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Bring out the thematic importance of the character of the Headmaster in The English Teacher. According to M.N. Srinivas, R.K. Narayan was “always writing to listen to someone who had a story or an incident to narrate. And he knew many of the people he ran into on his walks”. Narayan’s long time friend M.N. … Read more
The English Teacher clearly builds up within its narrative an anti-colonial critique.” Discuss. As in most of R.K. Narayan’s novels, The English Teacher may be read as a colonial text in the true sense of the term. The title of the novel itself signifies the influence of the unwelcome British rule. Although it is a … Read more
Significance of the title of the novel ‘A Passage to India’ APTI, published in 1924, is the last novel of E. M. Forster. The title of it is taken from Walt Whitman’s poem Passage to India which is about the spiritual passage or journey that a man must take to be brought face to face … Read more
“The Eternal Moment” short story by E.M. Forster pdf Read the full story through the given pdf, down below
“The Lotus Eater” by William Somerset Maugham as a short story William Somerset Maugham’s reputation much lies up on the short stories he has contributed to English literature. Though lacking the intellectual brightness, witty stunt, or sudden explosion of humour, often characterizing his writings. The Lotus Eater is one of the most heart-touching of his … Read more
Mrs. Dalloway as a stream-of-consciousness novel Modernism saw the deconstruction of ideologies and a lot of changes owing to the fragmentation caused by industrialization and World War. Writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce were not satisfied with the fiction of their times. Virginia Woolf who was deeply influenced by Freud and Bergson wanted to … Read more
Write an Essay on the Stream of Consciousness Novel “Stream of consciousness” refers to a narrative technique in non-dramatic fiction, intended to render the flow of myriad impressions – visual, auditory, tactile, associative, and subliminal that impinge on an individual’s consciousness Stream of consciousness technique as such may not always appear to have a coherent … Read more
Character of Bluntschli/Bluntschli as an anti-hero It has been said that Bernard Shaw is a “narrow interpreter of the sphere of humanity”, to borrow a phrase from Ben Jonson. He seizes on one of our common human nature and places some situations in which it is shown, or rather satirized. His characters are more like … Read more
Bring out the significance of the title of Arms and the Man The title of a literary work adumbrates the theme of it. Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man was at first called Alps and Balkans, but one place is as good as another, for the play concerns human attitudes. The title which replaced it … Read more
Character of Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway Clarissa Dalloway, the heroine of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, struggles constantly to balance her internal life with the external world. Her world consists of glittering surfaces, such as fine fashion, parties, and high society. but as she moves through that world she probes beneath those surfaces in search … Read more