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Arms and the Man: Wit and Humour “Arms and the Man” is not merely a farce but a true comedy . The purpose of a comedy is to ridicule and expose human or social folly or weakness and to drive that folly out of courts. Though there is ample of farcical, loud laughter in the play, but the laughter has a serous purpose and this differentiates the play from a mere farce. Shaw laughs, but his laughter has a serious purpose. Besides provoking mirth he also provokes thoughts. Shaw is one of the greatest humorists in English literature the other humourist are Shakespeare and Dickens. However, Shaw’s is different from both Shakespeare and Dickens as his humour arises from the difference between instinctive conduct, or social institutions and social codes of conduct. This is Shaw’s contribution to the art of comedy. “Arms and the Man” is rich in humour. There is enough of humour of character in the play. Major Petkoff, Catherine Petkoff, Sergius and Captain Bluntschli are all h

Stream of Consciousness in “To the Light House” Introduction Virginia Woolf is considered the perfect master of stream of consciousness novel. The phrase “Stream of consciousness was first used William James in his “Principles of psychology” in 1890. Three novelists – Marcel Proust in France, James Joyce in Ireland and M. Richardson in England – were three main architects of this type of the novel. This new type of novel flourished during the period between 1915 to 1939, and it was Virginia Woolf who gave this type of novel a proper shape and adequate refinement. Study of Human Psyche, The chief object of the stream of consciousness novel is the study of human psyche or human consciousness. The novelists of this technique believe that human actions are determined more by the sub-conscious and the unconscious than by the conscious. Instead of a tendency at concentration around a limited issue, those novelists fly off in an eccentric manner in different directions. They hav

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR M.A. ENGLISH PART II EXAMINATION                                       PAPER 1 (POETRY) S.T Coleridge 1.     Coleridge as a poet of supernatural 2.     Coleridge as a narrator/story teller 3.     Critical appreciation of the Rime of ANCIENT MARINER John Keats   1.     Keats as a poet of beauty 2.     Keats: the pure poet 3.     Sensuousness of Keats 4.     Negative capability of Keats 5.     Critical appreciation of the ODE ON GRECIAN URN 6.     Critical appreciation of ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE William Blake 1.     Blake as a romantic poet 2.     Blake’s mysticism 3.     Blake’s depiction of childhood 4.                 Seamus Heaney 1.     Seamus Heaney as a modern poet 2.     Symbolism in Heaney’s poetry    PAPER 2 (Drama) The Cherry Orchard   (Chekhov) 1.     As a Comedy 2.     As a Naturalist play 3.     Irony in the Cherry Orchard 4.     A play about the fall of