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Feminist Issues presented in The Tallest Woman a Short Story

Introduction : Feminist Issues presented in The Tallest Woman a Short Story by Maham javaid is the short analysis with feminist point of view.

Introduction to Feminist Movement

Feminist movement is divided in three waves. First wave feminist movement, second wave feminist movement and third wave feminist movement. All three waves of feminist movements worked for the female rights, right to vote, gender equality, sexual harassment and power relations.

Maham Javaid presented few feminist issues that prevailing in Pakistani society in her short story “The Tallest Woman”. Feminist issues that presented in short story are as following.

Marriage a Feminist Issues presented in The Tallest Woman

Marriage is an important issue especially for women in Pakistan. In this short story the marriage is main issue in beginning of the story that Zainab becomes taller and taller day by day and her mother was worry about her. She said, “What kind of man will agree to marry a woman that taller than himself?” and when become a giantess her mother know, “no sane man would ask for the hand of a giantess”.

Feminist Issues presented in The Tallest Woman a Short Story

Reviews on Short Story “The Tallest Woman” written by Maham Javaid

Short reviews on The tallest Woman a short story by Maham Javaid includes the introduction of the author and the short story.

About the Writer of short story “The Tallest Woman”

Maham Javaid is a journalist and a writer. She got her early education from Karachi Grammar School. Then, bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (Sociology and Anthropology) from LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences). And master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies 2013-2015 from New York University.

She has already written for The News on Sunday, Herald. She worked as freelance journalist in Aljazeera English. Currently, she is the 2019-2020 Finberg Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City. She is a freelance journalist and a contributing editor at Naya Daur. From Jan 2010 – May 2011 she was research assistant at LUMS Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Lahore, Pakistan. Her work focused on human rights, gender inequality, sexual harassment, ethnic and racial issues.

Reviews on Short Story “The Tallest Woman” written by Maham Javaid

Short Answers of drama Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare

Note: Please you have any question about Merchant of Venice Examination Questions and Short Answers ask in comment.

How The Merchant of Venice is a romantic comedy?

The Merchant of Venice is a romantic comedy. Because it is rich in romantic elements like the events; lottery of caskets, great and gripping trial scene, young maiden acts as a lawyer and becomes the savior of virtue in trouble, and lyrical poetic beauty in the last scene.

How The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy or tragi-comedy?

The Merchant of Venice is mingling of comic and tragic elements. In this play happy ending for Antonio, Bassanio, Portia and Jessica but tragic for the Shylock makes it tragi-comedy.

Who is the real merchant of Venice Antonio or Shylock?

The real merchant of the Venice is Antonio. Because in the opening scene of the play he is presented as rich merchant that his rich ventures, tossing on the oceans. He has worldwide trade but Shylock is only cruel money lender and usurer.

Short Answers of drama Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare

Short Answers of “A Passage to India” by E.M. Forster 1

Introduction: A Passage to India Questions & Short Answers provides mostly asked questions in university examinations.

Who was Nawab Bahadur in A Passage to India?

Nawab Bahadur was a rich landlord in Chandra pore. When Dr. Aziz was arrested and natives were in rage, he handled the situation tactfully.

Give a brief character sketch of Dr. Panna Lal?

Dr. Panna Lal was colleague of Dr. Aziz at Minto Hospital. He was clever and selfish person.

Give a brief character sketch of Amrit Rao?

Amrit Rao is a well reputed lawyer in Indian natives and the member of defense counsel of Dr. Aziz when he is under trail. He is anti-British and the compensation of twenty thousand was mentioned by him.

What do you know about the character of Mr. and Mrs. Turton?

Mr. Turton, the Collector was a experienced bureaucrat and chief personality of Chandra pore. He arranged the bridge party for Miss Adela and Mrs. Moore that they might meet with natives. Mrs. Turton was his wife and she was irritable and haughty.

Short Answers of “A Passage to India” by E.M. Forster 1

Short Answers of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Note: A Passage to India short Answers includes mostly asked questions in different examinations of BS and Master level.

Write down the names of three parts of the novel “A Passage to India”?

E.M.Forster’s novel “A Passage to India” is divided into three parts. These parts are Mosque, Caves and Temple.

Write down at least three symbols used in “A Passage to India”?

Symbols used in “A Passage to India” are passage, mosque, caves, temple and echo.

Who hurt Dr. Aziz in the beginning of novel A Passage to India?

Civil Surgeon summoned Dr. Aziz but when he arrived at his house, he had gone without leaving any message for Dr. Aziz and Surgeon’s wife took his tonga without permission and even without thanking him.

Who shows her desire to see real India?

She is Miss Adela Quested prospected fiancee of Ronny Heaslop who wants to see real India.

Short Answers of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Short Answers of Florence Nightingale “Lytton Strachey”

Introduction : Short Answers of Florence Nightingale from Eminent Victorian by Lytton Strachey. It includes terms explanations like biography, auto-biography, memoir and important questions from Prose paper.

Miss Florence Nightingale inspired a spirit of selfless services among the women specially, nurses. Explain?

Miss Florence Nightingale set the example for women as a general and particularly for nurses. Through, her selfless services as a nurse.

What is the theme of “Florence Nightingale”?

The main theme of the Florence Nightingale is selfless services of nurse and hospital sanitary management.

What is “Florence Nightingale” about?

It is about Florence Nightingale the second daughter of William Edward Nightingale and Frances Smith. Who had selfless services as a nurse.

What is Biography?

Biography is one of literary genre. It is a detailed story about a person’s life written by another person. It includes education, status, work, relations, important experiences of life and death.

Short Answers of Florence Nightingale “Lytton Strachey”

Short Answers of “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer

Introduction : Short Answers of short story Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer includes explanations of short story and elements of short story, also.

Define short story?

Short story is one genre of literature and in narrative form. Its length is short that can be read in a single sitting. It has usually a single theme and loose plot. It has specific tone and style.

Write a short note on the elements of the short story?

There are six elements of short story are setting, character, plot, conflict, theme and point of view.

What was given by the old witch to her son and his wife as Christmas gift?

Old witch gave her son and his wife money as Christmas gift for security equipment.

How does Nadine Gordimer remind us of our own
insecurities?

Nadine Gordimer remind us that fear is internal not external so, our own insecurities take birth in our mind.

Short Answers of “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer

Short Answers of Fireflies in the Mist

Introducttion: Short answers of Fireflies in the Night a novel by Quratul Ain Hyder includes questions with short answers and character sketches of Deepali Sarkar, Rehan Ahmed and minor characters.

What was the pen name of Quratul-ain-Haider?

Quratul-ain-Haider is an Indian novelist and her pen name is “Ainee Apa”.

Discuss the themes of Fireflies in the Mist?

The major theme of the novel is the connection between different identities and faithfulness. Other themes are conflict between colonizers and colonized, political activism, partition, migration and music.

Name the minor characters of Fireflies in the Mist?

There are many minor characters in the novel “Fireflies in the Mist” some of them are Abdul Qadir, Bhavtarni, Najma, Nasira, Reverend Mathew Banerjee, Nawab Qammar U Zaman, Dr. Banoey Sarkar etc.

Short Answers of Fireflies in the Mist

Short Answers of Waiting for Godot

Introduction: Short answers of Waiting for Godot the Modern Drama includes mostly asked questions in university’s examinations.

What is an absurd play?

An ‘absurd play’ is a play in which the meaninglessness and purposelessness is presented. There is very less action but dialogues are presented.

What are the nicknames of Estragon and Vladimir?

The nick name of Estragon is “Gogo” and the nick name of Vladimir is “Didi” in the play ‘Waiting for Godot’.

What is meant by Existentialist Philosophy?

Existentialist philosophy or Existentialism is the theory in which each and every individual have his choice, what to do either suicide or exist instead of following the rules of some religion etc.

Why is “Waiting for Godot” in two acts?

Play ‘Waiting for Godot’ is divided into two acts to show the passage of time. Both the acts presented almost in similar manner only few things changed, leaves on tree, Pozzo blind and Lucky dumb etc.

Short Answers of Waiting for Godot

Short Answers of Stylistics

What is formal style? Discuss.

Formal style is a style of language use for the purpose of uniformity. It is less personal than informal style, It is used for professional and academic purposes like formal letters or documents used in different professions. Also, format of assignments, thesis and formal style of hosting on the stage.

What is the main purpose of a literary text?

Literary text can move the mind and heart. The main purpose of literary text is different according to different critics. According to Romantic critics the main purpose of literary text is aesthetic pleasure and entertainment. On other hand, According to Classical critics the main purpose of literary text is reformation of society and culture.

Differentiate between Alliteration and Consonance as the elements of musicality.

Alliteration is the repetition of similar initial consonant sound in word, phrase or line of poetry. Whereas, consonance is repetition of similar final consonant sounds in a phrase or line of poetry.

How cohesion is created in a literary text? Give examples.

Cohesion is logical connection between words, sentences and paragraphs that text becomes integrated whole. The use of transition words, pronouns, repetitive structures and contrast makes the literary text coherent. For example words or phrases are connected with grammatical and lexical relations and sentences with and, then, after— etc. Paragraphs with initial, final, first, last, following, preceding— etc.

Short Answers of Stylistics

Literary Forms and Movements 1st term

Short Answers and some other topics of Literary Forms and Movements were collected from previous examinations are as under:

Short Answers of Literary Forms and Movements

Different Kinds of Meter Used in Poetry

Kinds of Novel

Musical Devices Used in Poetry

Muses of Art

These Literary Forms and Movements’ topics explained and answered time to time on nazarbazmi.com and in this post I have collected all these links together as follows:

Literary Forms and Movements 1st term

Study Skills 1st term

Short Answers and some other topics of Study Skills 1st Term are collected from previous examinations are as under: Short Answers of Study Skills 1st Term Introduction to Dewey decimal classification How to use a…Study Skills 1st term

Short Answers of Drama 1st term

We have collected the old examination questions of

Every Man in his Humour by Ben Jonson

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlow

and answered these questions as under.
We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes(nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under

Short Answers of Drama 1st term

Short Answers of Prose 1st term

We have collected the old examination questions from Sargodha University (UOS) of these papers
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Ruskin’s Essays by Ruskin
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Bacon’s Essays by Bacon

and answered these questions as under.
We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes (nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under

Short Answers of Prose 1st term

Short Answers of Classical Poetry 1st term

We have collected the old examination questions of
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Sonnet by Shakespeare
Love and Divine Poems by John Donne
Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
and answered these questions as under.
We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes (nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under

Short Answers of Classical Poetry 1st term

Short Answers of Ruskin’s Essays

Is Ruskin a social reformer?

Ruskin is an art critic, social critic and social reformer. In his essay ‘Work’ he criticizes the industrialization and class differences.

What is the theme of Ruskin’s essay “Work”?

Effect of industrialization on human and class differences is the main theme of Ruskin’s essay “Work”.

What is an essay?

An essay is a piece of writing in straightforward language about a particular topic or subject. Normally writer makes his point of view, evaluate, analyze or criticize a topic or subject. Essay can be divided into two types formal and informal essays.For example: Ruskin’s Essays and Lamb’s Essays.

Short Answers of Ruskin’s Essays

Short Answers of Every Man in his Humour

Why does Bobadill beat Cob in Every Man in his Humour?

Captain Bobadill beat Oliver Cob with cudgel because Captain Bobadill have the habit of smoking and Oliver Cob made insulting remarks about tobacco’s smoking in the Every Man in his Humour.

Who is Tib in ‘Every man in his humour’?

Tib is the wife of Oliver Cob in ‘Every Man in his Humour’.

What is Kitty’s sister called?

Kitely’s lovely sister is called Bridget. She is courted to Mathew but married to Adward Knowell at the end.

Of what is Captain Bobadill fond of in the “Every Man in his Humour?

Captain Bobadill is fond of quoting the terms of Elizabethan plays, especially from Spanish Tragedy. His account of fake military career’s stories is limitless.

Short Answers of Every Man in his Humour

Short Answers of Lamb’s Essays

Write a brief note on Charles Lamb.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) is a poet, an English essayist and his best work is Essays of Elia and Tales from Shakespeare (children’s book).

Who is Elia in Lamb’s Essays?

Elia is the pen name or pseudonym of Charles Lamb himself in Lamb’s essays. It is taken from an old Italian clerk at South-Sea House.

Name the two dream children in Lamb’s essay.

Lamb’s essay, Dream Children is a reverie (short day dream) and in this reverie Lamb finds the Alice and John two children around him.

Short Answers of Lamb’s Essays

Compare and Contrast between Epic and Tragedy

Introduction : Epic & Tragedy Aristotle’s Poetics includes definition, comparison and differences.

Introduction to Aristotle

Aristotle was born at a Greek colonial town in 384 B.C. He was a philosopher, moralist, psychologist, logician and a literary critic. He was the student of philosophic school of Plato in early age but in his old age he himself runs the school. His major works are literary essays, literary dialogues (except fragments other were lost), constitution of Athens and treatises. He died in 322 B.C.

Compare and Contrast between Epic and Tragedy
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