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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2021-03-27 13:00
Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice
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Elizabeth- A Charming Heroine
To create an entirely charming girl
is one of the rarest achievements in fiction. Heroines who… Read More
2021-03-27 06:00
Hamartia and Tragic Hero Contents [hide] Hamartia Definition Hamartia, according to Aristotle means error of judgement. In tragedy, the hero should be a person “neither eminently v… Read More
2021-03-26 15:48
One Day I wrote her Name upon the StrandSonnet 75 Edmund Spenser Context Contents [hide] Sonnet No. 75(One day I wrote her name upon the strand) is taken from The Amoretti ('littl… Read More
2021-03-24 15:29
Benjamin Animal FarmBenjamin, the donkey, is the oldest animal on the farm. He is he tempered and cynical, and his demeanor is quite unchanged by Rebellion. He goes about his work in the sam… Read More
2021-03-21 11:42
The Gift of the MagiQ. 1. Who are the Magi? Magi is the plural form of magus means wise men. According to the Bible magi (Gasper, Malchoir and Balthaza) were members of priest-hood of… Read More
2021-03-21 04:32
Kubla Khan AnalysisKubla Khan is the only dream induced poem in English literature and one of the most difficult poems ever written. It is a piece of verbal magic, inspired in a dream. In 17… Read More
2021-03-17 02:30
Rudali SummaryRudali is a famous story by Mahasweta Devi that has attracted the attention of readers and critics alike. The narrative revolves around a poor woman from lower strata of… Read More
2021-03-14 11:53
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Contents [hide] The Fall of the House of Usher Context This is story of supernatural horror by Edgar Allan Poe published in… Read More
2021-03-11 07:55
Porter Scene in MacbethIt has been doubted even by Alexander Popeand Samuel Taylor Coleridge whether the Porter Scene (Act 2, Scene 3) is originally from William Shakespeare’s pe… Read More
2021-03-11 03:36
Napoleon Animal FarmAnimal Farm is the story of the rise to absolute power of Napolean who is introduced in chapter 2 as a "large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar...........not much of… Read More
2021-03-08 04:25
The God of Small Things Themes Contents [hide] IntroductionArundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things is a blending of several themes. The narration starts with the return of a brot… Read More
2021-03-07 06:52
Dr. Faustus as a Morality PlayDr. Faustus is an extension of the traditional morality play. Though Dr. Faustushas number of those characteristics that are found in morality plays yet i… Read More
2021-03-06 14:33
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a Medieval RomanceSir Gawain and the Green Knight is universally acclaimed as the best surviving Middle English romance of the moral type. This is a… Read More
2021-03-06 10:54
Critical appreciation of LakshmanToru Dutt had a thorough knowledge of India's traditional past and this had given her a strong foundation for a better superstructure to be constructed over… Read More
2021-03-05 15:05
Satire in Oliver Twist Contents [hide] Unjust Social Conditions Charles Dickens's dissatisfaction with the prevailing social conditions and his zeal for social reform led him to… Read More
2021-03-05 03:44
Piggy Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies, says Patrick Reilly, springs from the cultural catastrophe of our times. To Golding, World War IIconfirmed that "darkness was all around, inexplicab… Read More
2021-03-01 15:14
Character of Oedipus“Oedipus", says Victor Ehrenberg, “is the good ruler in spite of his defects, and Creon the bad ruler in spite of his virtues.” Oedipus, in spite of his… Read More
2021-02-28 13:29
Science Fiction: A Detailed StudyWhat is Science Fiction? Science fictionis a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. Science Fict… Read More
2021-02-28 05:50
AnaphoraWhat is Anaphora? Anaphora is a Greek term meaning ‘reference’ or ‘carrying back’. Anaphora Definition: Anaphora is a literary device in which the same… Read More
2021-02-27 15:43
Heathcliff Wuthering HeightsHeathcliff is the most significant character in Emily Bronte's only novel Wuthering Heights. He bestrides the novel which is a story of his love, frustration, hat… Read More
2021-02-26 15:09
The Tyger by William BlakeAbout William BlakeWilliam Blake(1757-1827) is one of the precursors of the Romantic Movement in England. (i) His genius is essentially lyrical. His poems are… Read More
2021-02-25 14:11
Epistolary NovelEpistolary Meaning The word epistolary is derived from the Latin ‘epistola’ which means a letter. The word epistle is an ancient term used to mean a letter. Epist… Read More
2021-02-24 15:03
Darcy Pride and PrejudiceIntroduction To many modern readers and critics the great blot on the book is the Austen's portrayal of Darcy. To all appearances, there are two Darcys that we… Read More
2021-02-16 09:02
Brave New World as a Utopia or DystopiaThe word 'Utopia' means an imaginary place or society with a perfect social and political system, or an ideally perfect state of things. This wor… Read More
2021-02-15 07:53
The Flute Player of Brindaban Poem Analysis‘The Flute Player of Brindaban' is Lord Krishna who, according to Hindu mythology, was the incarnation (avataar) of Vishnu, one of the… Read More
2021-02-15 06:07
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck One of John Steinbeck's most accomplished short stories, The Chrysanthemums is about an intelligent, creative woman coerced into a stifling existen… Read More
2021-02-12 16:39
Clover Animal farm Clover, "a stout motherly mare........ who had never got her figure back after her fourth foal" is hard working patient beast like Boxer. She becomes an ardent advoca… Read More
2021-02-11 11:14
Doctor Faustus as a Tragic Hero Introduction Christopher Marlowe's dynamic character Doctor Faustus is one of the best examples of tragic heroes. According to Aristotle, tragic he… Read More
2021-02-11 10:33
Karna in MahabharataKarna or Vasusena is one of the most admired as well as controversial characters of the Mahabharata. His birth begins with mystery. In these sections- ‘The Di… Read More
2021-02-06 15:17
Trial Scene in The Merchant of VeniceThe trial scene (Act IV, Scene 1) is the longest scene in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It is the climax of the play where good… Read More
2021-02-05 15:00
Boxer Animal FarmBoxer, “the willing horse", represents the ardent, selfless party worker who will shed the last drop of his energy to aid his fellow’s well-being, who, at… Read More
2021-02-05 04:16
The Lamb by William BlakeThe Lambbelongs to William Blake's Songs of Innocence, which appeared 1783. Songs of Innocence is a volume of poems in which the poet looks the world through t… Read More
2021-02-02 17:53
Pandemonium Paradise LostThe word "pandemonium" is a compound word formed by joining Greek words "pan" and "demonious" meaning 'a place or abode of all demons'. In Paradise Lost Book 1… Read More
2021-02-02 10:31
Robert Browning's Porphyria's LoverPorphyria's Lover Facts 1. Porphyria's Lover first appeared in the January 1836 issue of the Monthly Repository. It was subsequently publ… Read More
2021-01-30 15:15
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's ChildrenMidnight's Children (1980) is a masterpiece. It has brought prestigious Booker Award to the author and other prizes also. It has been translated int… Read More
2021-01-30 12:13
Wuthering Heights SummaryWuthering Heights CharactersMr. Earnshaw Mr. Earnshaw is Catherine and Hindley’s father. He discovers a young waif, takes a fancy to him, and thus Heathcliff i… Read More
2021-01-29 14:01
Mrs Dalloway Psychological NovelThe stream of consciousness is new method of writing which departs from the traditional way of writing novels. It catches at the thoughts and feelings of the… Read More
2021-01-26 14:39
Satan Paradise LostIt has been said by Raleigh that Milton lavished all his power, all his skill and in spite of himself the greater part of his sympathy on the splendid figure of Sata… Read More
2021-01-26 06:36
Viola Twelfth NightViola is the heroine of Twelfth Night - the protagonist and catalyst of the play. She is a romantic lover who suffers the pangs of disappointment; she changes and ef… Read More
2021-01-25 14:23
Sylvia Plath BiographySylvia Plath is widely acclaimed, distinctly controversial and highly influential American poet and novelist in the post-modern era. Sylvia Plath was born on Nove… Read More
2021-01-25 12:00
Jack from Lord of the FliesJack Merridew, in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, is the antagonist. The iron-willed, egocentric Jack symbolizes savage instinct, violence and the… Read More
2021-01-24 15:28
Who was Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet?Mercutio is the most brilliant character in the play. There is only a hint of Mercutio in the source from which Shakespeare took him. He developed… Read More
2021-01-24 12:01
Ending of Romeo and Juliet (Act-V, Scene-3)The last scene or the end of Romeo and Juliet begins in darkness broken only by the faint light of a torch. The scene takes place in the vaul… Read More
2021-01-24 07:05
Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of AmontilladoThe Cask of Amontillado, the short story (first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady Book, the most popular American periodical) takes… Read More
2021-01-23 17:47
Analysis of I Wandered Lonely as a CloudI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Analysis “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” or “The Daffodils” was composed by Wordsworth at T… Read More
2021-01-22 14:48
Where the Mind is Without Fear by Rabindranath TagoreWhere the Mind is Without Fear is poem No. 72 of Rabindranath's poetical work Naivedyawhich was published in the Bengali year 1308… Read More
2021-01-21 10:56
1984 George Orwell Summary1984 CharactersWinston Smith - An average, intelligent man, a minor employee in the Ministry of Truth, Oceania's propaganda mill. Julia - A beautiful, rebelli… Read More
2021-01-19 13:55
She Stoops to Conquer as a Comedy of IntrigueIntroductionThe comedy of intrigue is a kind of play in which plot manipulation is more important than characterization. In such a comedy, there… Read More
2021-01-19 11:08
Portia Character AnalysisIntroduction Portiais one of the dynamic female characters of Shakespeare. She plays a very significant role in The Merchant of Venice. She is the connecting link b… Read More
2021-01-18 10:08
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight StoryKing Arthur was holding Christmas festival at Camelot. The festival continued for fifteen days. The Knights of the Round Table and the ladies were with t… Read More
2021-01-17 14:31
The Bell Jar Psychological AnalysisSylvia Plath kept records of her life, and the surviving portions of this record have been published as her Journals. The resonance of personal vibrations… Read More
2021-01-17 05:04
The Cold WarThe Cold War is the term used to describe the extreme political unfriendliness that existed from the end of World War II to the late eighties between groups of communist an… Read More
2021-01-16 10:01
Paris Romeo and Juliet Character AnalysisParis Romeo and Juliet Personality Like Benvolio Paris is briefly sketched. The rich and young Count Paris is a kinsman of Escalus, the Prince… Read More
2021-01-15 10:28
Romeo and Juliet Balcony SceneDescribe the Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet meet in the Capulet feast and at first sight fall in love with each other. They are now desperat… Read More
2021-01-14 16:18
Shakuntala Character AnalysisThe play Abhijnana Sakuntalam by Kalidasa is one of the best plays in ancient Sanskrit literature. The play is about a beautiful damsel Shakuntala who lives in t… Read More
2021-01-14 06:09
A fable is a short moral tale, in verse or prose, in which human situations and behaviour are depicted through beasts and birds, or gods or inanimate objects. In the beast fable animals talk… Read More
2021-01-13 04:20
Critical Analysis on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockis a poem is about a middle-aged balding man who feels very insecure in life. It is a discus… Read More
2021-01-12 11:09
Nurse Romeo and JulietShakespeare has delineated the character of the Nurse with wonderful artistic skill in his Romeo and Juliet. Much of the humour in the play is derived from her foibles… Read More
2021-01-11 04:11
Origin of English DramaThe origins of drama have always been deeply rooted in the religious instincts of mankind. Greek drama had arisen out of the rituals observed in connection with the wo… Read More
2021-01-09 10:48
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningFrost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”was written and published in 1923 in the volume of poems entitled New H… Read More
2021-01-09 05:01
Animal Farm as an AllegoryAllegory is created in a literary work when one or more meanings, in addition to the literal one, are to be derived by the reader. In the story objects, incid… Read More
2021-01-08 14:38
Ozymandias Poem Ozymandias Meaning Ozymandias was one of the Greek names of Rameses II (1301-1234 B. C.). Ozymandias was a powerful king of ancient Egypt. This poem is about the ruins o… Read More
2021-01-07 15:37
Orwell 1984 as a Political SatireGeorge Orwell’s 1984 was evidently intended as a satire. The main target of satire in this novel is totalitarianism as, in Orwell's opinion, it w… Read More
2021-01-06 03:54
A Tale of Two Cities as a Historical NovelA Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel related to the period before and all through the French Revolution. In the French Revolution Dicken… Read More
2020-12-06 16:00
'Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" (Sonnet No. 116) is one of the greatest sonnets that Shakespeare ever wrote.“This, the 116th," Fowler remarks, "is, on the intellectual side… Read More
2020-12-05 15:02
A Passage to India Book ReviewA Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forsterset against the setting of the British Raj and the Indian Independence Movementin the 1920s. It was conside… Read More
2020-12-05 10:08
Many of us commonly perceive poem and poetry are synonymous term. There are few who hardly believes that there are any differences between poem and poetry. The two words poem and poetry are… Read More
2020-12-03 05:13
Darko Suvin in his famous critical book on Beckett and Post-World War II theatre entitled To Brecht and Beyond : Sounding in Modern Dramaturgy (1984) tend to identify Samuel Beckett’s… Read More
2020-12-02 15:24
What is the significance of the title of Ibsen's Ghosts?Norwegian playwright, Henrick Ibsen’s play Ghosts is ah highly controversial play and the title can be interpreted with mu… Read More
2020-12-02 10:55
What is detective novel?A detective novel has traditionally been action centric in that the solution is reached through an unearthing of clues with one motive – finding the criminal. I… Read More
2020-12-01 10:39
The Faerie Queene as an AllegoryAccording to Martin Gray in his Dictionary of Literary Terms "the simplest form of allegory consists of a story or situation written in such a way as to… Read More
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“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty deat… Read More
2020-11-28 11:22
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner Book Review The bestselling novel, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, being an unforgettable, sensational, emotional, heartbreaking… Read More
2020-11-25 08:03
Introduction to Animal Farm CharactersIn the first chapter of the book, all characters are quickly drawn for the reader. So, it would be quite wise to give some information about the major c… Read More
2020-11-24 03:22
Animal Farm Historical ContextThroughout the course of his life, George Orwellhad joined the Indian Civil Service, lived among the tramps, worked as a teacher, and experienced both disastrou… Read More
2020-11-22 14:16
Shuggie Bain Book ReviewInternational Man Booker Prize 2020 winning book, Shuggie Bain is a stunning debut novel by a Scottish writer, Dauglas Stuart who narrates the heart-wrenching story o… Read More
2020-11-18 14:18
Born in New Jersey, USA, Paul Auster is a popular postmodern novelist and earns numerous awards and prestige for his The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, Sunset Park, Invisible, 4 3… Read More
2020-11-17 14:35
The Handmaid's Tale Book ReviewProvocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, the acclaimed dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale has becom… Read More
2020-11-17 05:37
Metaphor Meaning The word 'metaphor' has come from the Greek 'meta’, meaning 'change’ and ‘phera' 'I bear'. In this figure, there is a transfer of a word from one object to… Read More
2020-11-16 04:13
Is Paradise Lost an Epic?The epic poem has been regarded in all ages and countries as the highest form of poetry and there are great epics in almost in all the literatures of the world… Read More
2020-11-15 03:51
Paradise Lost Book ReviewJohn Milton, in spite of being a blind poet, holds an unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even today with his rare gift, The Paradise Lost… Read More
2020-11-14 10:35
Spenserian Stanza Definition The Spenserian Stanza is named after Edmund Spenser, the inventor of the style for its unique stanza pattern. The harmony of the nine line stanza (called the Spe… Read More
2020-11-13 12:48
The Harp of India: Critical Appreciation"The Harp of India” is a well-known patriotic poem by Derozio who is known as the first Indian poet in English. It is in the form of a Shak… Read More
2020-11-13 12:42
H.L.V. Derozio was born in Calcutta in 1809. He is generally regarded as the father of Indian English poetry. He has a mixed origin of Portuguese and Indian family. His father was Portuguese… Read More
2020-11-12 03:13
Fahrenheit 451Fahrenheit 451 ReviewThe graphic novel Fahrenheit 451 is regarded Ray Bradbury’s tour de force. The society that he depicted in the novel is so far alienated from the one… Read More
2020-11-10 14:15
Short Questions and Answers from Things Fall ApartQ.1. Describe the observance of the sacred week and throw light on the various customs relating thereto. People did not work during the week… Read More
2020-11-05 14:55
The Da Vinci CodeThe bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code is one of Dan Brown’s superb creations. Dan Brown was born on June 22, 1964, U.S., as the son of a mathematics teacher a… Read More
2020-11-01 14:05
Mourning Becomes Electra is considered to be one of the most important and poignant tragedies by O'Neill. By using a Greek legend as the model of his drama, O'Neill has reared up Mourning Be… Read More
2020-11-01 06:45
In which year the poem An Acre of Grass got published? “An Acre of Grass” is taken from Yeats's Last Poems which include poems written during 1936-1939 and published po… Read More
2020-10-31 12:03
As a poet of the supernatural Walter de la Mareemerges as a worthy disciple of Coleridge. Like Coleridge he avoids crude methods of treating the supernatural and presents it as a psychic phe… Read More
2020-10-30 06:30
Khushwant Singh is a master craftsman in Art of Characterization. He designs his plots and characters with ingenuity and co-relates the two judiciously. It is difficult to say whether plot i… Read More
2020-10-30 05:19
Plot Construction in Train To PakistanNovel writing is an art, requiring knowledge of life-style of the people of the age with which the story is related, imagination to create episode… Read More
2020-10-28 14:25
Edgar Allan Poe Biography Edgar Allan Poe Facts Born in Boston, USA, Edgar Allan Poe occupies a distinct place as a renowned American Short Story Writer, Poet, Critic, Book Reviewer and an E… Read More
2020-10-23 11:29
The theme of Death loomed large almost one third of the bulk of Emily Dickinson poems. Throughout her life she was preoccupied with death. To her death is the supreme touchstone for life. In… Read More
2020-10-22 14:18
Emily Dickinson as a PoetessEmily Dickinson was a renowned American poet of the nineteenth century. She was "the most perfect flower of New England Transcendentalism," and anticipator of met… Read More
2020-10-20 13:52
Vanity Fair as a Picaresque NovelThe very term, "Picaresque" has been originated from the Spanish word ‘Picaro’, which means a "rogue", or "knave". A Picaresque novel is a… Read More
2020-10-18 04:32
One Arranged Murder Book Review The best selling author, Chetan Bhagat himself speaks “‘One Arranged Murder’ is a gripping murder mystery set in a backdrop of an… Read More
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