Anjali Ruhela

  This sonnet is the first of Shakespeare’s “procreation sonnets” (Sonnets 1–17) , addressed to a young man (often called the “Fair Youth”). Shakespeare urges him to marry and have children so that his beauty will live on through his offspring.

The play’s central message is that ambition without moral restraint is destructive , leading to guilt, tyranny, and downfall. Shakespeare warns us that trying to achieve power through evil means always backfires, and natural justice will prevail.  The central message of Macbeth can be summed up in one line: 👉 Uncontrolled ambition leads to moral corruption, chaos, and ultimately self-destruction. Macbeth: an Introduction  Dramatist - William Shakespeare   Genre - Tragedy First Performed - 1606 First Printed - 1623 Full Title - The Tragedy of Macbeth Written in Reign of - James I Literary period - Jacobean Age (24 March, 1603- 27 March, 1625) Published in - Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies , also known as First Folio Also known as - Shortest and Bloodiest Tragedy by Shakespeare Theme - Ambition for Power Total Male Characters - 21 Total Female Characters - 3 ( Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, a gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth) Total Witche...

  Catharine Parr Traill was a 19th-century English-Canadian author who wrote mainly about life in Upper Canada. She started writing at the age of 16, and her first work was "The Tell Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories (1818)".  She started writing about Canadian life when she moved to Upper Canada after her marriage. She also wrote a guidebook for the new settlers of Canada, to provide the necessary information needed to start a comfortable life in the bushland, namely "The Female Emigrant's Guide(1854)".  She was also a naturalist and wrote several works such as Canadian Wild Flowers(1868), and Studies of Plant Life in Canada(1885).  Catharine Parr Traill Image Courtesy: Google The Backwoods of Canada, is an anthology of letters and journals written by Traill to her mother and family, describing her voyage and life in Canada, the people of Canada, her neighbors, the relationship between Canadians, Americans, and the Indigenous peoples, t...

M.A. English - University of Lucknow | Details | Books | Notes |          Semester 1 :   Paper 1 :  ENGCC- 101 : English Society, Literature and Thought (Chaucer to 16th Century) Unit 1 : (a) Social and Intellectual Background                       Renaissance                        Reformation                       Beginning of colonialism               (b) Prose                    Thomas More                        :  "Of their Slaves and of their Marriages"  from Utopia                   Francis Bacon                      ...