With the demise of Queen Anne in August 1714 and the attainment of the throne by George I, the Tories were a ruined party, and Swift’s vocation in England was at an end. He extracted to Ireland, where he was to pass most of the rest of his life. After a period of seclusion in his deanship, Swift slowly regained […]
Humans are a vessel to a myriad of emotions; happiness, sadness, regret, remorse, excitement, fear, and pity. The list goes on and on. Some emotions cannot even be described in words. They do not have names associated with them in the dictionary. The human heart can only feel them. Catharsis, on the other side of […]
Origination Elizabethan drama is much more than the drama written in the reign of Elizabeth I, The Queen of England during the time period of 1558 to 1603. The English Renaissance Theatre is an umbrella-term used for Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline theatre. The sole reason it was referred to as “the Renaissance” was that the […]
There is no harm in practicing code-switching or pluralingualism. In my observation, bilinguals habitually switch codes out of default, especially with people who understand the same languages as they do and share a good rapport system between them. The most important reason why people are adamant about switching codes while conversing is to show solidarity […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein said “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” and rightly so because the more languages one knows, the wider and hence more panoramic their cognitive horizons are. The same saying goes aptly for children who can speak more than one language. According to Whorf’s theory of ‘linguistic determinism’, an […]
More than half of the population in the world are bilinguals. Bilingualism (the ability to speak and understand more than one language) and biliteracy (the ability to read and write in two languages), according to studies conducted have proven to be key factors in individuals having fortified brains, better attention spans, much efficient task-switching tendencies, […]
In the words of Aristotle; “A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that serious and also, having magnitude, complete in itself; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, each kind brought in separately in parts of the work; in dramatic, not in narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith […]
Changes Taken Place in Depiction of Hero A hero can be defined as the principal character in a literary work. However, this term may also be used in a more specialized sense for any figure glorified and celebrated in the ancient legends or Old Age heroic epics like Beowulf, Caedmon, etc. The Old English heroic […]
Dystopian literature did not have a cemented and established place in literary genres until books like George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World gained popularity for their almost prophetic takes on future societies with a dark spin. These soon became a blueprint for future authors looking to write dystopian stories and almost […]
In the Context of Information and Documentaries Documentaries have always served as a source of nonfictional educative entertainment. It could range from biographies of famous figures like Vincent Van Gogh or historical events like the numerous ones made on Word War II. However, the subject of a documentary can be based on contemporary topics and […]
