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Character of Macduff in Macbeth Macduff , after his brief indulgence of the porter in the porter scene (Act 2, Scene 3 ), becomes a most positive character. In Holinshed's chronicle , Macduff offends Macbeth when he sends his men to work for the building of the castle in Dunsinane but he himself does not go. Ma…

Irony in Abhigyan Shakuntalam by Kalidasa Kalidasa being a phenomenal writer in Sanskrit literature extracts a simple story from the Mahabharata and gives it a new treatment by introducing the curse motif and the ring motif along with the structural device of irony . Irony has been employed as a powerful literary…

Symbolism in To the Lighthouse In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse , a few critics have realized the momentousness of symbolism , a corollary to its poetic and lyrical nature which they may extol or censure but can't come up to scratch to acquiesce in. Virginia's intuition is more abstract than that of Henry…

Winston Smith 1984 Winston Smith an Unheroic Figure Winston Smith , like all Orwell's central characters , is completely unheroic . He is thirty-nine, a smallish frail figure, and he had a varicose ulcer. He works in the Ministry of Truth, which is the Double think title of the Ministry of Propaganda. His job i…

Mollie Animal Farm Character Analysis Mollie in Animal Farm, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones' trap, is vain and fond of luxuries, and her only concern about the Rebellion is that it might deprive her of her sugar and ribbons. One of her first action after the uprising is to finch a piece of blue…

Narayan's The Guide Theme R. K. Narayan is mainly concerned with man's life in the universe. His concern is human destiny and he deals with man's predicament in the universe, his inter-personal relationships, and the life of man in connection with human relationships. The theme of The Guide studies compl…