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Milton
Milton:
Treatment of woman in "Paradise Lost"
Adam and Eve are the very first human couple and the parents
of the whole human race and the masterpiece of God's art of creation, primarily
lived in Eden which is an indescribable beautiful garden in Heaven. God had
given them the liberty to enjoy everything available there, with only one
restriction that they were not to eat the forbidden fruit there, but they could
not act upon this curb, therefore, God punished them for their disobedience and
expelled them from Paradise.
When we make a careful and critical analysis of "Paradise
Lost" Book IX, we discover that in spite of having many common features of
character and personality both Adam and Eve have a world of difference between
them as well. Both of them are...
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Rape of the Lock - Significance of Cave of Spleen
Rape
of the Lock - Significance of Cave of Spleen
Spleen was the Augustan name what Elizabethan
described as melancholy. It is less of a disease than a fashionable affectation.
Fashionable ladies, poets, and playwrights pretend to suffer from it so as to
give an impression that he victims are serious thinkers of creative writers.
Pope exalts Spleen to the level of Goddess and cave of Spleen to the level of
underworld and personifies her as the Queen of underworld. This suits his scheme
to mock the epic conventions systematically because the serious epics like
"Illiad" and "Aenied" show heroes taking a voyage to the underworld. In travesty
of this convention, however, Pope packs a lot of social criticism, especially
the criticism of fashionable vanities and affectations...
Gulliver's Travel: Is swift a misanthrope?
Gulliver's
Travel: Is swift a misanthrope?
Swift is not a misanthrope rather he is a
philanthrope. It is the misconception of those who think Swift as a misanthrope.
Swift only wants to reform mankind out of their follies and stupidities. He says
that the chief end of all his labour is:"to vex the world rather than divert
it".Secondly, he declares that:"I have ever hated all nations,
professions, and communities and all his love is towards
individuals."Thirdly, though Swift does not believe that:"Man is a
rational animal".Yet he believes that:"Man is capable of becoming
rational if he makes the necessary efforts."But we see that Swift is
notorious for being misanthrope. He was subjected to this allegation during his
lifetime because the critics, identifying Gulliver...
Renaissance elements in Doctor Faustus Renaissance ideals vs. Medieval morals
Renaissance
elements in Doctor Faustus Renaissance ideals vs. Medieval morals
Renaissance elements in Doctor
FaustusRenaissance ideals vs. Medieval moralsFaustus's inner turmoil
gives way to the dominant meaning within the play: Medieval morals versus
Renaissance ideals. Marlowe's characterization of Faustus leads one to the
predominant idea of duality in society of his era in which Medieval values
conflict with those of the Renaissance. His refusal to see what is fact and what
is fiction is a result of his pompous persona. In his quest to become
omnipotent, Faustus fails to see that there is life after death and that his
material possessions are of no consequence. Faustus is a combatant in his own
internal war of knowledge or salvation.In the...
The Tragic Fate of Marlowe's Tragic Hero
The
Tragic Fate of Marlowe's Tragic Hero
In the world of theatre, there are many plays
in which the central figure is one who harnesses extreme personality traits
above all others. For example, Sophocles' Oedipus is a fatherly king with great
ambition and strength; and Shakespeare's Macbeth is evilly ambitious, while
Romeo and Juliet are driven solely by their love for one another. These traits
give these characters unbelievable success... for a time. In these stories,
these attributes bring about each character's downfall and death, qualifying
each as a tragic hero, one whose strength leads to weakness. Christopher
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is a definite member of this class of characters, an
arrogant yet impressively ambitious scholar who desires grandiose knowledge...
Satire in The Rape of The Lock
Satire
in The Rape of The Lock
The rape of
the lock is a brilliant and humorous satire on the aristocratic society
of England, with its social scandals, follies, trivialities and vanities in
general of fashionable men and women. Dryden said, “The true end of satire is
the amendment of vice by correction,” and that is what Pope set out to do in his
“Rape of the Lock.” By using the burlesque, mockery, and irony, Pope ridicules
the deviation of his society.
Satire in “The Rape of The Lock" can be
called a social satire because it satirizes the society as a whole in ways still
relevant to to-days world. Moreover it is not a satire against any individual,
but against the follies and vanities of fashionable men and women in general.
Through Belinda Pope satirizes...
Rape of the Lock - Supernatural Machinery
Rape
of the Lock - Supernatural Machinery
Pope explains that "machinery" is a term
invented by the critics to signify the part which deities, angles, or demons
play in a poem. He goes on to say that the machinery in this poem is based on
the Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits in which the four elements are inhabited by
sylphs, nymphs, gnomes and salamanders. The sylphs, whose habitation is in the
air, are the best-conditioned creatures.
Pope tells us that beautiful
women return, after their death, to the elements from which they were derived.
Termagants or violent tempered women become salamanders or spirit of the fire.
Women of gentle and pleasing disposition pass into nymphs or water-spirits.
Prudish women become gnomes or earth spirits. Light-hearted coquettes are
changed...
Rape of the Lock - A Comic Epic
Rape of
the Lock - A Comic Epic
An epic, according to Aristotle, is the
tragedy of a conspicuous person, who is involved in adventurous events and meets
a tragic fall on account of some error of judgment i.e. hamartia which throws
him from prosperity into adversity,however, his death is not essential. So, the
subject matter of an epic is grand and that's why it is written in bombastic
language and heroic couplet. Its style, too, is grand.
A mock-epic is a
satire of an epic. It shows us that even a trivial subject can also be treated
on epical scale. The subject of "The Rape of the Lock" is trivial – a love
dispute between a lady ad a gentleman. Lord Byron proposes Belinda who rejects
his proposal. Baron cuts one of her beautiful looks. This trivial theme has been
given...
The Rape of the Lock.. A sex Symbol
The Rape of The Lock ..A sex symbol
The eighteenth century is and age of psychological insight. Every writer as well
as his work is being analyzed in psychological terms. Modern psychology has
proved that it is the sex psychology which determined the superiority of a sex.
Sex is the nucleus of human life and its all activities. It is not the product
of conventions, rather, it is just a natural instinct, which is reduced to some
discipline by accepted social convention, morals, laws, etc. Sex is at the root
of all moral and physical health. So it may be disciplined, but if it is curbed
and suppressed, it leads to drastic consequences.
In fact,
frustrations, depreciation, persecution, disparities coupled with economic
problems result in dejection and in order to bring about...
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Character Of Belinda In "The Rape Of The Lock"
Character Of Belinda In "The
Rape Of The Lock"
Having a Cleopatra-like variety, Belinda is the
one who is all pervasive and central character in Alexander Pope's mock heroic,
"The Rape of the Lock". Pope's attitude to Belinda is very mixed and
complicated: mocking and yet tender, admiring and yet critical. The paradoxical
nature of Pope's attitude is intimately related to the paradox of Belinda's
situation. She is as a bundle of contradictions as is the society she
represents. She is a complex character and is more than a mere type. It is
impossible to find a parallel of Belinda in any poem of the 18th
century.
Belinda is introduced as a paragon of female charm whose name is
Latin for “Lovely to behold “. Pope seems to be enamoured with his own creation.
He describes...
The Winter’s Tale Plot Summary
The Winter’s Tale Plot Summary
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plot summary of The Winter’s Tale:
Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, has been visiting his old friend King Leontes
in Sicily for nearly nine months but is ready to return to Bohemia. Leontes begs
him to stay longer but Polixenes is anxious to go, and declines. When Leontes’
pregnant wife, Hermione, succeeds in persuading Polixenes to stay, Leontes
becomes obsessed with the thought that his wife has been unfaithful with
his friend. He asks his servant, Camillo, to poison Polixenes, Camilla warns
Polixenes instead and they flee leaving Hermione and her little boy, Mamillius,
to face the King’s displeasure.
Leontes imprisons Hermione and she delivers a baby girl there. A lady in
waiting, Paulina, takes the baby to Leontes...
Othello Plot Summary
Othello Plot Summary
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plot summary of Othello:
In the opening scene, Iago complains to Roderigo that Othello, his Commander,
has passed him over to promote the handsome young Cassio to be his Lieutenant.
He vows to get revenge. Iago first asks Roderigo to tell Desdemona’s father,
Brabantio, that his daughter has left to marry Othello, a marriage Brabantio
opposes because Othello is a Moor. Brabantio confronts Othello, and they take
their argument to the Duke, who has summmoned Othelloto ask him to sail to
Cyprus to stop a Turkish invasion. Convinced by Othello and Desdemona that they
love each other deeply despite their differences, the Duke gives Desdemona
permission to travel with Othello. By the time they reach Cyprus the foreign
threat has gone.
Iago...
political-satire-in-gullivers-travels
political-satire-in-gullivers-travels.html
Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is a pure piece of satire where he satirizes party
politics, religious differences, and western Culture as a whole in ways still
relevant to today's world. But what we find mostly after reading "Book-1" is
that it is an allegorical representation of English politics. In where Swift
depicts the total political corruption beginning from 16th century and ending
with 18th century.
One of the forms of political satire is embodied in
the first culture that is met by Gulliver. In Gulliver's first adventure, he
begins on a ship that runs aground on a submerged rock. He swims to land, and
when he awakens, he finds himself tied down to the ground, and surrounded by
tiny people, the Lilliputians. "Irony is present from...