Bhimayana Summary Experiences of Untouchability An Introduction to Bhimayana: Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability begins in “the recent past”. A young man waiting at a bus stop complains about his unsatisfactory job and blames his lack of advancement on the system of reservations that ensures job quotas for people from the backward and scheduled castes. … Read more
Funny Boy Summary by Shyam Selvadurai An Introduction to Funny Boy: Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for gay male fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in Sri Lanka … Read more
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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Questions and Answers [BROAD TYPE QUESTIONS: 10/15 MARKS] 1. Theme of the Novel [Q. Discuss the themes of escape in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man. Or, Q. What is the lesson of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young … Read more
