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A Vindication on the Rights of Women  Wollstonecraft - Main Points Source : Google Images I n her essay, Wollstonecraft comes out against a society of men and women who live a life according to some conditioned beliefs. She accuses the men for viewing women as a household being, valued only for their beauty. Then she accuses the women for being concerned about their beauty, and living a submissive according to the rules set by men. In her initial chapters, Wollstonecraft launches an attack on men for making women as beings dependent on men. “The neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of misery deplore”. The many books written by men have reduced. Women to their beauty and alluring mistresses than rational wives. Such books advice womenfolk not to engage in so called masculine life. It tells women how to make themselves presentable, table manners, how to please men - all things that do not facilitate the development of reason or thinking. And these have brainwash

  Hamlet as a Revenge Tragedy Source : Google Images By dramatic conventions, the play Hamlet is considered a Revenge Tragedy. According to Shakespearean tradition, tragedy is the story of a man and depicts his sufferings and misfortunes leading to his death. Hamlet is a man of noble birth, the heir to the throne of Denmark. He is forced out of his comfort zone to avenge the death of his father, who was murdered by his own uncle, Claudius in order for the throne. What adds fuel to his revenge is Gertrude’s hasty marriage to Claudius. Like all Shakespearean heroes of tragedy like Macbeth, King Lear and Othello, Hamlet is a man of high and distinct qualities, who occupies an important position in society. Hamlet is loved by his people. He is a great philosopher, he is noble in his thoughts and dealings and refrains from doing evil acts. A tragedy aims to produce a cathartic effect and Hamlet’s character successfully delivers it. The play begins in media res and we are introduced to Haml

Source: Google Images Jack Worthing leads a double life. He pretends to have an irresponsible brother named Ernest who leads a scandalous life and is always getting into trouble which gives Jack an excuse to go after him to help him. The fictional brother Ernest is actually an escape route for Jack to slip away from the countryside whenever he feels like enjoying the pleasures of the town. When Jack reveals to Algernon, his friend about the fictional Ernest, Algernon calls him a “Bunburyist”, to his definition is a man who leads a double life. But Jack denies this accusation. This character of Jack denying leading a double life marks his character as indeed dishonest. While Algernon admits that he is a Bunburyist, who leads a double life with a fictional brother named Ernest. Coming to the later part of the play we find that Jack is a man who is double dishonest. When the rest of the party finds out that Jack was actually conning a fake persona he is forced to disclose his secret. He a

Source : Google Images The Lamb by Blake, published in 1789 in his collection Songs of Innocence, is filled with religious sentiments. The speaker in the poem is a child, the representative of innocence. This poem is actually a counterpart to Blakes’s poem “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, where we can find several inverted parallels. The lyric is counterpart to the tiger. “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” represent the two contrary states of the human soul. The lamb represents innocence and humanity whereas the tiger represents a fierce force within man. The speaker, who is a child addresses a Lamb, probably wandering in the meadows. The lamb is a baby lamb because the child calls him Little Lamb. The child asks who made the little lamb in a typical child’s tone, rhythm and diction. He asks him several questions, like who gave it life and food, from where it got its wool and a tender voice which makes the valleys rejoice. Though these questions are rhetorical questions, the poet aims to ma