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There is hardly anything in Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness" that offers no symbolic meaning. Almost everything, including the Congo, the journey, the darkness of the African jungle, ivory, the…

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Dramatic Significance of the Hockey Match in The Untouchable

One of the remarkable dramatic Scenes in the novel "Untouchable" is the Hockey match in the evening between Bakha and his friends. The two teams scheduled to play on the…

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Aug 2026

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Consider the novel “Kanthapura” as a Gandhi-puran or sthala puran

As James Joyce in his “Ulysses” or T.S. Eliot in his “The Waste Land”, so also Raja Rao in his novel “Kanthapura” made great use of the mythical legends and…

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Character of the Nameless Narrator in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

Margaret Atwood's Surfacing is an intensely symbolic novel about an artist whose weekend trip home to search for her missing father turns into a journey of self-discovery. Atwood avoids naming…

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Significance of the subtitle “A Pure Woman” in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy’s subtitle “A Pure Woman” in Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a deliberate challenge to conventional Victorian ideas of female purity and morality. It created trouble from the first…

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Relevance of Digression and Interpolations in Tom Jones | Short Note

Introduction: The plot of Tom Jones has been admired by numerous critics. But almost all of them express their reservations about the validity of the various interpolated stories in the course of the…

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Samskara as a Critique of the Decadent Brahmin Community

In his novella “Samskara”, an important work of the 1960s, U.R. Anantha Murthy has hurled a pungent attack on the contemporary Hindu Brahmin community. It is a religious novella about…

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Ending of Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy Explained

The rejection of the traditional, satisfactory ending with the cathartic effect is a typical mark of the vast experimentation in narrative technique by modern authors. The open-ended conclusion of U.R.…

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Use of Symbols in Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence | Complete Literary Analysis

D. H. Lawrence makes extensive use of symbols in his famous novel "Sons and Lovers". Symbolism means investing a remark, a situation, an incident, an object, or even a person…

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William Morel Character Analysis in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

William Morel is the eldest son of Gertrude and Walter Morel in the novel “Sons and Lovers” by D.H.Lawrence. He is just seven when he is first introduced to us.…

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BySupriya Maity