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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Aeschylus’ Classic Tragedy Ironically Turns into the Beginnings of Religion

Agamemnon, is the first play in Aeschylus’Greek trilogy; it deals with the murder of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae. A generation before the Trojan War, two brothers, Atreus and Thyestes, sons of Pelops, contended for the throne of Mycenae when it fell vacant. The two brothers both claimed it, and at... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man - Anti Romantic Comedy

Shaw has called Arms and the Man an “anti-romantic comedy”, and he laughs at the romantic hero and heroine of literature represented by Sergius and Raina. The opening scene with Raina standing on a balcony “intensely conscious of the romantic beauty of the night with “her own youth and beauty as... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 12, 2026

In the Artifice of Wit-Combat Lies Comedy

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... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 8, 2026

Othello : Shakespeare’s Finest Domestic (Handkerchief)Tragedy

Othello has been rightly called the tragedy of the handkerchief and this is largely true. The handkerchief in question was the one given to Othello by his mother who had received it from an Egyptian. “There was magic in the web of it” and Othello attached much importance to it. He in his turn gave... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 7, 2026

William Hazlitt - the Groundbreaking Romantic Essayist

A crowning figure of the Romantic period Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) celebrated for his brilliant prose style, humanistic observations on everyday life, and groundbreaking critiques of literature, art, and drama. On 14 January 1798, Hazlitt, in what was to prove a turning point in his life, encountered... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Can Critics Assess the True Potential of Great Artists

Literary Criticism is, as Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), the Victorian poet and critic points out, a "disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate" the best that is known and thought in the world. And he strove hard to fulfill this aim in his critical writings. Attaching paramount importance to poetry... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Fragility of Human Existence - “Mutability” (by Shelley)

Shelley’s ‘Mutability’, unlike his other poems, is somber and romantically philosophical, with clear and vivid imaginative details drawing a parallel of human experiences to that of Nature’s. This poem was first published in 1816 in the collection, Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Dejection: Where Feelings dry up infected by philosophy and metaphysics

The poem, ‘Dejection: An Ode ’, written in 1802, is Samuel Taylor Coleridge ’s deeply personal and autobiographical poem depicting his mental state and his declining powers of creative imagination. In this heart-rending poem, his sense perceptions are strikingly alive but his inner state is... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Understanding The Elegy - Country Church-Yard-(A Repeat)

T he Elegy in ancient Greece was the name given for a song of mourning. The causes of lamentation are various – war, political feuds, the manners and the morals of the time, death. The Elizabethans called a love complaint an elegy. But since then the word has come to mean a poem in which the poet... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Significance of Faustus’s Vision of the Helen of Greece

In Greek mythology, Helen is the most beautiful woman in the entire world and the cause of the Trojan War (the Trojan prince Paris stole her from her Greek husband Menelaus. In Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus, the schoolers ask Faustus to summon Helen and Faustus later asks Mephistophilis to make... 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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