Introduction: The great source of character-creation of Dickens is his return to child-like imagination. His vision of the world and its inhabitants is like a child’s and it is as true as that of the grown-ups. Dickens introduces children like Oliver Twist, Smike from the Nicholas Nickleby, Nell in The Old Curiosity shop, Paul Dombey … Read more
A Great Humorist: Except Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, no writer can match Dickens in humour and pathos. It was really very great of Dickens that amidst the poverty, hunger, misery and sufferings of the Victorian age, he could laugh and keep up his unwavering optimism. G. B. Priestley rightly says that the supremacy of Dickens … Read more
Observation as a Crime Novel: Oliver Twist cannot be called a crime novel. The crime world has been depicted quite realistically as the novelist had profound curiosity about crime and criminals from his very early childhood. He used to visit his father John Dickens at the Debtors’ Prison at the Marshalsea, and there he could … Read more
Introduction: In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ the author Golding tries to bring Ballantyne’s coral island upto date. He wants to probe or examine it deeper into the human heart. It is a novel of boyish adventure in its external framework. The author has borrowed the external from Ballantyne’s coral island. It was published … Read more
Introduction: The title ‘Lord of the Flies’ can be traced to the Jewish hierarchy (order of the angels) of demons. There is reference to Beelzebule who is known as the Lord of the Flies. He was the chief representative of false Gods. The title, therefore, is appropriate to a novel which like a fable conveys … Read more
Introduction: William Golding was the son of a distinguished school master. He had become a school master himself and wrote deeply imaginative fables of human of condition of our times. This novel reveals Golding’s philosophy that good and bad can exist side by side in the darkness of a man’s heart. So, the world should … Read more
Introduction: It is a novel that reveals Golding’s philosophy that the world should restore principles in an unprincipled world. It should restore belief to a world of disbelieves. This is the hidden appeal and message of the novel Lord of the Flies. A pick of the British boys should have behaved better. This is the … Read more
Introduction: As we study the story of the novel “The Power And the Glory” we find that the writer has written it with a definite purpose. For example, the character of the whisky priest has been described by his outward actions as well as through dialogue with some other characters in the story. He has … Read more
Introduction: As we study the story of the novel ‘The Power and the Glory’ and some other novels of Graham Greene we find him pointing out evil as a significant part. He saw it in the world, so he tried to express it in the pages of his novels. The whisky priest in the present … Read more
Introduction: After reading the story of the present novel ‘Midnight’s Children’ written by Salman Rushdie we find Saleem Sinai as the chief narrator. He was born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 at the precise moment of India’s independence. It is said about him that he was celebrated in the press and … Read more