The Effulgence Within

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Belief is not Truth and Truth is Never a Belief

Logic is always bound by discursive thought, and therefore people of logic or syllogism can never believe that there exists the illogical. Not that it is illogical, only you don't have logic yet, to prove or to disprove. The priests, the mahatmas, the maulanas, the rabbis, and the so-called saints... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Macbeth: Does the Play have any Relavance in today’s Times

A rundown of the story so far: (Scotland is marred in battles. Macbeth tears to shards the defenses of Cawdor, a disloyal traitor of Scotland, and is returning home at sunset accompanied by Banquo, when suddenly, they are visited by three nightly hags materialized from thin air. They predict... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Women can make a man rise to the highest or fall to the lowest of low

Macbeth is the drama of man driven from crime to crime instigated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, and of its retribution by external forces. Shakespeare's treatment of this central idea is manifested in the contrasted results of similar circumstances in two different natures - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth -... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Time, Looking through the Looking Glass

It is the austere language of a diffident man, Hardy, marked with stoical fortitude, patient and uncomplaining, that his poem, “I Look into My Glass”, has an indelibly immediate appeal on the readers’ mind, in his teaching man to face up to Time unflinchingly. Time, with its power, brings... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 30, 2022

The Prominence of Christian Elements in Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’.

Religion appears to be the motive force behind Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Indeed, much of its dialogue, spectacle and images reflect traditional Christian values. The play repeatedly tells us that the two characters, Estragon and Vladimir are made in God’s image, and they have the effrontery to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Samuel Beckett’s Godot … God of Old Testament

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is the story of two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon who meet at a country roadside spot, waiting for Godot, an enigmatic being, but he never arrives. His non-arrival provides the only fact about him in the whole pay. Many attempts have been made to identify Godot and... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Artistry of the Greeks in Producing Great Tregedies

According to Aristotle, Tragedy is composed of three parts: (a) Plot, Character and Thought, which concern the object represented, (b) Diction and Melody, which concern the means of representation, and (c) Spectacle, which is related to the manner of representation. To him, Plot is of supreme... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 21, 2022

WHAT GOOD DOES TRAGEDY DO TO OUR SOUL

The Greek word Catharsis means the release of emotional tension – Pity and Fear — after an overwhelming vicarious experience, as of watching a drama, resulting in the purification of these unhealthy, sickly conditions of the soul. In Aristotle’s Poetics, this is the chief function of Tragedy. The... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 13, 2022

A Fantastic Modish Portrayal of 18th Century London

(To add more clarity to the story) The Rape of the Lock portrays the fashionable world of early 18th century London. Pope’s world gains reality partly from the lavish detail in which he invests the customs, favourite meeting-places, manners and interest of the fashionable society of the age. His... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Pope’s Unmatched Mastery in Treating Events Shallow to Epic Proportions

Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock on a request from his friend John Caryll to help heal a rift between two Catholic families of prominence of the early eighteenth century London. It all started with Lord Petre’s amorous prank of cutting off of a lock of hair of a London society beauty, Miss Arabella... Sign in to see full entry.

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