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Comparative Survey, Descriptive Research

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  Comparative survey research is a type of descriptive survey where it aims to compare the status of two or more variable, institutions, strategies etc. This technique often uses multiple disciplines in one study.This does not only compare different groups but also same group over time.Few points are to be kept in mind before starting the comparative survey. ·        Comparison Points -The research should be very clear regarding the points to be compared. This can also be identified through review of literature and experience of experts. ·        Assumption of Similarities -  One has to be clear about the similarities the two variable hold. If the researcher do not find this there is no point of comparison. Criteria of Comparison - The researcher has to identify the criteria of comparison keeping in mind the fairness and objectivity. Appropriate tools has to be identified for measurement of criterion variables. Comparative survey research is carried on when the researcher cannot
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Character Sketch of Isabel Archer

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  Symbolism and Imagery international Situation in The Portrait of Lady Structure of the Portrait... Character Sketch of Kurtz Character Sketch of Eliza Doolittle Explain Stream of Consciousness Sigmund Freud's Theory of Socialization Henry James (1843-1916) one of the major figures of Trans-Atlantic literature spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on theme of consciousness. The Portrait of a Lady, his masterpiece is a study of young woman from Albany who brings to Europe her narrow provincialism and pretensions but also sense of her own sovereignty, her free spirit, her refusal to be treated in the Victorian world merely as a marriageable object. Isabel Archer is the lady whose ‘ portrait’ James offers us in the novel. She is the woman “ affronting her destiny ”. In the beginning of the novel Ralph wonders, “ What will she do?” Towards the close of the novel,
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International Situation in The Portrait of a Lady

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Structure of The Portrait of a Lady Symbolism and Imagery Character Sketch of Isabel Archer   Q: Discuss The Portrait of a Lady as a novel of ‘International scene’.                                                 Or Discuss that the novel is a contrastive study of American and European cultures.   The international situation predominates in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James . Dealing with this theme James was able to show cultural differences between individuals and also nations. He is basically concerned with the notion that each cultural complex creates its own personality and character, and inculcates its own values in the mind of its people. Naturally when two cultures draw closer, a clash of individuals become unavoidable and this clash inevitably leads to the clash of values. James has obviously emphasized certain basic American qualities in the novel and juxtaposed them with certain European qualities. For example: self-reliance (seen in Isabel, Henrietta and Ca
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Symbolism and Imagery in The Portrait of a Lady

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  Structure of The Portrait... International Situation Character Sketch of Isabel Archer Henry James (1843-1916) is one of the major figures of Trans-Atlantic literature. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on theme of consciousness. The Portrait of a Lady, his masterpiece is a study of young woman from Albany who brings to Europe her narrow provincialism and pretensions but also sense of her own sovereignty, her free spirit, her refusal to be treated in the Victorian world merely as a marriageable object. The Portrait of a Lady is rich in symbolism and imagery. Symbolism : In the present novel symbolism is suggestive and seems to grow in the very subject. James utilizes architecture beyond conventional world building to symbolise the influence of art and the way that art can both express characters internal thoughts and feelings as well as mask them. Isabel’
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Structure of The Portrait of a Lady

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Symbolism and Imagery International Situation Character Sketch of Isabel Archer Henry James (1843-1916), a prolific writer came from a wealthy and cultured American family. Novels, short stories, travel sketches, literary criticism and autobiography flowed from his pen with regularity. His major works are Roderick Hudson, The American, The European, The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl etc. The Portrait of a Lady - one of his most important major work stands out for the complexity of its chief character, the compelling nature of its story, the density of its range of cultural reference and the artfulness of its conception and execution. This was the first novel by an American that made, within the limits of its subject full use of the novel form. He believed that the novel must be a coherent whole. Sir Philip Sydney had propounded such a view of art which was later manifested by Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde . For James, ‘life may be chaotic, a splendid waste’ but art must give
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Character Sketch of Henry Higgins

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Character Sketch of Eliza Doolittle Pygmalion as a Problem Play Henry Higgins is the central character of the play Pygmalion by G.B.Shaw. He is infact Shaw’s Pygmalion. But unlike the Pygmalion of legend he does not make statues, he is a Professor of Phonetics. Not a worshiper of physical beauty and looks; rather he enlightens the mind of his pupils. Phonetics is his first love, his ruling passion. He finds people interesting chiefly because he can note down their dialects. That is the main reason why he lets Alfred Doolittle come to his house. When he thinks about Eliza he only thinks about her vowels and consonants. He undertakes the task of transforming her into a duchess within six months not because he was interested in her; rather it was a challenge to his knowledge and teaching methods. This shows his positivism and challenging nature. Wit and humour are natural to Higgins. Interesting words and phrases are always at his command. He calls Eliza deliciously low . Fu
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Character Sketch of Eliza Doolittle

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Pygmalion as a Problem Play Best Quotes Mingling of Genres in Pygmalion Character Sketch of Henry Higgins Colonialism History of English Language Eliza Doolittle, the daughter of Mr. Alfred Doolittle is one of the chief protagonists of the play Pygmalion written by G.B.Shaw around which all the events revolve. As the play opens Eliza is presented before us as a poor, ignorant and rustic flower girl. After three months of training when she appears in the drawing room of Mrs. Higgins, she produces such remarkable impression that everyone rises from their seat. Finally, at the Ambassador’s Party everyone was charmed by her looks and behavior and took her to be princess. The radical changes can be noticed not only in her speech but also in her appearance. She turned to be a pretty and graceful young lady under the training she received from Higgins and Pickering’s treatment of morality. However, this was not entirely Higgins’s achievement. Without Eliza’s self-discipline and co
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Analyse Shaw’s Pygmalion as a Problem Play

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Character Sketch Eliza Doolittle Character Sketch of Henry Higgins Best Quotes Mingling of Genres in Pygmalion Oedipus Complex in Sons and Lovers Pygmalion is a richly complex play written by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).   He was deeply interested in the sound of words as well as in their sense of meaning. As such, he wrote Pygmalion a play about speech and phonetics. It is particularly a problem- play and the problem goes much deeper than the bare story as told. Shaw demonstrates how speech and etiquette preserve class distinctions. It encloses within itself assumptions of social superiority and inferiority that underlie the class system, middle class morality, identity and kinds of manners. It shows the transformation that happens in a person’s life by teaching correct pronunciation and good manners. The problem in the play, therefore, is the world problem of education.                                         Disgusted with the misspelt of the language Shaw speaks i
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More Quotes From Pygmalion

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Pygmalion as a Problem Play Explanation of best quotes of Pygmalion 1     1)  “Of Course! I do, you little fool. Five minutes ago you were like a millstone round my neck. Now you are a tower of strength: a consort battleship. You and I and Pickering will be three old bachelors instead of only two men and a silly girl.” The above lines are spoken by Higgins in G.B.shaw’s play Pygmalion , Act V. After the Ambassador’s Party Eliza exchanges hot words with Higgins and leave the place. The next morning Higgins and Pickering starts search for Eliza and finds her in his (Higgins) mother’s house. Higgins becomes furious but Eliza was very formal. She asks him to apologise to her as now she was not afraid of Higgins and could do without him. Higgins responds that he also wants to apologise and get reconciled to her. Sometime back he thought that Eliza was a great burden on him, but now she has become independent and confident. Now she was so strong that she could protect others. Eliz
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Explanation of Best Quotes of Pygmalion

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Mingling of genres More quotes             Pygmalion as a Problem Play           Eliza Doolittle       1)    “Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech; that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible; and don’t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.” These words are spoken by Higgins in G.B.Shaw’s famous play Pygmalion , Act I. Eliza, a flower girl is infuriated when she finds Higgins noting down her spoken words. Even she warns him of not doing so, to this Higgins sternly replies. He remarks that Eliza’s pronunciations of English words are so bad that it depresses and disgusts an educated person. He asks her to remember that she is a human being and god has given her the gift of speaking clearly with well defined words and sounds. However, she is uttering words like a pigeon while she is speaking a great language in which Shakespeare and Milton wrote and in which the Bible has been transl
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Bring out the Autobiographical Elements in Sons and Lovers

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Theme of Oedipus Complex                    Education vs Learning Critical analysis Use of Symbols History of English Language Doctor Faustus D.H.Lawrence was considered a maverick when a series of novels- The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Plumed Serpent (1926) and Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1929) written by him were published. He used the medium of novel as a vehicle for communicating his own vision of life. As a fiction writer he exhibited his genius but it was his prophetic vision that really created waves in the world. One of the most disputed men of genius in the history of modern English novel has been excessively praised as well as excessively abused. Eminent critics like T.S.Eliot have condemned him as an uncultured man insensitive to social morality. But, many of them in recent times have defended him against the charges of immorality.     Sons and Lovers is an autobiographical novel, as autobiographical as Arnold Bennett’s C
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