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

Introducing Peter Handke Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director and screen writer .He was born in 6 December 1947 in Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Handke also wrote short stories, essays, radio dramas and autobiographical works. Through his works, Handke explores everyday reality and their accompanying rational order with their constraining and underlying irrationality, confusion, and even madness. He has been conferred the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.’ He has also received many other awards including the George Buchner Prize in 1973 and the Austrian Theatre Prize for life time achievement in 2018. Introducing a few works by Peter Handke: 1) Offending the Audience :  A play. It is sometimes called an 'anti-play' because of its renouncement of theatricality. It was originally publis

Introducing Olga Tokarczuk  On October 10, 2019, the Swedish Academy announced the winners of Nobel Prize in literature for the years 2018 and 2019. Tokarczuk, a writer and public intellectual from Poland won the 2018 award while Peter Handke, an Austrian playwright and scriptwriter has been conferred the 2019 award.  Olga Tokerczuk is a Polish writer. She was born in 1962 in Sulechow, Poland. She is the author of nine novels and several collections of short-stories and essays. In her works she often deals with the lives at the periphery of society, idea of making roots and home at a new place and sometimes her imagination even evolves toward mythological tales. She portrays a multilingual and religiously plural Poland in her novels which totally opposes the far right ideas of Poland's contemporary toxic political scenario. For this she has faced several death threats. She has been conferred the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for ' a narrative imagination that with

Introducing Sylvia Plath  Sylvia Plath was an American confessional poet. She was born on October 27, 1932 and she died on February 11, 1963. In her works she expressed a sense of alienation and feeling of self-destruction, closely related to her personal life. She was married to the famous English poet Ted Hughes. She suffered from bipolar disorder.  Source:  Scoopwhoop Introducing Briefly Her Major Works:  1) The Colossus and Other Poems: A famous poetry collection. It contains her famous poem 'The Quieting Muses'. The poem is based on a painting by Giorgio di Chirico, an Italian artist who founded the Scuola Metafisica Art Movement that later influenced the Surrealists. The poem is addressed to her mother and the three muses there represent the twentieth century parents.  2) The Bell Jar: A semi-autobiographical novel written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The protagonist is Esther Greenwood, a young woman who wants to become a writer. Th