THE PUPIL OF LITERATURE

  In the dead of the night, She stood in front of the mirror. In the company of her incompetence   Struggling to drape a saree. Rustling noises Cacophony of expectations  Jingle of the jhumka Burning kohl Ruddy    lips Flushed cheeks Coloured manicured nails  A bindi placed in the middle  To hold together. Her ragged nerves Met face to face   A woman  Staring long and deep  At lifeless cast aside skin. In her artwork  Carrying a draped complex fabric  The colours and hues The fragrance She set to walk in an arid landscape. Her feet bled  To water the listless  Her brow sweat  To provide refuge  Her eyes burnt brighter Than the scowling sun Her saree  Turned into a bed of lush greenery  As she lay to rest. 

KING LEAR: AN ADVANCED STUDY The article intends to bring together a representative selection of the most useful criticism available upon Shakespeare's King Lear. Coleridge called King Lear ' the most tremendous effort of Shakespeare the poet' The tragedy, derived from the legend of Leir of Britain(a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king), tells the tale of a king who decides to hand down his land and power to his three daughters. The third daughter failing to flatter the King gets nothing while the other two are showered with her half for fawning.  Now, the two daughters upon having wealth and power make the furious old man stripped of titles wake up to the painful realisation of false love and respect. This makes Lear reconcile with his third daughter before she tragically passes away.  A.D Nuttall observes that Shakespearean representation allows us to see aspects of reality we would not otherwise recognise. Harold Bloom goes beyond Nuttall to suggest that Shakespeare mo...