Keeping in mind the ‘myth of Oedipus ’, Freud and other psychoanalysts used the ‘Oedipus complex for a manifestation of the child's unconscious attachment to the parent of the opposite sex…
Cyril Fielding, though not Forster himself, is generally assumed to represent Forster’s point of view in the novel A Passage to India. Forty-five years old, he is exactly the age Forster…
Ernest Hemingway’s famous novella The Old Man and the Sea has a clearly discernible rhythm. It starts on a soft note. We are introduced to Santiago and follow the quiet strains…
In the novel Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, two narrative innovations are worth particular mention: Atwood’s unreliable narrator and her use of poetry in a work of prose fiction. Most…
Dr. Aziz as a Representative Indian Muslim
Dr. Aziz is perhaps the best example of a “round” character, his warmth and vitality making the reader feel that he is a…
Introduction
The plot of the novel Untouchable is well planned and compact. It has a cogent beginning, well knit work of art, characterised by precision
of words, a well sustained middle…
Mahatma Gandhi is indeed one of the most significant and influential figures of the present century. In "Untouchable" and "The Sword and the Sickle." Mulk Raj Anand brings him (Gandhiji)…
It is a commonplace of literary criticism to state that writers often find materials in the incidents of their own lives, and by the alchemy of genius, those facts are…
Farmer Boldwood is remarkable both physically and morally. He has the nearest approach to an aristocrat at Weatherbury, as he is a prosperous farmer. He is not an ordinary person.…
Thomas Hardy believes in hostile fate, luck, or destiny, or chance. According to him, fate or chance is malicious and operates in such a way as to deprive human beings…