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 […]
The evolution of media and the evolution of society is interdependent on each other. Right from the primitive period, humans have been looking out for ways to incorporate strategies and methods to pass on their message from one place to another, from one part of the world to another. Media, in some way shape, or […]
In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action. Rhetorical devices evoke an emotional response in […]
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 […]
If the culture, art, and literature produced in the Victorian Era in Britain fascinate you as much as it fascinates me, here’s everything you need to know about it. The Social Classes Although it was a peaceful and prosperous time, there were still issues within the social structure. The social classes of this era included […]
An Essay By T.S. Eliot Part One In English writing, we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition”; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of So-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.” Seldom, […]
Education In Education, English during the post-colonial period was not merely a school subject: it became a core subject at every level of education – from the primary school to the tertiary level. A credit pass in English is now mandatory for candidates to gain admission into higher institutions. It is also mandatory for all […]
