Short story

Discuss Joseph Conrad’s “The Lagoon” as a story of moral dilemma

He stood lonely in the searching sunshine, and he looked beyond the great light of a cloudless day into the darkness of a world of illusions.

“All the same, we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves” explain the lines from “The Fly”

Discuss the theme of James Joyce’s Araby as a search for ideal beauty

Discuss the comparison between the boss and Mr. Woodifield in the short story The Fly

Comment on Somerset Maugham’s narrative method and prose style in “The Lotus Eater”

“Nothing remains of Sybaris, not a stone, and all that’s left of Crotona is just one column.” Explain

Discuss Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Wife’s Letter’ an epistolary short story

Discuss the tragic theme of the story The Ox by H. E. Bates

Discuss Katherine Mansfield’s short story The Fly as a psychological story