Miranda, in the play The Tempest, is the finest of all the women William Shakespeare created, the type of woman he regarded as perfect, unspoiled by social customs and conventionalities.…
The comic underplot of The Tempest is introduced in the second scene of the second Act. It concerns the conspiracy of Caliban and his drunken associates, Stephano and Trinculo, against Prospero's…
The appropriateness of the title of the story, The Wife’s Letter, is not beyond all disputes. It is contended that the letter is written by one Mrinal to one, appearing…
“Waiting for Godot” is clearly influenced by the typical qualities of the modern French drama. The playwright tries to communicate like the French dramatist the meaninglessness of life through dialogues.…
Although Katherine Mansfield’s The Fly is a short story of some five pages, it is rich in the psychological interest of a fictional narrative. As an introspection into human psychology, it comes…
H. E. Bates’s story The Ox is no extraordinary tale of the stream of consciousness of a bereaved father, an inexplicable longing of a boy, or a singular yearning of a…
Philip Sidney opens his sonnet, "Loving in Truth", by explaining his motivation for composing the sonnet sequence. He believes that if his beloved were to read the sonnets, she would…
Bindu is the second important character of Rabindranath’s short story "The Wife’s Letter". She is introduced somewhat later, long after Mrinal’s married life has begun. Bindu is the younger sister…
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Hendiadys is a figure of speech in which a complex idea is expressed by two nouns connected together by the conjunction ‘and’. One of them gets the force of an…
The rose in William Blake’s The Sick Rose is not just a flower but a conventional symbol of beauty, innocence, purity, and love. For centuries, poets have compared the delicate…