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Paper 107: The Twentieth Century Literature: From World War II to the End of the Century

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  Class Assignment   Discuss in detail characters of the play waiting for Godot by Samuel Backett. Introduction   Waiting for Godot is a play by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. He first wrote it in French as Enattendant Godot and later translated it into English. The play has two acts and is called “A Tragicomedy in Two Acts” because it is both funny and sad. The story is about two men, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo). They spend the whole play waiting for a man named Godot, but he never comes. While waiting, they talk, think, and do strange things. The play is very famous and important in modern literature. It was first performed in Paris in 1953 and later in London in 1955. Even though nothing big happens in the play, it talks about many important ideas, like life, religion, human suffering, friendship, and the meaning of life.Beckett was inspired by the painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich. About the Author   Samuel Be...
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Paper 106: The Twentieth Century Literature: 1900 to World War II

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Class Assignment  Critically Analyse Orlando-A biography by Virginia Woolf Introduction               Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928,inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies. About the Author                      Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a major English writer and one of the most important figures in modernist literature . She is known for exper...
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Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration Periods

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Class Assignment  Analyse the John Dryden's poem"Absalom and Achitophel" Introduction   Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David; in this context it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679  1681). The poem also references the Popish Plot (1678). About the Author  John Dryden (1631–1700) was a prominent English poet, playwright, and literary critic of the Restoration period. He served as England’s first official Poet Laureate and was a dominant literary figure of his time. Dryden is best known for his satirical works, such as Absalom and Achitophel, and for shaping English poetic style through heroic couplets. His influence marked the transition from Renaissance to Neoclassical literature. Background   ...
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Literature of the Neo-classical Period

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Class Assignment  Write a detailed note on the author 'Robert Burns'                                      Introduction     Robert Burns (born January 25, 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland—died July 21, 1796, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire) was the national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. He was also famous for his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality . Life           Burns’s father had come to Ayrshire from Kincardineshire in an endeavor to improve his  fortunes, but, though he worked immensely hard first on the farm of Mount Oliphant, which he leased in 1766, and then on that of Lochlea, which he took in 1777, ill luck dogged him, and he died in 1784, worn out and bankrupt. It was watching his father being thus beaten down that helped to make Robert both a rebel against the socia...
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