English Literature

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN     William Cuthbert Faulkner , an American writer, worked in a variety of media; he wrote   novels ,   short stories, a   play ,   poetry ,   essays   and   screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories. He was awarded the 1949   Nobel Prize   for Literature. Some of his great works are �The Sound and the Fury�, �As I Lay Dying�, �Sanctuary�, �Light in August�, �The Hamlet�, �The Wild Palms�, �Absalom Absalom�. William was the eldest of the four children but he did not get on very well with his brothers, and these early disparities between him and his brothers caused his some anxieties which were aggravated by his father�s strange hostility to him. In the meantime, William�s father started drinking more heavily than before, with the result that William�s mother felt miserable though she did ...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (Macbeth,   Act V, Scene 5) When Macbeth learns of his wife's death, he cries out the above lines, which can be used as a clue to the meaning of the novel or to the structure of the novel. Certainly Faulkner plays with the idea that life is nothing but a shadow. The word   shadow   appears continually throughout Quentin's section, and it also occurs frequently throughout the rest of the novel. The implication of life is used by Faulkner to suggest that the actions performed by modern man are only shadows when compared with the greater actions performed by men of the past � that modern man is only a shadow of a being, imperfectly formed and inadequate to cope with the problem...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction , while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. He was famous for his novels, short stories and essays, with works that include: "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952). Many of his works are considered classics of American literature . As a novelist, Hemingway is often assigned a place among the writers of �the lost generation� , along with Faulkner, Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos and Sinclair Lewis. These writers, including Ernest Hemingway, tried to show the loss the First World War had caused in the social, moral and psychological spheres of human life. They also reveal the horror, the fear an...