One Night@ The Call Center - Chetan Bhagat

One Night @ the Call Center is one of the novel written by Chetan Bhagat. The novel published in 2005. In this novel Bhagat talks about the call center where  there are six character are working, Gurgaon, Haryana in the novel.

                The characters of the novel are : Shyam, Varun, Esha, Priyanka, Radhika and Military Uncle. They are working in call center which is “Connexion call center”. All the character faces the problems in their family. One night they get call from God and God said them to listen your inner voice of your heart. All the characters inspired by the call of God.

               The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn through a literal Deux ex Machine, when the character receives a phone call from God.

The six characters in the book are deeply disturbed by their own troubles, but rather than finding solutions to their problems, they just get more intertwined in them due to their refusal to deal with their issues. Shyam Mehra is a narrator and the most important character of the book. Hero of the book along with his close friend Vroom( Varun Malhotra). Varun is the most carefree person in novel. He has a soft corner for his colleague Esha. Esha is an attractive girl.  She wants to become a model. She went to cross the limits of sleeping with the designer to get the contract. Radhika Jha is already married. She stays with her husband and in-laws house. She has great trust and love for her husband. Priyanka is an intelligent and a practical girl and loves shyam. She broke up with him.Priyanka is initially happy about her new engagement with Ganesh Gupta. After all the conflicts and facing all the problems she choses her love shyam and marry with him. Last Military Uncle lives alone so he works at the call center to earn some extra money.

The effect of Glottalization In this novel also describe the struggle of each of the character‘s life. As globalization was economic movement. In it we find man corporate. Friedan the world is Flat’ is non fictional book. The title of the novel itself tells about the effect of globalization in call center. Novel is based on the working people in Call Center.  Bhagat wants to give message to the Indians that who working in call center they just get good salary but it not give it a opportunity to do something else or for their skills and creativity

 Glottalization is that Indian youth are getting good job opportunities in western countries. It is a thing of pride that the companies like Microsoft cannot think about their business without taking into consideration the Indian software engineers.

Chetan Bhagat is popular write of the age in his work he use simple language that is very easy to understand for the reader. His books appeal to the reader widely accepted by the youngsters. This novel there is some of situation and like supernatural things that not happened in reality or real life.   

"The Purpose" - T.P.Kailasm

 "The Purpose"was  written by T.P.Kailasm

We see in the story of Ekalavya that Dronacharya teaches archery to Arjuna but cannot accept Ekalavya proposal because of his promise to Arjuna. Arjuna wants to become the great archer of the world. And Ekalavya explains that he wants to learn archery to save lives of innocent animals. Arjuna’s purpose behind learning archery is self centered while Ekalavya purpose is noble. 

 The story deals with lower caste student who is eager to lower to learn archery to protect the fawns from the attack of wolves’ .A small boy called Ekalavya mother shows him the right path. She tells him to go to a teacher- Drona.

                                               Drona taught the princes only so he refused to teach a “Nishada”. Before seeing Drona, Ekalavya was worried that he may not fit with the princes and so Drona might not accept him.

                                                “Frightened as I am, I MUST WALK UP TO HIM AND ASK HIM! I wonder how I DARE! He looks so big and so noble!”

                                               This shows the inner suffering and thoughts of lower class people while going to an upper class person. But Ekalavya is firm to meet Drona.

“A person of no pride always remembers that no one can be perfect”. Over confidence is always dangerous. And “TO ERR IS HUMAN’ should be remembered. Here a minor character of Mahabharata, the great epic, is made a hero. T.P. Kailasam drew out a giant and capable character. His mythical characters are very powerful.

The Wasteland - T.S.Eliot

The waste land is one of the most popular poems of the 20^th century. It is written by T.S. Eliot.These things make the poem itself a virtual “waste land”. We can see a wide range of socio-cultural, religious and secular experiences common to both an individual life and the collective life of western society. It is a truly remarkable poem that broke new ground in English poetry. There are so many themes in this poem so I would like to discuss them one by one. The themes are like death, rebirth, the seasons, love, lust, water, history etc.

The life in modern waste land is a life-in-death, a living death. According to Eliot’s philosophy, Human being must act do either evil as good and it is better to do evil than do nothing. Modern man has lost his sense of good and evil, and this keeps him from being alive. In the modern land the people are dead. They merely exist like dead things.  

There are some references regarding the theme love in this poem. The first part of the poem “the burial of the dead”, in this part we can see some reference to Tristan und Isolde. The second part of the poem is “The Game of chess”. In this part there is a reference to Cleopatra and to the story of Tereus and Philomena suggest that love in the poem “the waste land”. It is often destructive. 

 

And the last section of The Wasteland, ‘What the Thunder Said?’, can be viewed as  a series of culmination reflection and experience. This part is full of the reminders of physical and spiritual dying. It is a complex pattern of the forms of dying. The death of Jesus, the living death of those who have failed to recognize its meaning, spiritual meaning of life as a preparation for dying…Here the god has now died, and the source of spirituality is cut now.

“He who was living is now dead,

We who were living are now dying.”

There are many themes. They are very helpful to understand the whole poem very easily. There are some important aspects remain in themes so themes can be important to study any other texts. 

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthrone

The Novel The Scarlet Letter had been written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this Novel focus on dark side of an American Puritan society .

Hester is a female protagonist of novel who committed adultery before marriage and then society given punishment because puritan society not allow that kind of relation before marriage between man and women so in this story about a struggle of Hester By wearing the letter ‘A’ Hester loses her individuality and ironically adopts a new real one that stands against the apparent one just to sharpen the gap between what she really is and what she seem to be.

Her husband left her for some years and then she has affairs with some person. And then she gives birth to child. And because of this she has to suffer a lot. But there is no any reference of her husband and his life during these years. So in our society we always ask to only women. And only they have to suffer why not men? But now a day’s gradually things have going to change but yet not completely so we must have to think about it. 

Fakeer of Jungheera - Henry Derozio

The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long poem by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

“The Fakeer of Jungheera” in protagonist of the Fakeer poem is a robber Fakeer or a mendicant, who belongs to some unidentified Muslim sect, while the heroine the widow Nuleeni, comes from an upper cast Bengali Hindu family.

“The Fakeer of Jungheera” is the masterpiece creation of Henry Derozio. The Fakeer of Jungheera as a Revolutionary Poem Satipratha Caste System Religion. In his poems, he deals with the theme of patriotism, of love, of nature, of death. The central theme of ‘The Fakeer of Jungheera’ is the ignoble and in human practice of ‘sati’ in the contemporary orthodox Indian society.

Derozia was imagines to this pure and innocent woman “Nuleeni” became “Sati”. She loved Fakeer. Nuleeni was the widow and her husband was dying. At that time Nuleeni’s husband funeral pie and she thinks that her lover Fakeer came. She has thought to her husband but her eye in sun light of happiness to free this world.   

And thus comes the end of the tragic love story Nuleeni dies with the person whom she loved. She becomes a free agent to choose her destiny. In ancient time, in our country, women were allowed to choose their life partners on their own. We have the example s from our great books as Rukmani, Parvati, Draupadi, Kunti, Gandhari, Sanyagita. These women chose their husbands on their own. Our ancient culture was glorious but the invasions Foreign ruined our past culture.

 

 So we can say that in this poem my objective that to discuss the musicality in the poem, the impacts of the Romantics and some other unnoticed fetchers of the beautiful poem. How woman is center and society rigidity as became evil to Nuleeni’s life. And we found to morality, poverty, caste differences, religious, sati pratha etc. 

   

Sairat:Marathi Movie#Unique Love story

I had watched the Marathi movie like : Sairat with my younger sister Meera Bhatti. So, very amazing this movie. This film directed by Nagraj Manjule. This film in no any super star character but simple & routing life's character. Here this film's main theme is a love story. Archie, belongs to rich, upper class girl fall love for her classmate Parshya, a poor & lawer class but smart boy. Here, we can see that class difference(cast system). Archie likes to swim and royal Enfield. Nagraj Manjule show us very powerful,strong female character. Here Nagraj shows us structure of our society & our country. Here in this film the Romantic & thriller element are left behind.

Here I connect this movie with  Henry Derozio's poem: "Fakeer of Jungheera" , on grounds of  love story,  Fakeer & Naleeni are star crossed lover's life Romeo & Juliet. Fakeer is belonging to Islam, lawer class. Naleeni is Brahmin , upper class. Naleeni was married to a Brahmin. Naleeni, beloved of Fakeer never loved her husband. Indian subcontinent was caught by many evils like "Sati pratha'", killing girl child etc. But here in this movie Archie & Parshya happy lives in their life. One day came Archie's family guest. Her parents hacked to death. We have watched many movies with kind of plot : " Laila Majanu ", " Ishaqzade "," Qayamat SE Qayamat tak ", which couple love against all odds. I believed love is universal &timeless emotion. Sairat a unique love is that it has been set in contemporary Indian rural society. Nagraj Manjule is a director who can also make a deeply touching and clear. So ,very amazing movie , I like this movie.

To The Light House - Virginia Woolf

‘To The Lighthouse’, it’s very natural to talk about her stream of consciousness technique. In this novel, the structure of external objective events is demised in scope and scale, or almost e completely dissolved. It is composed of the continual activity of characters’ consciousness and shower of impressions.

 Virginia Woolf, among the stream of consciousness writers relies most on the indirect interior monologue and she uses it with great skill. In ‘To the Light House’ Virginia Woolf succeeds in producing a much subtle effect through the use of this technique. This novel contains a great deal of straight, conventional narration and description but the interior monologue is used often enough to give the novel its special character of seeming to be always within the consciousness of the chief characters. Virginia Woolf says in her essay Modern Fiction.

  In describing her Novel, To the Lighthouse, Woolf used the language of psychoanalysis. She wrote “I suppose that I did this work for myself” The Novel is set on an island in the Hebrides at the Ramsay’s vacation house. It is set on ten year period.

Lily’s painting represents a struggle against gender convention, represented by Charles Tinsley’s statement that: “women can’t paint or write.” This symbol of picture is symbolizes the condition of woman during those days. It shows woman’s struggle of woman in the patriarchal society. She desire to express Mrs. Ramsay’s essence as an individual wife and mother in her painting. Lily’s vision depends on balanced and synthesis: how to bring together disparate thing in harmony; this mirror Woolf’s writing creed – “the novel is a both a critique and a tribute to the enduring power of Mrs. Ramsay. 

 

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe

“The Black Cat” is a famous short story from horror – master Edgar Allan Poe. It was first printed on august 19, 1843, in the Philadelphia edition of a newspaper called the united states Saturday post.

The beginning of the story starts out with the narrator in a jail cell the day before he is about to be hanged. He says that wants to let the reader know what events took place that got him into this predicament. The narrator says that he since the day he was born that he has been mild and kind and these qualities flourished as he got older. Marries a woman that shares his likeness for pets and they share a home with a plethora of pets. His favorite was a black cat named Pluto. The narrator starts drinking and his personality traits change to a hateful person. One night coming home drunk, he feels like the cat is ignoring him so he grabs it. The cat defends itself by biting his hand and only angered the narrator who took a pen knife and removed one of the cats eyes. A few days later, he is overcome by a perverse impulse and guilt and decides to hang the hang from a tree in the garden even though he knew it was wrong . the night of the hanging, his room caught on fire and he loses everything. The next day he returns and sees a cat with a rope around his neck on the one wall left standing of the house.

After much deliberation, the narrator decides to conceal the body in the wall in the cellar. The narrator is able to sleep soundly for the first time in months. Cops come around the house but don't find anything suspicious. The narrator has been looking for the cat and by the fourth day, the cops come back around and even went down into the cellar. Whenever he believes that he has gotten away with murder; he hits the wall where his wife is buried with his cane and a noise from the wall emerges. It sounds every and like a child screeching. The cops tear down the wall and find the wife’s' body with the cat on her head. The narrator buried the cat in there with her and gave away to his crime. This is why he is in jail and is sentenced to death by hanging.

The story is an internal conflict, Man vs. Self. And the conflict begins  to unfold when the man describes the way his personality changed for the worse when he started drinking heavily, several years after Pluto became his Pet.

 

The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway is a great novella with many philosophical ideas. Hemingway is very careful while portraying characters in his works. The novella is centered on one major character Santiago. As the title suggest Santiago is an old man. He is of 75 years old Cuban fisherman. Hemingway has presented the character of Santiago with strong determination will power, hope and confidence.

Novella is full of beautiful quotes like "Man can be destroyed, but not defeated".  and "Man is not made for defeat"

Many times, stories by Hemingway have much religious influence and symbolism. In the old man and the sea, by Ernest Hemingway, numerous occurrences in the life of Santiago the fisherman are similar to the incident recorded in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The names of the character translated from Spanish to English are just one of those many similarities.

                        In the story, there are many references to the crucifixion of Jesus. Santiago’s badly injured hand evokes the hands of the crucified Jesus and three other situations reinforce this theory first, Santiago’s marlin is approached by a pair of shovel nosed sharks.

  The old man and the sea is biblical allusion. There are multiple themes that the core of this book. An example that has been illustrated by Ernest Hemingway is Santiago being like Jesus. This shows that the story is biblical allusion. Overall throughout the book fish is the main catalyst of biblical allusion of Christianity. Finally the example of Santiago and his self sacrifice create a more precise system of moral dignity.

                      Santiago climbs the hill to his shack, with the mast on his shoulder, falling several times. This is an obvious reference to Christ’s struggle to carry the cross up the hill cavalry.

The Birthday Party - Herold Pinter

 

 

 

 

 

 

The birthday party is about Stanley Webber, piano player in his 30s., who resides in rundown boarding house, run by Meg and Petey boles. Their lives are rather dull and repetitive until two unknown strangers, Goldberg and McCann enter in the plot. They arrives on Stanley’s birthday and turn his birthday party into a absolute nightmare. They verbally abuse Stanley. Sexually abuse Lulu, and destroyed the house. The next morning they escort Stanley out of the house and lives of Meg, Petey and Lulu go back to being dull and repetitive.  

 

“The Birthday Party” is an full of absurd drama. The Birthday Party has been described Martin Esslin as an example of the Theater of Absurd. It includes such features as the fluidity and ambiguity of time, place, and identity and the disintegration of language.  “The Birthday Party” is a child of the theater of the Theater of Absurd, which explain why it feels like a plot less wonder. Like the rest of its ambiguous brethren, But it does make for a bumpy ride.

So, Pinter in his play uses the theme of identity and absurdity that makes the characters ambiguous and their identity are unclear.  The theme of identity makes the play ambiguous. For example Goldberg is called Nat but in his stories of the past Simey and Banney. It is also McCann is called as a Dermot in talking to Petey and Seamus in talking to McCann.

 Harold Pinter also uses a contradiction as we see in Act 1 when Stanley says “I have played the piano all over the world” then he says “ All over the country”. Then, after a pause he says “I once gave a concert”. It is also in Stanley’s birthday, Meg decided to celebrate but he tries to deny by saying “It is not my birthday no; it is not until next month”.

 

“The Birthday Party” is full of violence, both physical and emotional, overall suggesting that violence is a fact of life. Violence is doubly affecting because the setting seems so pleasant and ordinary. Most of the men show their potential for violence, especially when provoked. Stanley is cruel and vicious towards Meg, but much more cowardly against other men. Both Goldberg and McCann have violent outbursts no matter how hard they try to contain themselves. Their entire operation, which boasts an outward civility, has an insidious purpose, most violent for the way it tortures Stanley slowly to force him to nervous breakdown. In both acts II and III, they reveal how language itself can be violent in the interrogation scenes. Much of the violence in the play concerns woman. Stanley not only intimidates Meg verbally, but he also prepares to assault Lulu. Goldberg in fact does assault Lulu. So, threat of violence is ever – present in the play. 

 

These play showcased that what would later become known as “Picturesque.”Harold Pinter’s play is a unbounded by many facts. Any sort of single interpretation of Pinter’s play is not possible. He shows us in the play blindness, society’s treatment of an artist and growing up to adulthood from childhood. One can think of nothingness in every single possibilities. He is greatly respected in his field and the respect he’s earned shows just how affecting his plays. So, the play is the destruction of an individual the independent voice of an individual.

 

 

Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

“Doctor Faustus” is one of the famous plays of Christopher Marlowe. By describing Doctor Faustus’s character, he has showed that how a man like, Doctor Faustus can go beyond the reality, that means, for getting his goal, he can go to the extent by selling his soul. And this thing, indeed, shows Doctor Faustus’s excessive desire for knowledge.

                                  Doctor Faustus is a scholar from university of Wittenberg. He is not satisfied with his knowledge. He rejects the traditional form of “Logic, Medicine, Law and Religion.” He prefers the path of evil and practices magic. For gaining his goal, Doctor Faustus has paid in terms of own soul that he has sold to Lucifer, the ruler of the Hell. In Doctor Faustus’s nature there is an element of hubris (one common Greek form of “Hamartia”) which remains thoroughly his life. Marlowe also has showed the conflict between Medieval and Renaissance values in this play.

Marlowe has showed Doctor Faustus as the man of the Renaissance time against the Medieval time. Marlowe has also showed that in the Renaissance time, “Human being” is at the center but in the Medieval time “God” is at the center and this trend is altered in the Renaissance time. Doctor Faustus is presented as an example that shows the Renaissance concept. But here, we knew the desires of Doctor Faustus which are so grand. He can do anything for satisfying his desires. But Doctor Faustus chose evil path for getting his goal and it propelled him towards his doom.

Marlowe has created the tragic element in Faustus’s character wonderfully. Doctor Faustus wants the last hour of his life to be prolonged so that his damnation may be postponed. His thirst for knowledge is limitless and this thing has led him to his TRAGIC END.

Doctor Faustus, indeed, is a tragic hero. His Black deeds lead him to disaster. Despite repentance, he is punished. His all escaping ways fail to save him from declination. We can say that Marlowe, by this play, wants to say that if we go against God, we will have to pay a great cost or we will be punished.

 

Pradise Lost - John Milton

“Paradise Lost” is an epic written by English poet John Milton. He is 17^th century’s English poet “Paradise Lost” devided to twelve book. In this epic there is full of description the biblical story of the fall of man and woman. Milton’s also stated “Paradise Lost” written by John Milton. He is a Puritan age ‘s writer. Milton’s character are such as no human hand could adequately portray.Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost” is a very great and longest book. The “Paradise Lost” this poem are pictured with an  imagination that is almost super human.The poem is in these closely pictures and in the outstanding thought and the marvelous melody with which they are impressed on our minds. Milton describes the separation of earth and water and there is little or nothing added to the simplicity and strength of genesis.

In this poem most important character is in book no:9^th like: Adam, Satan and Eve. Milton talked about this book favored creation he also described the biblical story of “Heaven and Hell”. The poem of Adam and Eve’s temptation and fall is a fundamentally different  kind of epic: a domestic one.

Milton’s feminism is a very beautiful description in this greatest epic “Paradise Lost”. Eve is the heroine of the epic poem. Eve is wise and able and she is superior to Adam only in her beauty.  Eve is a traditional model of a good wife Eve is also presented by Milton’s greatest epic.


In this epic poem’s main theme are “Justify the ways of God to man.” “Paradise Lost” is not theology but to literary work. “Paradise Lost” source of Bible. Adam, Eve and Satan is most central character in this epic poem’s character.The God: created heaven’s and Earth beginning of the book. Eve’s character are rational in this book no:9^th. Eve, Adam and Satan this character are flate and life lively character. Eve is more intelligent, powerful, maturity woman than Adam. “Paradise Lost” in the epic poem described shrungar rass.

Frankenstein - Marry Shelly

The novel “Frankenstein is written by Marry Shelly. Her novel has morphed into countless forms in both height brow and popular culture. Her creation teaches us not to underestimate the power of youth culture. It is truly captivating powerful novel that analyzes ‘Monstrosity’ with regard to ‘humanity’. However without a sound understanding of the context, in which the text was written one couldn’t completely comprehend the themes, ideas and references did not present nor can the apparent link between monstrosity and humanity be completely fathomed.

   In the novel Victor Frankenstein is the first character, who makes a cultural discourse and who occupies our attention, a character for whom his desire to create life is everything while to accept that life is not important. For him the creation ‘Monster’ is not his child and responsibility now. In below given quote we can see his hunger for knowledge and to create a life through that knowledge:

“The world was to me a secret which I desire to divine. Curiosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were earliest sensation I can remember”

Humanity which sees the moral or ethical consent of the novel and by this I also want to prove my point that why Marry Shelley wants to create a male monster? But by this regard I can say through observing all aspect the aspects of novel and its study that I have, and naturally this clear when its shows the power of men and in other hand the ugliness of the monster that the she wants to show and also we can say in cultural studies of this novel that, “A message on the Irony and Danger in the Quest for power” cause the generation is what that creates or challenge.

In this novel we can see many cultural elements. I just want to say that it’s really interesting to study with the purpose of cultural facts. There some element of worker or labor. We can study some cultural aspect with the help of Milton’s “Paradise lost”.

Mourning Becomes Electra - Eugene O'Neill

Mourning Becomes Electra comes as a Modern Tragedy, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge , weak relationship of family members. We can see different minds of people , their secrets, hubris, fate and honor. The characters of this play reflected as a unsuccessful struggler of an individual to escape a tragic fate and the dark nature of human existence. It is considered with Freud’s circle of Human mind/nature-psychological theory as well. Specially there are complexes of the characters of Oedipus and Electra.

As per the title :” Mourning Becomes Electra”  Mourning means :The expression of sorrow for someone’s death,Grief , lament , lamentation Black clothes worn as an expression of sorrow when someone dies.“Electra” means :Sparkling , the fairy sun“Becomes “ in the sense of “befits” Electra to mourn- it is her fate Mourning (Black) (sorrow) is becoming to her, it is the only color that becomes her destiny.

Act I :-

The starting part of the spring season, when the master of house Ezra Manon is coming from war. Another side Lavinia has just returned from a trip. She suddenly knows about affair of Captain Brant and her mother, Christine. Other side her friend Peter is proposing her for marriage again.

Act II :-

In that part , Lavinia appears her mother for adultery and reveals that she followed her mother to New York and saw her kissing to Adam Brant. At that time her mother says that she always loves her son, Orin and Lavinia has always schemed to steal her place. Later Christine proposes to Adam Brant that they will give poison to Ezra and attribute his death to his heart trouble.

Act III :-

Ezra and Christine are alone and she assures him that he has nothing to suspect with regards to Brant. And finally they kissed.

Act IV :-

It is a scene of Ezra’s bedroom. Christine awaits for Ezra’s death and also her freedom. Mannon rises in fury, threatening her murder and then falls beck in agony, his heart clutching and he begging for medicine. Christine gives a poison instead of medicine. After that Ezra realizes her trick and calls Lavinia for help but suddenly he dies. Christine collapses in a faith, Lavinia falls to her knees in anguish.

"Mourning Becomes Electra" is a tale of incest and sexual encounters between different characters of the play with no regard to age or gender.
       Lavinia is having a sexual relationship with Adam while she is in a near incestuous relationship with her son Orin. On the other hand, Lavinia is seeking an incestuous relationship with her father and cannot allow her brother, Orin, to escape from under her influence over to Hazel.

In this play so many different theme are used and with concept of Oedipus complex .In Mourning becomes Electra..where ..Mr.O'Neill interpretation of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is a totally disaster.Ezra and Orin are away..as a turning point in the development of the Oedipus complex and Electra complex.

 

 

Kanthapura - Raja Rao

Kanthapura is one of the book of Raja Rao. Kanthapura was published in 1938. Kanthapura is the first major Indian novel in English was written in the colonial India. This novel deals with the civil Disobedience Movement. Mahatma Gandhi on the participation of a small village of South India in the national struggle calls for the story’s central concern. But this novel of colonial India is Post-Colonial in spirit for various reasons. To deify Gandhi is a part of the process of decolonizing the Indian mind. In the novel there are at least three strands of experience in the novel: the political, the religious and the social, and all are woven inextricably into the complex story of Kanthapura.

 

“Gandhi is alone stood as politician with his virtue and being good man.”

Kanthapura is the brilliant example of such voice of negation confronting the patriarchal convention.

At the end of the novel reflects the entire society’s transform Gandhian socialism to Nehruvian internationalism. However as the novel rightly captures the common, illiterate folk chose to stay with Gandhi.

British rule in India was blessing or disguise? 

        In society, we bind condition of Dalit and Women.  Raja Rao`s –Kanthapura with a view to find out how women are oppressed by men and how the British rule helps women and Dalit get freedom from the age-old conventions. 

In this novel there is also main character namely Moorthy who played a vital role in the novel. But there are also many women characters in the novel some are the played major role and some are the played minor role for example, Waterfall venkamma, Range Gowda, Shankara these are the minor characters in the novel.

                 So, these are the women characters in the novel Kanthapura.

 

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Middlemarch

Middlemarch is a long novel by George Eliot

This is a highly unusual novel. Though it is primarily a Victorian novel it has many characteristics typical to modern novels. The subtitle of this novel is “A study of provincial life.” This means the Middlemarch represents the lives of ordinary people, not the grand adventures of princes and kings. Middlemarch represents the spirit of nineteenth century England through the unknown, historically unremarkable common people.

In short, Middlemarch is such a great novel because of the solidity, vividness, truthfulness and comprehensiveness of the picture of provincial life presented in the novel. This makes it a valuable social document which tells us more about the real, day to day, common, provincial life of England in the 1830’s, than any book of history. 

Movie Review Slumdog Millionare

I had watched the movie:26^th Jan,2017.

Here I am sharing movie review#Slum dog Millionaire This film talked about the hero name Jamal Malik an 18^th year old. He worked: call-center, chai wallah,who wants to be a millionaire? The shows host prem Kumar he asked question after question.

The film's universal appeal will present the real India for first time. “Slum dog Millionaire” bridges these two Indians by cutting between a world of poverty and the Indian version of “Who wants to be a Millionaire”. It tells the story of an orphan from the slum of Mumbai.

This film I compare with#Oliver Twist. Here same character it tells the story of an orphan from the slum areas. I other literary text compare with the movie “Slum dog Millionaire” also the same kind of story the character like Jamal. Jamal is a poor man but at last he was rich. so here, we can say that Jamal and Balram Halwai as a man of ‘rags of riches’.

This film is colorful fantasy and reality & history, many different kinds of film: Thriller, romance etc.

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

It is a novel by Daniel Defoe. Title character goes for sea voyages, even though his parents denied. Then there was a shipwreck & he reaches on an island. There he starts living all alone, with a bird & animals but without any human companion.

The novel can be read from angle of colonialism as Whitman's discovery of new land and establishing colony there. Crusoe makes his own hut and starts plantation there.

First of I given Definition of  Colonialism: The policy or practice of equiring full or partial political control over another country exploding it economically. 

After few time he saves a Negro boy from other cannibals. And because he arrived on Friday, Crusoe gives him name "Friday". Crusoe makes him his slave.

Crusoe teaches him English language, and tries to civilize him. We can apply here concept of "Whitman's burden". All the white man were thinking that it is their duty to civilize the world. They are the choosen people by god. They are the only civilized & superior race, the rest are the barbarians.

Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

The novels moves 12 years forward. Blifil and Tom Jones have been brought up together, but receive different treatment from the others. Allworthy is the only person who shows love for Tom. The philosopher Square and the reverend Thwack-um, the boys' tutors, hate Tom and adore Blifil. Tom steals apples and supports the family of Black George, one of Allworthy's servants. Tom tells all of his secrets to Blifil, who then tell these to Thwack-um or Allworthy, thereby getting Tom into trouble. The people after hearing of Tom's generosity to Black George, begin to speak kindly of Tom. Tom spends much time with Squire Western who is Allworthy's neighbor. Sophia Western, Squire westerns  daughter, falls in love with Tom. But Tom loves Molly Sea grim, the poor daughter of Black George. When Molly becomes pregnant, Tom prevents Allworthy from sending Molly to prison by admitting that he has fathered her child. Tom discovers that Molly has been having affairs with many other men which means Tom is not the father of her child and So Tom leaves Molly and expresses his Love for Sophia.

Satirical Humor:

                            Fielding does not indulge much in satirical humour. But whatever satire is employed by him is very different in tone from the stem and scathing satire of Swift. And Fielding makes his satirical humour against groups and classes, person and doctors, beaus and booby, wailing maids and fine ladies, methodist and Jacobite.Secondly he produces satirical humor at the cost of the manners and morals of the contemporary society in general and even humanity at large.

Mrs. Waters meets with Allworthy and explains that Fitzpatrick is still alive, and has admitted to start the fight.
Mrs. Waters reveals that Tom's mother was Bridget Allworthy. Square sends Allworthy a letter explaining that Tom's conduct during Allworthy's illness was honorable. Tom is released from jail and he and Allworthy are reunited as nephew and uncle. Mrs. Miller explains to Sophia the reasons for Tom's marriage proposal to Lady Bellaston, and Sophia is satisfied. Now that Tom is Allworthy's heir, Squire Western encourages the marriage between Tom and Sophia. Sophia agrees to marry Tom. They live happily with two children, and Tom forgives Blifil.

Sense and Sensibility

" Sense and Sensibility" written by Jane Austen in her novel Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen was particularly concerned with the answer to these questions, especially within the confines of her eighteenth century British society. Never more does she examine the possible answers to these questions than in her first published novel. Sense and Sensibility. Most critics understand that Austen’s original title for this novel was not Sense and Sensibility but was rather Elinor and Marianne. Knowing this makes it more understandable as to why she used the word “sense” and the word “sensibility”; to see them in congruence with one another allows us to appreciate the opposites of her intentional juxtaposition, which is in essence that Elinor’s second name is “Sense,” and Marianne’s is “Sensibility.”

This becomes interesting because the definition of “sense” is that of having a“practical soundness of judgment,” and the eighteenth century definition of the word“sensibility” means an “emotional consciousness: quickness and acuteness of feeling” (“Sensibility”). To name the novel after both protagonists by using their propensities for either sense or sensibility is clever and draws her readers to begin the novel by examining Elinor and Marianne as keepers o f either pathway to knowing what they think they know.It is a fair assumption that Austen, through her two protagonists, means to deliberately paint the portrait o f separation and difference between them, hence establishing the juxtaposition.

 

The novel has so many elements which makes this novel readable because in this novel there are so many ingredients such as Love, greed deception etc. So Jane Austen here has very well knitted all these elements in her novel.

 

 

Gulliver Travels

For a longer period of time this book is considered as a book for children. but it has a deep hidden political satire. Swift satirizes his own Nation as well as other institutions of society.

In Lilliput people were tiny nearly six inches tall. it symbolically suggests the narrow mindedness of people.

In the second part people were giant in their height. There is also reference of two powerful nations, symbolically read as England and France, which were constantly fighting.

In Laputa, they have to keep flappers to wake them up. This is the bold criticism on intellectual people.

He criticized such an extent that horses were better there than humans. and when he returns, he prefers to live with animals than human community.

Part:2

He lands in an unknown country to get water and is abandoned. A giant reaper picked him up (he is in the country of gigantic Brobdingnagian), and took him to a farmer, who wants him to be on exhibit as a freak. There he fights with a gigantic cat and other monstrous animals. The Queen of Brobdingnag buys Gulliver and sells him to the King.  The farmer’s daughter, who got befriended with Gulliver, is hired by the King as Gulliver’s guardian and nurse. Gulliver quarrels with the King’s dwarf, but describes England in detail to the King. Gulliver is carried around in a box and tours the kingdom.

Part:3

Gulliver leaves on his third voyage. His ship got captured by pirates, who set him in a small boat adrift. He arrived in the flying island of Laputa, which flies over the continent of Barbarian. The people he met there are interested only in abstract speculations. Their King asks him only about the mathematics in England. He learns that the island kept flying by magnetism.

Part:4

 

Voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms

On his fourth voyage, Gulliver is set on shore in an unknown land by the mutineers. That was the land of the Houyhnhnms who were intelligent, rational horses who kept repulsive animal -like human beings called Yahoos as their servants. There the horses were civilized like the human beings and also were clean. He describes Houyhnhnms as the people of perfected nature and emotional barrenness