Shakuntala Character Analysis The play Abhijnana Sakuntalam by Kalidasa is one of the best plays in ancient Sanskrit literature . The play is about a beautiful damsel Shakuntala who lives in the hermitage of the sage Kanva. She has been the daughter of sage Vishwamitra and 'Apsara' Menaka. In Abhijnana…

A fable is a short moral tale , in verse or prose, in which human situations and behaviour are depicted through beasts and birds, or gods or inanimate objects. In the beast fable animals talk and act like the human types they represent. In the familiar fable of the fox and the grapes, the fox-after vainly exerting al…

Critical Analysis on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock   Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a poem about a middle-aged balding man who feels very insecure in life. It is a discussion on the tortured psyche of the typical modern man of Eliot's days who is generally educated, neurotic and emotionally artificial. …

Nurse Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare has delineated the character of the Nurse with wonderful artistic skill in his Romeo and Juliet . Much of the humour in the play is derived from her foibles. She had been wet-nurse to the baby Juliet. And when Juliet is grown up, she is her confidante. She is not a friend nor an o…

Origin of English Drama The origins of drama have always been deeply rooted in the religious instincts of mankind. Greek drama had arisen out of the rituals observed in connection with the worship of Dionysius, the god of fertility. In England too drama was an offshoot of the liturgy but it must be noted that there …

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was written and published in 1923 in the volume of poems entitled New Hampshire . This is one of the most widely read lyrics by Frost. Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the beloved Prime Minister of India, used to read this poem a…