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POLITICAL SITUATION OF INDIA DURING ANGLO-FRENCH WAR The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb died in 1707. Bahadur Shah I succeeded him. However, there was a significant decline in the central control over the empire during the tenure of Jahandar Shah and later emperors. In the mean time, Nizam-ul-Mulk established Hyderabad as an independent kingdom. After his death, his son: Nasir Jung and his grandson: Muzaffar Jung started to fight against each other for the throne, which gave an opportunity to French…

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a playwright written between 1599 and 1606, at the time of King James I’s reign. During the time period in which King James I ruled England, the “divine right of Kings” doctrine was in place. This was the belief that the king’s rule was God’s will and that the king was the mortal representation of God on Earth. Additionally, it was during this time where religion drove people’s ethics and moral choices, which is why biblical allusions and parallels are often seen in…

about the struggle of man, both present them in different ways. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, presents its struggle of man as a society where each class of peoples is against each other, being thoroughly influenced by politics of the time. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde details the duality that many people lived their lives as during the Victorian age. Both of these literary pieces are classics, but The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presents a…

Heart of Darkness is a modern novel written by Joseph Conrad. It is one of the finest works of Conrad which shows his power as a writer of great luminosity, passion and complexity. The story Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’ is based on the real backdrop that happened during the time of ‘Leopold II of Belgium’. The second king, Leopold II set an eye on Congo and colonized Africa. He brings out the sufferance of the people of Congo under the rule of Leopold II. People were enslaved, exploited…

Introduction Morality is one who conforms and follows the moral standards. The main protagonist named Jean-Batiste Grenouille in the novel Patrick Süskind, Perfume: the story of a murderer, defies such standards. The character is a man obsessed with scent and strives to acquire what he identifies as the “master scent”. In order to obtain such scent Grenouille commences murderous behavior upon young victims, specifically virgin girls as he is lured by the purity in their aroma. Set in 18th…

Voltaire was born to an upper class family in the French bureaucracy. Instead of continuing in his family’s footsteps, he decided to become a writer. His controversial works led him to flee to England at a time where new intellectual ideas were being produced at a rapid rate. Upon his return to France he began writing satires against the current establishment which he found to be ridiculous. His dissent against the ruling forces in France at the time helped set up much of the background for one…

A Study Guide for Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Cengage Learning, 2015. Print. Jeanne M. McGlinn and James E. McGlinn (2010). A Teachers Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Available at/: http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/wp-content/uploads/penguin-jekyll-hyde-treachers-guide.pdf Stevenson, Robert, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll…

independence. However, their freedoms were not successful without help from the French Monarchy, or King Louis XVI. who worked hand in hand when it came to overthrowing the British Monarchy. The French Revolution began under political crisis and major debt, which began from funding the American Revolution financially. This was not the first time the French monarchy aided the American colonists. King Louis XVI sent his men to help with the war effort overseas. This consequently caused the news of…

The character of Hyde has been viewed by different characters of the novel in various ways. Mr. Richard Enfield, gave a description of Hyde to his friend Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, ‘‘He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable’’ (2011: 8) Earlier, he also described him unlike a man rather ‘‘like some damned Juggernaut’’ (2011: 6) when he saw Hyde trampled on a child in the street. The action of hitting a child is…

The Serpent and the Rope, winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in the year 1963, is considered a milestone in Indian-English fiction, its form showing a successful orchestration of Indian and Western methods. The Cat and the Shakespeare, a metaphysical comedy, is an exemplar of theoretical fiction. The Chessmaster and His Moves are characterized by a range of momentous symbols. Here ‘The Chessmaster’ himself and his ‘moves’ are what he makes man do. Raja Rao’s place in the empire of Indian…