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Alternate question: Discuss Significance of the title Pride and Prejudice. The title of any book or piece of literary work usually conveys the idea of the main theme of the work. One can easily understand what the author will dwell upon in the literary work from the title. For the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane..
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Alternate question: Discuss narrative technique in Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy uses a number of narrative techniques in his novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles which enable the reader to get more deeply involved into the plot and emphasize with the characters. Among the techniques he employs are the third person omniscient narrator, dialogues between
Alternate question: Discuss role of chance in Othello. In no other Shakespearean tragedy, Chance has such an important and vital role to play as in Othello. Here the dramatist’s belief in the divine justice is replaced by belief in chance. In Othello, chance is at the center of the action and the tragic action would
Ferdinand Oyono crafts the novel Houseboy about the oppression black people go through in the hands of the white colonialist. In West Africa specifically Spanish Guinea, this was under the European rule. The author uses a West African boy to expose the white administration practices that were crude and evil to the Africans. The African
Alternate question: Critical Analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood. Soon after the publication of Petals of Blood (1977) Ngugi wa Thiong’o was arrested, detained without charge and then sentenced to maximum security prison for one year by the then government of Kenya.
Alternate question: Discuss various themes in Houseboy The Impacts of Colonization Colonization influences the locals in the Cameroons in different ways, beginning with lost self and customary methods for living. Despite the fact that ideas like human flesh consumption are seen as negative and, generally, as odd, old methods for survey the connection among man
In Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono, the protagonist, Toundi Onduo struggles with his social identity and writes about his experiences in a diary which is the style of the novel. He is forced from the brutality at his father’s hands into the arms of a Catholic missionary named Father Gilbert because of his curiosity with the
Alternate question: Discuss Chaucer‘s Art of Characterization Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. The writer has two options by which he reveals the personality of his character. First one is “Direct Characterization” which tells the audience what the personality of a character is and the second one
William Congreve is the best and finest writer of the comedy of manners. We may say that he has invented a new art of comedy. His The Way of the World is considered as a work of art and as a pure comedy of manners. It is the apotheosis of the comedy of manners. It
The poem To His Coy Mistress is the masterpiece of the love poetry ever written by my favorite metaphysical poet, Andrew Marvell. Though he has not written that many of love poems, this particular poem is enough to mark him as a great poet of love. Anybody who loves to read poetry and talk about
Alternate question: Wordsworth’s Philosophy of Nature in Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth is one of the world’s most loving, penetrative and thoughtful poets of Nature. Tintern Abbey is one of his representative poems revealing a more deeply philosophical and unified expression of his thoughts about nature.
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Robert Frost is one of the greatest of American poets. He received more honors than any other contemporary literary figure in America. Four times he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He was given honorary degrees by more than forty colleges and universities.