English Literature

Discuss the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales as a picture 0f contemporary society.

Geoffrey Chaucer was an artist in the fourteenth century. He speaks to his own age and holds the mirror to his opportunity. His verse mirrors the fourteenth century not in pieces but rather all in all. The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales shapes a great critique upon English life in the Middle Ages.

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The Faerie Queene as an Allegory

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In an allegory something is presented in the guise of another. Allegorically, In Book 1 of The Faerie Queene Spenser has shown the fight between vices and virtues and finally the triumph of virtue. Now we need a critical discussion that The Faerie Queene is an allegory. Moral and spiritual allegory in The Faerie Queene deals with the action and interaction of virtues and vices..................

Spenser as "The Poet’s Poet"

Spenser is called "the poet's poet" because of the very high quality of his poetry and because he enjoyed the pure artistry of his craft so much. It was Charles lamb who called Spenser “the poet’s poet” and lamb was not wrong in giving him that honored title. Spenser is regarded as the poet’s poet and the second father of English poetry and Chaucer is the first.

Volpone as a comedy of humours.

A comedy of humors refers to a type of drama that focused on characters, each character representing a type of personality. The characters in Volpone are stereotypes. They represent a character type rather than a flesh-and-blood............................

Doctor Faustus' as a Morality Play

The morality play is really a fusion of allegory and the religious drama of the miracle plays. In this play the characters were personified abstractions of vice or virtues such as Good deeds, Faith, Mercy, Anger, Truth, Pride etc.......................

Macbeth as a Tragic Hero

A tragic hero must be good but he is not perfect. He has some error in judgment as a result of which he moves from happiness to misery and ultimately dies....................................

As You Like It as a Romantic Comedy

Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ is a finest kind of romantic comedy. A romantic comedy is a play in which violates the classical or neo-classical rigid rules and norms and deals with love at first sight,.............

The Age of Dryden, straddling the last half of the 17th century, was an age noticeable by noteworthy shifts in literary appearance, and prose style undergoes a remarkable development throughout this time. John Dryden, a literary giant of the period, played a vital role in determining the prose of the moment, leaving a lasting impact on the growth of English prose. His prose approach, which emerged significantly during the Restoration era, is a trademark of clarity, elegance, and rational argumentation.