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    Problem play is a genre of drama which takes up important social issues by using arguments among the characters in the play on the stage. These characters express clashing ideas that help the audience and the readers to understand the issue and reach a solution on their own. It must be noted that inRead more

    Problem play is a genre of drama which takes up important social issues by using arguments among the characters in the play on the stage. These characters express clashing ideas that help the audience and the readers to understand the issue and reach a solution on their own.

    It must be noted that in a problem play, the playwright never gives a solution. It is left to the audience to understand the situations and bring out a solution.

    Candida by GB Shaw is a Domestic Play. The playwright takes up an issue which is prevalent in society but not discussed. It is the Woman’s Question.

    The protagonist Candida is the wife of James Morell, a famous clergyman who delivers the sermons of morality to the people. He believes that he is an ideal husband and treats his wife well and she cannot live without him.

    However, ironically Morell himself is dependent on Candida and cannot live without her. It is Candida who takes care of all his needs and even the household things. In the play, Candida is not portrayed as a helpless or a traditional “distressed damsel” but as a new woman.

    She is wiser than her husband. She knows all the weaknesses of her husband still pretends to be dependent on him. Her husband who with the intervention of Eugene Marchbanks, comes to know about his love for her, starts fearing of losing her. Being insecure and helpless, he gives choice to Candida to either live with him to go with Eugene.

    Candida being an understanding woman decides to live with him. Hence though Morell is incapable of being her husband and she secretly loves Eugene, she has to live with her husband. Thus this is not a solution. It is left to the audience to decide what would she have done and what it would have resulted.

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    For the female characters like Louise, freedom is almost like a secret pleasure which can always be experienced or even thought of after her husband’s death. It’s like the forbidden fruit to the women of the 19th century when it is a basic human right to all sexes. Through this story, Kate Chopin haRead more

    For the female characters like Louise, freedom is almost like a secret pleasure which can always be experienced or even thought of after her husband’s death. It’s like the forbidden fruit to the women of the 19th century when it is a basic human right to all sexes. Through this story, Kate Chopin has shown how freedom is desired by all women but the thought of it is pushed at the back of their minds by being a married woman. Louise is capable to even think of the forbidden freedom only after she gets the news of her husband’s death.

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    Tempest has a strong master-slave relationships. Apart from King Alonso and his courtiers like Trinculo and Stephano or Boatswain, the two main master-slave equations are of Prospero-Caliban and Prospero-Ariel. While Caliban is spiteful of Prospero and hatches a plant to assassinate him, Ariel enjoyRead more

    Tempest has a strong master-slave relationships. Apart from King Alonso and his courtiers like Trinculo and Stephano or Boatswain, the two main master-slave equations are of Prospero-Caliban and Prospero-Ariel.

    While Caliban is spiteful of Prospero and hatches a plant to assassinate him, Ariel enjoys a positive relationship with master Prospero.

    Even Prince Ferdinand is used as a slave-worker by Prospero in his plan to get his daughter Miranda feel sympathy and love for the prince. Gonzalo and Prospero is another example of positive power dominance even though he is not a slave to the dethroned Prospero.

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    Moll Flanders is an eighteenth-century novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1722, and it is about the adventures of Moll, a poor young woman from London who becomes a criminal by necessity to support her illegitimate child. She becomes a thief, pickpocket, and prostitute. Eventually, sheRead more

    Moll Flanders is an eighteenth-century novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1722, and it is about the adventures of Moll, a poor young woman from London who becomes a criminal by necessity to support her illegitimate child.

    She becomes a thief, pickpocket, and prostitute. Eventually, she finds redemption through her religious faith. There are two main characters in this novel. One is Moll. The other is Flanders, who represents the “real world.” Both of these characters are shown through the eyes of a third-person narrator. The novel follows the pattern of the picaresque novel.

    It also has elements of realism, fantasy, and satire. The picaresque novel has a lot of historical roots. These include the 1540s novel Don Quixote de la Mancha and the 1560s work The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. Picaresque novels follow the life of a protagonist (or protagonists) who struggles to get by in a harsh world. They typically show the protagonist’s struggle against social injustice and poverty.

    These novels can be satirical or realistic. They often involve some degree of fantasy. The picaresque novel is sometimes described as a “social novel.” This is because it deals with the “real” world. The protagonist is often a commoner, rather than a nobleman. The picaresque novel is also often described as a “feminist novel”.

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    Don’t give up, even if the situation seems to be harsh and impossible to survive. Having the will to survive is a key component to survival. It is the power of our mind and soul that we gather from within ourselves. In the story, Pi never complains to God for being placed in such a harsh and woefulRead more

    Don’t give up, even if the situation seems to be harsh and impossible to survive. Having the will to survive is a key component to survival. It is the power of our mind and soul that we gather from within ourselves.

    In the story, Pi never complains to God for being placed in such a harsh and woeful situation where Death was the only result. Instead, he kept his faith in God and courageously finds the strength from within himself and grows as a person.

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    In this story, the women are represented as products under the rule of a patriarchal society. Mrs Louise Mallard, who valued freedom above all, was trapped under the repressive rule of her husband. She is a strong woman who after the death of her husband realized she did not want a man to attain allRead more

    In this story, the women are represented as products under the rule of a patriarchal society. Mrs Louise Mallard, who valued freedom above all, was trapped under the repressive rule of her husband. She is a strong woman who after the death of her husband realized she did not want a man to attain all her goals in life.
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    Lencho was looking at the sky because he was eagerly waiting for the rain to fall. The rain would make the crops suitable for harvesting. He was quite happy.

    Lencho was looking at the sky because he was eagerly waiting for the rain to fall. The rain would make the crops suitable for harvesting. He was quite happy.

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    Louise Mallard was the protagonist of the short story. She was a strong willed woman, despite having a heart problem. Though like a typical 19th century woman, Louise aims to escape from the marital expectations imposed upon her. On hearing her husband’s death, alone in her room, she finally realizeRead more

    Louise Mallard was the protagonist of the short story. She was a strong willed woman, despite having a heart problem. Though like a typical 19th century woman, Louise aims to escape from the marital expectations imposed upon her. On hearing her husband’s death, alone in her room, she finally realized that she was free. Free to form her own thoughts and apply them and no one would stop her. Unlike a woman whose husband died, she didn’t spend much time on grieving as she knew she could survive without a man. Louise is not cruel as she knew she would cry when she will see her husband’s body as she had loved him sometimes. Even her “heart trouble” symbolized her oppressive marriage, the emotional and physical strain of marriage caused her misery. However her heart trouble seemed to give her less pain when she was in an ecstatic mood at the thought of her regained freedom. But the moment she saw her husband, she went into a shock and her poor heart couldn’t take the strain. This showed how trapped she felt in her marriage.
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    Mrs Mallard is a middle-class woman living at an age where the women were expected to follow a set of social norms and expectations imposed upon them. Middle-class women like Louise led repressive and limited life under the control of their husbands. They were not free to do what they want and the oRead more

    Mrs Mallard is a middle-class woman living at an age where the women were expected to follow a set of social norms and expectations imposed upon them. Middle-class women like Louise led repressive and limited life under the control of their husbands. They were not free to do what they want and the only supposed way they could actually taste freedom was through the death of their husband as seen here in the story. Class plays an important role in understanding how middle-class Victorian women suffered during that time and were bounded to their husbands and certain rules, leaving their freedom behind.

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    Robinson Crusoe marries and begets 3 children. He again makes a voyage to the East Indies and on the way, he goes to the island colonized by him. Later on, he goes to Brazil and sends some women for the people on the island to serve them as wives or slaves. Robinson Crusoe Summary

    Robinson Crusoe marries and begets 3 children. He again makes a voyage to the East Indies and on the way, he goes to the island colonized by him. Later on, he goes to Brazil and sends some women for the people on the island to serve them as wives or slaves.

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