English Literature

1. According to Swami Vivekananda, teacher's success depends on: (A) His renunciation of personal gain and service to others (B) His professional training and creativity (C) His concentration on his work and duties with a spirit of obedience to God (D) His mastery on the subject and capacity in controlling the students Answer: (A) 2. Which of the following teacher, will be liked most?

LINK: https://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/deconstruction.htm Derrida and Deconstruction �With the word with, then, begins this text Whose first line tells the truth.� (Francis Ponge) �The Text� In its most conventional and historical sense the word �text� means: The actual words of a book, or poem, etc., either in their original

Source: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/refact/preserve.htm Lord Macaulay's "Speech" (March 2, 1831, The House of Commons) It is a circumstance, Sir, of happy augury for the measure before the House, that almost all those who have opposed it have declared themselves altogether hostile to the principle of Reform. Two Members, I think, have professed, that though they disapprove of the

McCarthyism : In the 1940s and 1950s Americans feared the encroachment of Communism. The Soviet Union was growing in power and the threat of a nuclear holocaust was on the forefront of American minds. Eastern Europe had become a conglomerate of Communist satellite nations. Throw in China and Americans began to feel they were surrounded by a Communist threat. Paranoia ensued. The Crucible : Salem established itself as a religious community in the midst of evil. Salemites considered the forest the domain of the devil. Salem was surrounded by forest. Paranoia ensued. McCarthyism : Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, made unsubstantiated claims that more than 200 "card carrying" members of the Communist party had infiltrated the United States government. He had no proof. The Crucible : Delusional girls make unsubstantiated claims about the existence of witches in Salem. They have no proof. McCarthyism : McCarthy's unsubstantiated claims ruined lives and led to increased hostility....

Each stage production of The Crucible differs from every other in two areas. First, directors stage the play according to their own styles, using various props and costumes while suggesting numerous interpretations of characters. Secondly, individual actors read the lines differently, using diverse voice inflections, gestures, and body language to give each interpretation its own style. Miller also provides yet another opportunity for variety, not just for the director and actors, but also for the audience and reader. Lengthy exposition pieces that are not glossed as stage directions periodically appear in the written play. For example, at the beginning of Act I, Miller provides stage directions for the set, props, and position of Parris and Betty on stage. However, Miller also includes an extensive psychological profile of Parris prior to beginning the action of the play. Before Parris speaks, a narrator says that "in history he cut a villainous path, and there is very little goo...

Arthur Miller had a reputation for being pedantic. He maintained, and his estate continues to maintain artistic control over his plays. Miller never ever let anyone else have more creative input than himself. He was a visually descriptive playwright both in his stage directions and settings. Miller�s plays, including The Crucible include pages of detailed information addressing the concerns of both the actors and the audience. In preparation for writing The Crucible, he studied pages and pages of court transcripts of the Salem witch hunts in order to develop ideas and to create an authentic dialect. He took small ideas from the testimonies given in the courts and fleshed them out into stories. In fact, the basis for John Proctor�s and Abigail Williams� affair was based on the tension he discovered that the two of them shared throughout the actual court proceedings. 'This play is not history in the sense in which the word is used by the academic historian. Dramatic purposes have som...

The major characters in Hemingway�s novels and short stories are divided into two groups. There are certain round characters who find themselves at cross-ends with the world around them and they are tying to come to some convincing terms with their environment but do not know the way out. They learn with the passage of time and evolve a new set of values, which make their survival possible. There are certain other characters that do not need any education because when they appear before us they are perfect in themselves. These characters appear with different names in different novels. But they share so many characteristics in common that critics identify them collectively as the Code Hero or in Earl Rovit�s terms �the Tutor�. Hemingway�s code hero is usually an older man, tremendously courageous and blindly confident who has realized his potentialities and know his area of operations. He is perfectly skilled and experienced in his art and executes his jobs full-boldly. He is usually a...