Introduction: The Purpose of Hard Times Charles Dickens is known as a writer of social criticism, and “Hard Times” particularly demonstrates his critical view of Victorian England. As opposed to particular attacks as evident in his earlier novels, “Hard Times” is a diagnosis of Victorian society as a whole. In the novel the failings of …
In the novel, The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh focuses on the meaning of political freedom in the modern world and the force of nationalism. The novel, according to the blurb, focuses on “nationalism, the Shadow Lines we draw between people and nations, which is both an absurd illusion and a source of terrifying violence.” Through …
“The Final Solution” is a story by Manik Bandopadhyay, who is an Indian Bengali, writing about the destruction of values and the politics of power and sexuality in the spiralling refugee problem in Calcutta, which was a direct aftermath of the 1947 Partition. Many of the Hindu families who left their homes in East Pakistan …
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Feminism:Feminism is a concept which varies from individual to individual. The general definition of feminism (according to oxford dictionaries) is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of the equality of the sexes. Today feminism is more than just the demand for equal rights. Feminism has been studied and developed under the name “Feminist …
Now question arises, is writing Both Useless and dangerous…? This does not square easily with the social history of the rise of writing in the west. Sometimes, speech is offered a curious privilege, for example, law courts rely on writing, but they privilege vocal testimony, when the person is asked to say “I promise to …
Deconstruction is one of the several doctrines in contemporary philosophy often loosely held under the umbrella terms post-structuralism and postmodernism. Jacques Derrida coined the term in the 1960s, and proved more forthcoming with negative, rather than a pined-for positive, analyses of the school. Derrida says, deconstruction is a word whose fortunes have disagreeably surprised me. …
Beckett refrained from elaborating on the characters beyond what he had written in the play. He once recalled them when Sir Ralph Richardson “wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir … I …
“The Final Solution” is a story by Manik Bandopadhyay, who is an Indian Bengali, writing about the destruction of values and the politics of power and sexuality in the spiralling refugee problem in Calcutta, which was a direct aftermath of the 1947 Partition. Many of the Hindu families who left their homes in East Pakistan …
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Poem Summary Lines 1 – 4 The theme of distance is introduced in the opening line. When the speaker informs the reader,“Tonight I can write the saddest lines,” he suggests that he could not previously. We later learn that his overwhelming sorrow over a lost lover has prevented him from writing about their relationship and …
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