THE PUPIL OF LITERATURE

  A HOUSE FOR MR.BISWAS deals with a theme of deeper significance, the theme of selfhood where an individual quests for identity and struggles to acquire a personal place for which the “house” stands as an evocative symbol all through. It traces the story of a man’s struggle to make something out of a circumscribed and mediocre existence. The concluding lines of the ‘Prologue’ to the novel sum up, in a nutshell, what the novel is actually about: “How terrible it would have been at this time, to be without it…to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated.” The words very clearly suggests that the ‘House’ becomes a symbol of order and identity. It affirms the importance of such values as independence, individuality, creativity and a degree of freedom from human complicity.     The possibility of acquiring a personal space in the New World is suggestive of a fragile hope.   The protagonist, Mr. Biswas’s task in the novel happens to be to create something

TOPICS Volpone Gorboduc (play) Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Shakespeare's Sonnets VOLPONE(1605-06) It is Italian for sly fox. A comedy by English Playwright Ben Jonson Elements of city comedy, beast fable directed to satire on greed and lust Considered to be the most performed play and among the finest Jacobean era comedies. It was premiered at the Globe Theatre in 1606. It was performed by the King's Men. After the Restoration, the play was owned by the King's Men of Thomas Killigrew. It was performed at Drury Lane in 1663. Characters - very important ( List from Wikipedia) Volpone (the Sly Fox) – a greedy and rich childless Venetian  magnifico Mosca (the Fly) – his servant Voltore (the Vulture) – a lawyer Corbaccio (the Raven) – an avaricious old miser Bonario – Corbaccio's son Corvino (the Carrion Crow) – a merchant Celia – Corvino's wife Sir Politic Would-Be – ridiculous Englishman Lady Would-Be (the parrot) – English lady and wife of Sir Politic-Wo

  Feminism, since its coinage has been used and interpreted in numerous shades and shapes of its meaning. The essence of feminism has, however, always been more or less the same. It stands for the belief that women have the same rights and opportunities that men have. In this way, feminism serves as an aid to women's empowerment. Feminist literary criticism is the direct product of the ‘women’s movement’ of the 1960s. This movement being literary from the start realized the necessity to combat the images of women promulgated by literature and aimed at exposing the mechanisms of patriarchy, that is, the cultural mindset in men and women which perpetuated sexual inequality. Notwithstanding its Western origin, literature all over the world through this outlook has questioned and challenged the imprisoning customs of patriarchy.           Indian English literature in the post-independence era has witnessed a spurt in women’s writing as well as feminist literary criticism. This expl