A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by Charles Dickens partly inspired by Thomas Carlyle’s French Revolution , set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution . The story is an epic tragedy that masterly portrays a great hero with a tragic flaw, caught in an atmosphere of hatred and ruthlessness. The novel tells the story of a French Doctor, his 18-year-long imprisonment in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. Charles Dickens  Alexander Manette, a young physician started his practice in Paris before French Revolution. After being married to an English lady he became the father of a baby girl. One day December, 1775 he was compelled to follow two aristocrats to a house a few miles away from Paris.  In that house he had to attend two patients, a boy and his sister who had been badly rapped by these two men but unfortunately both patients died. Later on, the doctor sent a letter to the minister

Demonstration Class Organised By SPEAK SPEAK which stands for Society for Promotion of English for Advanced Knowledge is a forum of Department of English, Furkating College. Since its inception, the forum has been organizing various programmes across Golaghat district to promote a better teaching-learning environment for the proper acquisition of the language. Every year, SPEAK organises a demonstration class at a nearby school to create a better understanding of the English language among the students. This year, on 14 November, 2019 SPEAK has successfully organized the demonstration class at Borjan Matikhola High School. Dr. Santulan Mahanta, assistant professor of Department of English, Hemo Prova Borbora Girls' College was present as the resource person of the programme. The programme started at 11.30 am with a short introduction and felicitation of the resource person by Dr. Rousanara Begum, assistant professor of Department of English, Furkating College and also the s

Introducing Margaret Atwood  Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian writer. She was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is famous for sharing bleak, dystopian vision of a world and feminist perspectives throughout her novels. In her poems, she often celebrates the natural world and condemns materialism. She won the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin in 2000 and again recently in 2019 she won the same prize for her novel The Testaments. Atwood has been also conferred the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement and Franz Kafka Award.    Introducing A Few Works By Atwood:   A) The Edible Woman: The novel deals with the life Marian, a woman who loses interest in foods. This novel is considered as a 'proto-feminist' novel.                                                                                                             B) Surfacing: The novel shares the story of an unnamed female narrator who goes to an island searching f

'Old age and the passage of time teach all things'. Sophocles  Sophocles was one of the three Greek tragedians. He was born in 497-96 BCE and died in 405-06 BCE. He lived through most of the century, experiencing the age of Pericles and Peloponnesian war. Sophocles produced his first set of plays in 468 B.C. Sophocles learned much of his art from Aeschylus who is known as the “father of Greek tragedy”. But he developed his own innovations to Greek drama. He increased the chorus strength from 12 to 15, included the use of painted scenery on stage, and also introduced a third actor as a key figure in the play. Source:  BrainyQuote Sophocles was a prolific writer and his long life enabled him to have a prodigious literary output. He wrote almost 120 plays, but only seven have survived in complete form. He was an innovator in tragedy. In addition to these, he is also believed to have written a book on his dramatic art which has not survived unfortunately. His surv