Mir Afzal Short Storyline of Heart of Darkness The story begins with five men on a boat at the River Thames. Marlow starts telling other companions a story of an experience when he was a captain of a steamship in Africa. He commences on by reflecting on how Britain’s image among Ancient Roman officials must have been … Read more
Imperialism refers to the colonial expansion practised by European allies during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The European imperialism in Africa had a gloomy touch in its nature which is vividly expressed by Conrad in “Heart of Darknessâ€.
Summary of Hamlet Act I. The play begins in Denmark with the news that King Hamlet of Denmark has recently died. Denmark is now in a state of high alert and preparing for a possible war with Young Fortinbras of Norway. A ghost resembling the late King Hamlet is spotted on a platform before Elsinore … Read more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) “Of all the poets who helped to usher in the Romantic movement, none was more original and brilliant than Coleridge†so wrote Charles Gayley. He was born at Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon, on October 21, 1772. His father died when he was nine years old leaving the … Read more
William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) It is the last act of the Romantic Era, and a poetic Renascence opens center stage with a new and different character; that character is William Blake. In poetry and art, Blake was aggressive, violent, backed by both physical and mental courage; the forerunner of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, … Read more
Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 Wystan Hugh Auden or “Uncle Wiz†as he was more affectionately called, was a third son of a York physician. He was a not-quite modernist; not quite socialist; a Freudian; leaning toward the northern Germanic Volksmarchen and Kunstmarchen not Southern European Romanticism; “more at home with Goethe that with Baudelaire; a … Read more
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Matthew Arnold’s early life follows a path of most poets of the time: traditional schooling steeped in classical studies, Greek and Latin, French and German, frequent traveling at home and abroad. There is one difference: while other poets considered poetry their profession, Arnold was, for the greater part of his life, a … Read more
A tag question is type of question form which is added to a statement to invite the listener’s attention to the statement. The subject of the question tag is never a noun: it is always a pronoun.
Subject – Verb Agreement (Concord) Concord is the agreement in number and person between the subject and the verb in the sentence. The following rules my be noted. 1. A singular subject requires a singular verb and plural subject requires a plural verb. Examples: a) The goat is grazing (singular subject – singular verb) b) … Read more
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP This proverb means that we should think deeply before doing any action. Rash and thoughtless action always land us into trouble. Haste always makes waste. It is prudent to look into the pros and cons of the action we take. We must think twice before we act. The results of such … Read more
EVILS OF DOWRY SYSTEM Dowry is a social evil which has assumed serious proportions of late. Dowry means the money and other things given by the parents of a girl to their son-in-law at the time of the marriage of their daughter. But today dowry is extracted from them by force. If the parents do … Read more
WOMEN’S RIGHTS In ancient India, women were held in very high esteem. They were considered equal partners in all activities. It is said, “Gods dwell where women are respectedâ€. However, during the medieval period, there was a change for the worse. Women came to be looked down upon. She was deprived of good education and … Read more