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Poetry: Robert Browning: My last Duchess Question: Write a critical appreciation of My last Duchess. Answer: Browing’s ‘My last Duchess’ can be considered as a unique model of dramatic monologue. This piece of work of Browing has added a dimension in the world of literature. “The Whole poem, says David Daiches, ‘is but the visible part of the iceberg but the submerged invisible part is not a matter of vague suggestiveness; it is both psychologically and historically defined.’ The poem is a beautiful study in soul-dissection in its short dramatic form. From our reading of the poem, the Duke of Ferrara emerges as unscrupulous, selfish, tyrannical and arrogant, emerges as an individual as well as a typical nobleman of the Italian Renaissance. We form the idea of the Duchess from the words of Duke himself. She is frank, charming girl, innocent, good-natured and unsophisticated. The poem is a great specimen of dramatic monologue. Phelps comments that it is astounding that so profound a life...

Novel:Jane Austen: Pride And Prejudice Question: Discuss Jane Austen’s use of irony in ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Answer: Prof. Chevalier, writing on Analog France, remarks that “the basic feature of every Irony is a contrast between a reality and an appearance.” There may be verbal irony or rhetorical or narrative irony-the contrast between the apparent, the surface meaning of a statement and its real intended meaning. There maybe situational irony-the contrast between the expectation and the fulfillment in a particular situation, or there may be irony of character-the contrast between the appearance and the reality of a particular character. Irony is the very soul of Jane Austen’s novels and pride and prejudice is steeped in irony of theme, situation, character and narration. Thematic Irony: As one examines Pride and Prejudice one is struck with the fact of the ironic significance that pride leads to prejudice and prejudice invites pride an...

Shakespeare’s Sister by Virginia Woolf Text It was disappointing not to have brought back in the evening some important statement, some authentic fact. women are poorer than men because- this or that . Perhaps now it would be better to give up seeking for the truth, and receiving on one’s head and avalanche of opinion hot as lava, discoloured as dish –water. It would be better to draw the curtains; to shut out distractions; to light the lamp; to narrow the enquiry and to ask the historian, who records not opinions but facts, to describe under what conditions women lived, not throughout the ages, but in England, say, in the time of Elizabeth. For it is a perennial puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed , was capable of song or sonnet. What were the conditions in which women lived? I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science my be; fiction is like a spider’s web,...

:The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Question: Write an essay on Chaucer’s use of dream in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Answer: Dream plays a vital role in Chaucer’s The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Dream is a significant feature in medieval literature. Chaucer shows considerable individuality in employing dream in his tale. It is because of the use of dream that his The nun’s Priest’s Tale does not remain a mere beast fable, rather it becomes a story of human fate, predestination, contemporary philosophy and science. Moreover, Chaucer defines the husband-wife relationship in term of dream. Finally, introduction of dream in this tale shows Chaucer’s wide learning and his ability to make a story pregnant with enduring human interest. First of all, Chaucer uses dream to show contemporary beliefs and interpretations regarding it. We see that Chaunticleer is much affected by his bad dream precisely because he believes in the veracity of dream. He groans in his throat like one who feels sorely troubled in his dre...