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  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir on the play Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. So read and enjoy.   The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night

Hello Friends,                 This blog is my response to the task given to us by our Prof. Dr.Dilip Sir on the play The Rover by Aphra Behn. So read and enjoy.  The first English woman to make a living as a writer was also a spy. On Aphra Behn, Playwright, poetess of the 17th century. Aphra Behn was the first English woman to earn her living solely by her pen. The most prolific dramatist of her time, she was also an innovative writer of fiction and a translator of science and French romance.  The novelist Virginia Woolf wrote, “All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”  Minds and bodies. Behn was a lyrical and erotic poet, expressing a frank sexuality that addressed such subjects as male impotence, female orgasm, bisexuality and the indeterminacies of gender. No woman would have such freedom again for many centuries. (And in our frank and feminist era Behn can still astonish with her mo

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher VaidehiMa'am. So read and enjoy.              The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem  written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos  (334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings. Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days.[2] The final form of the poem appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem was much translated and contributed to the growing popularity of mock-heroic in Europe.    In the beginning of this mock-epic, Pope declares that a "dire offence" (Canto 1 line 1) has been committed. A lord has assaulted a "gentle belle" (

Hello Friends,           This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir about Absalom and Achitophel. So read and enjoy. "And every hostile humour, which before  Slept quiet in its channels, bubbles over; So several factions, from this first ferment, Work up to foam, and threat the government." Lines 138-141             The humours are not the immediately recognizable, medical/ literary/ philosophical subject they once were, so analysis of this lines is necessary for the modern reader. The humours were, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, "part of Shakespearean Cosmology, inherited from the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen. Organized around the four elements of Earth, water, air and fire. The four qualities of cold, hot, moist, and dry; and the four humours, these physical qualities determined the behaviour of all created things including the human body." "Pshchology Today" explains, &

Hello Friends,               This blog is my response to task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir. So let's have a look.              John Bunyan (baptised 30 November 1628 - 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory "The Pilgrim's Progress". In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.   Notable works: 1. The Pilgrim's Progress  2. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 3. The Holy War            Bunyan came from the village of Estlow, near Bedford. He had some schooling and at the age of 16 joined the Parliamentary Army during the first stage of the English Civil War. After 3 years in the army he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learned from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group i