The big world in The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is a novel written by the Indian author Arundhati Roy. It remains her only novel and is a stunning yet harrowing tale set in the…
The Yellow Wallpaper and the story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Being a frequent visitor of street booksellers near my faculty, Great Short Stories by American Women edited by Candace Ward immediately caught my attention when I noticed…
The Analysis of The Good Soldier: Appearance and Reality
“This is the saddest story I have ever heard”. This is the story of the two couples: the Ashburnhams from England and the Dowells from the US. The Ashburnhams and…
Growing up with Poirot
Who is Poirot really? What is he like? There is no room for doubting his abilities, his reputation as one of the two greatest detectives of all time is firmly established. Readers and viewers know all about his hypochondria, his seasickness, his attire, his moustache, his friends and his habits of straightening, arranging and cleaning things.
The Satanic Verses – Beyond the Rushdie Affair
Almost instantly after its publishing, the title of Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel The Satanic Verses has become known to the worldwide audience as one of the most controversial books of the 20th century. Both the novel and its author have become practically inseparable from the notion of fatwa – a legal pronouncement in Islam that Rushdie was sentenced to by the Iranian religious and political leader Ayatollah Homeini.
The analysis of memory in “A Pale View of Hills”
Because,
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing;
often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in
which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to
certain of the recollections I have gathered here.
An Artist of the Floating World – The Character of Masuji Ono
Throughout the period of three years, we follow the main character from his childhood years, from his decision to take up painting as a profession to breaking free from traditional Japanese art and producing propaganda work. Like Stevens from The Remains of the Day”, Ono is not a reliable narrator. We are a given only pieces of a puzzle and only if we read between the lines are we on the right path to understand Ono as a man who “wanted so badly to make a grand contribution”, a man who had ambition to produce “work that will be a significant contribution to the people of (our) nation”.