The Sun Also Rises: The Title
Title of the novel “The Sun Also Rises” is suggestive. There is certain background and expression behind it. “The Sun Also Rises” comes from or is based upon a passage from ecclesiastical. The passage is:
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The Sound and the Fury: Shadow Motif
The shadow motif refers chiefly to Quentin and, to a lesser degree, to Benjy. The shadow refers to the events of the past which are only vaguely understood. As a person, Quentin is obsessed with both the past and the significance that the past has for him. But these actions of the past appear to
Robert Frost: Poetic Qualities
Frost has been regarded as a “regional poet”. His region was New England of two best states in U.S.A. He never felt the slightest desire to include all America within the scope of his poetry. His regionalism resembles from Emily Dickinson’s. The New England provides him with the stories, attitudes, characters, which are appropriate to
The Sound and the Fury: Time Motif
Alternate question: Time motif in The Sound and the Fury One of Faulkner’s chief concerns in his works is time and timelessness. It is often connected with his views of how often and how much past intrudes upon the present. Faulkner’s use of time in this novel is startling, new and effective. Time concepts are
Hamlet-Ophelia relationship
Shakespeare’s greatness and pre-eminence as a dramatist is universally recognized. It is said that “he was not of an age but of all times”. Shakespeare’s characters reveal themselves by what they say and do on the stage. They tell us more by their speeches then by their actions.
The Wild Duck: Quotations
Werle: Some people in this world only need to get a couple of slugs in them and they go plunging right down to the depths, and they never come up again.
Juno and the Paycock: O’Casey’s Pacifism
O’Casey is not only a great dramatist but also a great humane. Irish characters and Irish civilization constitute basic themes in his plays. O’Casey was committed throughout his life to the liberation of individualism. Being a humanist, O’Casey could never reconcile with the idea of jingoistic patriotism.
Francis Bacon
Bacon challenged the basic beliefs of man e.g. truth, love, friendship, honesty, secrecy and reshaped them. He challenged the most established norm and ideals of mankind.
W.B. Yeats’ Style
W. B. Yeats is one of the greatest poets of the English language. He had in common two main methods of writing poetry: one spontaneous and the other a laborious process involving much alteration and substitution. However, it was only in the early phase of his poetic career that he relied entirely on inspiration giving
Lytton Strachey’s ironic attitude
Lytton Strachey, an English biographer, critic and essayist, is best known for his ironic attitude towards the subject of his biographical studies. Strachey’s targets of irony were evangelicalism, liberalism, humanitarianism, education and imperialism. Strachey proposed to write lives with brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant. He is best known
Death of a Salesman: Time Motif
Half way through the first act, the reader hears something about a brother Ben. Willy wishes that he had gone to Alaska with his brother Ben. At the same time he speaks of Ben’s having walked into a jungle and when he came out Ben was rich. In the next speech, Happy tells his dad
Lytton Strachey as a biographer
The biographer Lytton Strachey belonged to the Bloomsbury Group. He inaugurated the new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. In his preface, Strachey enunciated the two fold principle of selection and scrutiny which was to mark all his work.