Summary of ‘OF AMBITION’ by Francis Bacon Bacon was a widely reputed essayist, thinker, and philosopher. In the choice of subject and range, his essays reveal a breath of intellect, his worldly wisdom, and his concern with public life and material advancement. They are impersonal, …
Analysis of the Poem The Good Morrow By John Donne Contrary to the easy and fluent style, stock imagery, and pastoral convention of Elizabethan poetry, John Donne evolved a new poetical trend that aimed at the reality of thought and vividness of expression. Donne’s love …
Role of Humour in “As You Like It” In the medieval period, the word humour carried a different connotation which was generally understood to be a peculiar turn of mind, caprice or whim of a particular person. Humour originally meant physiological rather than psychological phenomena. …
Main Features of Indian English Poetry after Independence Era: The Indian English writing made a beginning in the work of translation. There was the death of originality, the aim being merely to produce imitative works. This trend took a change with Derozio who gave a …
Fiction was the last to appear in the Indian English literary scene. Early attempts of fictional writing manifest itself but they are tales rather than novels. With the turn of the century writers with serious content and elegant style began to leave their stamp on …
Arts reflects society, it presents a graphic account of social currents and its ebbs and flows. Since an artist can hardly display an air of indifference to his surroundings, his art becomes a record of social upheavals and their consequences. Among the notable playwright of …
R.K. Narayan weaves the plot of the novel ‘The Man-Eater of Malgudi’ on an ancient myth of Bhasmasur and Mohini. However, he is not interested in extolling the spiritual heritage of his land like Raja or planting propaganda in creative art as Mulk Raj Anand. R.K. Narayan …
The character of Vasu in the novel the Man-Eater of Malgudi: R.K. Narayan professes to set forth the eternal conflict between good and evil in ‘The Man-Eater of Malgudi’. There is no attempt at originality of thought, the novelist’s aim being mere to reinstate the triumph …
History of Algebra in Linguistics: These days this word refers to that branch of mathematics in which quantities are represented by letters and signs. The etymology of this word tells us, however, that in ancient days this word referred to the skill of uniting what …
The Suffix in Linguistics: A remarkable feature of the flexibility and richness of English vocabulary comes from the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words and old words or to modify or extend the root idea. In this respect, it is parallel to German. …
