 finished preparing for UGC net English and is on his revision stage. If yes, then this might be an opportunity to ask you if you have covered all major essays that are important from net point of view. If you are wondering what to answer, watch this video till the end to find out all important essays and essays that are frequently asked in net exam and you might have missed putting it in your notes. Hello friends, my name is Arpata Karwa and you are on your favorite YouTube channel wherein you get videos to prepare for UGC net examination. Today I'm going to talk about eight important essays that UGC net English students fail to cover. What I've noticed is that students tend to stick to important topics like William Shakespeare, Wordsworth and other important topics which all guidebooks and mentors talk about but you should not forget that about 25 to 30% of the questions in the exam come from tricky areas which students generally forget to cover. Here in this video we shall cover one such high-weight age area and discuss eight frequently asked essays to make sure that your preparation is so top-notch that you are ready to tackle UGC net exam really well. So guys, the first essay is we are going to talk about is George Elliot. Always remember that she was a woman writing under a man's name. Along with amazing novels, she published a very important essay called Silly Novels by Lady Novelist. Now as I told you that the name itself signifies that she's criticizing the novels written by other female writers during the time. She called them mind and millinery novels means novels which have a very cliche plot of very beautiful woman falling in love with a very handsome man and they are going to get married and live happily ever after. Now you tell me, in real life, is everything perfect? No, right? This is exactly what George Elliot said in this particular essay. She said that such novels do not depict the society correctly. They are not even a true depiction of Victorian society. Another important point that she made in the essay was regarding female education. At that time, very few women were educated and those who were, they were writing such shitty novels. Through this essay, George Elliot tried to urge the female writers to write on important topics so that they all get the recognition that they deserve. Friends, the next writer is Edward Gibbon. He wrote one very, very important essay. It is called The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire. It talked about the history of Romans and the spread of Christianity. Please remember that this essay was written in six books. If you look at the previous year papers, you will be shocked to see that this question has been asked multiple times in UGC Net exam, wherein they have asked you to write number of books in which the decline in fall of Roman Empire is divided. And the correct answer is six. Because of this work, Mr. Gibbon is also given the title of Modern Historians of Ancient Rome. He was fondly called by this title throughout his life. Friends, the next important author is Giambattista Vico. He was an Italian writer. He wrote an important essay called New Science. It was about different civilization and the features and characteristics of these civilizations. One very important thing. This essay has 114 maxims. This number is huge, right? For those of you who don't know what a maxim is, maxims are basically statements that show moral conduct. Like honesty is the best policy. This is a maxim. In recent UGC Net exam, this question was asked as to who wrote the famous essay, New Science. And the answer is Giambattista Vico. So please remember the name and the essay's name. In this essay, Vico says that humanity can be divided in three periods. Period of God, period of heroes and period of man. And then he went on to describe these three periods. Friends, another interesting discovery made by him was that according to him, the famous works Iliad and Odyssey, which was said to be written by Homer, was actually written by a large number of writers in collaboration. So Vico said that these two important works, that is Iliad and Odyssey, cannot be contributed to just one person that is Homer. Friends, the next writer we are going to talk about is John Calvin. He is responsible for being the father of another branch of Christianity known as Calvinism. He wrote an important essay called Predestination in Freeville. Now the content of this essay are a little off. According to him, I mean, if this is the case, then So I personally don't like the idea that this person has spoken about in this work, but we can't really do about it. In literature, we have to respect all ideologies. Anyway, moving ahead, the next writer is our favorite John Milton. He wrote an important essay called Aropegetica. So this essay was also in the former speech, which was given to the British parliament. Now we will ask his speech a Buddha kya tha, agenda kya tha? Friends, basically during Milton's time, the government introduced a licensing and censorship act. According to this act, every piece of literature will have to be scrutinized before publishing. And Milton in this essay opposed the Licensing and Censorship Act. He said that if you follow such strict rules, no new ideas will be published. It will limit the creative freedom of writers and press, which is not good. He said that any good book will not be able to get published because it may have something or the other objectionable. In fact, the writers and press won't be able to write anything against the government. Means the writers won't be able to depict the society in the truest and fairest of the means. Isn't it revolutionary to have someone talking about such important historic and political events, right? Friends, the next writer is called Richard Hooker. His important essay is called Laws of Aesthetical Policy. This essay was published in eight parts. It talked about the proper governance of the church. Friends, at that time, Roman Catholic Church was the main church and the Pope, who was the head of the Roman Church, used to be the head of all the countries and states. In fact, the kings were subordinate to the Pope and often the Pope would interfere within the matters of the country. During the reign of King Henry VIII, England said goodbye to Roman Catholic Church and they made their own church named it Anglican Church. Now the head of this church was of course the king or the monarch of England and Hooker supported the idea that monarch should be the head of the church in this particular essay. Moving on, the last writer is Thomas Keile. He wrote a famous essay called Sartre Resartus. The English name of this is Taylor Retailered. Yes, yes, you're right. This is somewhat related to clothing. It is also the biography of Diogenes and an autobiography of Thomas Keile. Can you understand biography of a person, a Greek philosopher named Diogenes and an autobiography of Thomas Keile himself? Friends, there are three parts in this essay. In part one, he talks about the history and philosophy of clothing in entire England. In the second part, he talks about Diogenes biography and the third part is about a very interesting concept. It is called everlasting yes and everlasting no. Fun task. I'm eager to know how many of my YouTube subscribers know about this term everlasting yes and everlasting no. If you are intelligent enough to know it, then don't forget to put it in the comments below and I'll be very happy to read what you have to say. And with this note, we have reached to the end of this lecture. Do hit the light button and share it with your friends. 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