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Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros”: A Poem of Metaphor and the Burden of Uniqueness

Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros”

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The Scarlet Letter as a Symbolic Novel

A symbol is something used to stand for something else. A symbol is often a concrete object used to represent an abstract idea having a broader meaning which is often moral, religious or philosophical. Nathaniel Hawthorne who is considered one of the most prolific symbolizes in American literature, had the perfect atmosphere for shedding light […]

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Existential Crisis in The Metamorphosis

If we start to think about the purpose of life and where it might end, what is the answer we are likely to get? Why do we live and what is the meaning of our life? As at the end we are all going to die. Is our life merely meaningless? These questions relating to […]

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Biography Literature

Michael Madhusudan Dutt : Pioneer of Bengali Literature

Michael Madhusudan Dutt, born in 1824, was a pivotal Bengali poet and playwright of the 19th century. He revolutionized Bengali literature by introducing blank verse and sonnets, creating the first original Bengali plays, and exploring modern themes. Despite personal hardships, his legacy endures, inspiring future Bengali writers and poets.

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Absurdity in The Outsider

Absurdism doesn’t work with logic or reasoning and in literature writers’ chose this to show the meaninglessness of life with the happenings of illogical events. It is definitely a theme of modern plays as it tries to reflect the reality of modern people’s life. But the way modern playwrights Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka […]

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Literature

Gender Role in The Sun Also Rises

Introduction Before discussing the gender role in The Sun Also Rises, we might clear a typical thing. We often get confused and think that sex and gender are the same thing. But there is added description of gender which refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes […]

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Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold

Every writer of different period, pens down for a motive, to fulfill a purpose and nonetheless it has some message to provide about that era. Just as how we get an insight into the hollowness of 14th century by going through Goeffrey Chaucer‘s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, we get to feel the melancholy […]

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Literature

Orature and Things Fall Apart

Orature refers to the oral form of literature where stories, fables, songs etc., are told orally. The preliterate society had no written literary document, but these did not make their rich culture stay mute. They too had events of joy and sorrow, victory and loss, heroism, and patriotism. These events were passed down orally as […]

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Literature

What is Literature

Introduction Every language, culture or community either minor or major, has its own unique literature type. This can be either in oral or written form. To think in general one may ask, What is literature? Well the term literature may have various meanings. These meanings vary from person to person and their perspective. However, the […]

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Racism in The Bluest Eye

Racism! Racism in The Bluest Eye! A sensitive issue, more or less which is prevalent all over the world. It is discrimination, prejudice against individuals on the basis of their skin color – considering black people as inferior and typically marginalized according to the white standards of beauty. Basically which is racialization of image of beauty […]