Enam's Note

Depiction of Indian life in RK Narayan’s “The Guide”. “ The Guide ” (1958), a classic novel in Anglo- Indian literature, by Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (1906-2001), tells the story of the transformation of a petty guide from a railway guide to a tourist guide to a dancer’s guide, to the prisoner’s guide and finally to a spiritual guide at various stage of his life. The novel exposes the artistic expression of Narayan’s view to Indian life through depicting Indian culture religious beliefs, superstitions and philosophy.     Click Here to Download a Printable version of the full Note  or Click top right corner of the preview of the document.

Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004) is among the very few Indo-Anglian poets who are Indian by both ideologically and linguistically. He tries to look at the typical Indian situation with an Indian attitude, with a novel and dynamic Indian insight. He cleverly manipulated Indian English to bring out the genuine Indian temperament that can be considered as the true Indianness.  Before entering into our discussion what the term Indianness means.  Prof. V.K. Gokak  defines Indianness as:   “A composite awareness in the matter of race, Milieu, language and religion” Considering this quote if we examine Ezekiel’s poetry he is a true Indian Poet by all means.  Click Here to Download a Printable version of the full Note or Click top right corner of the preview of the document.

The Duchess of Malfi, the protagonist of the trargedy “ The Duchess of Malfi ” by John Webster, is completely an exceptional character from the typical Jacobean one. The author paints the character with the colour of sensuality, passion, strength, wit, and independence. Now we are going to discuss her character.   The Duchess of Malfi is the sister of Cardinal and the twin sister of Ferdinand . She is never referred to by name throughout the play. At the very beginning of the play, we see she is a widow, but “ still in the bloom of youth” . Actually “ The Duchess of Malfi ” is a tragedy on a real duchess “ Giovanna ”, a girl of twelve, married to Alfonso , duke of Amalfi, in 1490. She became widow at the age of twenty in 1498. Later, defying the order of her older brothers she fell in love with a man beneath her class, secretly married and gave birth to three children.  But when her marriage was discovered she along with her husband and children was mercilessly killed. The

‘ The Spanish Tragedy’ or ‘ Hieronimo is Mad Again’, a popular Elizabethan revenge tragedy by Tomas Kid is highly is highly influenced by Seneca , a Roman dramatist. It is actually a play on a father who avenges the murder of his son. Now we are going to find out the Senecan elements in the play. Before entering into our discussion we are to know something about Seneca and the main features of his play. Lucius Annaneus Seneca , a Roman philosopher and playwright who sets all the ideas and the norms of the revenge play writers in Renaissance era. Senecan tragedy is a form of tragedy modelled on the drama of Seneca. Generally, the subject of a Senecan tragedy is the murder and the quest for vengeance ( প্রতিহিংসা ). It usually includes a ghost, insanity, suicide, a play within a play sensational incidents and finally a gruesomely ( ভয়াবহ ) bloody ending. Christopher Marlowe’s “ The Jew of Malta ”, Shakespeare’s “ Hamlet ”, John Webster’s “ The Duchess of Malfi ” and “ The White De

Doctor Faustus, a man with uncommon potentialities who sells his soul to the devil in exchange of power and knowledge, is unarguably a medieval tragic hero of Marlow’s dramatic masterpiece ‘ The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus ’ popularly known as ‘ Doctor Faustus’ . The play starts, like classic tragedy, with the protagonist at the zenith of his achievement and ends with his fall into misery, death and damnation. Now we are going to evaluate him as a tragic hero. Click Here to Download a Printable version of the full Note or Click top right corner of the preview of the document.

Evaluate Christopher Marlowe's  Doctor Faustus as a Morality Play? What is definition and characteristics of morality play? “ The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ” is a play by Christopher Marlowe based on the “ Faust story ”, in which a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange of power and knowledge. The play starts, like classic tragedy, with the protagonist at the zenith of his achievement and ends with his fall into misery, death and damnation from which we get a solemn moral. Now we are going discuss the play as a morality play. To discuss Doctor Faustus as a morality play, we are to, at first, know what the morality play is. Actually it an allegorical drama in which the characters personify moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstraction (such as death and youth) and in which moral lessons are taught. Morality plays are essentially dramatized Sermons ( ধর্মোপদেশ ) , usually based on a subject of repentance; typically, an Everyman figure will be

  How does the poet Matthew Arnold react to the Victorian unrest in his poems?   How does “Dover Beach” depict tragedy of modern life? Describe the elegiac tone in Arnold’s poem. How does Arnold use imagery in his poems?   Discuss the use of nature Arnold’s poem. Matthew Arnold, one of the major Victorian poets, expresses his despair, hopelessness, frustration, to the decline of religious faith in his poem with images taken from nature. He, in his poems, depicts the Victorian unrest and the tragedy of modern life with an elegiac tone.   Click Here to Download a Printable version of the Note or Click top right corner of the preview of the document.