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…

1. Discuss Aristotle’s Views on solitude/man as a social animal as quoted by Bacon. Bacon begins the essay by invoking the classical authority of Aristotle on basic human nature. First, he refers to Aristotle’s view in Politics: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.  Accordi…

As a pragmatic and as an empirical thinker Bacon followed two fundamental Renaissance principles— Sepantia or search for knowledge and Eloquentia , the art of rhetoric. This explains, to some extent, the impassioned presentation of his ideas and views and the aphoristic style of his writing. But the essay Of Frie…

In Europe from the Christian times onwards the tradition of courtly love developed. This is tradition of idealized love. It held the view that love between a man and a woman could be purifying and ennobling. It could be spiritual as well as physical. The concept of courtly love affected the European literature and…

The Italian term ‘ Renaissance ’ means ' rebirth' . The term is traditionally applied to the intellectual movements that embraced the re-awakening of scholarship and self-emancipation of the individual from the thraldom  of institutions. More properly Renaissance is applied to the revival of arts resulting…

Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II is a superb specimen of historical tragedy of a historical king. Here the hero is King Edward II whose tragic downfall is due to his own characteristic weakness and setbacks. His thoughtless, unwise, impulsive, monomaniac approach to the world around him, his wrong dealing with …