Sleepless Nights

The white tiger novel published in 2008 by Indian young writer Arvind Adiga, which won him glittering Man Booker Prize of the year 2008. The novel presents India in quite different and unacceptable way and by and large this India would be unexpected by most Indians. The novel has simple plot that how a poor man from countryside becomes an entrepreneur in present globalizing India.                                     The story is divided in six nights every night he tells the biography of an entrepreneur. Every night a narrator tells the story to a Chinese premier. The way of telling a story is quite different and innovative. In the first night the narrator is listening to the radio, and he listen that a Chinese premier Jiabao is coming to India to know the story of how entrepreneurs are growing in India. The narrator tells he himself is the best example of the entrepreneur. While tel...

Key Terms in Post-Colonial Theory You should read over the following definitions in order to understand some of the basic ideas associated with post-colonialist literature COLONIALISM : The imperialist expansion of Europe into the rest of the world during the last four hundred years in which a dominant imperium or center carried on a relationship of control and influence over its margins or colonies. This relationship tended to extend to social, pedagogical, economic, political, and broadly culturally exchanges often with a hierarchical European settler class and local, educated (Compractor) elite class forming layers between the European "mother" nation and the various indigenous peoples who were controlled. Such a system carried within it inherent notions of racial inferiority and exotic otherness. POST-COLONIALISM : Broadly a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies. It is concerned with both how European nations conquered and controlled ...

To the Lighthouse   is a 1927 novel by   Virginia Woolf. The novel centers on the Ramsays and their visits to the   Isle of Skye   in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of   modernist novelists   like   Marcel Proust and   James Joyce, the plot of   To the Lighthouse   is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the   stream-of-consciousness   literary technique, the novel includes little   dialogue   and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes   and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, and the problem of perception. The time in which she was living was not that much grown that could favor women. Woolf’s experimentation has much to do with the time in which she lived: the turn of the century was marked by ...

Waiting for Godot is a play written by Samuel Buckkett it is largely regarded as one of the best play written during 20th century. The play is a satire on human condition by inventing two characters and makes them waiting. The play indirectly satirize human tendency of waiting in life whether it is a thing. Person, god, incident or even death throughout our life we are continuously waiting for something.  The subject of the play is waiting and not Godot. Throughout the play the two men characters are constantly go on waiting- which is such a boring task. Though they are waiting for Godot but even they don’t know who Godot is how he looks and even don’t know the place they are waiting is right or not. It is the wait for something to end and something to begin. Waiting is such activity like it kills the time and by killing the time trying to kill life. Waiting of the two characters is the depiction of life as useless where one has to wait until death and even you can't esc...

                  Literature please us, but it is not always necessary, sometimes it hammer, and sometimes even hurt.  ‘The Wasteland’ is very popular poem by T.S.Eliot. It was most appreciated as well as criticized work early decades or 20th century. Critics have criticized the poem and even poet also. Other contemporary thinker of him like Nietzsche who confessed in his work that “God is dead” he given importance to human being, for him a man with his will power can do anything and that is the spirit which must be cultivated to fight against the present problems and malice of present world, what really need is to cultivate the spirit of superhuman, this concept also given by Shri Aurobindo. Critics have criticized Eliot as backward looking and regressive compared to other thinkers like Nietzsche and Freud.                     Eliot has used very vast numbers of myth that are ...

                              Paradise lost is a first English epic written by John Milton. Epic is the greatest heroic poem in English literature and one of its greatest kind in worlds literature. Paradise lost contains twelve books among which book number nine was in my post graduation syllabus. It starts with the statement of the subject, the fall of the man and a noble invocation for light and divine guidance. The first book describes the rebale of Satan against god, and how much powerful Satan is. Satan and his supported were thrown out of the heaven. From where the fight between good and evil begins. And prediction of fall of the man occurs.                      Book number nine contains the description of the beauty of the garden of the eden. God has created beat of his creation in form of Adam and from Adam god also created eve as companion. ...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark , often shortened to   Hamlet , is a   tragedy   written by   William Shakespeare   at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the   Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge   Prince Hamlet   is called to wreak upon his uncle,   Claudius   by the ghost of Hamlet's father,   King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow(Wikipedia). Hamlet is one of the four great tragedies written by Shakespeare. It presents the tragic story of the prince of the Denmark. The king of Denmark has recently died. On his death, his son, Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, who is a student at the University of Wittenberg, is summoned to Danish court.  Hamlet feels miserable that his father's throne has been seized by his uncle, Claudius and his mother has married him. "To be or not to be that is the question Whether ...

Doctor Faustus , is a play by   Christopher Marlowe , based on the German story   Faust .   Doctor Faustus  was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least 10 years after the first performance of the play. At the start Faustus looks at several fields of knowledge such as logic, medicine, law, divinity, etc. But he finally settles at magic. Then appear good angel and the evil angel. The former warns Faustus against studying magic book. He asks him to study the holy books. But the letter encourages him to study the magic book. As the two angels leave, Faustus in soliloquy feels the great importance of learning magic. On Valdes's advice, Faustus goes to a solitary grove to conjure. Mephistopheles and Lucifer appear in the play. The devil appears again to tell Faustus that Lucifer has expressed his willingness to accept his surrendering of soul to him in return for twenty four years of voluptuous pleasures of the world which ...