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How Can We Educate Women? Why Is It Important to Educate Women?
Top 5 Reasons to Educate Women
Empowering women through education has been a topic of discussion for decades. However, the importance of educating women is often overlooked or undervalued. In this article, we will explore the top five reasons why educating women is crucial for the progress and development of society.
Gender Equality
One of the main reasons to educate women is to promote gender equality. Education provides women with the knowledge and skills to challenge traditional gender roles and break free from societal expectations. It also empowers them to demand equal rights and opportunities in all aspects of life, including education, employment, and politics.
Economic Growth
Educating women has a direct impact on economic growth. Studies have shown that countries with higher levels of female education have stronger economies. This is because educated women are more likely to enter the workforce, earn higher wages, and contribute to the overall economic growth of their country. Educating women also leads to a decrease in poverty rates and an increase in household income.
Health and Well-being
Empowering women through education also has a positive impact on their health and well-being. Educated women are more likely to make informed decisions about their health and the health of their families. They are also more likely to seek medical care and have healthier pregnancies and children. Educated women also have a better understanding of nutrition and hygiene, leading to healthier lifestyles.
Empowering Scriptures for Women
Many religions have empowering scriptures for women that emphasize the importance of education. For example, in the Bible, Proverbs 31:26 states, "She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." This verse highlights the value of education and the impact it can have on a woman's life and those around her. By educating women, we are not only empowering them but also honoring the teachings of our faith.
Lastly, educating women can also be a powerful tool for inspiring and empowering others. Through photography, we can capture the strength, resilience, and determination of educated women. These images can serve as a reminder of the importance of education and the impact it has on women's lives. They can also inspire other women to pursue education and break free from societal barriers.
In conclusion, educating women is crucial for promoting gender equality, economic growth, health and well-being, and honoring empowering scriptures. It also serves as a powerful tool for inspiring and empowering others. As a society, we must recognize the value of educating women and work towards providing equal access to education for all. Let's empower women through education and create a brighter future for all.
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS SONS AND LOVERS
Sons & Lovers
1.The damaging influence of mother's love upon the life of son.Does it describes the theme of "sons & lovers"? 2014
2.sons and lover present the Freudian Oedipus complex in most classical completeness.how far do you agree with the statment? 2015
3.Do you consider sons & lover as autobiographical novel.Discuss. 2016
4.Do you think paul is finally condemned for his necotic refusal of responsibility for his own existence?give reasons. 2017
5.What are DH Lawrence philosophy of life & views of civilization of society as expressed in ' sons & lovers'. 2018
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS - SONS AND LOVERS BY D.H. LAWRENCE
(ii) What is the setting of 'Sons and Lovers'?
(iii) What is the significance of the title 'Sons and Lovers'?
(iv) Why does D.H. Lawrence adopt the omniscient narrator in 'Sons and Lovers'?
(v) What are the major themes in 'Sons and Lovers'?
(vi) What is Oedipus complex?
(vii) How does 'Sons and Lovers' explore the Oedipus complex?
(viii) What relationships have been described in 'Sons and Lovers'?
(ix) Why is 'Sons and Lovers' a bildungsroman?
(x) What are the elements of Freudian psychoanalysis in 'Sons and Lovers'?
(xi) What is euthanasia? Who are the victims of euthanasia in 'Sons and Lovers'?
(xii) What are the factors that keep Morel family together in spite of their difference?
(xiii) Interpret 'He was an outsider. He had denied the God in him'.
(xiv) Who is Gertrude?
(xv) Who is Walter Morel?
(ii) What is the main reason Walter can't patch things with his family?
(iii) Do you have sympathy for Walter Morel? Why or why not?
(iv) Who is Paul Morel?
(v) Who is Marriam Lievers?
(vi) What goes wring between Paul and Mirriam?
(vii) Why does Mrs. Morel disapprove of Paul's relationship with Mirriam?
(viii) Who is Baxter Dawes?
(ix) Why was Baxter fired from his job?
(x) Why does Paul come to value his relationship with Baxter Dawes?
(xi) Who is Clara Dawes?
(xii) What are Clara's strong and weak points?
(xiii) Who is Annie Morel?
(xiv) Who is Mrs. Radford?
(xv) Who is Arthur Morel?
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Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue
The dramatic monologue was cultivated and developed by Robert Browning with
tremendous success. As Hugh Walker points out “Browning did not invent the dramatic monologue, but he made it
specially his own, and no one else has ever put such rich and varied material
into it.” In his monologues, Browning had the chance,
as Mrs. Browning hinted in Aurora Leigh :
“To outgrow
The simulation of the
pointed scene,
Boards, actors,
prompters, gaslight and costume,
And take for a noble
stage the soul itself
In shifting actions and
celestial lights,
With all its grand
orchestral silences,
To keep the pauses of the
rhythmic sounds.”
After assiduous trials
Browning came to realize that his genius was not fitted for the production of
stage plays. His dramas could not be successful on the stage because the
thought element was more prominent in them than action. Drama may be defined as
an articulate story presented in action. The element of action is wanting in
the plays of Browning and as such they went flat on the stage. His characters
indulged more in introspection, reminiscence and analysis of motives than action.
His is not the drama of the outer world of events but the inner world of the
soul “where nothing is of
importance unless it is transmuted into a form influencing mind and character.”
Though the poet could
not succeed in producing and presenting actable plays, yet it cannot be denied
that he had been gifted by Nature with a rare kind of dramatic skill. As he
peered more and more intently into the half-hidden crevices and shadowy
secrecies of the mind, Browning worked out for himself a novel form in which to
depict his novel reading of man, namely the dramatic monologue.
W.T. Young says that the dramatic monologue
“is a kind of
comprehensive soliloquy, absorbing into substance by the speaker’s keenly
observant glance the surrounding scenery and audience; bringing all that is
pertinent to the chosen moment by the channels of memory argument, curiosity
and association; adding through the deep-graven lines which habit has incised
upon character much which the soul would fain, conceal, or is even unconscious
of the necessity for concealing the current of self-revealing speech with the
product of any other emotion which may have been powerful enough to share in
the fashioning of this critical moment.”
Browning could achieve success in Dramatic Monologues because
the dramatic speech or monologue essentially imitates action focused in a
particular mind, and the poet had the knack of presenting experiences of other
characters in a dramatic manner. The chief concern of dramatic poetry, as
Browning believed, was the representation of the “incidents in the development of the soul”, and the dramatic monologue appeared to the poet as the ideal
form which the soul of a man and the inner feelings of his heart could be
represented. Browning’s aim was the
revelation of character of thoughts, passion, the spirit-life of man and the
poet thought these things could best be presented directly in the dramatic
poem by catching and representing the character in a sort of
confessional monologue indulged at some high critical moment of life.
A.C. Aikat in his
admirable study of Browning has pointed out that the poet chose the monologue
for subjective, partly objective, partly psychological, or ethical reasons. To
defend himself from adverse criticism he chose this form for thoughts expressed
in an oblique manner through the monologue were likely to escape criticism.
A dramatic
monologue is very much like a soliloquy– one man’s
speech:–but there is a difference between the two. In a soliloquy the speaker
delivers his own thoughts, without being interrupted or disturbed by objections
or propositions of other persons. In the dramatic monologue there is the
presence of a second person of whom the thoughts of the speaker are presented,
though the second person does not interrupt the main speaker. “Some of the dramatic monologues are in the form of soliloquy,” says Allen Brockington, but the majority are
conversational, that is to say, there are listeners and the presence of the
listeners affects the talk Often, the remarks of the listeners are indirectly
introduced or indicated by the speaker’s answers.”
In My Last
Duchess the listener is the envoy who has come to the Duke from
another state to negotiate about a second marriage. The Duke’s talk is
carefully calculated to impress the messenger. In Andrea Del Sarto the
listener is the painter’s beautiful wife Lucrezia who attends to what Andrea
says though she is impatient to join a cousin waiting in the street below.
In Bishop Blougrams Apology the listener is a journalist named
Gigabids, and the ‘apology’ is an answer to him for his objections against the
Bishop’s conduct. In Fra Lippo Lippi the listeners are the
members of the watchmen who have brought about Lippo’s arrest while he was
engaged in a nocturnal adventure
The earliest glimpses
of the dramatic monologue are to be found
in Pauline. Here the form is just hinted. It is
distinguished in Paracelsus, and developed in a still disguised form in Sordello.
The real beginning of this form was made in the dramatic lyrics (1842)
Johnnes Agricola and Porphyria’s Lover (originally named Madhouse Cells). The extraordinary
little poems reveal not only an imagination of intense fire and heat but an
almost finished art, a power of conceiving subtle mental complexities with
clearness and of expressing them in a picturesque form and perfect lyric
language. Each poem renders a single mood and renders it completely.
It is in My
Last Duchess that the first experiment in dramatic monologue is
made. The poem is a subtle study in the jealousy of egoism, and is a typical
study of Renaissance man, the Duke of Ferrara, with his serene
self-composure of selfishness, quiet in compromising cruelty and genuine
devotion to art. The scene and the actors in this little drama stand out before
us with the most natural clearness, there is some telling touch in every line,
an infinitude of cunning careless details, instinct with suggestion, and an
appearance through it all of simple artless ease, such as only the finest art
can give.
Browning’s next more
elaborate dramatic monologue is Pictor Ignotos which was
included in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845). It
reveals a painter’s soul as clearly as possible and is a sort of foreshadowing
of Andrea Del Sarto.
Two more
important dramatic monologues included in the same volume are
—The Bishop Orders, His Tomb at St. Praxed Church and The
Laboratory. Later on in Men and Women (1855),
the dramatic monologue was developed with great skill and it almost attained
perfection. Or this volume, the significant monologues are – Andrea Del
Sarto, Karshish – An Epistle, Fra Lippo Lippi, Cleon and The
Last Ride Together.
The largest portion of
Browning’s next volume of poems Dramatic Personae (1864)
consists of dramatic monologues, the chief of them being A Death in
the Desert. The monologues of this volume are elaborate and extended.
In these later monologues Browning started afresh to probe men’s minds, to
follow up their traits of thoughts, to track their prejudices and obsessions.
Hence his later monologues became not obscure but tortuous and labyrinthine.
Occasionally they are difficult because he sometimes found his most promising
material among archaic characters whose thoughts were complicated by a jumble
of old notions quite foreign to the modern mind. The Ring and the
Book is itself a collection of monologues presented in the mouth
of different characters recounting the murder of Pompilia.
In these dramatic
monologues Browning portrays a wide variety of characters-crooks,
cowards, scholars, poets, musicians, painters, dukes, murderers, cheats, etc.
The souls of these characters are brought out in varied forms in the
monologues. They are soul reflectors. Cazamian calls these monologues “Studies in practical psychology”,
for they reveal a wide variety of characters and provide us a peep into inner
working of their minds.
The monologues of
Browning are highly suggestive. The speeches of the main actors can be
interpreted in more ways than one.
The characters in
these monologues believe in God and justify their deeds and actions by
attributing them to God’s will. Sludge the Medium is certain that his life of
lies and conjuring trick has been conducted in a deep and subtle obedience to
God’s commands. Bishop Blougram is certain that his life of panic stricken and
tottering compromise has been really justified by God’s will. Andrea Del Sarto
says to his wife :
“At the end
God, I conclude,
compensates, punishes,
All is as God overrules.”
Browning’s monologues
are mixture of half truths and falsehoods. They are not truthful records, but
defences represented in a tricky and subtle style.
In the opinion of some
critics the dramatic monologues are satires upon their characters. They appear
to be an exposition of their follies. But this is not a just criticism. “The great sophistical monologues which Browning wrote in later
years” says G.K. Chesterton, “are not satires upon their subjects. They are not even harsh or
unfeeling exposure of them. They are defences. They say or are intended to say
the best that can be said for the persons with whom they deal“. The Last Ride Together is a defence of the
lover who failed in his love, and so is Andrea Del Sarto a
defence of the character of the painter.
It is remarked that
the language of Browning in these monologues is coarse and
brutal. This is only a partial truth for there are fine passages of beauty
couched in a poetical language. In Bishop Blougram’s Aplopgy there
is a charming passage:
“Just when we are safest,
there is a sunset touch
A fancy from a flower
bell, some one’s death
A chorus ending from
Euripides.”
The Last Ride Together is rich with passages of great beauty and charm of
linguistic excellence
Browning’s philosophy
of life is best set forth in dramatic monologues.
In Andrea Del Sarto the poet lays stress on the need of
cultivating higher hopes and cherishing noble aspiration:
“Ah, a man’s reach should
exceed his grasp
Or what’s a heaven for?”
These collections of
monologues form together one of the most precious and profoundly original
contributions to the poetic literature of the nineteenth century. The defects
which prevented his complete success in the regular drama are not apparent in
this cognate form. He takes just what interests him, and consequently he is nearly
always inspired, nearly always at his best.
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MA ENGLISH PAST PAPERS POETRY 2 PUNJAB UNIVERSITY LAHORE 2019-2022SUPPLY
Part 2
PAST PAPERS POETRY 2
Poetry
ST COLERIDGE
2019(annual)
Discuss the role of imagery and contrast in KUBLA KHAN.
2019(Supplimentry)
Discuss the role of repression and imagination in THE RIME OF ANCIENT MARINER.
2020(Annual)
A critic comments on COLERIDGE'S poem that
"It is a world in which natural forces heat and cold,wind ,seas ,rains and lighting work in a strange yet in coherent ways toward end which is not physical but moral".Comment on above mentioned statement in the light of ancient mariner.
2020(Supply &2021Annual)
Comment on use of Strong symbolism in Kubla khan.
2022(Annual)
Comment on strong use of imagery in Coleridge poetry.
2022(Annual)
Discuss how COLERIDGE tracess connection between melancholy and remorse in ancient mariner.
WILLIAM BLAKE(Songs of innocence and experience)
2019(annual)
How does Blake perceive innocence and experience?Answer with close reference to his poems.
2019(Supplementary)
In what ways song of innocence is prequel to songs of experience.
2020(Annual)
Discuss the use of images in Blake's poetry.
(2020 supply & 2021 Annual)
How do songs of innocence and experience juxtapose innocent world against adult world.
2021(Supply)
Discuss different themes of romanticism in context of Blake's poetry.
2022(Annual)
Present a critique of symbols incorporated in Blake's poetry.
2022(Supply)
Comment on use of imagery in Blake's poetry.
JOHN KEATS
2019(Annual)
How does ode to nightingale delineate the journey of the speaker's desire.
2019(Supplimentry)
Comment on role of nature by KEATS.
2020(Annual)
Comment on idea of transient and immortality in Keats poetry.
2020(Supply &2021anuual)
Discuss Romanticism in context of keats poetry.
2021(Supply)
Comment on role of imagination in john Keats poetry.
2022(Annual)
Critically evaluate ode to Autumn by keats.
2022(Supply)
Critic argue that in ode to Autumn keats is concerned with physical ripeness of autumn and his genius manifest itself in the sensuous richness with which he rendered in his poetry.Comment.
TED HUGHES
2019(Annual)
Compare and contrast the condition of the speaker in thought fox and that morning.
2019(Supplementary)
Discuss thought fox and that morning as poems about creativity.
2020(Annual)
An animal imagery and ecological settings in Hughes poetry linked to the idea of survival? Support your point by quoting examples from his poems.
(2020 Supply& 2021 annual)
How does Hughes poetry relate to modern sensibility.
2021(Supply)
Hughes poetic sensibility envisions sublime in the brutual.Comment
2022(Annual)
Discuss how hughes discuss the relation of non human creatures with human existence.
2022(Supply)
How do you think hughes treatment of nature is different from other poets?
LARKIN
2019(Annual)
In what ways church going and 1914 readings of the post war England?
2019(Supplimentry)
With detailed reference to any of two poems of larkin show how he present interiors and to what end?
2020(Annual)
Establish connections between Larkin's ooetry and theme of death by highlighting his poems.
2020Supply & 2021Annual
Discuss the salient features of Larkin poetry.
2021(Supply)
Explore theme of death as discussed in Larkin's poetry.
2022(Annual)
Discuss how in Larkin's poetry explore various aspects of Human experience in a world devoid of hope.
2022(Supply)
What is significance of Larkin's poetry for modern readers.
SEAMUS HEANEY
2019(Annual)
Present Helicon signs post Heaney's development from a naturalist to a poet.Explain
2019(Supplementary)
Comment on Heaney's attitude towrd Ireland with close reference to his poems.
2020(Annual)
Discuss the symbolic use of language in Heaney's poetry. mention many literary devices which complement the thematic ideas in his poems.
(2020supply & 2021 Annual)
Landscape in Heaney's poetry is an omnipresent force influenceing human activities.Comment.
2021(Supply)
Discuss Irish nationalism in context of heaney poetry.
2022(Annual)
1.According to Heaney's view poetry stive to attain a significant position in socio- political setting.analyse this comment with reference to Heaney's poetry.
2022(Supply)
critically evaluate heaney poem 'Personal Helicon'.