Biographical Sketch of Arthur Miller Introduction Arthur Miller was an American dramatist known for his caustic criticism of social ills. Death of a Salesman is his most well-known work. He was born in Harlem, New York in 1915 and attended…
Themes of Death of a Salesman The American Dream Death of a Salesman is based on the American Dream, which states that anybody may achieve financial success and material comfort. Various secondary characters achieve the Dream in a variety of…
Act-wise Summary and Analysis of Death of a Salesman Act I.1Act I (Loman Home, Present Day): Willy Loman, the salesman, enters his home. He looked exhausted and befuddled. Linda Loman, his wife, enters the house dressed in a robe and…
Miller’s Works: Themes and Outlines Arthur Miller’s plays have attempted to diagnose and locate the illnesses plaguing modern man. The playwright’s primary and central theme is unconnectedness and alienation. As Benjamin Nelson correctly points out, it is the most pervasive…
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins Summary and Analysis Felix Randal is an Italian sonnet. In this sonnet, Hopkins talks about a thirty-one-year-old blacksmith (farrier) named Felix Randal’s lengthy illness and death. While a curate in a slum parish in…
The Ballad of Father Gilligan About The Poet William Butler Yeats (W. B Yeats) was born in County Dublin, Ireland, in the year 1865. He developed an early interest in poetry as a result of his curiosity about Irish folklore…
The Tiger King By Kalki Krishnamurthy About Kalki Krishnamurthy Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy (9 September 1899 – 5 December 1954) was a Tamil Nadu-based South Indian writer, journalist, poet, critic, and activist for Indian independence. He wrote in Tamil under numerous…
Character Sketch of The Tiger King #1 The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram was a strong, tenacious, determined, courageous, and firm ruler of his state. When he was born, astrologers predicted his demise at the hands of a tiger. However, the infant…
The Serang of Ranaganji (Short Story) About The Serang of Ranaganji A.J. Cronin was a Scottish novelist who lived from 1896 to 1981. By profession, he was a physician. He is the author of several internationally acclaimed novels. His talents include…
Character Sketch of Hassan #1 Hassan was the ship Ranaganji’s Serang (an Asian head of the lascar crew). The ship was sailing from Liverpool to India. He was a squat, extremely unattractive indigenous seaman, with short legs and a huge,…
The Race by Nisha Punjab About the Author Nisha Punjabi is a freelance writer based in Lucknow, India. She holds degrees in English Literature and Economics. From 2004 to 2005, she worked as a freelancer for the Lucknow Times, a…
Suicide of Rama About the Poet: Arun Kolatkar, one of India’s greatest modern poets, lived from 1931 to 2004. He began writing in both Marathi and English in 1955 and published in magazines and anthologies, but did not publish a…
