poem is worth-quoting:
… Read More
2021-06-28 13:30
Phenomenology
Phenomenology Definition
Phenomenology is the study of experience and how we experience. It studies structures of conscious experience as experienced from a first person point… Read More
2021-06-28 11:26
Mr. Micawber Character Sketch
Introduction
“A thoroughly good-natured man, and as active a creature about everything but his own affairs as ever existed.”
In the whole wid… Read More
2021-06-20 17:01
David Copperfield as an Autobiographical Novel
It has been recognized that David Copperfield is Dickens’s autobiography. As Hugh Walker remarks:
“The pen which wrote David Coppe… Read More
2021-06-20 02:37
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Questions and Answers
‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons’- Explain.
Ans. This expression made by Prufrock alludes to his own lif… Read More
2021-06-19 11:21
Character of David Copperfield
Introduction
David Copperfield is the central character in the Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield. All events and episodes revolve around him or o… Read More
2021-06-17 15:10
Character of Junior Mortimer
Introduction
The character of Mortimer Junior has been drawn with a firm hand by Marlowe. He has been delineated as the most spirited creature in the play, one… Read More
2021-06-15 12:29
Preludes
Introduction
Preludes are a series of pictures of modern city life: the first two present evening and morning, stressing the smells and general sordidness of the street scene, the l… Read More
2021-06-14 14:52
The Apprentice Summary and Analysis
Introduction
Arun Joshi was born in 1939. He was educated in India and U.S.A. He got his Masters Degree in Management from M.I.T. His five novels and a… Read More
2021-06-14 12:30
The Theme of Haste in Romeo and Juliet
The haste of youth as a tragic motive of both Romeo and Juliet appears repeatedly in their lines.
The opening scene of the first act of the play estab… Read More
2021-06-14 11:31
Metafiction
What is Metafiction?
Metafiction is the fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions. Metafiction is also known as… Read More
2021-06-13 12:59
Jocasta Character Analysis
Jocasta is as a tragic figure as Oedipus. And yet she is often eclipsed by the tragedy of the hero. Laius, the king of Thebes, and his wife Jocasta had no c… Read More
2021-06-13 11:32
Space Fiction
Space Fiction Definition
Space fiction is a sub genre of Science fiction. Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction defines the term, “Science fiction set primarily in space… Read More
2021-06-13 07:10
Orientalism
Edward Said
Edward Said was a great scholar and an important figure in Post-Colonial studies. He was a professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was also f… Read More
2021-06-12 14:53
Briseis Character Analysis
Etymologically Briseis mean “a girl from a place called Bresa”. We do not know her name even. But her small vignette leaves an abiding impression upon… Read More
2021-06-12 14:24
Character Analysis of Edward 2
Introduction
Marlowe has delineated the character of Edward II on the lines of the royal majesty, priding upon its glory but hollow in power. The pathetic aut… Read More
2021-06-12 02:15
The Superannuated Man Questions and Answers
Why did Lamb take a job at an early age? What does ‘deliverance’ signify?
Ans. Lamb took a job in the India House at Mincing Lane at… Read More
2021-06-10 15:10
Peripeteia and Anagnorisis
Aristotle called the plot “the imitation of the action” as well as “the arrangement of the incidents”. He demanded that the action imitate… Read More
2021-06-10 11:40
The Last Leaf O. Henry
The Last Leaf Summary
The setting of the Last Leaf is spread out in Old Greenwich Village in the district West of Washington Square (America). Streets are so criss-c… Read More
2021-06-10 10:41
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Introduction
Composed in 1919, this poem was published in Harper’s Magazine in December, 1920, and New Hampshire, in 1923. Fire and Ice is a short lyric o… Read More
2021-06-09 12:34
Canadian Literature in English
Introduction
Canadian Literature is actually a literature originally written by Canadians. These Canadian writers contributed greatly in shaping of Canada thr… Read More
2021-06-08 12:38
Symbols and Motifs in Abhigyan Shakuntalam
Kalidasa has made an extensive use of symbols and motifs in the play, Abhigyan Shakuntalam. The narrative of Shakuntalam opens in the forest where… Read More
2021-06-08 11:49
Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet
Introduction
Juliet Capulet is the lovely daughter of the old Lord Capulet. She lives in the old palace of the Capulets with her parents. She is tended by… Read More
2021-06-08 10:08
The Iliad Book 1 Summary and Analysis
The Iliad consists of twenty-four books, dealing with the battle of Troy. Homer abruptly dashes off into the action of the story. Nine years have alrea… Read More
2021-06-08 06:51
The Bird Sanctuary by Sarojini Naidu Analysis
The Bird Sanctuary by Sarojini Naidu Introduction
Sarojini Naidu is the Nightingale of India, Bharat Kokila. She is a lyricist and as such her… Read More
2021-06-08 05:55
Shooting an Elephant Questions and Answers
What was the attitude of the people in lower Burma towards the European?
Ans. The attitude of the lower Burmans towards the European, which Orwell… Read More
2021-06-07 11:41
An Introduction by Kamala Das Analysis
“An Introduction” is an autobiographical poem by Kamala Das. It is confessional in tone and modern in style. It is blunt, bitter and strai… Read More
2021-06-07 07:36
Character of Queen Isabella
Introduction
There are two colours in which the character of Queen Isabella has been painted by Marlowe. In the beginning we find her a loving wife though much s… Read More
2021-06-07 04:59
Ode to a Nightingale Critical Appreciation
Ode to a Nightingale is one of the noblest achievements of Keats’s genius. It was inspired by the joyous song of a nightingale he actually h… Read More
2021-06-06 12:41
Metonymy
What is Metonymy?
The term metonymy comes from Gk. meta (change) and onama (name). As the very name signifies (a change of name), this figure consists in the substitution of the na… Read More
2021-06-06 06:02
That Long Silence Summary and Analysis
“If I were a man and cared to know the world I lived in, I almost think it would make me a shade uneasy–the weight of that long silence of… Read More
2021-06-06 04:58
Character Analysis of Achilles
Achilles is the hero of The Iliad. It is he who provides the unit of the work of art. In fact, the first line of the epic sums up the entire action.
“Si… Read More
2021-06-06 02:23
The Namesake Summary and Analysis
The Namesake (2004) is the first novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally a novel published by The Newyorker and was later expanded to a full length novel… Read More
2021-06-05 12:02
Obituary Summary and Analysis
Obituary Meaning
Obituary is a notice of death, generally published in newspapers by the near relatives of the deceased person to inform others of the death. S… Read More
2021-06-05 07:47
Types of Tragedy in Literature
Tragedy , in the Aristotelian tradition serves the purpose of purging the soul by arising ‘pity and fear’ (catharsis). But in the course of time t… Read More
2021-06-05 05:09
Tughlaq as a Historical Play
Introduction
A historical play seems to be a contradiction in terms. History requires truth to the events of the past, but art requires imagination and concentr… Read More
2021-06-04 11:31
Oedipus the King Questions Answers
Q.1. What disaster does befall the city of Athens? What safety is expected by the priest?
Ans. When Oedipus asks what misfortunes have brought the people… Read More
2021-05-30 10:54
Dramatic Irony
Definition of Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Irony implies a contrast between appearance and reality. It is, as Moulton says, “A sort of double dealing in Destiny itself&rdquo&helli…Read More
2021-05-29 12:28
Comic Relief
Comic Relief Definition
Comic relief in tragic drama is introduction of comic scenes which relieve the tension created by a tragic situation. And by contrast comic relief heigh… Read More
2021-05-29 10:47
Aesthetics
Aesthetics Definition
Aesthetics is a study of philosophy of the beautiful, taste and fine arts. It originated from Greek form ‘aiesthetikos’ which has to do with sen… Read More
2021-05-29 09:21
Dawn at Puri by Jayanta Mahapatra
Dawn at Puri Summary
The Endless Sound of the Cawing of Crows; a Skull on the Beach
This poem depicts the morning scene on the sandy sea-beach at Puri (in… Read More
2021-05-28 12:00
Theatre of the Absurd Essay
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
The Theatre of the Absurd is a term coined by Critic Martin Esslin in his essay “Theatre of the Absurd.” The term is u… Read More
2021-05-28 03:32
Midnight’s Children as a Classical Allegory
The greatness of Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children lies in the art of narration. Rushdie narrates the story by means of episo… Read More
2021-05-27 15:27
The Dance of the Eunuchs
The first poem in this volume bears the title The Dance of the Eunuchs. It is a bold poem written against the background of the poetess’s sudden contact with… Read More
2021-05-27 14:37
Midnight’s Children Themes
Introduction
Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children has been interpreted in various ways. It is basically a work on history. But to read it only a… Read More
2021-05-27 11:44
Ode to the West Wind Analysis
Ode to the West Wind is the most impressive and the most rapturous of Shelley’s poems. In it, as in Prometheus Unbound, all his poetic powers and subject… Read More
2021-05-27 10:58
Byron’s She Walks in Beauty Analysis
Of all the romantic poets Byron presents an attitude that is primarily anti-romantic. He champions classicism and comes down on Wordsworth and Col… Read More
2021-05-27 07:14
Homer’s The Iliad as an Epic
An Epic is usually a product of the heroic age. In The Iliad of Homer, the blind poet of Chios, which embodies, transmutes and enlarges the poetical mater… Read More
2021-05-26 16:16
Moses Animal Farm
Moses is a tame raven of Jones who pamperingly feed him with bread soaked in beer. The duty of Moses is to spy for his master.
Moses is clever at prophesying about a myste… Read More
2021-05-25 12:22
The Thought Fox Analysis
“The Thought Fox” is a famous poem taken from his volume, The Hawk in the Rain. Hughes uses poetic masks like that of the fox and partic… Read More
2021-05-24 10:36
Moby Dick Themes
Alienation
One of the dominant themes of the novel is ‘alienation’. It is the alienation of man from his environment which may lead to disaster. The narrator… Read More
2021-05-24 07:20
Queequeg Moby Dick
Queequeg is a native of the island of Kokovoko. Melville’s experiences on the Marquesan islands, about which he writes in Typee, must have led to the creation of hi… Read More
2021-05-24 06:48
Ishmael Moby dick
Like Ahab, Ishmael is also a Biblical character. Ishmael represents the image of the lonely wanderer. When Abraham turns Ishmael and his mother out of his house, they wand… Read More
2021-05-24 04:55
Ahab Moby Dick
Ahab, the protagonist in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod. The Captain lost his one leg as Moby Dick, the whale bit off which made… Read More
2021-05-22 06:18
Romeo Character Analysis
Introduction
Being the tragic protagonist in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is handsome, brave and gentle. He is trained in all manly accomplishments… Read More
2021-05-22 05:04
Hayavadana Critical Analysis
Girish Karnad is a gifted writer, actor and director of films. He is the well-known author of the Kannada plays entitled Tughlaq and Yayati. Now he has translat… Read More
2021-05-21 12:55
The Influence of French on English Language
Introduction
After the victory in the Norman Conquest (1066) the French became the masters of England. The new conditions brought about by the No… Read More
2021-05-21 10:49
Rasa Theory of Indian Aesthetics
Introduction
The poet is different from ordinary person as he is able to arrange words and senses in an elegant manner. Everyone wants to express what he or… Read More
2021-05-20 12:02
Dream Children: A Reverie is taken from The Essays of Elia, the essay is a tender account of bachelor Charles Lamb’s reminiscence of bygone times, a unfulfilled yearning for a happy… Read More
2021-05-20 11:29
Summary of The Gift of the Magi
Della, the wife of James Dillingham (Jim) counts one dollar and eighty seven cents. This amount she has saved by living in a miserly manner, by bargaini… Read More
2021-05-19 10:25
The Rape of the Lock as a Mock Heroic Epic
Introduction
“The true genius of a mock-heroic lies”, observes Prof. Courthope, “in travesting the serious epic, in bringing all… Read More
2021-05-19 07:11
Tennyson’s The Lotos Eaters Poem Analysis
The Lotos Eaters is based upon an episode in Homer’s Odyssey, Book IX, where Odysseus (Ulysses) and his fellow mariners come to land a… Read More
2021-05-18 11:36
Dystopia
Dystopia Etymological Meaning
The term “dystopia” is coined by using Greek prefix ‘dys-’ meaning ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ or ‘wrong&rsq&helli…Read More
2021-05-17 11:21
Character Analysis of Sir Roger de Coverley
Introduction
Sir Roger de Coverley, the principal character of Addison’s essays, was in fact, not the creation of his but of his friend, Ri… Read More
2021-05-16 12:21
Shooting an Elephant Summary
The author was serving as the sub-divisional officer of the town Moulmein in southern Burma. At that time an anti-European feeling ran high among the local peop… Read More
2021-05-16 06:31
Bill Sikes Oliver Twist
Bill Sikes A Thief and House-breaker
Bill Sikes is the most terrifying figure in the novel. He is a thief and house breaker for whom there are no limits and no laws… Read More
2021-05-16 05:32
Fagin Oliver Twist
Fagin: A Representative of the Criminal World
Fagin is the old man who provides shelter to Oliver on his arrival in London. The Artful Dodger who meets Oliver on the outs… Read More
2021-05-16 03:47
Oliver Twist is Dickens’ second novel, his first being Pickwick Papers, a hilarious comedy. Being a social reformer, Dickens in Oliver Twist ruthlessly crusaded against the social evi… Read More
2021-05-15 09:41
Whymper Animal Farm
Whymper is a solicitor who acts as an agent of Animal Farm in the latter’s dealings with the outside world of the humans. He is an instrument of Napolean’s ne… Read More
2021-05-14 11:53
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
Introduction
The Lake Isle of Innisfree was written in 1890 and first published in the National Observer. Innisfree is an island near his n… Read More
2021-05-13 12:09
Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo is a versatile genius and an intellectual giant. His outstanding achievements in prose, poetry and drama rank him as the greatest figure of Indo-Angli… Read More
2021-05-12 12:24
Gothic Novel in Literature
Gothic Novel Definition
Gothic Novel is a “genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval… Read More
2021-05-11 11:27
Characterization in Literature
Characterization Definition
Characterization broadly refers to the description development of characters. Few scholars consider it as the representation of pe… Read More
2021-05-10 12:33
Conceit in Literature
Introduction
Metaphysical poetry is deemed as characteristically striking, different from conventional romantic or social poems. One of the most striking features of m… Read More
2021-05-10 05:07
Pride and Prejudice Questions and Answers
Q1. What is the effect when Mr. Bennet says that he has visited Mr. Bingley?
Ans. Although Mr. Bennet has rejected his wife’s suggestion that… Read More
2021-05-09 15:00
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1876, is apparently a child’s adventure story. It is a type of bildungsroman in which Mark Twain narrates the moral, psychological and… Read More
2021-05-08 11:18
Summary of Train to Pakistan
[Summer of 1947 was hotter, drier and dustier. Monsoon was never so late. Scattered clouds were seen in the sky but there was no rain. The preceding summer was… Read More
2021-05-07 12:10
Abhigyan Shakuntalam Summary
Introduction
The story of Dushyanta and Shakuntala is in the Book of the Beginnings (Adi Parva) of the Mahabharata from chapter sixty seven to chapter seventy f… Read More
2021-05-05 10:44
The Divine Comedy Analysis
Introduction
Dante’s Divine Comedy is one of the most remarkable poems that have come down to us from the middle ages. In Lecture III of his Heroes and Hero… Read More
2021-04-30 11:50
Pip Great Expectations
Introduction
Pip is the protagonist of the novel, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. He exists throughout the story from the beginning to the end. The theme o… Read More
2021-04-22 12:06
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Ambivalent and autumnal in mood, All’s Well That Ends Well clearly belongs to the period of the problem comedies (of which it is… Read More
2021-04-16 07:07
Character of Macduff in MacbethMacduff, after his brief indulgence of the porter in the porter scene (Act 2, Scene 3 ), becomes a most positive character. In Holinshed's chronicle, Mac… Read More
2021-04-14 15:21
Irony in Abhigyan Shakuntalam by KalidasaKalidasa being a phenomenal writer in Sanskrit literature extracts a simple story from the Mahabharata and gives it a new treatment by introducing th… Read More
2021-04-13 07:31
Symbolism in To the LighthouseIn Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, a few critics have realized the momentousness of symbolism, a corollary to its poetic and lyrical nature which they… Read More
2021-04-11 06:31
Winston Smith 1984Winston Smith an Unheroic Figure Winston Smith, like all Orwell's central characters, is completely unheroic. He is thirty-nine, a smallish frail figure, and he had a… Read More
2021-04-08 03:17
Mollie Animal Farm Character AnalysisMollie in Animal Farm, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones' trap, is vain and fond of luxuries, and her only concern about the Rebellion is… Read More
2021-04-06 06:55
Narayan's The Guide ThemeR. K. Narayanis mainly concerned with man's life in the universe. His concern is human destiny and he deals with man's predicament in the universe, his inter-persona… Read More
2021-04-04 14:23
Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable SummaryPart I (Pages 11 to 17) The Outcastes' Colony The outcastes' colony was a group of mud walled houses situated outside the town and was inhabited by w… Read More
2021-03-31 03:42
The Forest of Arden As You Like It Contents [hide] IntroductionShakespeare's Forest of Arden is an imaginary setting in As You Like It and it is futile and unnecessary to try and fin… Read More
2021-03-27 13:06
Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice Contents [hide] Elizabeth- A Charming Heroine To create an entirely charming girl is one of the rarest achievements in fiction. Heroines w… Read More
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