Shakespeare is a university by himself. This is significantly true with respect to the theme of j... more Shakespeare is a university by himself. This is significantly true with respect to the theme of justice as an attentive reader can find out a vast opportunity to discuss this in Shakespearian plays. This article is an attempt to analyze the justice, provided by Shakespeare in his plays. For that a close attention will be paid on The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. As a result of this critical analysis Shakespeare and his writing will come a bit more close to light for the readers. Shakespearian plays offer a good deal of opportunity to discuss the justice and injustice brought to the characters by Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice presents a kind of debated justice, which is the outcome of the demand of that particular time. Again, in The Tempest Shakespeare is motivated by colonization and brings forth a justice that can be analysed from the point of view of colonization. Moreover, justice shown in these plays does not betray the concept of justice, made for and by human. In...
Since the colonial period, English has been enjoying the prestige of being the second options of ... more Since the colonial period, English has been enjoying the prestige of being the second options of communicative medium in Bangladesh. It is a compulsory subject in the primary to general degree level in our country. The needs analysis of the students made a certain number of education commissions and education policies to design various types of syllabi in accordance with the demands of the students. At present, CLT approach has been implemented in the syllabi for each of the levels mentioned above. But the result is frustrating that the new approach is still inaccessible to many of the teachers and students in spite of the diverse attempts to its pedagogy and learning. This paper investigates into the problems of CLT with the teachers and students. The author has selected the secondary level syllabus as a specimen that is based on CLT approach. The body of the work includes questionnaires, interviews with teachers and students of some schools in Dinajpur. Some facts that are liable ...
The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusi... more The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusing mainly on different difficulties confronted by the protagonist and some other characters of the novel Beloved the essay explores the social and cultural atmosphere of their world especially in the US in the late nineteenth century. It argues the African American relationship between the slaves and the slave owners, between the whites and the blacks and Derrida's view in the Specters of Marx on ghost, slavery, freedom, and worldwide is quite important. In deeper ways, it displays two important identities of human existence slavery and freedom as the main approach of the ages.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH: LITERATURE, LANGUAGE & SKILLS, 2017
Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) is a remarkable talent in contemporary Postcolonial creative writing in Eng... more Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) is a remarkable talent in contemporary Postcolonial creative writing in English who has earned fame as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. One cannot avoid the visibility of Postcolonial concepts like hybridity, ambivalence, and subalternity while reading his works. Some of his critically acclaimed works include: The Circle of Reasons, The Shadow Lines, Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke. Like his fictions, his major non-fictions Countdown, The Imam and the Indian, Dancing in Cambodia, and At Large in Burma also grabbed the attention of critics and intellectual audience. The extraordinary placement of locations like Bangladesh, India and London make his fictions global and local at the same time. In comparison with fiction, his non-fictions including translations focus on the ordinary human‘s extraordinary way of living. His stories at least at their base talk about the life of ordinary people who are the victims of social inconsistencies, racial conflicts, and change in the political climate of the Indian subcontinent after colonization. Although his works deal with various recurrent themes discussed in present day literary arena, the aim of this paper is to locate Bangladesh as a theme‘ and Bangladesh as a geographical and geopolitical location in novels and nonfiction like The Shadow Lines, The Circle of Reason, and In an Antique Land respectively. For the purpose of writing this critique, a close reading of the texts is taken as a primary method. Side-by-side, the fictional events and location are compared to actual incidents of history by analyzing secondary sources.
The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusing mainl... more The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusing mainly on different difficulties confronted by the protagonist and some other characters of the novel Beloved the essay explores the social and cultural atmosphere of their world especially in the US in the late nineteenth century. It argues the African American relationship between the slaves and the slave owners, between the whites and the blacks and Derrida's view in the Specters of Marx on ghost, slavery, freedom, and worldwide is quite important. In deeper ways, it displays two important identities of human existence slavery and freedom as the main approach of the ages.
International Journal of English Literature and Culture, 2017
It was indisputable to infer the role of Achitophel in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel as the por... more It was indisputable to infer the role of Achitophel in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel as the portray of a certain political practice that emerged from a sort of political thought of the Restoration England. This poem was written in a particular political situation which striked the people of the age. In this poem the relationship between father and son attracted our attention. Achitophel here acted as a catalyst to instigate the rebellion of son against the father. Actually this paper was going to explore the role of Achitophel, the Earl of Shaftesbury, as a cunning politician who represents the politicians of the age of Restoration. A. B. Chambers opines, "the story of Absalom and Achitophel found seventeenth-century political application with sufficient frequency to establish a tradition in which Achitophel was a type for the rebellious and wily politician" (592). His cunningness and unscrupulousness regarding the anti-royal movement against King David on the one hand evoked the rebelliousness of some other rebels towards the King and on the other hand prepared Absalom's state of mind to revolt against his God like father. However, in this poem we observed a conflict between Whig and Tory, Catholicism and Protestantism, son and father, royal power and Shaftesbury, Absalom and Achitophel. It reminded us the great theory of Hobbes where everybody is against everybody means war against all. Along with Dryden's own view of politics, one of the most prominent political theorists of his time had been consulted to expose its influence on the political history of the Restoration England.
This paper aims to concentrate on the struggle of an independent woman Mata Hari whose real name ... more This paper aims to concentrate on the struggle of an independent woman Mata Hari whose real name was Margaretha Gertrude Zelle and her ultimate end to a death sentence. The paper endeavors to inaugurate Mata Hari as an independent woman who passes through complications throughout her life in the novel. The inquiry focuses on different phases of Mata Hari's oppressions-sexual assault, domestic violence, powerlessness, harassment and her victimization in the wartime. The novel portrays the story of the encounter of the historical figure Mata Hari who became famous as glamorous dancer during the First World War. This lady was accused of being double espionage of Germany and France and finally found guilty by the judicial system of France and sentenced to death at fire squad shoot. However, it is a qualitative research where Paulo Cohelo's The Spy is used as a primary source. Besides, the library resources along with the web materials have been used as the secondary source. The research paper investigates the life of Mata Hari to establish her as a symbol of independent woman from the feminist perspective in the novel.
Shakespeare is a university by himself. This is significantly true with respect to the theme of j... more Shakespeare is a university by himself. This is significantly true with respect to the theme of justice as an attentive reader can find out a vast opportunity to discuss this in Shakespearian plays. This article is an attempt to analyze the justice, provided by Shakespeare in his plays. For that a close attention will be paid on The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. As a result of this critical analysis Shakespeare and his writing will come a bit more close to light for the readers. Shakespearian plays offer a good deal of opportunity to discuss the justice and injustice brought to the characters by Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice presents a kind of debated justice, which is the outcome of the demand of that particular time. Again, in The Tempest Shakespeare is motivated by colonization and brings forth a justice that can be analysed from the point of view of colonization. Moreover, justice shown in these plays does not betray the concept of justice, made for and by human. In...
Since the colonial period, English has been enjoying the prestige of being the second options of ... more Since the colonial period, English has been enjoying the prestige of being the second options of communicative medium in Bangladesh. It is a compulsory subject in the primary to general degree level in our country. The needs analysis of the students made a certain number of education commissions and education policies to design various types of syllabi in accordance with the demands of the students. At present, CLT approach has been implemented in the syllabi for each of the levels mentioned above. But the result is frustrating that the new approach is still inaccessible to many of the teachers and students in spite of the diverse attempts to its pedagogy and learning. This paper investigates into the problems of CLT with the teachers and students. The author has selected the secondary level syllabus as a specimen that is based on CLT approach. The body of the work includes questionnaires, interviews with teachers and students of some schools in Dinajpur. Some facts that are liable ...
The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusi... more The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusing mainly on different difficulties confronted by the protagonist and some other characters of the novel Beloved the essay explores the social and cultural atmosphere of their world especially in the US in the late nineteenth century. It argues the African American relationship between the slaves and the slave owners, between the whites and the blacks and Derrida's view in the Specters of Marx on ghost, slavery, freedom, and worldwide is quite important. In deeper ways, it displays two important identities of human existence slavery and freedom as the main approach of the ages.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH: LITERATURE, LANGUAGE & SKILLS, 2017
Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) is a remarkable talent in contemporary Postcolonial creative writing in Eng... more Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) is a remarkable talent in contemporary Postcolonial creative writing in English who has earned fame as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. One cannot avoid the visibility of Postcolonial concepts like hybridity, ambivalence, and subalternity while reading his works. Some of his critically acclaimed works include: The Circle of Reasons, The Shadow Lines, Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke. Like his fictions, his major non-fictions Countdown, The Imam and the Indian, Dancing in Cambodia, and At Large in Burma also grabbed the attention of critics and intellectual audience. The extraordinary placement of locations like Bangladesh, India and London make his fictions global and local at the same time. In comparison with fiction, his non-fictions including translations focus on the ordinary human‘s extraordinary way of living. His stories at least at their base talk about the life of ordinary people who are the victims of social inconsistencies, racial conflicts, and change in the political climate of the Indian subcontinent after colonization. Although his works deal with various recurrent themes discussed in present day literary arena, the aim of this paper is to locate Bangladesh as a theme‘ and Bangladesh as a geographical and geopolitical location in novels and nonfiction like The Shadow Lines, The Circle of Reason, and In an Antique Land respectively. For the purpose of writing this critique, a close reading of the texts is taken as a primary method. Side-by-side, the fictional events and location are compared to actual incidents of history by analyzing secondary sources.
The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusing mainl... more The essay scrutinizes the norms of slavery and freedom in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Focusing mainly on different difficulties confronted by the protagonist and some other characters of the novel Beloved the essay explores the social and cultural atmosphere of their world especially in the US in the late nineteenth century. It argues the African American relationship between the slaves and the slave owners, between the whites and the blacks and Derrida's view in the Specters of Marx on ghost, slavery, freedom, and worldwide is quite important. In deeper ways, it displays two important identities of human existence slavery and freedom as the main approach of the ages.
International Journal of English Literature and Culture, 2017
It was indisputable to infer the role of Achitophel in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel as the por... more It was indisputable to infer the role of Achitophel in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel as the portray of a certain political practice that emerged from a sort of political thought of the Restoration England. This poem was written in a particular political situation which striked the people of the age. In this poem the relationship between father and son attracted our attention. Achitophel here acted as a catalyst to instigate the rebellion of son against the father. Actually this paper was going to explore the role of Achitophel, the Earl of Shaftesbury, as a cunning politician who represents the politicians of the age of Restoration. A. B. Chambers opines, "the story of Absalom and Achitophel found seventeenth-century political application with sufficient frequency to establish a tradition in which Achitophel was a type for the rebellious and wily politician" (592). His cunningness and unscrupulousness regarding the anti-royal movement against King David on the one hand evoked the rebelliousness of some other rebels towards the King and on the other hand prepared Absalom's state of mind to revolt against his God like father. However, in this poem we observed a conflict between Whig and Tory, Catholicism and Protestantism, son and father, royal power and Shaftesbury, Absalom and Achitophel. It reminded us the great theory of Hobbes where everybody is against everybody means war against all. Along with Dryden's own view of politics, one of the most prominent political theorists of his time had been consulted to expose its influence on the political history of the Restoration England.
This paper aims to concentrate on the struggle of an independent woman Mata Hari whose real name ... more This paper aims to concentrate on the struggle of an independent woman Mata Hari whose real name was Margaretha Gertrude Zelle and her ultimate end to a death sentence. The paper endeavors to inaugurate Mata Hari as an independent woman who passes through complications throughout her life in the novel. The inquiry focuses on different phases of Mata Hari's oppressions-sexual assault, domestic violence, powerlessness, harassment and her victimization in the wartime. The novel portrays the story of the encounter of the historical figure Mata Hari who became famous as glamorous dancer during the First World War. This lady was accused of being double espionage of Germany and France and finally found guilty by the judicial system of France and sentenced to death at fire squad shoot. However, it is a qualitative research where Paulo Cohelo's The Spy is used as a primary source. Besides, the library resources along with the web materials have been used as the secondary source. The research paper investigates the life of Mata Hari to establish her as a symbol of independent woman from the feminist perspective in the novel.
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