Character Analysis of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick

Ahab is the central character in Melville’s Moby-Dick. He is an anti-hero whose actions are surrounded by symbolic magnificence and whose fight with the white whale becomes a fight against the dark and terrible forces of nature. Author Herman Melville has orchestrated the character of Captain Ahab by the means of a wild adventure in the open … Read more

The Narrative Method in Fielding’s Tom Jones

A reader cannot get lost in the wilderness of characters and incidents that made up the epic novel Tom Jones of Henry Fielding, universally praised as one of the masters of novels in English literature. He has presented life in its minutest details as he has observed without any presumptions. Tom Jones is the most outstanding achievement of … Read more

Analyzing The Character of Tom Jones

Tom Jones is the protagonist of Henry Fielding’s best novel, Tom Jones. Tom’s character brings about sharp criticism from many eminent critics, including Dr. Johnson. A victim of circumstances from birth to the end, Tom is undoubtedly a charming character. A novel depicts a reality through storytelling, so it cannot and should not detract from real … Read more

Burke’s Knowledge of America in His Speech on “Conciliation with America”

Edmund Burke has delivered two brilliant speeches on the American issues- the first one on Taxation and the second one on Reconciliation with America. The magnificent paragraphs in the speech on conciliation are devoted to the Americans. It consisted of their numbers, their enterprises, their spirits, and the sources from which it is sustained, are … Read more

Political Wisdom in Edmund Burke’s Speech on “Conciliation with America”

In the “Speech on Conciliation with America,” Burke’s mind and art are soaring high. In his in-depth and magnificent pleading, Burke’s wisdom as a practical and magnanimous politician prevails. Endowed with rare farsightedness, he could foretell what was going to happen in America, and his power to study the situation enabled him without any doubt … Read more

Coleridge’s Treatment of Supernatural in “The Ancient Mariner”

When Coleridge and Wordsworth published “Lyrical Ballads,” which laid the foundation stone of Romantic poetry, Coleridge states that he aimed to select remote, uncommon, or supernatural incidents in such a manner as to make them appear real. This particular aim of Coleridge is manifested in the “Ancient Mariner,” which bases on supernatural elements. However, the … Read more

Probing Addison’s Prose Style

Addison is ranked among the great prose writers in English literature. His distinctive prose style adds up to his literary credit. His style consists of clarity, lucidity, and naturalness.  Addison does not try to produce effects by straining. It comes to him spontaneously because he has mastery of language is effortless. No pretentiousness, affectation, pompousness, … Read more