Dostoyevsky‘s Crime and punishment (1866) is based on the writer‘s terrifying experience with summary justice and the cruel penal system of Tzarist Russia. It is a tale set in the dingy tenements, backstreets and dram-shops of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, and concerns the actions or inactions of a murderer, Raskolnikov, who in setting himself in the … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Dostoyevsky‘s Crime and punishment (1866) is based on the writer‘s terrifying experience with summary justice and the cruel penal system of Tzarist Russia. It is a tale set in the dingy tenements, backstreets and dram-shops of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, and concerns the actions or inactions of a murderer, Raskolnikov, who in setting himself in the … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Publius Ovidius Naso was born in 43 BC, in Sulmo (modern Sulmona), in the rugged mountains of the Abruzzi about a hundred miles from Rome. His family, which must have been locally prominent and relatively wealthy, were Roman citizens of equestrian rank and seem to have intended Ovid for a political career in Rome. Ovid … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
In his play Thyestes, Seneca utilizes the tragic tale of the house of Tantalus to explore the psychological depths of tyranny, revenge, and dynastic miasma. The Thyestes details the relationship between the brothers Atreus and Thyestes and their struggle for supremacy, which results in Thyestes‘ cannibalistic consumption of his own children. This is a mythological … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
When Medea, commonly regarded as Euripides‘ masterpiece, was first per-formed at Athens‘s Great Dionysia, Euripides was awarded the third (and last) prize, behind Sophocles and Euphorion. It is not difficult to understand why. Euripides violates its audience‘s most cherished gender and moral illusions, while shocking with the unimaginable. Arguably for the first time in Western … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
One manner in which to examine the deterioration of Gustav Von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann‘s Death in Venice is through the conflict of the Dionysian versus the Apollonian. Nietzsche first coined these terms in his work, The Birth of a Tragedy. In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the God of the Earth and Apollo the God … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Ibsen‘s biographer Michael Meyer once said: ―The theme of A Doll‘s House was a need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is, and to strive to become that person‖. A Doll‘s House is a realistic drama written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in the year 1879. … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
An allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a hidden meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory throughout history in all forms of art to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
The use of ‘machinery’ is a traditional and distinctive feature of epic poetry. The action of the heroic characters are represented as subject to the intervention of gods and controlled by destiny. This interposition may take different forms of varying significance. The immortal figures may remain only the watchers of the scenes from the clouds, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
The novel was originally titled Bakha‘ and was almost double its present length. During his three-monthsojourn at Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram, Anand narrated the story to the Mahatma and also readGandhi’s poignant story about the sweeper-boy Uka, written in utmost simplicity and published in ‗YoungIndia‘. In his article “On the Genesis of Untouchable: A Note‖, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন