Manoj's Review on Books

The Importance of being Earnest is a farcical comedy play staged during the fag end of 19 th century, it’s set up against the cultural backdrop of London. Apparently, Oscar Wilde has produced three other successful plays which led to another resounding play centered around the fictitious character Earnest. Six key characters drive the entire storyline – Jack Worthing and Algernon who are men in the age of finding a spouse for themselves, Augusta who is probably in her fifties bound with the culture of her era, an attractive women Gwendolen, pretty teenager Cecily and mistress Prism. There are few more characters involved but they play minor role across the scenes. Jack and Algernon misrepresent themselves as Ernest to woe their respective sweethearts. To their delight both the ladies fall in love with their prospective partner assuming them to have been christened Earnest. The situation takes a deadly turn as both the ladies unexpectedly meet each other exposing the fictitious cha...

Concentration camp (1939-45) in Auschwitz which is in the southern part of Poland highlights the devilish nature of mankind. A quick look at the numbers will elucidate the trauma each of the captured civilians, prisoners of war or jews had to undergo. A total of 1.3 million who belonged to the non-German creed were captured, out of which 1.1 million were murdered in the concentration camp. This would give an inmate roughly 1/10 th of a chance to survive the brutal treatment met out to them. Under the influence of concentration camp, which disregarded the value of human life and made each inmate an object of extermination. The only reason a Schutzstaffel guard left a prisoner alive was to extract every ounce of physical resource in each of them. With the given background, every prisoner lost his sense of being an individual and identified himself as a part of the pack, regressing to an animal form of life which can be herded around. In short, the man has retreated himself to a primit...