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  Photographer Bryan Randall, longtime partner of actress Sandra Bullock, has passed away at 57 due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive disease. His family expressed gratitude to doctors and nurses who supported them during his illness. Bullock's sister commended her care for Bryan. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, causes nerve cell death, leading to muscle control loss. Its symptoms include muscle weakness, trouble swallowing, and impaired movement. Despite some cases being inherited, the exact cause remains unknown. Bryan's death was privately handled, and the family asked for privacy during their grieving process. Sandra Bullock, known for her roles in films like Speed, Gravity, and Miss Congeniality, win an Oscar for  performance in The Blind Side. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, takes its name from a famed baseball player who succumbed to it. The illness is marked by the gradual demise of nerve cells controlling voluntary muscle m...

 This essay is written in 1923 in response to Medllton Murray essay "Romanticism and Tradition" ( charge against Eliot ). In this essay of Murray criticizes the T.S Elliot views of Tradition and Individual Talent .Then the other essay function of criticism was written by Eliot in response to Murray criticize his views .   Eliot essay function of criticism is divided into four section; Part 1 ; Eliot views about critic and critical work of art ; Eliot says that generally criticism is believed to be autolectic (having its own good/ purpose) . Eliot disproves it because criticism is always about something. The creative work is necessary because criticism judges it. He defines Criticism is; It is commenting or analyzing a creative work in written words . Eliot also opposes Mathew Arnold and Murrays who believe that art is used for teaching morality and culture. From Eliot comments that art is the subject who gave pleasure to the audience to aware of its other purpose. Accord...

 

1) Almost all literary critics praise the skill of Dickens in plot construction. G.B.Shaw calls this novelist the most compactly perfect book of all novels of Dickens. Characters and theme of the novel are connected will. Great Expectations has total of thirty characters, but the story mostly revolves around six major characters like Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Jagger’s, Joe and Estella. The plot of the novel is structure in a more closely organized manner (way).                  2) The plot is divided into three section of equal length. The first section deals with Pip's childhood in Kent, the second section with his life in London and third part is his attempt to save Magwitch. All these three sections are broadly related to Pip's moral education.  In the first section Pip's seems dissatisfied with his social status, his loneliness, and his contract with socially superior world (Satis house) and with Underworld criminal like Magwitch...

George Eliot as a Novelist: George Eliot was of the leading novelist if Victorian period. She wrote many novels and all of them were greatly appreciated for its amazing features. She had keen interest in psychological realism of her novels characters, her characters belong to the era she belonged to. She wrote and made her novels as a medium to teach morality. Her novels were having philosophical touches too. She also had great skill in characterization, she had both wide and deep awareness of life. 1. Psychological Realism: The most striking quality of the novels of the George Eliot is psychological realism. She tried to do in her novels what browning did in his poetry. She represents in each of her novels the inner struggle of a soul and reveals the motives and impulses and hereditary influences which govern human actions.  It is the development of a soul, the slow growth or decline of moral powers. George Eliot is not content with a picture of human life as it appears. She tries...

Mathew Arnold: (1822-1888)  English poet and Cultural critic.  Belong to Late Victorian period.  He wrote Collection of Essays, "Essays in Criticism" (1865) One of his essay from this book is "The Function of criticism at the present time" 1) Definition of Criticism according to Mathew Arnold “A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought of in the world and this to establish a Current of fresh and true ideas”  Disinterested means Impartial.  Critic needs to be free from two prejudices. 1. Historical prejudice. 2. Personal prejudice.  According to Arnold two things are Important for writing great Literary works.  (1) Power of man. (2) Power of moment, which means climate of great ideas. 2) Three functions/duties of critic:  Critic's first duty is to learn things as they are.  The Second task of a critic is to hand or Convey best ideas to next generation. (The best ideas prevail.)  His third task or duty is to ...