In Thomas Hardy's famous novel Far From the Madding Crowd, Fanny Robin is a pretty, slim, and innocent girl with yellow hair who is the youngest servant working under Bathsheba.…
Introduction
To many modern readers and critics the great blot on the book is the author's portrayal of Darcy. To all appearances, there are two Darcys that we meet in Pride…
Motifs in A Passage to India:
The Echo:
The echo begins at the Marabar Caves: first Mrs. Moore and then Adela hear the echo and are haunted by it in the weeks to…
Introduction
Robinson Crusoe is regarded as one of the finest allegories. Defoe must have been inspired by the allegories that existed before he wrote his own allegory. Allegories were popular…
Pride and Prejudice has a well-knit, coherent plot where all events and characters are integrated and exemplify the same theme. The Lydia-Wickham episode is one of the sub-plots of the novel…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.
This opening sentence of the novel Pride and Prejudice…
Amatory fiction, also known as romance fiction or romantic literature, refers to a genre of literature that focuses on love, relationships, and emotional connections between characters. It explores themes of…
Anna’s primary role in Surfacing is to crystallize the narrator’s opinions about love, sex, and marriage. Anna’s constant chatter helps the narrator to better understand relationships. She asks whether the narrator takes…
Roman documentaire is a form of fiction that was invented by the Goncourt brothers, Edmond (1822-96) and Jules (1830-70), in the 1860s. The brothers, in collaboration, set out to write…
What is a Novel of Sensation?
The novel of sensation is a distinctive genre of Victorian fiction that emerged around the 1860s. It combines elements of Gothic fiction, melodrama, and domestic…