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Significance of the title of the essy “Pleasures” by Aldous Huxley
Pleasure is no inconvenient word. This simply implies anything that may confer happiness and delight. Musical performance, horse racing, cinema show, and any similar performance may definitely form pleasure. This gives distractions in life and does away with boredom. Aldous Huxley, however, has used the term 'pleasure' in his treatise, "Pleasure," in a different way. He refers, no…
August 29, 20250Comments
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What, according to Forster, the Englishmen’s attitude to criticism in his essay “Notes on the English Character”?
In the course of his discussion of the characteristic charge of coldness against the English nature, Forster’s notes have made one more observation. This is an Englishman’s usual attitude towards criticism. With his undeveloped heart, rational understanding, and pragmatic approach, the Englishman is found to have developed a specific attitude of mind. Emotion seems to have…
August 26, 20250Comments
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The experiences of the clerk before and after superannuation in Charles Lamb’s essay “The Superannuated Man”
Charles Lamb’s “The Superannuated Man” deals with the experiences of a clerk, his sufferings and anxieties during the long thirty-six years of his life as an accounts clerk, and also his deliverance and carefree mood during superannuation. He had to join his office in the Mincing Lane in his early youth, abandoning the sports and…
August 24, 20250Comments
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Thomas Love Peacock and his famous Works
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a satirist, essayist, and poet, the son of a London glass merchant, though brought up by his mother. He had published two volumes of verse when, in 1812, he met P B.Shelley, who became a close friend. Peacock’s prose satires, Headlong Hall (1816), Melincourt (I817), and Nightmare Abbey (1818), survey the contemporary political and cultural scene from…
August 1, 20250Comments
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What is Burlesque? Definition, and Examples
The term “burlesque” derives from the Italian burlesco, from burla, ‘ridicule’ or joke’. Burlesque is a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. In burlesque, the serious is treated lightly and the frivolous seriously; genuine emotion is sentimentalized, and trivial emotions are…
July 31, 20250Comments