Rabindranath Tagore, a worshipper of universal humanism, depicts two different streams of Nationalism in his novel The Home and the World. The first stream may be termed as Moderation that articulates essentially pure patriotism without showing the aggressiveness of the Extremism that is the other stream. Both these streams surely areContinue Reading
The title of the book The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore can be interpreted at various levels. At one level it tells about the struggle of Bimala in choosing between her ‘home’ behind the purdah, the outside ‘world’ that her husband Nikhil has introduced her to. Moreover, Bimala is alsoContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s Home and the World is a product of the crisis of that time, and as a political novel it echoes through its narration a large number of attitudes, not always compatible with the colonial experience. The novel deals with the experience of modernity and the price one has to payContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World (originally Ghare-Baire, 1916) is a powerful political and psychological novel set in early 20th-century Bengal during the Swadeshi movement. Written in the backdrop of India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, the novel explores the tension between nationalism and personal freedom, traditionContinue Reading
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in eventsContinue Reading
The plot structure of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is fairly simple and straightforward. The first few chapters are concerned with the rising action: the animals’ rebel and seizure of the farm, Snowball and Napoleon’s quarrel for leadership, expulsion of Snowball, and Napoleon becoming the dictatorial leader. The climax is reachedContinue Reading
The Seven Commandments – written on the barn wall – are the basic principles of animalism and described originally as “unalterable laws” by which the animals were to live. They were meant to keep the animals equal and to ensure that all animals were true to their own nature. OverContinue Reading
Old Major is a character in the book Animal Farm. He was an award winning elderly and well-respected Middle White boar. He was twelve years of age, and had 400 piglets. He had given inspiration to the other pigs about the fair rules on the farm once the farmers wereContinue Reading
“Beasts of England” is the song that Old Major teaches to the other animals in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. He claims that his parents sang it to him when he was young, although they only remembered the first three words. The song is instrumental in firing up the other animalsContinue Reading
In Animal Farm, George Orwell shows how the public can be influenced by the words, slogans and propaganda through rhetorical skills and the means for manipulation of the language. The public in a totalitarian society is deceived by the dominant ideology through the effective use of the language. Several charactersContinue Reading
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