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 […]
Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare during a period of three years (1599-1601). The genre of this is tragedy and it consists of a total of five Acts. The play opens by Hamlet, the titular character grieving over the demise of his father, his mother named Gertrude becoming his uncle, Claudius’ wife within […]
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 […]
Down below are five quotes explained from Jane Austen‘s famous novel “Emma” which was published on December 23rd, 1815. “Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.” These lines were uttered by Mr. Knightley when he was in conversation with Emma, the female protagonist. What he meant was that […]
Typically, a novel is an extended work of fiction, written in prose form, printed, and bound in a form of a book with a collection of pages. Novel-writing, production, sales, and consumption reached new heights in the Augustan Age, also known as the Neo-Classical Age in England. The four cogs in the wheels of the […]
Romanticism is a poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature and the interior world of feeling, in antagonism to the artificial formalism and orderly scientific inquiry of the Enlightenment era that went before it. English poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, and Lord Byron produced […]
“Waiting for Godot” is an Absurdist Play penned by Samuel Beckett, first in French, and later in English. SETTING Beckett’s own script notes can best describe the setting of “Waiting for Godot”: “A country road. A tree“. There is an otherworldly alienation in this sparse setting. It could be anywhere, in any country of the […]
Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger. My friend and I turned it into a playscript for a project. Hope y’all enjoy it! The Cast of Characters Mashechka: A carefree young wife and definitely is an elitist who would love to be part of the high […]
