The Uncovered English

Joseph Andrews Novel by Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews as a comic epic in prose / Parson Adams Fielding claimed that he was writing a new type of literature — 'a comic epic in prose.' The preface of Joseph Andrews is significant in that it endeavours to expand the theory of the novel. He writes, "Now, a comic romance is a comic epic in prose; differing from comedy, as the serious epic from tragedy: its action being more extended and comprehensive; containing a much larger circle of incidents and introducing a greater variety lf characters; it differs in its characters by introducing personsof inferior rank whereas the grave romances sets the highest before us." In Joseph Andrews, Fielding sketched the outline of this theory and it was to be elaborated in Tom Jones. Byron called Fielding "The prose Homer of human nature" and of Joseph Andrews, Wyatt and Collins says, "This first novel straightway gives us a prose epic of the England of its day." A co...

She Stoops To Conquer  Play by Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer is more a comedy of intrigue than a character. Do you agree ? -OR- Examine Goldsmith use of comic devices in She Stoops to Conquer -OR- "The incidents in She Stoops to Conquer are so designed as not to seem improbable." Do you agree ? Goldsmith used for his plot of "She Stoops to Conquer" a reputed experience of his own as a school boy when having lost his way he asked for an inn and was directed by a practical joker to the local squirer's house. So, the main events of the play tends to be a farce arising from rodiculous situation and incidents. No doubt some of them seem to be improbable and obscured at first sight. The dramatist has taken great pain to make them credible and convincing by employing a number of 'comic devices' in the form of 'intrigues.' So R.F. Patterson goes on to say it "a splendid comedy of intrigue." A comedy of introgue depends on an intricate ...

Social Message / Comedy of Manners She Stoops To Conquer She Stoops To Conquer Play by Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops To Conquer is a comedy with some serious social message / Comedy of Manners About "She Stoops to Conquer" A.N. Jeffares writes, "there are many reasons for play's enduring popukarity, Goldsmith sets out to make us laugh and does so successfully. Side by side he provides a serious social message." The play is a timeless comedy, farcial in plot, but often shrewd in characterisation, realistic in illustration of human nature and social picture. "She Stoops To Conquer" aims at to convey a social message through the presentation of the 'folies and foibles' of man and women and as such it has an element of social criticism. But in the later part of the play the dramatist has lost sight of social criticism and concentrates on the element of fun so much so that the play becomes an enterta...

Miss. Neville and Miss. Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer She Stoops To Conquer Play by Oliver Goldsmith Miss. Neville and Miss. Hardcastle Constance Neville and Kate Hardcastle are two contrasted pictures of young womanhood of the middle class society of the 18Th century. According to Collins, "the personality of Kate Hardeastle is emphasised by contrast with Constance Neville." As compared with Kate, Neville is a pale, colourless creation. Kate dominates the action from beginning to end. She leads the man of her heart as she wills. Neville plays an insignificant and passive role except towards the close of the play. She is led by the man of her heart. To speak the truth, Neville is a foil to Kate. Kate Hardcastle and Constance Neville are cousins. They live under the same roof. Miss Neville is an orphan and lives with her aunt Mrs. Hardcastle. Kate has both her parents alive and is the app...

Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops To Conquer Play by Oliver Goldsmith Who do you think is the central character in 'She Stoops To Conquer' ? Support your answer. --OR-- Comment on the dramatic function of Tony Lumpkin in 'She Stoops To Conquer.' Tony Lumpkin is the central figure in 'She Stoops To Conquer' — the very key-stone of arch on which whole comedy is built. It is he who sets the main plot in motion and introduces complications in it. As a life-force of the comic subplot, Tony develops it, introduces complications in it and rounds it off. Apparently he is a 'fool', a 'booby', a 'whelp and hound' as his step-father calls him. But his role in the play shows him not as a fool, but as a youngman with a highly fertile and inventive brain. Throughout the play he is the most interesting character. For this William Blake comme...

Mrs Dalloway Novel by Virginia Woolf Imagery and Symbol Symbols and imagery are an essential part of the novel, Mrs Dalloway, as they are connotative as well as emotive and evocative. They convey not only Woolf's meaning, but also they carry a rich aura of emotion and associations. Mrs Dalloway has a greater degree of inwardness than most other novels in English language, and hence symbol and imagery run through the very design of the novel. The use of symbol and imagery enables the novelist to render the psyche of her characters as well as deliver her indictment of a spiritual hollow civilization. Virginia Woolf evolved her own theories of symbol and imagery and explained, "What interests me most in the last stage is the freedom and boldness with which my imagination picked up used and tossed aside all images and symbol." So far as the use of symbols and images in Mrs Dalloway is concerned, it has been po...