Monday, May 28, 2018
Christianity and Science are at Loggerheads with each other
The above title is the exact wordings of a dyed-in-the-wool materialist, Colin Humphreys, a former British professor of Materials Science and director of Research at the Cambridge University. Being a staunch apologist of the power of science, he asserted, “I think you can explain the universe...
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Friday, May 25, 2018
How to See the Light of Good
The greatest teachings I hold dear to my heart are the ones that talk of strength, and in these, the Vedas and the Upanishads are unmatched. I am somewhat averse to those that talk about your guilt, your sin, and by this and that retribution you’ll be freed and be led to your salvation. Such...
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Friday, May 11, 2018
The Sequel: 'Evil to Evil' . . . can never be erased from human nature
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...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Lady Macbeth's mental preparations before murdering King Ducnan
The story until now: An advance letter from Macbeth, while returning victorious from the battlefield, is sent by a messenger to Lady Macbeth which she reads out aloud to the audience, her blood boiling with excitement at the prophecies made by the Witches that her husband will be elevated to the...
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Friday, May 4, 2018
Has Fate already crowned Macbeth with the golden round?
ACT I, Scene V, begins at the Inverness, Macbeth's palace, with Lady Macbeth entering the stage, alone, reading a letter she has received from Macbeth, while still on his way home returning victorious from the battlefield, informing her the news of his strange meeting with the three Witches and of...
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Monday, April 30, 2018
Shakespeare's sparkling genius in Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is the nearest approach to the Comedy of Errors as practised by William Congreve, where sentiment or passion is conveyed either by indifference or downright contradiction. The hero and the heroine of Much Ado, Benedick and Beatrice, by their very bickerings, assume a social...
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Saturday, April 28, 2018
A Bronze Head
W.B.Yeats’ poem A Bronze Head is addressed to a bronze-painted plaster cast bust of Maude Gonne in the Dublin Municial Gallery. In her earlier years she was an intense passionate nationalist; eloquent and domineering, a beautiful-looking English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress....
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
The Wild Swans at Coole
The setting of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole (composed in 1916) is Coole Park, Lady Gregory’s estate in Galway, a county in thel West of the Republic of Ireland. The poem deals with the problem of ageing, and considers the changes in Yeats’ own life since his visit at Coole Park...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Emotions, Reasoning and Decision-Making
Hello blogit friends, missed reading or commenting on your contributions. Got busy and involved is all I can say. My last post was a discussion on what role do emotions play in our lives. Today's is a continuation of that ongoing subject. Music is another form of the representation of emotions. The...
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Friday, February 16, 2018
Emotion, Reasoning and Expression in Language
Emotion is a distinct feeling of consciousness, such as joy, sadness, anger, that reflects the personal significance of an emotion-arousing event. Emotions are central to the issues of human survival and adaptation. They motivate the development of moral behaviour which lies at the very root of...
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