Written Traces

THE GREAT MIGRATION (FIRST IN 1620 THEN A GREAT SCALE MIGRATION IN 1630) It has roots with the dethronment of the Roamn Catholic Church and the emergence of Church of England. Within the church of England began further division and with the division began puritanism  Before in America it already started in England In England, it was called protestantism and it produced the church of England or the Anglican Church. For many the reformation wasn't enough to end the corruption in church. THE DIVISION :  From the Church of England emerged two groups of believers Pilgrims and Puritans Pilgrims completely wanted to separate themselves from the church of England. Therefore, they also been referred to as separatist. Puritan wanted to reform the church of England by staying inside the church. Thus they are called the non-separtist. B RADFORD & THE PILGRIMS (1620) In 1620, the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, England with Willam Bradford and 101 other pilgrims.  The original d...

About the Author Arun Joshi (1939-1993) • One of the major Indian English writer of the contemporary time. • Educated in both India and U.S.A • Primarily an existentialist writer and his writing was in line with Albert Camus and Franz Kafka. • Existentialism : a twentieth century literary movement which challenged the established order of the universe as a moral absolute system. Instead, it pointed out,  ‘’The aimless existence of man who is indifferent to everything and alien to everybody, a delirious effect brought upon to the life of man due to the forces of industrialisation and urbanization.’’ • Arun Joshi’s writings are the Indian variety of existentialism which examines the human psyche trapped in the matrix of decaying values. • The distinctive feature of his writing is the duality of selves i.e. the native consciousness and the acquired consciousness. • Joshi’s fiction encounters the cultural conflicts of tradition and transition and the juxtaposition of materialistic, r...

  Introduction From 17th century to modern day drama of 20th century. Every national, cultural, artistic struggle that helped shaped the growth of 20th century modern American Drama. Mainstream by Eugene O’Neill in 1920s, established it as a powerful literary genre. But American drama was struggling to exist for more than 200 years by then. Began before the American independence. The puritan settlers brought their English love for theatre with them. Puritan opposition: Puritan had the belief in hard work, frugality and piety. For them theatrical activities was a curse. The first theatrical performance Ye Bare and Ye Cubb in 1665 said to have resulted in the trial of the actors. Furthermore, there were laws which prohibited theatrical activities in the continent. Theatre in 17th century Colleges: Theatrical activities were permitted in colleges after initial hesitation to promote intellectual and oratorical activities which, in turn , gave immense relief to te students after the ri...

  Tracing Back to the Ancient Times The Follow-Up The Grotesque Suggestion   Entering to the Human Psyche Results In Women and Their Cosmetics The valorization of the white standard of beauty or the color white apexed to anything that is desirable goes as far back as to the ancient times. In the 3 rd century BC, an Asiatic religion named Manicheism, founded by a Persian named Mani, was based on the struggle of the eternally conflicted principle of the Spiritual World of Light and the Evil World of Darkness. This is also known to be the Philosophical Dualism of Manicheism. Taking from there, the concept of blackness gained the unfavorable connotations best implicated in phrase like, ‘’black is evil’’, ‘’black as sin’’, ‘’black as a witch’’ so on and so forth. The ugliness of black was contrasted to the purity of white so much so as to make the color black not only a matter of pigmentation but also to acquire a moral connotation. With this began the dominance of white...