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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Media has changed the way humankind had been living from primitive times. From the way we had been functioning to the way we thought about things, it has completely transformed our perspective towards the world. Part of this is because of the preponderant exposure that we have been subjected to in the form of social […]
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 […]
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 […]
Colonialism is not new in terms of history. It was an ancient art practiced by the Bronze and Iron Age Assyrians, Greek and Roman Empires; the Vikings; the Ottoman and Mughal Empire; Japan in East Asia; and the Russian expansion throughout central Asia. However, Western colonization is considered by historians to be the most damaging, […]
“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 […]
