INFINITE VISION oF ARTHUR MILLER

Apart from social, economic and political questions, Arthur Miller was equally interested in ethical and spiritual issues. He tried to answer many questions regarding the origin of man and woman upon this planet. Of course, he had great faith in the working of divine system and the presence of God. Like Robert Browning and R.W. Emerson, he believed in merciful God and regarded Him the creator and preserver of human life and natural objects. Like Hindu saints, he asked himself - Who am I? What is the aim of life? What is the significance of self-illumination? Why are people misguided by ego, pride, lechery, greed, violence, folly, vanity etc. and ultimately suffer. But due to his optimism he believed that life can be made better if efforts are made by all kinds of people. His infinite vision is elaborated and analyzed in this article as he shows his faith in mercy, wisdom, right action, right knowledge and right conduct. There is no denying the fact that in his tragedies he shows no indifference to ethical values and answers the questions - 'How to live?'

The Great Poet of Nepal

This paper reviews two books of biography- one Narendra Raj Prasai’s The Great Poet of Nepal (2017)", a biography translated from Devkota Ko Jiwanshaili (2009), and translated by Anukritika and another Chandra Bahadur Shrestha’s My Reminiscence Of the Great Poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota published published from Royal Nepal Academy in 1981. I have reviewed both books of biography comparatively with reference to Devkota’s character in general and specifically his contribution to Nepal’s history and literature. For analytical purpose secondary resources were consulted. Qualitative analysis was the basic method applied. Analysis discovered the true greatness of the Great poet in knowledge, behavior, intelligence, struggle, and many other aspects of his life.

Conflict And Note Of Protest: A Study Of Rabindranath Tagore’s Play Achalayatan

Rabindranth Tagore emerged as a rebel dramatist protesting against the prevalent social evils. In hiswritings he often criticised the evil customs and superstitious beliefs. In Tagore‟s plays there can alsobe found an undertone of spirituality. True to his liberal background, he was invariably againstreligious bigotry, fanaticism, and other malpractices arising out of a misconceived sense of religion. Infact, he unequivocally attacked worn out and useless conventions that hampered the progress ofmankind.The theme of self-discovery in relation to fellow-men, Maker (God) and the whole universeis the major idea of his play Achalayatan. The play drives home the idea that true religion is not theinstitutionalised religion but the religion of love the path of uprightness and compassion is truereligion‟s essence. Quintessence of religion consists in kindness and love towards all which in the playAchalayatan is personified by Panchak and Dadathakur and Acharya to great extent.

Regaining Authenticity: A study of Rosie’s character in R.K.Narayan’s The Guide

This research paper tries to analyse the character of Rosie in the novel, The Guide by R.K.Narayan. It traces the transition in her character from inauthenticity to authenticity. The objective of this paper is to bring out how Rosie involves inauthentically with Marco and Raju but her role as ‘Nadini’ led her to embark a new journey towards authenticity. For existential philosophers, Inauthenticity means lack of oneself, when one is not in accordance to one’s personality, freedom and choices. If anyone doesn’t commit fully in the role allocated to oneself, he establishes himself as an inauthentic person whereas authenticity is the condition when one is honest to oneself, having freedom of choice and gracefully takes the responsibility of that freedom and moreover respects other’s freedom

DICKENSIAN STYLE IN CHRISTMAS BOOKS

Charles Dickens, the author of novels, novellas, stories and essays, was highly concerned with the social issues of 19thcentury Victorian period. His writing style is marked with linguistic and artistic creativity, which provided him a label: Dickensian style. The striking common traits of Dickens’s works are repetitions and parallelism in lexical level; deviations and variations in narration; a combination of imagination with reality; fragmentations united within the flow of the action; detailed depiction of setting and characters; the repeated concrete nouns to subordinate abstract meaning; variation in characterization and experimentation with varied themes related to the deficiencies of his time. Many of these common traits of ‘Dickensian’ style are vividly observed in the five short Christmas stories in Christmas Books. Stylistic and linguistic variants of the stories lead to conclude that Dickens preferred certain stylistic markers and linguistic codes for his artistic goal: to attract the readers’ attention for social issues of Industrial Age of Victorian period via the use of certain lexis and syntactical patterns. The combination of his world-view and his artistic literary style manifest Dickens’s style, which can vividly be observed by his readers in Christmas Books. The scope of this analysis contains the application of a linguistic study for a literary purpose and the study involves the analysis of lexical categories determined by G. Leech and M. Short in Style in Fiction (1981).

Perfecting Communication Skills of the Students

Communication is a process of sharing information through speech, writing, gestures or symbols between two or more people. The focus of the present paper is oral communication and the language under consideration is English. The teacher should adopt a student centered approach. The learners should be encouraged to do things in the class which result in developing their communication skills. The trainer has to focus on both the linguistic and paralinguistic features of the communication process while enhancing learners’ communication skills. These features involve the effective use of words, forming grammatically intelligible sentences and an appropriate use of voice and intonation. The teacher should encourage and train his students to use positive body language while listening and speaking. In order to hone the communication skills of the learners, it is very important to make the learners comfortable with the language they have to communicate in. Shedding their inhibitions is also one of the pivotal areas of concerns. This paper explores different techniques that could be useful while training students in communication skills. Communication is a process of sharing information through speech, writing, gestures or symbols between two or more people. The focus of the present paper is oral communication and the language under consideration is English. The major elements of a communication process are sender, receiver, message and feedback. Effective communication is a two way process. It involves both expressive (speaking) skills and receptive (listening) skills. It entails receiver’s understanding of the message sent by the sender and his feedback to the sender. Listening plays a very important role in the language learning process. It is the most primary of the four basic skills of any language i.e. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Listening paves way for speaking. One can never be a good speaker if one is not a good listener. An effective communicator is first a good listener and then a good speaker. According to Tickoo ( 2003 ), ‘Good listening skills not only lay the foundations of good speech, but they grow best through effective communication’.