Book Requests - book requests - posted 4 months ago

Hi Maggie .Hope u will be enjoying good health. I think it would be nice to have LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING in your long book category.
Thanks
Hira

Middlemarch - Provincial life - posted 4 months ago

This is a long novel.It was taught to us in last year in University.A host of characters are present and actions of people of all walk are recorded artistically by Eliot(Mary Ann).In Victorian era there were conventional views about Womanhood.Dorothea's aim's could only be fullfilled after her marriage which proved fake with Causabon.Lydgate and Dorothea were ,somewhat,similar figures.Social stubborness,unhappy marriages,women's role in society ,relatins between Evengelicals ans Anglicans are core issues of the novel.Psychological analysis of differet characters and clear eye view of human nature is speciality of this beautful novel.

The Importance of Being Earnest - Being Earnest - posted 4 months ago

Hi Karen
Thanks for pointing my mistake.I have done same mistake in almost all reviews of mine.
Its a good site and i don't have any trouble with this website, it was just a misunderstanding when after posting review it was again written that post ur reply.
In short ,i don't have any trouble and i enjoy this website a lot.
Thanks
Hira

The Importance of Being Earnest - Being Earnest - posted 4 months ago

I found this play very intersting.There is an ongoing debate about the nature of marriage.Lady Braknell's list of bachelors and the "interview"she used to take from those bachelors reflect conventional views of Victorian era.

Nearly all characters seem hypocrite,while Earnestness is the quality of being sincere.
Well, end of this play was good .Identity of Jack was revealed at the end .He was legtimate son of Lady Braknell's sister and Algernon's older brother.

Oedipus Rex - Oedipus Complex - posted 4 months ago

For the first time ,i came to know about Freud's theory of "Oedipus Complex", while reading this play.On the whole it was an intersting play.Oedipus seems to be of good character in the opening lines,but seems so proud and arrogant in his speech with Teiresias.In my view,it would be wrong to say that there was any in which Oedipus could have avoided fulfilment of Oracle's prediction.
I think Oedipus was morally innocent though he sex with his mother and killed his father but all these acts of were unconscious.The end of this play was heartrending.Oedipus blinded himself and Jocasta hanged herself.

Sons and Lovers - Relations and love - posted 4 months ago

It is purely an autobiographical novel and its roots are located in Lawrence own life.When i was reading this novel it reminded me of the story of Oedipus Rex which i read last year.The Sigmund Freud's theory is comman in both."Sons and Lovers"uses Oedipus Complex as its base for exploring Paul's relation with his mother.Paul could not love Miriam or Clara as he is devoted to his mother.Mrs.Gertrude is leading an unhappy life with his husband Mr.Morel and she turned his loneliness into passionate love of his sons William and later on Paul.Mrs.Morel is jealous over girl friends of his sons.Paul tells her mother that "he wished he had a young mother".But at the end of the novel Paul takes a major step,he overdoses his dying mother with Morpia and reduces her suffering and subvert his Oedipal fate ,as he kills Mrs.Moral and not his father .Paul's reaction was intence at the death of his mother and her death had great psycological effect on Paul's sexuality.