LIFE AND LITERATURE

  THE SPANISH TRAGEDY                                                                                                                -THOMAS KYD SUMMARY OF THE PLAY:             The Spanish Tragedy  begins with the ghost of Don Andrea, a Spanish nobleman killed in a recent battle with Portugal. Accompanied by the spirit of Revenge, he tells the story of his death; he was killed in hand-to-hand combat with the Portuguese prince Balthazar, after fa...

                                                                  MIDDLE MARCH                                                                                           -THOMAS STERNS ELIOT        Middlemarch, in full Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, a novel by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans), published in eight parts in 1871–72 and also published in four volumes in 1872. It is considered to be Eliot‘s masterpiece. The realist work is a study of every class of society in the town of Middlemarch—from the landed gentry and clergy to the manufacturers and professiona...

  ACADEMIC WRITING ASPECTS OF ACADEMIC WRITING-DO’S AND DON’TS Academic writing assignments come in many shapes and forms; essays, research papers, term papers, analysis essays, informative essays, and position papers. All these assignments have the same goals and principles. But to students, they appear to be specially designed torture instruments.  If you’re writing in a last-minute rush or even if you’re ahead of time, PaperTrue brings you crucial dos and don’ts of academic writing to ensure you turn in brilliant papers. Take a look! The Do’s: 1.  Write Objectively Academic writing is objective by nature (i.e., factual, logical, unemotional, and precise). Be impersonal while stating facts, without distortion by personal feelings or prejudices. You’re expected to present all the research and reading you’ve done about a topic in an impersonal, objective manner. An objective tone in your writing is achieved by   – using academically sound sources and da...

  OF MARRIAGE & SINGLE LIFE                                                                                                                          -FRANCIS BACON Summary: The Liberty of an Unmarried Life: He feels that the unmarried men are unrestricted and free to make bold moves that can produce important changes in culture and society. According to him, human history is a testament to the fact that the greatest achievements in the different spheres of science, art, literature etc...

  AIN’T I A WOMEN?                                                                                     SOJOURNER TRUTH When I was grouping for new poem for the poetry festival, poems danced all over the house: in nooks and corners, in bed, in boxes, in walls and curtains, in windows and doors poems beckoned with their hands. They simmered on the stove in the rasam pot, got flattened under the rolling pins on the chapati stone and diced on the knife-stand they boiled in the cooker with salt and spice...