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Hello Readers, Here I'm going to share my BA text named "The Hairy Ape". Let's have look at....below... ◆ Introduction :- This play - " The Hairy Ape" was written by an American playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, Eugene O'Neil. He use to write political plays and he was the one who introduced it into American drama technique. Major topic of his writing is realism and social issue. He use to pen character who are struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillustionment and despair.   " The Hairy Ape"  is also a part of his league of plays with realism and social issue. This play is about a british, unthinking labourer named Yank. He is searching for his belongingness. At the end , he knew that he was no belonging and he is just an ape as per society. ◆ Title of the play : " The Hairy Ape"  The title of literary work should be appropriate and suggestive. Most of the time, th...

Hello Readers, Here I'm sharing novel " Far From the Madding Crowd" written by Thomas Hardy. ● About Author:- The author , Thomas Hardy of this novel - "Far from the Madding Crowd" was an English novelist and poet, who set much of his work in Wessex, his name of the counties of southwestern England. He was an architecture by profession but from his soul. He was a Pure artist. He wrote poems but he was not get that position among literary writers. So he drow his attention towards novels and got name and fame as writer with the help of short-stories became famous among readers. ◆ About This novel : Far From the Madding Crowd    This novel is one of the best novel written by him. Main characters of this novel Bathsheba Everdene protagonist of the novel. We can even say that Hardy tries to write feminist novel because during the time of this novel - 1873 , we cannot find so many novel in which female character is in the center. As most of Hardy's ...

Hello Readers, ●   Here I'm going to share my review with Literature. My 5 years Journey with studustu the Literature has been completed very soon. So , I have to given the view upon that that how after studying the Literature how personally It shaped me?     Though before writing, Let me clarify and  No one can denied that ....   Literature is a "Huge Ocean ,  No one can swallow all the things at one time, but after reading literature it becomes people more mature and more rational rather than other human beings. So after all, I've tried to quench my thirst by drinking a few sips from this huge ocean.☺️  I haven't well experienced of reading the whole literature so my views also can be limited as per my reading. But I try my best.👍 ◆ Three years Journey of my Bachelor {BA} :- Let me introduce myself very frankly, during my Bachelor's days that .... I really don't understand that deeply about any of the chapter. I just randomly ...

Hello Readers, Here I'm sharing one poem named "The Old Woman" written by Joseph Campbell. ● About Author :- Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology & comparative religion. His work is vast , covering many aspects of the human experience. ● Poem : The Old Woman :- "The Old Woman" by Joseph Campbell is a poem projecting life of woman who is at the hand of her life with fulfilling all her roles of her life. Devided into 3 stanzas. This poem is a gem of simplicity. Note the three lovely comparisons. It is easy to see beauty in young woman , but it needs understanding & imangination to see the beauty of old age. Here the poet skillfully represents her beauty by comparing with nature elements. A very important figures of speech that is simile perfectly works here.    In the very 1st stanza ,  the poet talks about her beauty which is as pure as a candle at a holy-plac...

Hello Readers, This blog is the part of my thinking activity. To know more about this activity ... Click here... ¶ The Harry Potter series proved incredibly popular with both children and adults worldwide. All the books were best sellers, available in more than 200 countries and some 60 languages. ¶ Harry Potter series are full of fantastic magical installments and most famous books in all around the world. So we can find a lot many internet resources and also can be found the related topic of the Harry Potter series. ◆ Click below the link to see My  Web Quest.... Harry Potter Series's Table Chart Here I try to ponder on major 11 points :- ◆ To see my Web Quest Activity .... Here I have embedded on major topic's blog's link... To see those all click below...☺️ 1] Feminist Reading of Female Character in Harry Potter 2] Discourse on Purity of blood in Harry Potter 3] Confronting Reality by Reading Fantasy... 12] What do you think about t...

Hello Readers, This blog is a part of my thinking activity in which we have to write about "Waiting for the barbarians" by J. M. Coetzee. We had Guest lecture on "Waiting for the barbarians" by Dr.R.B.Zala sir on 8th and 9th January. This was good session with sir. ● About author:- John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African–born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and he won nobel prize in literature in 2003. He has also won the Booker Prize twice. Coetzee's first novel was Dusklands which was published in 1974. He has continued to produce novels at the rate of about one every three years. He has also written autobiographical novels, such as Boyhood, Youth and Summertime, short fiction, translations from Dutch and Afrikaans, and numerous essays and works of criticism. " Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt." - J M Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians. "Once in every generation, without fail,  There is an episod...

Hello Readers, Here I'm sharing my favorite Short-story "The Nightingale and Rose" which is written by "Oscar Wilde". ● About the Author :- Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet. He almost wrote all the forms of Literature. He became one of London's most popular playwright in the early 1890s. He use to write what he feels & like and this Short story "The Nightingale and Rose" is one of his masterpieces.    Here in this story he tries to explain theme of unique feeling of love, selfishness & selflessness. Basically he tries to differentiate love among nature and human. ● The Nightingale and Rose :-  " Love is more precious than  Emeralds & dearer than fine opals".    This Story is narrated by omniscient narrator, who is not present in story as character but he knew everything & so he told us that what actually happened in the story.The narrative technique of this story i...

Hello Readers , Here I'm going to share my review about the Workshop which was planned by our HOD [Department of English, MKBU.] The whole workshop was about Cultural studies. The chief guest was 'Dr. Kalyani Vallath'  who came from Kerala. ● Let me introduce first Dr. Kalyani Vallath :- Dr. Kalyani Vallath is an educational entrepreneur, editor and teacher of English literature from India. Vallath compiled A Contemporary Encyclopedia of British Literature and runs Total English Solutions in Thiruvananthapuram to help teach English to people living in rural parts of India. As an educational entrepreneur, Dr Kalyani Vallath has moulded the careers of hundreds of young professors in India and has contributed significantly to English literature studies at graduate and postgraduate levels. It is with an unconventional, innovative and democratic perspective that she has built up an interdisciplinary and learner-centered educational methodology and a career of her own...

Hello Readers, Here is my thinking activity according to the following link... Click here.. ● Introduction:-  The language laboratories are now a days becoming more and more benificial and even better valued within the educational institutes. The functions and the potentialities they offer are much higher than the once in the traditional teaching-learning system. The language lab is a dedicated space for foreign language learning. It is the massive platform to learn a foreign language. It helps to enhanced our 4 basic skills [LSRW] in order to enhance our Second language. ● Development of Language lab:-   In medieval times , people used to language lab with recorded taps. Through the use of cassette or a recorder people got the knowledge. The tap usually contains text or a story which is aloud by the native speaker. Then the time changes , the idea or technology developed. CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). This is one of the most modern sp...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories and non fiction. She has written the novels like, “Purple Hibiscus”, “Half of a Yellow Sun” and “Americanah”. She has also written poems and essay. She also won “MacArthur Fellowship” award. She is very good speaker and story teller also. She has such a speaking skills which can catch and keep the attention of audience. In every story she gave her personal touch and then connect it with the point she wants to make. Here I’m sharing my views on her three talks, one at Ted Talk on “Dangers of Single Story” another Tedx Talk on ”We all Should be Feminist” and third one at Harvard University on “Truth”. There is always two sides of coin, if you know only one your knowledge is incomplete and dangerous also. This is what she talks about in her Ted Talk on “Dangers of Single Story”. She told that how a single story narrated differently every time conditioned the mind of people to think about certain things i...

This blog is the part of my classroom thinking activity which is given by our professor ... The task is given in this below link.. Click here.. ● Introduction :- Technology has the ability to enhance relationships between teachers and students. When teachers effectively integrate technology into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach. Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun.    So , let's see some of the glimpse of education, technology and ELT  through these below videos :- 1. Sir Ken Robinson : Changing Paradigm    Every country on Earth, at the moment is reforming public education. There are 2 reasons for it... 1. Economic :- That How do we educate our children to take their place in the economics of the 21st century? Given that we can't anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of the next week. 2. Culture     We are forced to memor...

Here is my thinking activity which is given by our mam from Department of English {MKBU}. ◆ Introduction :-    The whole blog is about that how native represented by colonizer in " A Grain of Wheat" novel which is written by Ngugi Wa Thiongo. The African writer who constantly in the struggle of their native freedom and also talked about that how Africans suffering from the colonizer and their all are the victim of that.    In a same way "Robinson Crusoe" novel written by Daniel Defoe. In this novel we can also see the context of colonizer and colonized character which represent through this novel. ◆ Representation of native by colonizer in "A Grain of Wheat" & "Robinson Crusoe":- Here in both the novel we can see that how colonizer and colonized people represented. In Robinson Crusoe the character named Friday who is the black colonised man & Crusoe who is a colonizer. The novel talked about how master-slave relationship occur....

The mysterious, secretive and dark settings characterize the stories of the writer who is considered to be the inventor of detective fiction, i.e Edgar Allan Poe. Mostly known for his short stories and poetry, Poe's own life was quite mysterious and controversial itself. However, that's not what this post is all about. This post explores how, writers of those times, especially writers of detective fiction like Poe, could create some of the spine-chilling narratives with nothing but words. Language though often considered a distinct field of study from literature, has a symbiotic relationship with the same. So here is my answer which .... asked here ... 1) Alliteration is indeed one of those devices which help the writer in creating a kind of dark setting required for this genre. However, I would rather like to point out the very first line of the story માનસંઘ, i.e 'એક તો એ અંધારી રાત હતી'. The idea of that અંધારી રાત (dark night) sets the mood of the story. T...

Here I’m trying to read modern poems and try to give my interpretation of the poems. This is task related to my study and here is the link of that task… Click here.. While reading this modern poems it takes too much thinking and sometimes we can not get the core meaning of the poems. This poems are very short but meanings are difficult to get. Though I tried here to get some meaning of poems. 1) “The Embankment” by T.E Hulme (The fantasia of a fallen gentleman on a cold, bitter night) Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy. Oh, God, make small The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie. T.E Hulme was an influential poet and thinker in the first years of twentieth century. He was an aesthetic philosopher and “father of Imagism”. The starting line of poem says it is fantasy of fallen gentleman on a cold, bitter night. Normall...