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 […]
Reading. Writing. Two key markers of civilization. Yet, we tend to forget all that in the present technological age. In fact, we think we’re better than dusty,old books that need to be placed properly on a bookshelf. But, let’s be real. We’re so not. Why? Because books (I’m talking about novels here) are massive sources […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the day and age of today, where technology is prevalent, easily accessible and widely available, people’s reliance on digital media has vastly increased. While it does come with its fair share of merits and demerits, one cannot deny its integrity and usefulness in our everyday commotions. Digital media, according to the Collins Dictionary comprises […]
Cultural invasion in literal terms is when a political or economic power tries to alter the cultural foundations of a system or a nation to make it dependent and insufficient in their own being just so they have to rely on external factors to import new ideas, values and practices making them achieve their goals. […]
Tess of The D’Urbervilles is a novel written by Thomas Hardy in the year 1892 in a single volume. Initially, in the year 1891, it was published in the newspaper and later in the form of three volumes. This narrative is about a girl named Tess Durbeyfield, who lives on the countryside with her family […]
