Mir Afzal In this play, unusual hero, the new hangman, refuses to carry out his share of work at the execution of a criminal. His revolt is against the inhumanity of taking a man‘s life in cold blood and the injustice of foisting such a terrible duty on a fellow man. Though shocked and embarrassed by the unexpected behaviour of the new hangman, everyone in the prison is secretly relieved.
The essayist claims that when one’s mind is taken over by selfishness, there is no end to consider and reconsider. The narrator rightly admits that the story principle lies in dealing with his own soul. The essay also discusses the realistic human psychology that rules the world of business, where the seller and the buyer are trying to find themselves
In this topic, you will learn about some issues relating to England’s political economy. Ruskin talks about some ethical values, human emotions, the motivating factors of soul as against the dry, mechanical relationships supposed to exist between the master and his subordinates. He also addresses the "justice balance" Therefore, in a political-economic sense based on the ideals of covetousness, Ruskin brings in both human and spiritual perspectives.
The writer says that the machines have made the life of their owners comfortable but those of the workers miserable. Machines demand the qualities of regularity, punctuality, and
exactness while there is no scope for the workers to do anything different or new. Their desire to do something is never satisfied and they become rebellious. They find their satisfaction in
world wars. The writer makes some suggestions so as to avoid the possibility of a third world war by making the workers happy.
Ode to Duty reveals that Wordsworth has a great concern with moral and ethical values and devotion to duty and integrity. The poet believed that following the path of Duty and Morality, one could rise to noble heights of success in his life. ‘Ode to Duty is a landmark in the history of Wordsworth’s mind.His most significant message to humanity is the message of ‘plain living and high thinking’.
Wordsworth’s celebrated Ode on Immortality has been widely praised by critics. Emerson, the American critic, for example, regards it as, “the high watermark of poetry in the 19th century.†Wordsworth himself attached great importance to it. He positioned it at the end of his collected poems as if it were the roof and crown of his works and his last word on the central problems of his creative life.
The poem is considered to be Wordsworth’s noblest utterance. It was
written soon before the departure of Wordsworth and his sister for Germany.
"Dejection: An Ode" by Coleridge is originally a poem about the depressed state the poet finds himself in. The work is not merely a poem, but a reflection of the poet, who was as well-known for his rise as for his fall. "Dejection" is thought to be the result of the despair of Coleridge born of his miserable marriage and his vain love of Sara Hutchinson; after all, the poem was first written as a letter to his beloved Sara.
The essay highlights the importance of diversity in life. This says the variety adds flavour to the existing boring life and brings meaningful taste to life. It is very irritable that the same boring life with one thing to do all the time. Many means large, and none means nothing. People are comfortable with you when you have wealth and when your wealth is lost everyone will abandon you. When you’re poor, only God and true friends are close to you. It shows the value of naturally-gifted biodiversity.
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight Children(1980) earned immense praise both in India and abroad. Living in the United Kingdom, he is understandably indifferent to the literary fashions of the west and so writes mostly on the socio-political issues of the Indian subcontinent. His fiction mirrors microcosmic India caught in the crucible of tradition, struggle and change.
Yeats was born in Ireland but spent the first sixteen years of his life in England, returning for a holiday only to his native Sligo. He was in London much later in his life when he heard tinkling water and was transported back to the small island of Innisfree on Lough Gill, a lake in Sligo, where he had dreamed of living as a young man. This experience influenced the ‘Innisfree Lake Isle,’ which is rich in its use of images, rhythm and rhythm to evoke sound and location.
In Passion’s Shadow By Mohan Rakesh Summary The story In Passion’s Shadow By Mohan Rakesh takes place in Jullundur. Pushpa and her father have come from village to Jullundur. They are staying at the house of Dr Gurbux Sing Mudan. Pushpa’s father is very arrogant with her. But Pushpa consoles herself saying, “A father’s curses … Read more