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Rich Dad Poor Dad- Robert Kiyosaki (Review 2022) by Sanjeedeep Mishra

  When it comes to money, most people want to play safe and feel secured. Its fear that directs them and not the passion. When they don’t get paid enough in their job, they quit. They go looking for another job, a better opportunity, and higher pay, actually thinking that this will solve the problem. In most cases, it won’t. They even accept jobs with low pay. To their every financial problems, their answer is to work harder. More money won’t solve the problem. In fact, it may compound the problem. Money often makes obvious our tragic human flaws, putting a spotlight on what we don’t know. That is why, all too often, a person who comes into a sudden windfall of cash—let’s say an inheritance, a pay raise, or lottery winnings—soon returns to the same financial mess, if not worse, than the mess they were in before. Money only accentuates the cash-flow pattern running in your head. If your pattern is to spend everything you get, most likely an increase in cash will just result in an ...
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Lord of the Flies: Golding’s attempt to delineate the reality of human civilization || By- Sanjeedeep Mishra (2022)

  In Lord of the Flies, William Golding has tried to portray mankind’s essential illness and has traced the emergence of evil. The group of boys inherited the island in state of innocence, they set up authority and order but later ignored the voice of authority and violated the rules. From humans, they became animals and then savages. They soon were liberated from the shame and consciousness. They tried to find beast everywhere, the air, the water, but in reality, just like Simon, one of the boys said, “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”   William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is about Evil, and it recounts a quest for order amidst the disorder that evil causes. Golding stated in his interview concerning the theme of the book, “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature.” R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island being the first major influence, “Paradise Lost” was the second major influence in Golding’s work with the commo...
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The Significance of the title of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - T.S. Eliot || Sanjeedeep Mishra (2022)

  Originally named "Prufrock Among the Women." , Eliot began writing “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” while being a Graduate student at Havard University during 1909-10. It was the first professionally published poem of the American-born British poet. Eliot called the poem a "love song" in reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Love Song of Har Dyal", first published in Kipling's collection “Plain Tales from the Hills”(1888). The original title does tell us that Eliot thinks Prufrock’s relation to the fairer sex is at the center of this poem. The title is actually the only place where Prufrock’s name is mentioned, since in the poem he talks about himself in the first person. However, the title is completely ironic. The opening of the poem reveals the irony of title, especially the “Love Song” part. Here Prufrock says,   “ Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a ...
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Gulliver's Travels - "Johnathan Swift as a “Misanthrope” in Gulliver’s Travels" by Sanjeedeep Mishra .

  When Gulliver gives brief description of the political and legal institutions of England to Brobdingnagian King, the King dismissively concludes "the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." In Chapter Four of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift described Yahoos, human like creatures, as "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced . . . " and they are "restive and indocible, mischievous and malicious Gulliver, when he is told he must leave Houyhnhnmland, exclaims “that the certain prospect of an unnatural death was the least of my evils, for…how could I think with temper of passing my days among Yahoos”. At the same time, The Houyhnhnms, on the other hand, are “Perfection of the nature” “endued with a proportionable degree of reason” and “orderly and rational, acute and judicious”. They are presented as utopian creatures. However, this is...
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“SELF-LOATHING” IN FRANZ KAFKA’S THE METAMORPHOSIS by SANJEEDEEP MISHRA (2021)

  “The Metamorphosis” is arguably, the most popular work of Franz Kafka and through it we are introduced to the literary genius of Kafka. The Metamorphosis is a novella about the miserable turn of events for a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who finds himself transformed into a vermin after having unsettling dream. Metamorphosis is a notable work in the category of “Literature of the absurd”, that delineates human condition, essentially absurd. Case in point, when Gregor found himself transformed into an insect his first thought was that he has already missed his train and had to hurry up to catch up the train which was to depart in the next fifteen minutes, otherwise he would definitely lose his job. There are multiple themes, a reader can encounter while reading but what I felt conspicuous was Gregor’s ability for “Self-loathing”. HERMANN KAFKA, AS A CONTRIBUTOR. Kafka had an exasperating relationship with his father. As we know from letter to his father, his f...
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