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By Admin on May 02nd, 2013
By Admin on March 13th, 2013
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS-COMMENTARY.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -The Hollow of the Three Hills Author’s Background and Writing Plot Setting Themes, Motifs, Symbols Character Analysis Narrative Techniques/Style Author’s Background and Writing Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem , Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John [...]
By Admin on January 15th, 2013
MODEL ESSAY ON HARDY’S POEM,’HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH’.
HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH [OR] A CONSIDERATION [A REFLECTION] ON MY EIGHTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY Well, World, you have kept faith with me, Kept faith with me; Upon the whole you have proved to be Much as you said you were. Since as a child I used to lie 5 Upon the leaze and watch [...]
By Admin on January 15th, 2013
MODEL ESSAY ON SILAS MARNER*
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. Question: Considering this statement, how far does this reflect your view and role of Eppie in the novel? George Eliot is one Victorian era writer that is influenced by William Wordsworth [...]
By Admin on November 07th, 2012
MODEL ESSAY ON GEORGE ELIOT’S SILAS MARNER.*
PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO DIALOGUE,LANGUAGE AND TONE,WRITE A CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF THE PASSAGE ABOVE,SHOWING WHAT IT CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPPIE AND SILAS MARNER. ‘Ah, you’re fine and strong, aren’t you?’ said Silas, while Eppie shook her aching arms and laughed. ‘Come,come,let us go and sit down on the bank against [...]
By Admin on October 15th, 2012
MODEL ESSAY ON SILAS MARNER.*
Write a critical appreciation of the passage below, commenting in particular on the significance of this episode in the context of the novel,Silas Marner. Nothing at that moment could be much more to Dunsey than the bright fire on the brick hearth: he walked in and seated himself by it at once. There was something in [...]
By Admin on October 04th, 2012
GEORGE ELIOT; THE QUINTESSENTIAL VICTORIAN REBEL.
Queen Victoria made the rules; George Eliot broke them all… George Eliot was born on the 22nd of November, 1819.The writer’s actual name though changed several times was Mary Ann Evans. She was the daughter of Robert Evans and his second wife, Christiana Pearson Evans. She was the youngest of five children. She was however [...]
By Admin on August 14th, 2012
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THESE LITERARY TERMS? (A)
COMMON LITERARY TERMS A Absurd, Theatre of the Absurd-A style of writing that mirrors the confusion, illogicality, inharmony of the 21st Century world as reflected on the stage with caricature-like characters and disjointed plot.E.g, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot . Accent-The effect of the emphasis placed on a syllable in a word. Auditory imagery- [...]
By Admin on August 09th, 2012
MODEL ESSAY ON HARDY’S AFTERWARDS.*
COMMENT CLOSELY ON THE LANGUAGE, TONE AND CONCERNS OF THE FOLLOWING POEM.-AFTERWARDS. AFTERWARDS When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as-spun silk, will the neighbours say, “He was a man who used o notice such things”? If it [...]
By Admin on August 07th, 2012
MODEL ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE’S WINTER’S TALE*
WITH CLOSE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, DISCUSS SHAKESPEARE’S PRESENTATION OF LEONTES AT THIS POINT IN THE PLAY. LEONTES: Thou, traitor, has set on thy wife to this. My child! Away with’t .Even thou, that has A heart so tender o’er it, take it hence, And see it instantly consum’d with fire; Even thou, and none but [...]
