AD's English Literature

Composition - Genre – Source- Plot - Political Questions - Who is the Hero? - Verse and Prose Composition: Written about 1599 & performed at the Globe Theatre by William Shakespeare ’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Genre: Julius Caesar is  tragic play about political rivalries- full title is The Tragedy of Julius Caesar . This had been a red play; for it had been a tremendous struggle of forces. Source: The play is based on translations of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives (1579), specifically from the passages on the lives of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), Marcus Brutus (Brutus), and Julius Caesar, whose military and political exploits and subsequent assassination were subjects of considerable interest during the Renaissance. Although Caesar himself is not the hero of the play, he is the catalyst of the action and the person around whom the plot revolves. Plot: Act I. General Discontent: Sc. 1. ( Rome. A street.) Feeling o...

Born in 1856 in a well-known westernized family in Kolkata, To r u Dutt has the advantage of good education and happy family environment. When Trou is six, the entire family embraces Christianity. Luckily, in Taru’s care, the conversion to Christianity is neither violent nor does it result in an automatic rejection to Hindu Culture. Read More Men That Keep Attention   Indeed, Toru may be reedited with being the first Indian English poet extensively to use Indian myths. Occasionally, her Christianity d o es surface in her renderings, but by and large, it is as a sympathetic insertion Indian Culture that she writes. Toru mainly writes in English and French. H.A.L Fisher writes, " this did of the green valley of the Ganges have by sheer force of native genius earned for herself the right to be enrolled in the great fellowship of English poets.” Toru Dutt is known to us by her book, The Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan which contains the tragus lotion of ancient myths in ...

Difficulty Level:  Graduation      Time: 2hr Each Question: Word Limit: 30    1.How do you classify Ode to Autumn and Ode To The West Wind as an Ode?                Ans- Keats ' Ode To Autumn is Horati an , while Shelley's Ode To The West Wind is Pindaric in nature. In contrast to the passion, visionary boldness, and formal language of Ode To the West Wind, Keats Ode To The Autumn is calm, meditative and colloquial. In their stanza structure. Ode To Autumn contains shorter repeated stanza f or m th an Ode To The West Wind. 2. Present in your own words the contrast of time In the   Wi ld S wans at cooled.                                          Ans- Yeats has observed that during the interval of nineteen years, i.e. since the first visit to cooled park, the phenomena of swans with its va...

" All humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey."   MacFlecknoe: Study Circle Satire-->Mock heroic --->poetic style---> As a poet--->Coronation--->speech --->Shadwell as a writer--->Description Scene.--->Character Of Shadwell -->Imagery--->Allusion Shadwell as a writer:  Although Shadwell has been satirized and reduced to a manikin , the fact that Shadwell was in realty a literary rival and competitive dramatist. Shadwell openly acknowledged his literary feud with the English poet John Dryden. His satire The Medal of John Bayes (1682) contains his strongest attack against Dryden, who counteracted with Mac Flecknoe, or a Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T.S. (1682). Shadwell succeeded Dryden as poet laureate in 1688. In his own right made Dryden harp on what he deemed to line literary flaws or demerits. Such remarks regarding Shadwell’s lacuna are interspersed throughout the text of MacFlecknoe tho...

Introduction: There would be no difficulty if Satan were simply an Iago; the difficulty arises because he is a Macbeth. Satan is like the supreme villain Iago. the Satanic sins are pride, envy, and wart and Satan’s good qualities are inflexibility, determination, magnificent expression,   a vivid imagination, his capacity to bear  suffering, human contradictions.   So he is villainies' hero and heroic villain. Even the reader’s expression is equivocal.                                                                                   Satan is almost indubitably the most perpl...

" At the stroke of the midnight hour, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. " - Referring to Indian independence by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru   Introduction : Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) is not only a great political figure and a champion of liberty but also a keen observer of men and manners of India and of the world. His literary outputs have an ample display of the open-mindedness, deep insight and prolific scholarship. Before we take a close scrutiny of his literary works, the bare fiats about Nehru’s life can be told quickly. Nehru, born to rich Kashmiri parents, had an exclusive education both at home and abroad. At Harrow and Cambridge and the Inner Temple he received his higher education. Soon after his return from England he plunged into the nationalistic struggle, went to Gail a numbe...