Anjali Rathod

                                                    Thinking activity                        The Importance of Being Earnest                                                                                            This Blog is in response to the thinking activity. I am going to write a blog on Evaluate “The Importance of being Earnest” as a comedy of manners embodying the hypocrisy of Victorian Society. This task was assigned by Dilip Barad sir.          * “The Importance of being Earnest” as a comedy of manners :   About the Author :                                                                                   Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays.               Oscar Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement, which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes

  Thinking Activity                                                              ‘ Jude The Obscure’                 The themes of the novel ‘Jude the Obscure’             This blog spot  is in response to the thinking activity task which was given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. In this particular blog I am going to discuss the thematic study of ‘Jude the Obscure’.    About the Author:                                                        Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England and died  on January 11, 1928, Dorchester , Dorset. He was an  English novelist and poet who set much of his work in Wessex.  His name for the counties of southwestern England .                       Hardy was the eldest of the four children of Thomas Hardy, a stonemason and jobbing builder, and his wife, Jemima. Though he was often ill as a child, his early experience of rural life, with its seasonal rhythms and oral culture , was fundamental to much of his later writing.           

  Thinking Activity                        History of Puritan and Restoration Age John Donne - (Metaphysical Poet)- Puritan Age                                              Introduction :                                                             By the end of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century the great Elizabethan poetry had lost its charm. Everything was conventional and artificial. In the beginning of the 17th century, there was a revolt against the outdated Elizabethan poetry. The leader of this revolt was John Donne. John Donne was born on 22 January 1572 and died on 31 March 1631. He was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary. He was born into a recusant family. He was the leader and founder of the metaphysical school of poetry. Donne disciples like George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Maugham, Andrew Marvell joined him.      The important features of this poetry are as under - Obscurity  Rebel in poetry Blending of passion and thought Wit Display o

  Bridge Course                                Dryden : Essay on Dramatic Poesy            This blog spot is in  response to the bridge course  on Dryden's An Essay on Dramatic Poesy. In this Particular Blog Spot, I am Going to write About John Dryden And his An Essay on Dramatic Poesy . This task is a part of bridge course which was assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir ,  Department of English, MKBU.          * John Dryden                                                              John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright. He was first appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the 17th century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson , he was the greatest playwright.                        Dryden was born on  August 9, 1631. He was raise