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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...

Mrs Dalloway Novel by Virginia Woolf Stream Of Consciousness in Mrs Dalloway Mrs. Woolf belongs to the school of stream of consciousness novelist. She is on e of those great modern English novelist of the 20th century who had the courage to break free from the tradition and then to give a new direction, a new form amd a new spiritual direction to the modern English novel. she was totally dissatisfied with the current form of the novel as represented by Edwardians like Bennett, Wells and Galsworthy. In this novels 'life escapes' because life is not what they present in their novels. She has very clearly expressed her own views in her great essays 'Modern Fiction.' To her "life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged" but it 'is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.' The task of the novelist is "to convey this varying, the unk...

Arms And The Man Play by George Bernard Shaw Compare and contrast Raina and Louka In Arms and the Man we find that Raina and Louka are two young women belonging to different social positions in life. Raina is the daughter of a Major, a high army officer. They have got a position there and they are well known throughout the whole of Bulgaria. Louka is the daughter of a poor farmer. She has no education or culture nor has she any romantic illusion. She works as the maid-servant of the Petkoffs. Shaw introduces a strong parallelism in their situation by presenting both as the objects of love to the romantic Sergius, and here the differences between the two are uppermost. One is the mistress and the other is the maid, but their lives come into conflict when Louka designs to marry Sergius who is betrothed to Raina. Both of them are almost same age and are equally beautiful. Raina has natural charm which has been enhanced by ...

Arms And The Man Play by George Bernard Shaw Compare and Contrast the characters of Sergius and Bluntschli. The central theme of the play 'Arms And The Man' is the different attitudes to war and love. While some of the characters are rallying for romantic sentimental notions, some are pragmatic and anti-romantic. In the true sense of the term Sergius and Bluntschli are studies in contrast and they constitute the central pair of the plot. They are both soldiers and lovers but their attitudes are poles apart. While Sergius is a self - comscious egoist and a dreamer of dreams, Bluntschli is a plain prident man of the world with a strong common sense. While Sergius regards himself as a hero of romance and bears a romantic attitude to love and war, Bluntschli is replete with practical intelligence and has contempt for romantic poses and idealistic views of things like war, heroism , love and marriage. Sergius is bas...

Arms And The Man Play by George Bernard Shaw Title of the play Arms And The Man The title of the play Arms And The Man as George Bernard Shaw himself aknowledges in the preface to 'play pleasant' has been taken from the first line of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid. The Aeneid begins with the Latin phrase 'Arma Virmque cano.' In his translation Dryden skillfully renders the phrase as "Arms and the Man I sing" in the following lines:- "Arms and the Man I sing, who forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate" Virgil's phrase praises the soldier and the weapons of war. But Shaw's play is anti-romantic and anti-heroic and has a different purpose. To quote A Nicoll: In Arms and the Man, it is war and romantic soldering he would tilt against. Even then he would see that war was no longer a thing of banners and gl...

Mother of 1084 Novel by Mahasweta Devi Discuss the character of Nandini as a political rebel. E. Satya Narayan writes in The plays of Mahasweta Devi, "Life, as Mahasweta Devi has come to know through her lifelong close contact with poorest classes of village people is hard, cruel and merciless. It is to the expression of this life andmd to the exposure of a social system that makes this life a reality." This personal characteristics can be traced out in Nandini who continues to nurture hope for revolt against oppression and resolves never to "come back to the so-called tody" life from her path of revolutionary mission and social commitment . She is a sharp contrast tk another woman character of the olay Sujata who was in the beginning an apolitical mother without the knowledge of the other world of have-nots. But Nandini from her initial appearance is thoroughly political rebel in her outlook. Her spoken criticism to discover he...

Mother of 1084 Novel by Mahasweta Devi "I think a creative writer should have a social conscience. I have a duty towards society." Discuss the play in the light of the above quoted remarks made by the playwright. OR How does Mother of 1084 explore the relationship between the personal amd the political? OR How does Mother of 1084 is a critique of science and complacence? OR Trace the growth of sujata from an apolitical stereotype into a politically aware entity. OR Title of the play. Mahasweta Devi is one of those dedicated writers who have denied to accept the existing ideals and have tried to reveal the reality of the downtrodden people. A major part of her carrier has been spent in documenting the misery of the oppressed people. Being an inhabitant of this society, Mahasweta Devi feels: "A writer should have a social conscience. I have a duty towards the society." Compelled by this se...