I like "Boule de suif"--- a real masterpiece that presents life's little ironies and the frailty of social pretense.The whole story is told in third person in an unemotional tone and nowhere we can...
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I like "Boule de suif"--- a real masterpiece that presents life's little ironies and the frailty of social pretense.The whole story is told in third person in an unemotional tone and nowhere we can...
I think snobbishness is a matter of attitude --- and is an appendage of social ambience. Hence, Pip in London ought to act and has acted as per his perceptions of that society. However they turn out...
The most interesting scene in "The Idiot" is the one dipicting the Prince's induction into the Epanchin family. It is one of the most UnDostoevskian beginnings lacking his usual social, psychological...
I think Nastasya tends to have the vanity which makes her keep the prince in eternal doubt while she treats Rogozhyn with outright contempt.
She thinks that she is not ethically fit to relate with...
I think Nastasya tends to have the vanity which makes her keep the prince in eternal doubt while she treats Rogozhyn with outright contempt.She thinks that she is not ethically fit to relate with the...
I like the following poem by Theodore Rothke.
I remember the neck curls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once started into talk,...
I like these lines of Macbeth when Seyton informs him about the cry of women( in ActV Sc V ll 7-8). They reflect the full misery of Macbeth's
harrowing plight --- and show a personal and sensitive...
I love all of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
And most of all :
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought...." for a marvellous fusion
of language,thought, rhythm and mood. I like the lines...