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A House for Mr. Biswas: Naipul’s Narrative Technique A House for Mr. Biswas, written immediately after his Caribbean visit, is, from the point of view of technique, Naipaul’s significant achievement. This novel is voluminous, episodic, and picaresque in form. It also presents a comedy, but a dark one where the protagonist presents in existentialist terms … Read more
A House for Mr. Biswas: Issues of Postcoloniality Fragmentation, alienation, and exile are common terms associated with postcolonial literature. Imperialism played a key role in bringing these senses of alienation and disorder to the countries where imperialists ruled. And one of the best-known writers in English today is Vidyadhar Suraj Prasad Naipaul, himself a product … Read more
Character of Baroka in The Lion and the Jewel Nigerian literature can be literally said to have received world attention first with Wole Soyinka’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986 as the first African. The Lion and the Jewel (1959) belongs to the early phase of his literary career, but his craftsmanship … Read more
Discuss The Faerie Queene as an Allegory There is no doubt that Spencer’s poem, The Faerie Queene is replete with allegorical significance. Much of the poem would lose its meaning and also the interest of its allegorical significance was somehow to be deleted from it, having only the interest of a fairy tale that can … Read more
Role of Women Character’s in Spencer’s The Faerie Queene All the heroines portrayed by Spencer are of typical types. They all possess excellent qualities such as innocence, fortitude, compassion, truthfulness, generosity and the capacity to endure injustice, misfortune and suffering enough at the same time to show strong willpower to fight against evil and injustice. … Read more
Faerie Queene as a Romantic Epic An epic is a long, narrative poem depicting heroic deeds and adventures, and portraying brave, fearless warriors who undertake dangerous tasks and enterprises. The earliest epics were Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. These Greek and Latin epic poems belonged to antiquity. Then came the medieval Italian poet … Read more
Themes of Love and War in A Farewell to Arms Commenting on A Farewell to Arms. Norman Friedman observes that though Hemingway has successfully tried to blend the two themes of love and war into one story, it is primarily a love affair. According to him, the story has been divided into five Books Book … Read more
Title of the play “Mother of 1084” “Must then a Christ perish in every age to save those who have no imagination?” G.B. Shaw, Saint Joan (19) Set against the backdrop of the Naxalite movement in its urban phase, Mahasweta Devi’s Mother Of 1084 depicts the moving story of a mother who has to witness … Read more
Comment on the women characters in “The English Teacher” R.K. Narayan is hardly credited with having a profound understanding of the female sex but it also cannot be denied that he does portray a variety of women of his time spanned across the cross-section of society. However, Narayan’s women are quite typecast. There is a … Read more
Account for the transformation that takes place in the English Teacher’s life Krishnan, the central character in The English Teacher, by R.K. Narayan (1906-2001) undertakes an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey during the course of the novel. At the start of the novel, he is an English teacher, living, and teaching at the same college … Read more