The fairy tales are not fully structured in terms of modern story and their plot structure. A fairy tale has oral root as in ancient tales. Modern story and novella have contemporary society as the setting and scene. In fairy tales, the tales start from a different location. It begins with river, forest and other areas. In fairy tales, the rustic life and pastoral settings are presented.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
A short note on 'Fictional Modes and Pattern'
A fiction is made up story. Fictional mode and pattern is another similar concept of fictional spectrum. A fictional work that presents a world better than the real world is in the mode of romance. A work that presents a fictional world worse than the real world is in the mode of anti-romance, or satire. Fiction includes all history, realism, romance and fantasy. The world of romance emphasizes beauty and order. The world of satire emphasizes ugliness and disorder. The relations between individual characters and these distorted worlds constitute a crucial element of fiction.
A short note on 'Fiction: Experience and Analysis'
Fiction is true because it has weight and space. Experiences of fiction match with our own experience. It gives the same experience that we get in our normal life. According to the psychoanalyst, the experience of the fiction is unreal to our conscious mind and real to the unconscious mind.
A short note on 'Fiction, Fact and Truth'
Fiction is a made-up story. It is a story created by imagination. Fiction, the word has come from 'fingere', a Latin word which means to make or shape. It is often said that fiction is unreal, false because there are things not actually happened. Yet it is true and real in the sense that those things are more probable to happen and exist in future.
The essay as story: history
Though persuasion is at the heart of each essay, it can accept the form of story or history as well. Narrative essays are similar to the stories and other historical evidences. Like in stories, narrative essays make use of story, story teller, characters, events, climax and resolution. Essays sometimes look like a perfect story but with proper analysis. Story is told or narrated by someone with proper description of circumstances, events and actions. But narrative essays employ certain references of the stories and make proper analysis of it. The persona or the narrator of the essay also appears as the character.
The essay and other forms of literature
Essay is the purest form of literature systematically organized, factually detailed, closely reasoned and plainly written. There is always sense of utility of such products. At the heart of all essays there is persuasion. This persuasion can be expressed in argumentative way.
Approaching an essay
Essay is a pure form of literature where ideas, reasons and logics work than feelings and imagination as in fiction. Essay as a form of literature can be presented in different ways. As we know the essential quality of essay is persuasion. It must be in our knowledge that essays can persuade us in different ways associating with different forms of literature. It is not confined to the form of straight forward persuasion. It may be narrative, dramatic or poetic in form.
Monday, May 25, 2015
The essayist and the reader
Essay is a form of literature systematically organized, factually detailed, closely reasoned and plainly written. There is always sense of utility of such products. At the heart of all essays there is persuasion. As we know the essential quality is persuasion, it must be in our knowledge that essayists can persuade us in different ways associating with different forms of literature. It is not confined to the form of straight forward persuasion.
The essay as play: dialogue
Essay is a pure form of literature where ideas and logic leads its readers to the process of persuasion whereas play is form of fiction acted rather than narrated. If essay is written in form of play, including setting, dialogue, characters and plot, we can call it dramatic essay.
The essay as poem: meditation
Fundamental element of essay is persuasion whereas in poem it is meditation which is very important for comprehension. In meditative essay, the readers are not directly addressed rather the readers overhear what he or she says. Unlike in argumentative essay where his thoughts will take him, often his ideas are in changing from the main point. The essayist connects his ideas by an associative process.
The essay as argument: persuasion
The heart of essay is persuasion. This persuasion can be expressed in argumentative way. We know that essays are systematically organized, factually detailed, closely reasoned and plainly written.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
How online communication shape the ways in which people interact with each other
The internet allows people to keep closer touch with distant family members and friends, and to find information quickly. The internet is replacing vital day-to-day human interactions. Like many technologies, the internet has lulled people up with its novelty and convenience, which will create a sense of dependency.
Qualities of a good student
Today's students are tomorrow's leaders of a country and the qualities of the students clearly determine the student's bright future and carrier path. Historically, the term 'student' refers anyone who learns something. However, the recent definition of the term is anyone who attends school, college, university or any educational institute whether it is academic or technical.
Qualities of a good student:
Qualities of a good Teacher
Creative and inspirational teachers motivate their students to learn by using their personal qualities, their positive experiences and their excellent communication skills. They know that knowledge is one of our main purposes in life. Qualities for a good teacher are like these: A good teacher should know their subject and make the lesson interesting. A good teacher should be a good listener too. A good teacher should give boundaries and be firm and fair. A good teacher should be able to install confidence in their class. A good teacher will be able to make his class feel ease. A good teacher will remain calm.
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