What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all?
In Macbeth “we are shown a soul tortured by an agony which admits not a moment’s repose, and rushing in frenzy towards its doom.” (Bradley, A.C., Shakespearean Tragedy) Discuss. “Let every man be master of his time” Shakespeare: Macbeth [3.I.4] Macbeth, a Soul Tortured Written in PEEL [Point, Evidence, Explanation, link] format by bunpeiris. A Once beautiful mind is […]
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Plot construction & Aspects of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Written by BunPeiris “Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to meThat yet we sleep, we dream” [A Midsummer Night’s Dream: William Shakespeare] Plot construction A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy composed and stage directed by the foremost dramatist, the ultimate humanist writer ever. But Shakespeare would […]
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Becoming Bun: Benevolence Stand Out Amidst The Literary Elite To Save Our Nation. written by bunpeiris We, The People, Must Become Bun: Cultured, Literate & Armed Today Sri Lanka being under the hammer of western powers and Sinhalese being one of the endangered species of the world, as bun, among many others profess that is, it is high time for the […]
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The Demonic Hatred of Shylock by bunpeiris If you prick us, do we not bleed? [MV Act iii, Sc.i] What’s the foremost of the reason for Shylock’s hatred toward Antonio? The main reason for Shylock’s hatred toward Antonio is money. It is not the lack of money, but surplus of money. That was the root cause of Shylock’s hatred towards […]
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Reading & Enjoying Shakespeare, the supreme center of the Western Canon Compiled by bunpeiris Of all the images of Shakespeare, I like this most: the image with a ring in the ear. Of course, Shakespeare had no pretensions. An interesting idea by some punk [eh!] painter. I love that ring, a glorious diamond in the ear like that of […]
Read moreReading & Enjoying Shakespeare, the supreme center of the Western Canon Compiled by bunpeiris Of all the images of Shakespeare, I like this most: the image with a ring in the ear. Of course, Shakespeare had no pretensions. An interesting idea by some punk [eh!] painter. I love that ring, a glorious diamond in the ear like that of […]
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet Marginal Comments by bunpeiris It all catches fire with insanely wagging tongues of a couple of slapstick cowards, minions: not at all by steel of the masters. A brawl among the bawdy & rowdy from the houses of Montague and Capulet equal in dignity, succeeds in setting ablaze an unknown ancient feud between the […]
Read moreShakespeare in a nutshell by bunpeiris Was Shakespeare [1564- 1616] fortunate to have lived in the golden age [Queen Elizabeth’s reign: 1558–1603] of English history, or was it the golden age that was fortunate to have him? The worst of times, the best of works It has been argued the best of the literary works comes into life in […]
Read moreShakespeare was and wasn’t Following gleaning is off the website of Virginia Commonwealth University VCU MENORAH REVIEW Winter/Spring 2009Number 70 The Ancient Grudge: The Merchant of Venice and Shylock’s Christian Problem Shakespeare was not an anti-Semite like Antonio and Gratiano nor a racist like Portia and Brabantio nor a sociopath like Richard III nor cynical like Jaques nor disdainful like Coriolanus […]
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