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The Way of the World

 Plot Summary  The Way of the World      The way of the World by English playwright William Congreve premiered in London in 1700. Considered one of the best Restoration Comedies, it is still performed occasionally today but was controversial in it's time due to its badway themes and sexual explicitness, which had fallen out of favor in it's time. Focused on the adventures of a pair of lovers, Mirabell and Millamant, the story follows their plan to memory and many steps they must take to obtain the approval of Millamant's bitter aunt, Lady Wishfort. At the same time, supporting characters, including friends, servants and others, are engaging in their own schemes and affairs. Like many Restoration Comedies, the play serves as a satire on the culture of its time. Its themes include criticism of high society and the niceties of courtship, as well as the nature of love and the role of money in marriage. In many ways, The Way of the World is about the clash of the old...

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Game of life

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Feminism

 What is feminism?         Giving equal rights and opportunities to men and women. Books related to feminism:           * A room of one’s own              -   Virginia Woolf.           * Sexual politics                          -   Kate Millett.           * The second sex                        -    Simone-de-Beauvoir.           * Towards feministic poetics   -    Elaine Showalter.  What is meant by women’s writing?            Based on ,noticing that the experience of women has been shaped by their gender and so women’s writing.  Major themes in women’s writing:               Feminism...

Post colonial 1 marks

 1.Post-colonial criticism emerged in the 1990’s. 2.Who wrote the book ‘Culture and Imperialism '? Edward Said. 3.Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said are called the holy trinity of post colonial theory. 4.Touchstone method was introduced by Matthew Arnold. 5.Post-colonial criticism rejected the term universalism. 6. ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ was written by Frantz Fannon. 7.‘Orientalism’, was written by Edward Said. 8.‘Sailing to Byzantium', 1927, and ‘Byzantium’, 1932 were written by W.B. Yeats. 9.Stephen Dedalus is the character In the novel A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10..‘A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ was written by James Joyce. 11.Yeats, belonging to a ruling class Protestant in Ireland had a double identity of the Colonizer and the Colonized. 10. The Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe’s first novel is Things Fall Apart, in 1958. 11.The first characteristics of the post colonial criticism is the awareness of the representation of the Non-Europ...