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Q- Compare and contrast the characters of Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley? Although both of them are best friends with some similarities, they are somewhat quite different from each other. Mr. Bingley is considering being an attractive young man. His pleasant character and personality are a source of attraction for young ladies. Besides being handsome, he was very kind and gentle in his behavior.   "Mr. Bingley was good looking and gentleman like; he had  a pleasant countenance and easy, unaffected manners." On the other hand, Darcy also attracted the attention of everyone at the ball.                 "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features." But he was not very much gentle and friendly as Bingley. He was proud, stubborn, and self-conceited. So excessive pride is his hamartia. Mr. Bingley's behavior at the ball accurately depicts his personality. He was a compassionate and easygoing person hav...

 Q: What are the major themes and characters in Hamid's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"? INTRODUCTION: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is considered to be one of the flagship works of well known literary author Mohsin Hamid . The novel revolves around the life events of the protagonist Changez who has to bear the brunt of the post 9/11 scenario in America. The rationale of this novel was to give an insight into the post 9/11 dilemma and skepticism of Americans towards Muslims, specifically Pakistanis. PLOT SYNOPSIS: The novel has its setting in a post-9/11 world. The discussion centered on the experience of a Pakistani living in the skeptical and terrorism-altered western world. The novel is a brief and comprehensive narration of one evening at a local café. In the café, Changez describes his life during his years in America. Changez arrives in America intending to pursue his higher education at Princeton University. Upon graduating with high honors, he falls in ...

 In this lesson, the writer narrates a very beautiful story based on maternal love, not only for the children but also for the whole family. It also explains the strength and depth of close relationships like mother-daughter, father-daughter, and husband-wife. Minta is the strongest and central character of this story. She evolves a lot through the course of the story. She is shown as a careless girl in the beginning. Minta's father takes her to the beach. He takes her to the other part of the beach, where there are no people but only the jagged pile of rocks that jutted out into the bay. There, he tells her that her mother is ill and that she will die. When she learns the fact that her mother is going to die and that she will not be able to join Marry Hills college this year, she is sad, and this sadness grows inside her, making her stronger than before. She confronts several nightmares, inner conflicts, random thoughts, and sleeplessness; she lives with the burden of the secret t...

Q: Discuss and Apply Norman Fairclough's model of Critical Discourse Analysis? ABSTRACT The Critical Discourse Analysis centers itself upon the idea that even a single alphabet, word, phrase, and gesture has a definite background ideology. The CDA describes and evaluates how the discourses construct in our social strata. The three-dimensional model of Fairclough gives us an insight into the underlying principles for critically interpreting the discourse. In our everyday life, we experience different phenomena or discourses without considering the rationale of their production and their impact. The basic idea of jotting down this document is to give you a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of the surface phenomenon by using Norman Fairclough's approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Before proceeding towards the practical manifestation of this, it will be a better strategy to get the gist of the theoretical framework of the Fairclough model. NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH...

  Semantics: Semantics is the branch of linguistics which means the study of meanings. It does not only deals with the meaning of the words but also the meaning of phrases and sentences. Semantics also deals with the meaning of signs or symbols, sounds, facial expressions, body language, etc. As semantics deals with the meaning, so we have different types of meaning. Types of Meaning : Geoffrey Leech   is a specialist in English linguistics. His main interests were English Grammar, Stylistics, Pragmatics, and Semantics. Geoffrey Leech in his book "Semantics-A Study of Meaning" in 1947 breaks down the meaning in different types. G.L made research on meaning and the result of this research confirmed that there are seven types of meaning. Conceptual Meaning Conceptual meaning is the essential or core meaning of the word. It deals with the dictionary or real meaning of any word. Conceptual meaning is logical, real, cognitive, literal, or dictionary meaning and it does not v...

 Figure of speech is a word or phrase that makes our language beautiful, effective, and impressive. We do not consider the literal or actual meaning of the phrase and take them contextually. There are many figures of speech that are used by writers, authors, and poets in their writings, some of these are: Personification : When human qualities are attributed to non-humans, it is personification. In personification we represent a thing, an object, or an animal as a person or human. e.g; My car was happy to be washed. My plants were begging for water . Here "car" and "plants" are represented as humans or thet have given human qualities by using the term of personification. Simile : Simile is the comparison between two different things that have certain qualities in common. Authors or poets practice simile in their writings by using "as", "as like as" and "like". e.g; Ali is standing like a tree. Her voice is as beautiful as a bird. Met...