George Orwell Biography Life and Literature of Orwell George Orwell was the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, born in Motihari, Bengal, India, in 1903, to a family which he described in The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) as Tower-upper middle class’: ‘upper-middle class without money’. According to his hographer Bernard Crick, Orwell used a … Read more
Animal Farm Questions and Answers by George Orwell LONG TYPE QUESTIONS 1. Theme [Q. Discuss the relevance of some major themes in the novel Animal Farm.] Animal Farm, an anti-utopian satire by George Orwell, was published in 1945. One of Orwell’s finest works, it is a political fable based on the events of Russia’s … Read more
Animal Farm Summery by George Orwell An Introductory Note : Animal Farm (1945) is a novella by George Orwell. Originally subtitled A Fairy Story, it is a commentary on the development of Russian communism under Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) delivered in allegorical form. The thoroughgoing allegory compares the inequalities of brutal, socially unequal pre-Revolutionary Russia … Read more
Hawk Roosting Questions and Answers By Ted Hughes BROAD QUESTIONS 1. Write an essay on the use of animal imagery in the poetry of Ted Hughes with special references to Hawk Roosting. Or, Attempt a critique of the animal imagery in the poetry of Ted Hughes with suitable textual references to Hawk Roosting. Hughes’ … Read more
HAWK ROOSTING SUMMARY A CLOSE READING OF THE HUGHES’ HAWK ROOSTING (H.L.B.MOODY) Our first reading of this poem again leaves us with a slight sense of bewilderment, in that it present us with something not immediately and completely coherent, something different from anything. The title guides us a little at first. ‘Hawk Roosting’-hawk, a … Read more
Tradition and Individual Talent Summary ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’-Critical Synopsis-Eliot’s Theory of Poetry and The Poetic Process-Impersonality of Poetry Manifesto of Eliot’s Critical Creed The essay Tradition and Individual Talent was first published in 1919 in the Times Literary Supplement, as a critical article. The essay may be regarded as an unofficial manifesto of … Read more
