The Yellow Wallpaper: Childbirth, Madness and Patriarchy
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is considered to be a seminal text in context of feminist literature. The short story, or novella, written in the form of journal entry, is about the gradual deterioration of a woman’s psychological balance. It is believed that Gilman used her own experiences with post-partum psychosis as the […]
Inspector Matadin On The Moon: by Harishankar Parsai
Scientists claim that there is no life on the moon. However, Senior Inspector Matadin (the M.D of the Department) says that the scientists lie; there is human habitation on the moon just like here. Science has always been checkmated by Inspector Matadin. Despite the repeated claims of the fingerprint experts that the fingerprints of the […]
Araby as a Modern Short Story
In Araby, as in other stories in Dubliners, James Joyce presents a captured frame portraying the decadence of vitality, a degeneration characterizing the modern world of spiritual paralysis. Short story is a highly complex form of literary art, presenting a single segment of life with its brevity and concentration. In his attempt to communicate an […]
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield: Significance of Fly Episode
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield has a unique identity that characterizes the vagueness, the intensity as well as the desire for stability and the lack of it, which is an integral part of the modern world. Time- identified as the worst enemy of man as early as the “carpe-diem” theorists of the renaissance, achieves deadlier […]
Tagore’s The Living and the Dead: A Psychoanalytic Study
The Living and The Dead: Understanding Silence In numerous literary expressions, down the ages, there has been a constant suppression of the voice of the female counterpart. This indoctrination of the mind, to equate silence with virtue takes on a different turn if this is understood as a mode of deflection as aptly pointed out […]
The Cactus by O Henry : A Story About The Irony of Fate
The Cactus by O Henry is a characteristic short story showing the subtle art of storytelling that O Henry is famous for. For O. Henry, the short story was not just a literary act of communicating his artistic imagination, but also a vehicle to explore the extreme possibilities of such an endeavor. His stories are […]