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The Wild Duck: Theme of Illusion
The theme of “The Wild Duck” is the importance and contrast of illusions as distinguished from reality. It is the tension between illusion and reality which is liable for the tragic ending. Gregers, an idealist, preaches the ‘ideal’ which sta...
The Wild Duck: Title
“The wild Duck” as a title is most apt for this play because it gives us a definite clue to the major theme of the play – the value of illusions in the average man’s life. The wild duck is a precise and an all-important symbol. The wild duck ...
Aristotle’s plot
Aristotle devotes great attention to the nature, structure and basic elements of the ideal tragic plot. Tragedy is the depiction of action consisting of incidents and events. Plot is the arrangement of these incident and events. It contains the kerne...
Aldous Huxley’s Prose Style
Huxley writes in a style wonderfully suited to purposes of exposition and discussion. It is a lucid style, forceful and yet elegant. It is free from all kinds of obscurity. It is not too learned but is demands close attention to be understood. The th...
Dissociation of sensibility
Another of the popular clichés of Eliot is the phrase, “Dissociation of Sensibility”, and its opposite, “Unification of Sensibility”. The phrase was first used by Eliot in his essay on the Metaphysical Poets of the early 17th century. By uni...
Bereavement
How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner As he bends in still grief o’er the hallowed bier, As enanguished he turns from the laugh of the scorner, And drops to perfection’s remembrance a tear; When floods of despair down his pale ch...
