Category Literature

“My Grandmother’s House” by Kamala Das Published firstly in “Summer Time in Calcutta” in 1965, the autobiographical confessional poem “My Grandmother’s house” by Kamala Das is an emotional poetic reflection of her unfulfilled desire to revisit her grandmother’s ancestral house…

“The Way of The World” by William Congreve digresses from Traditional Restoration Themes, Yet Extraordinary for Readers ( Year: 1700) Premiered firstly in London Theater in 1700, William Congreve’s “The Way of The World” is a Restoration Comedy of Manners…

“A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg: Critical Analysis [1956] Written by the renowned American poet Allen Ginsberg in 1956, the prose poem “A Supermarket in California” is an extensive exploration of the socio-politico-cultural changes that came in the American…

Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”: A Tragedy of Over-Ambition (Early 17th-Century Literature) “Violent in action and memorably written, difficult to perform and yet extraordinarily popular on stage, William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ strongly resists critical and theatrical exposition.” -A.R. Braunmuller  Authored by renowned playwright, poet…

Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” and “Bertha Mason”: Critical Comparison and Contrast (19th Century Victorian Literature) Set against the backdrop of Northern England in the early 19th century, Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” is a Victorian Literature that chronicles the moral and…

“The Shadow Lines”: Contextual Significance of Amitav Ghosh’s Symbolism of Maps and Mirrors “It took those people a long time to build that country; hundreds of years, years and years of bloodshed and war. Everyone who lives there had earned…

“Tintern Abbey” & “Intimations of Immortality”: Wordsworth’s Symbolism of Nature Immortalized in the history of English literature, William Wordsworth is a prominent Romantic poet who demonstrated the importance of profound engagement with emotional and spiritual values attributed to nature through…

Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: A Critical Analysis of “Slavery” Post-American Civil War set against the Post-American Civil War, Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ is a neo-slave narrative that chronicles the poignant fictitious story of Sethe, an ex-slave and the aftermaths of her maternal…