Evaluate The Rivals as a Comedy of Manners.

Ans. - The Comedy of Manners which had its seed sown in Ben Jonson's Comedy of Humours flourished in full bloom at the hands of the Restoration dramatists. They exploited this particular genre of comedy to study and imitate in a vein of humour and satire, the social mannerisms, conventions and artificiality of their particular age and society through delightful observation and witty commentaries on the prevalent temper, follies and external details of the life of certain men and women who were the stereotypes of their depicted society.

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How is the 18th century country life portrayed in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer?

Ans. - Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night is an anti-sentimental drama that was written during late 18th century and was first published in 1771 and performed in 1773. The drama with its hypocritical characters and ideologies mirrored the political and historical background of England at that age. Goldsmith might well have polishes here for his motto the dictum 'mores hominum multorum vidit' (Ars Poetica), that is, 'the mores and manners of many people are to be seen'.

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"One impulse from a vernal wood/ May teach you more of man...." - Explain what Wordsworth wants to convey here in his poem The Tables Turned.   

Ans. - The above extract from The Tables Turned is one of the most famous in Wordsworths poetry. The impulses of Nature, such as rain, wind and woods will teach men a better practical philosophy than all the text books on ethics that ever were written, or all the dicta uttered by saints and sages. The poet believes that if we go to Nature in the right mood and submit ourselves to her kind and favourable influences we will again by communion with her more moral energy and spiritual insight than we can ever get from all the philosophies of the various schools, and that through such energy and insight we will obtain a clearer vision of good and evil than mere knowledge would ever afford. Thus, Nature is capable of giving us all the moral and spiritual teaching incorporated in books or preached by the philosophers or sages. The spirit of Nature is moral and we can learn from her more of man, than we can learn philosophic treaties. Thus, Nature imparts moral education to her devotee and admirer. This is what Wordsworth wants to convey about the potentialities of Nature for the betterment of mans mental and spiritual make-up.

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