Text The word text comes from the Latin term texere, meaning ‘ to weave’ . Many critics regard text as a linguistic structure woven out of words or signs. Therefore a text is a human product whose form is achieved by its author’s design and its meanings by the author’s intentional uses of the verbal medium. Ther…

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the classics in American literature . The novel is apparently a child’s adventure story in form of a bildungsroman, a type of novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological and intellectual development of a youthful protagonist. The novel remain an et…

“In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusion and of light, man feels a stranger. His is an irremediable exile…. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and the setting, truly constitutes the feeling of absurdity.” -          Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus . What Ionesco insists upon in …

“ Our Casuarina Tree is more than the poetic evocation of a tree; it is recapturing the past, and immortalizing the moments of time so recaptured. The tree is both tree and symbol, and in it implicated both time and eternity.” -K. R. Srinivasa Iyenger, Indian Writing in English Toru Dutt has left behi…

Lord of the Flies Symbolism Generally, symbolism is an object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant. Lord of the Flies  is an ingenious work of literature in which the author, William Golding, explores the issues of civilization and savagery. Thr…

The revival of Greek learning in Western Europe at the beginning of 16 th century opened up a new vista (i.e. Greek) from which the English vocabulary was greatly enriched. But the pre-Renaissance period was not altogether blank of Greek borrowings. Further in the hands of able writers and thinkers like Socrates…

Swear words are offensive words used especially to express strong emotional outburst. Swear words, love them or hate them, are an integral part of a language. To master fluency, you must master swear words. But why do people use them? What’s the point? When you use swear words, they allow you to convey emoti…