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By Muhammad Faheem

 MA English1 is a blog where I use to share class notes of English Literature. If you are looking for a topic and unable to find it elsewhere, let me know and I will provide from my resources and make a student create one for you. We have recently started working on this project and want to provide you insightful blogs about literature that includes essays and long-form questions about Classical and modern drama, classical and modern novels, poetry, fiction and short stories, and lots of material to help you prepare for exams.  

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Analysis of a short story "A Dog’s Tale" by Mark Twain

By Muhammad Faheem
Mark Twain was an American Writer, journalist and humorist. He was strongly against the inequality, injustice and hypocrisy of human beings. To highlight and criticize these discriminations he has used satirical language in a humorous way in his short stories. In one of his short-story “A Dog’s Tale” reveals the selfishness and cruelty of human beings towards other human beings and animals. The story is about the faithfulness of animals with their masters but their masters are cruel and selfish and use animals for their own benefits. Human beings are disloyal to their pets. Human beings consider themselves torch bearers of civilization but actually they are going back to their generic animal instincts. All the qualities of human beings are shifted to animals and human beings has revoked the development from being an animal to a human being. One of the example of this transition is that the mastiff had helped Saddie in planting seeds which is a productive and humanitarian activity wh...
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Symbolism in "A Doll’s House" by Henrik Ibsen

By Muhammad Faheem
The play ‘A Doll’s House’ is one of the best plays by Ibsen. Ibsen has refined the taste of his plays with the use of many devices. Symbolism is one of the main and common devices used in drama. The use of symbolism may heighten up the emotional effect of a situation. The symbolism imparts additional layer of meaning to the writing. While the apparent meaning lies on the surface. The symbolic meaning is often hidden from views it lies deeper than it seems. Ibsen makes use of symbolism in a Dolls House” for the purpose of character revelation. Ibsen always said that he aimed at drawing living creatures and that any symbolism was purely development in Nora’s character at the end is so great that some critics think this change to be dramatically incredible. The play “A Doll’s House” revolves around two main characters Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora Helmer. They live in a house which is symbolized as a doll’s house by Ibsen. The very title “ A Doll’s House ” symbolizes that all o...
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How Plato justified to banish poets from his Ideal State?

By Muhammad Faheem
Plato is a renowned philosopher and stands alone as the fountain of the tradition among Greek Idealists. Three of Plato’s writings form the focus in understanding his theory of idealism in relation to art: Ion, Phaedrus, and The Republic. In The Republic , Plato gave the theory of Ideal State which is further supported by other ideas and theories. Plato also talked about Poets and wanted to banish them from his Ideal State . To supplement his ambition of banishing Poets he has defined different grounds long with the Theory of Imitation. Plato’s theory of imitation forms the basis for the rest of his philosophy. This theory deals with metaphysical questions, concerned with nature of existence, truth and knowledge. Plato by presenting his theory has refuted the pre-Socratic concepts and has given novel explanation of all these ideas. To understand the theory of Imitation, it is necessary to read and understand the dialogues between Socrates and Glucon written by Plato in The...
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