Sunday, November 11, 2007

Review
The King Who Limped
The King Who Limped is a satirical drama which criticizes the sycophancy of the officials in his palace. It’s a highly meaningful and effective drama, as a satire. It’s also a drama with a great sense of humor. Monika Throne is a successful writer an of course she is a writer with an amazing talent of humor. Here the author presents the satire with a multiple view that is she depicts not only about the sycophancy of the palace members but also about the way a King should preside over his country. She also provided us indirectly the traits of a King should be?
The plot of the story is very good with its exposition, rising action, climax and falling action. The exposition is perfectly calculated, she could give an idea of almost all the characters of the drama in the first scene itself. The rising action starts with the arrival of the King in a strange look! She promotes the play with superb crisis along the story which is interesting and highly dramatic. Climax is wonderful with such an unexpected behavior of the King before the spectators, and it’s stunning! The falling action comprises of the great responsibilities a King should take into consideration, it also deals with how a King should be? Thus the plot of the storyline is managed fantastically, and the events of the story occur logically.
The main characters in the play are the Prime Minister, the King, the Chancellor, a Courtier and two ladies in waiting. The King is the commanding character in the play, the Courtier and the First lady in waiting plays a positive character in the play. The Prime Minister, Chancellor and Second lady in waiting plays the negative role in the play. The sub characters are two Heralds, two neighbors, a page and a dog. The King is a man with much high aptitude and with some common sense. The sub characters and the King himself play a good role in rising action of the play. The King here plays a tricky character; his character is altering suddenly in between.
The setting of the story is in a palace hall where one could see the road through an open window. It comprises of a throne for the King and many other seats for the other officials in the palace.
The story is a satire. The satirical element of the story is sycophancy or simply flattery. The plot and setting helps it very well.
Above all this is a work with superb hilarity and with an excellent suspense in it. Anyone can enjoy it.

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The Open Window

A Review

Women are like tricks by sight of hand, which to admire, we should not understand”

William Congreve (1670 – 1729)

Vera created a funny and superstitious atmosphere in the entire story. The story will be promising for readers fond of smart comedies, for Saki is best known as a writer of best known as a writer of short stories, many of which have fantastic setting and characters. They are distinguished by an urban wit and delicate, often biting irony.

The Open window is a befitting title to the story; it acts more than a character in the story. Here the story is very fast and French window has its own importance in the story. The window makes things complicated in the story. It makes the atmosphere in the story ghastly and interesting to the readers. The title ‘The Open Window’ shows the importance of the French window in the story.

The most prominent characters in the story are Mrs. Sappleton, Vera and Mr. Framton. Vera a young lady of fifteen the niece of Mrs. Sappleton is much tricky and interesting and could take the readers in hand, as the author describes “Romance at short notice was her specialty”. Mr. Framton, a gentleman with much psychic problems, is another prominent character. The sub characters are Mr. Sappleton, the spaniel and the two brothers. These sub characters make the story a brilliant comedy, and these masculine characters made the story ghastly in a comic way.

The falling action of the story is also a brilliant comedy. At last, in the climax of the story our writer Saki reveals what actually was going on throughout the story. Weather it was ghastly or simply a smart comedy, which only Saki could do it.

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A Review on: An Irish Rose

The Dark Side of Life



“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart”
W.B.Yeats (1865-1939)
The author A.J.Cronin is a doctor by training but a writer as profession. Cronin’s strengths were his narrative skill and powers of acute observation and graphic description. He could see the dark side of life in a better frame.
The plot of the story is arranged in a rousing style, the exposition of ‘An Irish Rose’ is highly detailed and gives a clear idea of the scenes, and his graphic description as mentioned above also add to it. The rising action of the story contains many momentarily good events which make the climax much more effective. In the climax he is resolving into the sacrifice, love, or affection etc of a sister.
The climax occurs after the entire crisis ended, the situation seems good before the climax and it gets tragic in the next paragraph where it has a beautiful ending.
The main characters in the story Rose Donegan a very young lady about fourteen had many responsibilities regarding her brothers and her father who spends most of his time in a nearby bar. She sees life much seriously with love and affection towards her brothers and her father and always has a pleasant smile and attitude. One of the most important perspectives about her character is her pleasant attitude towards anything and anyone and of course her deep affection, which results in sacrificing her life.
Here Rose Donegan has to earn for the family, buy milk for her youngest brother Michel. She had to cook, attend to the children and father. With a slum child’s elemental knowledge she had to do everything, even she would bargain the baker to extend her credit for an extra loaf.
Rose has a shaggy dressing which shows the deprived condition of the family; even she had to pawn the new dress that Cronin had paid for her.
The other characters in the story include the Carroll’s, a middle aged couple, childless and prosperous. Also include the youngest brother of Rose; Michel, who is nine months old. Other than Michel there are three more children who are younger than Rose, Donegan her father and the writer himself. The minor characters were meaningful making the rising action good.
Reading such a story could take us to such families where the children (elder) had to deal with all responsibilities. Responsibilities are rejected by the responsible. And future becomes unpredictable.
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This Is About A Great Author

Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), English poet, one of the most accomplished and influential of England's romantic poets, whose theories and style created a new tradition in poetry.

Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and educated at Saint John's College, University of Cambridge. He developed a keen love of nature as a youth, and during school vacation periods he frequently visited places noted for their scenic beauty. In the summer of 1790 he took a walking tour through France and Switzerland. After receiving his degree in 1791 he returned to France, where he became an enthusiastic convert to the ideals of the French Revolution (1789-1799). His lover Annette Vallon of Orleans bore him a daughter in December 1792, shortly before his return to England. Disheartened by the outbreak of hostilities between France and Great Britain in 1793, Wordsworth nevertheless remained sympathetic to the French cause.

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), English poet, one of the most accomplished and influential of England's romantic poets, whose theories and style created a new tradition in poetry.

Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and educated at Saint John's College, University of Cambridge. He developed a keen love of nature as a youth, and during school vacation periods he frequently visited places noted for their scenic beauty. In the summer of 1790 he took a walking tour through France and Switzerland. After receiving his degree in 1791 he returned to France, where he became an enthusiastic convert to the ideals of the French Revolution (1789-1799). His lover Annette Vallon of Orleans bore him a daughter in December 1792, shortly before his return to England. Disheartened by the outbreak of hostilities between France and Great Britain in 1793, Wordsworth nevertheless remained sympathetic to the French cause.

Wordsworth's income from his writings amounted to little, but his financial problems were alleviated for a time when in 1795 he received a bequest of £900 from a close friend. Thereupon he and his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, went to live in Racedown, Dorsetshire. The two had always enjoyed a warmly sympathetic relationship, and Wordsworth relied greatly on Dorothy, his devoted confidante, for encouragement in his literary endeavors. Her mental breakdown in later years was to cause him great sorrow, as did the death of his brother John. William had met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an enthusiastic admirer of his early poetic efforts, and in 1797 he and Dorothy moved to Alfoxden, Somersetshire, near Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey. The move marked the beginning of a close and enduring friendship between the poets. In the ensuing period they collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798.

This work is generally taken to mark the beginning of the romantic movement in English poetry. Wordsworth wrote almost all the poems in the volume, including the memorable “Tintern Abbey”; Coleridge contributed the famous “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Representing a revolt against the artificial classicism of contemporary English verse, Lyrical Ballads was greeted with hostility by most leading critics of the day.

His premise was that the source of poetic truth is the direct experience of the senses. Poetry, he asserted, originates from “emotion recollected in tranquillity.” Rejecting the contemporary emphasis on form and an intellectual approach that drained poetic writing of strong emotion, he maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.

Returning to England, William and his sister settled in 1799 at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmorland, the loveliest spot in the English Lake District. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge lived nearby, and the three men became known as the Lake Poets. In 1802 Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, who is portrayed in the charming lyric “She Was a Phantom of Delight.” In 1807Poems in Two Volumes was published. The work contains much of Wordsworth's finest verse, notably the superb “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” the autobiographical narrative “Resolution and Independence,” and many of his well-known sonnets.

As he advanced in age, Wordsworth's poetic vision and inspiration dulled; his later, more rhetorical, moralistic poems cannot be compared to the lyrics of his youth, although a number of them are illumined by the spark of his former greatness. Between 1814 and 1822 his publications included The Excursion (1814), a continuation of The Prelude but lacking the power and beauty of that work; The White Doe of Rylstone (1815); Peter Bell (1819); and Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1822). Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems appeared in 1835, but after that Wordsworth wrote little more. Among his other poetic works are The Borderers: A Tragedy (1796; published 1842), Michael (1800), The Recluse (1800; published 1888), Laodamia (1815), and Memorials of a Tour on the Continent (1822). Wordsworth also wrote the prose works Convention of Cintra (1809) and A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England (1810; reprinted with additions, 1822).

Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversational blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of humankind.

The tide of critical opinion turned in his favor after 1820, and Wordsworth lived to see his work universally praised. In 1842 he was awarded a government pension, and in the following year he succeeded Southey as poet laureate. Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1850, and was buried in the Grasmere churchyard.

This Article is Contributed By: Sundell, Michael G., M.A., and Ph.D.

Professor of Humanities; The Cooper Union.

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Reality Shows: A Media for Entertaining Fashion

Media is used to make money, provide entertainment, refresh with news updates but finding the talented species is something new. With fabulous costly gifts for the winner worth 50 lacks Indian Rupees, no wonder. But it’s now being exploited finding the unwanted talents and the talented. Vulgarity prevails behind the veils of the Dance reality shows. One and only reality show with a talent hunting approach in the right sense is Idea Star Singer broadcasted in the Malayalam channel Asianet, but it also is giving 25% significance to other than singing activities. Idea, anyone sees it !dea is one of the prime companies providing communication facility for mobile phones. Idea had a profit of 7.8 crores within these 100 successful episodes of Idea Star Singer. The Confident Group also had great business innovation and improvement, which gifts the winner with a flat apartment worth 45 lacks INR, which is very attractive! The program subjugated the minds of the entire SOUTH INDIA!

Many other reality shows evolved after the 50th episode of Idea Star Singer. These include Star Wars a program in Kairali TV to find talented singer, Vodafone Thakathimi to find the talented dancer, assuring a Luxurious Limousine car as the gift. This is broadcasted on all Sundays and Saturdays on Asianet itself. This show is much vulgar and is an unwanted program. Many other all other programs as detailed above are much substandard giving much importance to something else. May they are giving importance to fashion or something other than that.

These programs if used properly will be good if used for the right purpose. Talent hunters to find singers should concentrate only on their singing skills and not the dancing skills or acting skills. It’s not needed for such a show! Proper implementation of the program will be fantastic and not vulgar. The program should have a prime endeavor to find the best of the participants using a correct judgment. Such programs shouldn’t be used as a media for encouraging fashion. This may help prevent the nonsense in such TV programs.

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