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“Waiting For Godot”: Existentialism

“Waiting for Godot” is an existentialist play because it has clear tints of existentialism in it. If we study the…

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Beckett is considered to be an important figure among the French Absurdists. “Waiting for Godot” is one of the…

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“Waiting for Godot” occupies a prominent place in the annals of English literature for highlighting the basic truths of human…

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–> –> HOPE FOR SALVATION, AN EVASION / RELIGIOUS PLAY One of the approaches to “Waiting for Godot” is to…

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Wordsworth was primarily a poet and not a critic. He has left behind him no comprehensive treatise on criticism. The…

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Coleridge is one of the greatest of literary critics, and his greatness has been almost universally recognized. He occupies, without…

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No passage in “The Poetics” with the exception of the Catharsis phrase has attracted so much critical attention as his…

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Aristotle writes that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear, and to affect the…

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Aristotle did not invent the term “imitation”. Plato was the first to use the word in relation with poetry, but…

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The Ancestors: The immediate ancestors of the modern English novel, who dominated the earlier part of the 20th century, were…