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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Symbolic Significance of Hawthorne's Title The House of the Seven Gables

In The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, from the start, describes the House of the Seven Gables as if it were human. He says: “The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, --- expressions of the long lapse of mortal life”. Personification in later... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The House of the Seven Gables

The theme of Hawthorne’s novel The House of the Seven Gables is that the sins of the fathers are passed on to the children in succeeding generations. The seven gables are symbolic representations of the seven deadly sins. The old colonial Pyncheon House in Salem, Massachusetts with its seven gables... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Why Modern Tragedies Lack the Splendor of Ancient Greek Tragedy?

Critics are in general agreement that Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie falls short of Tragedy. The characters of the play lack the stature of the older tragic heroes, and their values and aims in life also are not as worthy or exalted. All the four characters – mother Amanda Wingfield,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Emerson’s Self-Reliance and its Relation to Society and Tradition

Individualism, which is a recurring theme of Emerson, finds its most elaborate exposition in his essay, “Self-Reliance”. “Self-Reliance”, his key doctrine, is contained in the first Epigraph “Do not seek yourself outside yourself”, and is also expressed more succinctly in “Trust yourself”. To... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Exploration of the Self

Directed by the body of the mind Forgetting all sane, good teachings behind Our sense organs again and again follow Helplessly, committing sins after sins shallow Manifestations of our boggy innards Tendencies - those craggy cowards Generations of wombs violent Sired by consciousness somnolent... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Greek Tragedy: Chatacter of Creon in Sophocles' Antigone

Polynices, Greek for “manifold strife” the son of Oedipus and Jocasta, was born of an incestuous relationship between Oedipus and his mother. Jocasta was the wife of king Laius whom also Oedipus had earlier killed in a duel without knowing his relationship to either. Thus, grave sins are incurred by... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Coleridge's Imaginative use of the Ballad Style

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy … We see in the above lines of “ The Ancient Mariner” the medieval influence of the supernatural at work in the skeletal ship - the dicing demons on the deck evoking a fearful nightmare of... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 17, 2012

The Abiding in the Transient (A Repost)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s lyric “ Tears, Idle Tears ” expresses the deepest feelings of sadness with graceful fluency. The lyric wonders as to the meaning of tears that spring from our innermost depths and making way through the heart collect in the eyes. And the selfsame tears fill our eyes when the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

A Play of Logic standing Abused

Ionesco, never one to avoid appearing odd Hailed as one of the greatest Romanian playwrights, Eugene Ionesco wrote his dramas in French. Having spent his childhood in utter poverty, he came to believe that life's paradoxes were absurd and "out of harmony". Thus, the play, Rhinoceros, belongs to the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

The study of a neurotic woman (Shakesperian female Hamlet)

Here is the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s intriguing, and later famously acclaimed as ‘realistic’ story of a beautiful, willful and spoilt child, as also a liberated woman, Hedda Gabler, who is the daughter of an aristocrat, General Gabler. Although emancipated, she is the study of a neurotic... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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