Naguib Mahfouzs short story Half a Day captures the essence of each persons time on earth and the changes that we all encounter throughout our life During Mahfouzs short story he uses the setting of his home country of Egypt to display a theme of modernization He also effectively uses the unraveling of the plot to keep the imagination of the reader guess what will happen next The characters of the story help show the changes in the world as well as the changes in ones self over time The plot of
NEHA YADAV DOMESTIC CHRONOTOPE IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE The Russian philologist and literary philosopher Mikhail Mikhailvoch Bakhtin 1895 1975 uses the term Chronotope to designate the Spatio Temporal matrix which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts The term itself can be literally translated as Time Space The term is developed in Bakhtins essay Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel Bakhtin in his essay says that a literary works artistic unity in relationsh