Interpretation of Robert Frost's 'Design' poem

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'Design' by Robert Frost (1922)

'I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,

On a white heal-all, holding up a moth

Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--

Assorted characters of death and blight

Mixed ready to begin the morning right,

Like the ingredients of a witches' broth-

A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,

And dead wings carried like a paper kite.'

'What had that flower to do with being white,

The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?

What brought the kindred spider to that height,

Then steered the white moth thither in the night?

What but design of darkness to appall?-

If design govern in a thing so small.'

In Frost's first stanza, which is a group of lines in a poem, the speaker opens by describing a white spider hunting a white moth on a heal-all. The heal-all is a flower with medicinal properties. The flower holds the moth, but nothing can stop the dark forces of nature, or in this case, the hungry spider. When the speaker mentions the witches' broth, Frost implies that darkness lurks everywhere. Humanity, according to Frost, is as unprotected as the moth on a flower and as dangerous as the spider.

Role of Teacher and Lerner.

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Role of a teacher

Teachers play vital roles in the lives of the students in their classrooms. Teachers are best known for the role of educating the students that are placed in their care. Beyond that, teachers serve many other roles in the classroom. Teachers set the tone of their classrooms, build a warm environment, mentor and nurture students, become role models, and listen and look for signs of trouble.

Teaching Knowledge

The most common role a teacher plays in the classroom is to teach knowledge to children. Teachers are given a curriculum they must follow that meets state guidelines. This curriculum is followed by the teacher so that throughout the year, all pertinent knowledge is dispensed to the students. Teachers teach in many ways including lectures, small group activities and hands-on learning activities.

Creating Classroom Environment

Teachers also play an important role in the classroom when it comes to the environment. Students often mimic a teacher’s actions. If the teacher prepares a warm, happy environment, students are more likely to be happy. An environment set by the teacher can be either positive or negative. If students sense the teacher is angry, students may react negatively to that and therefore learning can be impaired. Teachers are responsible for the social behavior in their classrooms. This behavior is primarily a reflection of the teacher’s actions and the environment she sets.

Role Modeling

Teachers typically do not think of themselves as role models, however, inadvertently they are. Students spend a great deal of time with their teacher and therefore, the teacher becomes a role model to them. This can be a positive or negative effect depending on the teacher. Teachers are there not only to teach the children, but also to love and care for them. Teachers are typically highly respected by people in the community and therefore become a role model to students and parents.

Mentoring

Mentoring is a natural role taken on by teachers, whether it is intentional or not. This again can have positive or negative effects on children. Mentoring is a way a teacher encourages students to strive to be the best they can. This also includes encouraging students to enjoy learning. Part of mentoring consists of listening to students. By taking time to listen to what students say, teachers impart to students a sense of ownership in the classroom. This helps build their confidence and helps them want to be successful.

Role of Students
Student responsibility occurs when students take an active role in their learning by recognizing they are accountable for their academic success. Student responsibility is demonstrated when students make choices and take actions which lead them toward their educational goals.

Responsible students take ownership of their actions by exhibiting the following behaviors. They:

demonstrate academic integrity and honesty.
attend and participate in classes, labs, and seminars, prepared and on time.
complete the assigned work in a timely manner with attention to quality of work.
avoid making excuses for their behavior.
communicate in a careful and respectful manner with professors, peers, and other members of the college community.
are engaged learners who dedicate sufficient time outside of class to college work.
act in a civil manner that respects the college learning/social environment and complies with college policies outlined in the student constitution and college catalog.
utilize college resources and seek help when needed.
respect diverse ideas and opinions.
identify, develop, and implement a plan to achieve their educational goals.

Reflective Blog on movie screening of 'Mourning Becomes Electra'

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Mourning Becomes Electra

On 24th September, Our Heena Madam arranged the movie screening of 'Mourning becomes Electra', the play written by Eugene O'Neill.
The film was directed by Dudley Nicholas. The film was helped in many ways to better understanding of the play. We are thankful to ma'am, for arranged the screening. The film was very faithful to the play we can find same kind of plot, or we say there was nothing changes from the play. 

The play and the film has trilogy,
The Homecoming,
The Hunted, and
The Haunted

Revenge
Revenge serves as a primary motivation for the play's actions. Seeking to revenge the death of his mother, Marie Brantome, Adam hopes to destroy the Mannon family, especially Ezra.

The Mannon family is a complex web of revenge scenarios: Christine wants revenge on her husband for her unhappy marriage; Lavinia wants revenge on her mother for killing her father; Orin wants revenge on Brant for sleeping with his mother.

Paradise
Paradise is an obsession for many of the play's characters. As a seafaring family, early generations of Mannons had sailed to beautiful South Pacific isles. Orin wants to run away with his mother Christine—an attempt to escape societal norms so that he can sleep with his mother. Christine wants to go with her lover, Adam.

Eventually, Orin does eventually go to the islands with his sister Lavinia. During their visit, she has sex with one of the islanders. In O'Neill's play, the island paradise—offering erotic possibilities and freedom from materialism—becomes a symbol of all that New England society is not.

Incest

Incest and incestuous desire lie behind most of the relationships central to Mourning Becomes Electra. Ezra's daughter Lavinia loves her father; Christine's son Orin loves his mother, and Lavinia and Orin love each other.

Breath (play) : Interpretation Chellange.

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This type of video is very short play about 30 second  duration. It seems meaningless but carries basic meaning of life it also considered as experimental play. This type of video can be interpreted in many ways. In the starting we hear the sound of Breathe that is connected with life. The play has opened with Dark to Light, Light means Birth and end it goes Light to Dark, and Dark mean Death. Nothingness is the center. We can interpret in this video nothingness in the life. Our journey start up with born and end up with death. so we can feel meaningless and nothingness in our life. At the end what we can do when our death happen nothing. We can say that the world is full of things which leads us toward nothingness, like most of things in garbage is related with hospital and technology. We can also connect hospital’s strachur, injection and medicines with Life. Today man start his/her journey at hospital, and during the journey take medicines and the end they are also in Hospital. (Post mortem, ailments) like Gujarati Bhajans ‘Jite bhi Lakdi, Marke bhi Lakdi’. It seems, nothingness of life, we all are live as a habit of routine. We have habit to breathing and wish to success in our mind has habit to think about various things so one or another we can live with our habits and follow some things which going on and it is really need to live a long life with medicine. So here existentialism theory exist in this sense of what is meaninf and purpose of our life. Its matter with our existence. We are here and born on the earth and feeling about our lives in absurdity, nothinfness and meaningless. But we can’t find the reason and also answere behind this why we are exist and for whom we live and whats aim behind this everythings.

Online Discussion on Llosa's ideas.

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Online Discussion on Llosa's ideas

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010. His most recent novel is "The Neighborhood." He was interviewed for The World Post by Michael Skafidas, a journalist and professor of comparative literature at the City University of New York.

In this interview Llosa shared many ideas related to literary work in which I liked three ideas given by Llosa.

1) Idea on Feminism

2) Ideas and Images

           3) Novelist is the Historian

I personally liked the view of Llosa on feminism in which he said that feminism has become very sectarian and dogmatic kind who always stand for stupid equality. llosa also gave an example of feminists attacked  Nabokov's "Lolita" the best novel of 20th century but feminists attacked about male characters. This kind of stupidity destroy the charm of literature. I liked the idea about good and evil in literature because literature do not perfect without evil character. As a man we should respect women but it does not mean we accept everything which is the prejudice of feminist. Sometime over criticism destroyed the charm of literature.

Second is the image and ideas. In this points Llosa said that today's world young generation give the importance to image more than ideas. It is very harmful to youth that they think  images are creative for modern time but they do not think that this century is the age of Photoshop and post truth. We see in our India how Political party use fake images to make people emotional. If youth grow up in this images culture then it will be destroyed intellectual. As Ravish Kumar used to talk that (पेहले लोग आंखों में धूल जोकते थे अब ईमेज जोगते है) this kind of image make you sheeple and ideas make you intellectual.

Third one is 'Novelists is the historian of the unrecorded'.  Given sentence is very true through literature you get idea about social, political and religious background the ages. Literature record dark side of country, person etc. Here Llosa gives an example of Leo Tolstoy's greatest Novel "War and Peace" which is related to the Russian history and many writers used to wrote about historical aspect Many Novels written on Mahatma Gandhi and contemporary time for instance the novel "Kanthapura" which is record the freedom movement in India. So, this very great to read the literature which narrate the history.

Lagaan movie review.

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Lagaan

  We watched this movie not merely as an entertainment movie but to cultivate the habit of reading literature from beneath. So there are so many hidden points which we can ponder. 

# Rural India : The whole setting of the movie remains in the village. Which represents the actual India. Where we finds agricultural activities as their chief source of livelihood. The dialect which people uses that also represents the countryside. But the situation of the people is not good. The another interpretation comes in our mind is that after having these kinds of problems yet they lives their lives happily. 

# Patriotism :  During the whole movie we finds this quality in the people. The protagonist of the movie, Bhuvan who shows great courage for the welfare of the province and motivates other villagers to come up and rebel against the Britishers. The characters of Lakha, Deva, Arjan and Ram Singh who has worked for the Britishers but after realizing that they merely exploits them and joins the Bhuvan's group. Even women helps a lot in this rebel. Altogether they all vigorously works to get rid of from the high taxes. 

# Nationalism : What political ideology tells about nation that becomes Nationalism. They have a strong belief for the nation. When Raja Puran Singh denies to eat non-vegetarian food that shows the nationalism. The another scene comes in our mind is that when we see Captain Russell doing deer hunting that time Bhuvan tries to rescue deer. Which again portrays the national ideology because in reality the situation seems vice versa. 

# Subaltern Studies : Some how or the others all the characters represents the lower status or the theme of a  subaltern  in order to gender, caste, class, religion and etc. 

Women < Men 

Kachra  < Other 

Ismail < Other 

Villagers < Mukhya 

Mukhya < Raja 

Raja < Captain Russell 

Captain Russell < British Governor 

Spinner < Pacer

Bowling < Batting 

    Thus we can find the theme of subaltern. But through the character of Elizabeth we can say she lives an independent life. Which is lacks in Indian women in the movie. The rebel against the Britishers is initiated by the villagers which again portrays them powerful compared to Raja. So some how director has provided the voices in the characters of Kachra, Ismail, Elizabeth and in Villagers. The another interpretation comes in our mind is that spinner plays vital role in the match. 

     Yet one question arises in our mind is that Why director has shown Indians as  a first bowling side...? Or I think  we are habituated to celebrate victory by hitting six not by bowling. 

# Casteism : We can openly finds the caste system in the village. Which prevails even today in the rural India. In a movie we finds in the character of Kachra,  He considered as a untouchable by the other villagers. Most of them denies to play with him.  He lives on the periphery of the village. Where as Ishwar lives in the center of the village. 

              But here we can interpret positively. In the movie Bhuvan explains the villagers through the example of Rama - Shabri and people accepts Kachra as a team member. 

# Leadership Skills : Through this movie we can finds the leadership skills. When we see the character of Bhuvan.

- Challenge as a opportunity : A leader always sees challenge as a opportunity. For him this is the beginning towards the destination. We sees these qualities in Bhuvan. He courageously accepts the challenge. He thinks differently compare to the  common man. 

- Initiator : To initiate the campaign is easy but the real work starts after the initiative. For leader it becomes necessary to implement the things. And Bhuvan does it very well. He doesn't knows how to play the cricket but yet he behaves as he knows everything. 

- Practice : Without practice no one can get success. So practice becomes vital before any battle. So Bhuvan starts practice with Tipu and stimulates other members for practice. 

- Team Builder  : A leader must should be aware about building the team. And to win such a battle it requires more and more hands. It is not an easy task to do. Because everyone can not be the member of a team. For that a leader can show the power of unity. Another thing requires is that a leader must should posses the insight of finding the skills. A leader should be able to explain his team member why and how he can be the crucial for the team. That thing Bhuvan does very well by making Bhura, Guran, Arjan, Goli, Ishwar, and Bagha ready for the match. 

- Benevolent : A true leader never thinks for his own benefits. Always becomes ready for the sacrifices. That all things we sees in the character of Bhuvan. 

- Empathetic : An empathetic leader always understands the feeling of his team member. He listens all the problems of his teammate. Here in movie Bhuvan listens the inner problems of Lakha. And gives him another chance. 

- Confidence : A most powerful weapon is the self believe. If leader becomes diffidence then he invites the trouble. And we never finds Bhuvan as a diffidence. Where as captain Russell who seems an arrogant person and full of overconfidence. Which leads them towards the massive defeat. 

Activity on Reading short Modern Poems

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(1) The Embankment :-T.E.Hulme

Poet is recounting his past by using the words like finesse of fiddles, musical gathering and flash of
gold heels used for women star-eaten blanket is used as negative word. But now what all he need is
warmth; which he will get under the blanket of sky where he will get comfort, comfort from the
harshness of life.

(2) Darkness:- Joseph Campbell

Title itself reflects negativity. Here star is metaphor, by which poet actually means Victorian age , he
is not affected with the shine of Victorian age, he just looked at it and pass on.

(3) Image :- Edward storer

By the title of this poem may be poet wanted to present image of modern age people. White color
presents positivity but here it seems in negative sense. Other metaphor are loneliness and drought.

(4) In a station of the metro:- Ezra pound

Title itself says that its about Metro. Poet sees various faces and gives it metaphor ‘apparition’. This
means ghostly. He compares these faces to ‘petals on a wet black bough”- suggests that on the dark
subway platform, the people look like flower petal stuck on tree branch after a rainy night.

(5) The Pool:- Hilda Doolittle

speaker asking person that ‘are you alive?. Person shivers like a sea fish.
which indicates that someone is dying and presents liflessness.

(6) Insouciance:- Richard Aldington

Here poet have used metaphors like deary trnches, trudging cheerily flock of doves, white winged
doves.

(7) Moring at the window- T.S.Eliot

At first reading of this poem way feel that this poem is about everyday life. But we also can say that
this line:- ‘” tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts.”

(8) The Red Wheelbarrow – William carol Williams

This poem is difficult to understand. But f we go on by words like Barrow(stones raised over a grave)
Glazed (showing no liveliness) chicken(young man); these words indicates a young man’s death.

(9) Anecdote of the jar:- Wallace stevens.

Here in this poem metaphor is jar. And poem is about the Tennessee( a state of the united states of
America)

(10) I(a, :- E.E.Cummings )

A falling leaf is symbol of loneliness. The word ‘fall’ symbolized in any way. Fall means death, fall of
spirituality; fall word also presents the damage caused because of world war and its effect on
people.
Modernist literature is difficult to understand, it is absurd, there is hidden meaning, it becomes hard
to get the whole meaning of poem.

Post Viewing Task of 'Midnight's Children' and 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'

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On 9th September 2018, we had film screening of the two films first was "Midnight's
Children"(Novel written by Salman Rushdie) directed by Deepa Mehta and second was
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist"(A Novel written by Mohsin Hamid) directed by Mira Nair.
So, our task is to give review of these films with the perspectives of The Postcolonial
Studies, so I will try to connect films with postcolonial approaches.

# Midnight’s Children :-

"Midnight's Children"a novel written by British-Indian Novelist Salman
Rushdie and filmed by Deepa Mehta. The film was very popular in foreign countries and
well criticized in India also. The film didn't cover up all the things written deeply in the
novel due to time period of the movie so it's looks like the collage of many things like
history, culture, Colonialism. freedom movement, etc.

The story of the film begun with the year of 1917, the birth year of Indira Gandhi and
end with the emergency or we can say that the last stage of Indira Gandhi's Life. The story about the
Children who were born in the stroke of the midnight 15th august 1947 with the magical power, in
which two major character like Saleem Sinai, the protagonist belong to reach family while the Shiva
who was born in poor family later joined the Army and fought in the battle with Pakistan to free
Bangladesh.

The main idea of hybridity in culture and identity we can see in the movie, as per the quote
'Let reach to be poor and poor to be reach' Saleem, actually, the son of British man William Methwold
and poor Marathian lady and the Shiva was the son of Ahemad Sinai and Amina, but, Mary, a nurse in
the hospital changed these both baby boy with each other because her lover was a Marxist and
pursued mary to protest against elite class. Furthemore, Saleem went to pakistan and Shiva Joined
Indian Army, so here we can see the partition of India and pakistan. later on, After the war, Saleem
came to India, his mother land and marry with Parvati, beloved of Shiva and she gave birth to baby
boy who was the son of Shiva so, we again see the hybridity. And also we can see the culture of India
like snake Charmer. So this way movie ended through various perspectives.
Postcolonial Point of View:-

*Hybridity:- Hybridity means Something that is formed by combining two or more
things. Here, in the movie we can see the hybridity in the identity, Saleem is the perfect
example of hybrid man, who was the son of colonizer and poor Indian lady and also the
other character, Shiva was another example of hybrid man who was the son of Muslim
parents. If we see the hybridity in culture then we can give the example of
west(Methwold) and east(Poor Indian lady) .
*Feminism:- Postcolonial theorist also studies the culture and literature with the feminist
perspective. In the beginning of the movie Doctor did not allow to examine Naseem's illness to see
her body, there was a curtain between doctor and Naseem and her father said that ,

" You Europe returned chappies forget certain things. Doctor sahib,
my daughter is a decent girl, it goes without saying. She does not flaunt her body
under the noses of strange men. You will never understand that you can not be
permitted to see her, no, no, not in any circumstances; accordingly. I have required
her to be positioned behind that sheet. She stands there, like a good girl(Rushdie
2011)."

Another example is when Mumtaz, Saleem's mother got married with Ahemad Sinai, that
time Ahemad gave her new name Amina. So, we can see the power of patriarchy in the movie and
also a exploitation of poor Indian lady by Britisher Methwold.
*Magic Realism:- Magic realism also a part of postcolonial studies. Magic Realism is a
narrative style which adds beauty to the historical representation in the movie otherwise it
is boring to watch. The Midnight's Children were not ordinary kids but they have power,
like, Saleem has power of sense of smell to feeling the different things and people where
as Parvati also has power like Abrakadabra to hide people and things in the basket.

#The Reluctant Fundamentalist:-

“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” novel written by Pakistani Writer Mohsin Hamid and then
adopted in film directed by Mira Nair in 2014. The story is about the young man Changez Khan who
attracted to American Business culture. He was an intellectual and respected person in American wall
street business company.

The Story Begun with the interview of American CIA agent Bobby Lincoln for the abduction
of American Professor in Pakistan. Bob was Taking interview of Changez Khan in the Coffee cafe in
Lahor that he may be involved in this abduction or in the matter of 9/11. Here Mira Nair interestingly
used the flashback technique which was move us from Pakistan to America in eye opening way. The
title of the movie give us two different views one is that fundamentalist in terrorism and other
business fundamentalist.

Postcolonial Point of view:-

If we see this movie with the perspectives of the postcolonial studies so we have
to apply Edward said's 'Orientalism' and also apply the race theory. We can say that why
western countries and especially America looking towards Muslim countries as countries of
terrorism? It is all about the illusion of america that every Muslim are terrorist. America Know
that if we want be in power position so that we have to destroyed all Muslim countries in the
name of terrorism. One may have question like Muslim countries are more in the number then

other religion, then why they don't take action on America. But, actually, because of
obsequiousness of Pakistan and Saudi Arab others countries unable to convince that all
Muslims are not like that.

In the movie also Changez faced problem because he belong to Muslim country. All
countries and their movies show the villains almost are Muslim. They succeeded to built this kind of
stereotype in the mind of other religion's people. America only see their 3000 Americans died in this
attack but they do not see that they killed billions of Muslims in Gulf war and in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Syria wars. If world want to make peace in the earth then all have to protest against America to stop
terrorism because "America is the mother of terrorism."

Reflective Blog on the Learning in the Guest Lecture of Dr. J. H. Khan.

This Blog is part of our Reflective Learning Activity given by a teacher (Dept. of Eng. MKBU.)

Department of English, MKBU has organized guest lectures for students. We have guest
from Sardar Patel University ,Dr. Javed Hussain Khan.He is excellent in his subject.Javed sir
has come to interact ELT with semester 3 students. In his very first class he said, “I’m not
here to delivering a lectures, I’m here to interact with you.” So the full session with him is full
on liveliness.

• Interactions In class:-

In his first interaction on ELT (English Language Teaching), he talk about to
know the difference of teaching English as native language and English as a foreign
language. Both should have different needs and different ways to learn and teach. Then he
talked about ELT for primary education and English for higher education. How the level of
students differ at every level and how we still have methods of primary education level in
syllabus to learn.

Then as a core topics sir discussed English for specific purpose, English for
academic purpose and English for literary purpose. He talked about how English for specific
purpose has different fields and every field has it’s own different language. Then in English
for academic purpose he discussed essay by Liz-Hamp Lyons, major points of EAP (English
for Academic Purpose) 1) Eclectic discipline and 2) Pragmatic discipline. Then how needs
assessment is necessary in EAP and he also talks about his dissatisfaction with Liz-Hamp
and her essay. Then he talked about English for literary purpose which includes the language
of poetry, drama and novel.
• Teaching style and our experience:-

As sir interact with us and for effective interactions communication skills are
needed and sir has got the command over these communication skills. His teaching style has
his personal touch, while talking about different things he connect his experience and made
interactions lively. On the very first day he has given the word “SEEK”. He says one should
seek knowledge, and have to work by the skin of their teeth, then and then they can achieve
what they want. His presentations are full of information and he deliver this information by
using his excellent speaking skills.

These two days learning experience was good and it will definitely going to help us

in exams and also as teacher in future. As he gave one advice that “if you choose to be teacher
be a good teacher, excel in your subject otherwise many students are going to study under
your hand and if you are not good in your subject you are going to spoil the future of
students which is sin.” So we are very thankful to Javed sir to share with us his knowledge
and also to our Head of the Department Dr. Dilip Barad to invite such experts in our
department.

Thinking Activity on 'The Birthday Party'

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

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1.Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?

Two scenes of Lulu if omitted from the movie then it normally has no such differences that one
can find there.to give the particular shape to the work also writer may be prefer to include extra
things & reduce something that burden the content part of the work.another point can be there is
as i think of Lulu's personality that has no such significance to carry out the flow further with
some special effect.
As Anton Chekhov told something can relates here that if starting part is points out on The Gun
on the wall then it should be blast or resulted till the end anyhow.
It means no single word should be there that may disturb the work of art it can be connect here
where repetition omitted intentionally may be or meaningless act may keeps away from the
central focus.

2) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading
the text?

We can see the effect of menace in the movie, because while reading the play felt that Stanley has
a mysterious past which we are not informed about. I felt this while reading the long conversation
between McCann, Stanley and Goldberg.

3) Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the
same while reading the text.

Yes, I feel the lurking danger while viewing the movie. While reading the text when the party was
going that scene particularly during that I feel lurking danger. I feel that now something will
happen. At a time I also feel that this party is never going to end.

4) What do you read in 'newspaper' in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn intopieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by Petey in last scene.

Basically newspaper is symbol of connectivity between an individual and outer world. But here in
this play it also gives the remembrance to Petey for his impotency by Meg’s insistence to him for
repeatedly reading the incident (in newspaper) regarding the fragility of a woman. Moreover, it is
torn into pieces by McCann. And in last scene his affords has been hidden by Petey. He tries to
hide the whole incident.

5) Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is
positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it. What
interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera?

while seeing the film camera talks everything.thus when camera is positioned over the head of
McCann when he is playing blind buff which demonstrates that McCann is at power position and
is situated at the top with perspective of room like trap which symbolize that Stanley is trapped
by stranger who were touching him.

6) "Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue,
where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles." Does this happen in the
movie?

Yes, it happens during McCann and Net Goldberg asking question which is meaningless and
unpredictable. The room of birth day party and kitchen cover with so many objects. Even
character don’t get enough space to move.

7) How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with
its typical characteristics (like painteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?

Sometimes we are tired with nonstop dialogues at that time we have to give the rest to our mind,
so silence is necessary in the movie. Threaten of unknown presented in movie also and effects of
light, some danger, fear also puts by Harold Pinter.

8) With which of the following observations you agree:

o “It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."
o “It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version
directed by William Friedkin”
I agree that the movie shows very well: “Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed
space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense
crumbles.”

9) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the
making of movie?

If I was director I can't make any difference in the movie because everything going in a write way.

10) Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?


I think the actors will be same as movie. Because the all the actors did well.

Orientalism

Here is my responses to Identify 5 concept related Orientalism from the interview of Edwards Said.

1) Orientalism revolution utilized the study of the Middle East and helped to create and shape entire new field of study; such as post colonial theory as well influencing dialing as diverse as English, History, anthropology, political science and cultural studies.

2) Orientalism tries to answers the question of why, when we think of the Middle East for example, we have a preconceived notion of what kind of people live there, what they believe, how they act. Even though we may never have been there, or indeed even met anyone from there.

3) The central argument of Orientalism is that the way that we acquire this knowledge is not innocent or objective but the end result of a process that reflects certain interest.

4) Said's analysis of Orientalism isn't just description of its content but a sustained argument for why it looks the way it does. It's an examination of the quite concrete, historical and Institutional context that creates it.

5) The difference between different kinds of Orientalism is in effects the difference between experiences as of what is called the Orient. The difference between Britain and France on the hand and the United States on the other is that British and French had colonies in the Orient. They had a long-standing relationship and imperial role in a place like India, so that there's kind of an archive of actual experiences of being In India, of ruling in a country for several hundred years.

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Shashi tharoor

#DR. SHASHI THAROOR:-

He is An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a second-term Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has previously served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. During his nearly three-decade long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan's leadership of the organisation.

*Let's see Shashi Tharoor's view on postcolonialism...

**Once upon a time when, Britishers ruled over India for so many years. After a lots of struggle we get independence. There were thousands debates going on still now on colonial and post colonial idea.

***Shashi Tharoor  presented all his view on British Empire and India and how they do loot in India.

#Britishers came for making India poor and poor.Indians had economical damage at that time.we all knows that Britshers came for the trade but they are ruled over India. Tharoor very clearly says that British is wealthy because of India. Tharoor says there are Mughal rulers in India they also looted India but they spent only in India, while the Britshers sent all to thier country and make India poor and poor. The India which is exporter in the beginning after that they make it importer.

# In India 15 to 20% people died by starvation. He gave example of Bengal family. During the Second World war - 4 million people died because of starvation.

Britishers make money from the poor Indians by various kind of Taxes and make their own country rich, day by day ..

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sunday Reading: Talks by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 This Blog is a part of Sunday Reading task given by teacher to know about the Novelist  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and we have to discuss three videos given below. 

  

Here is the Link of the First Video  :-Click Here ! 

 

In this video she talked about the danger of single story which all have. and all belives the in their single story till they don't  know about the whole literature and world. everone have their own true stories.

 she talked about how was she in her childhood , bright and creative. when she started to write the effect of her reading British story in her writing.she wrote about white people. than she read African writers . but the British stories opened the world of imagination. till this she thought there was no one for this in African literature.

Here is the Link of the second video :-Click Here !

In second video she talks about faminism. she tells some incidents from her life and how others looks at a faminist or faminism. she talks about the quality of man and woman. there is only difference in the body of them. a woman can also do as much things which a man can. we should change our mindset. she talked about raising girls and giving them everything which a boy gets in this patriarchy.

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In third video is on well known term Post truth and truth. we all belives in the truth which was said by some political leaders. we should search truth in order to live life healthy. because if we believe in every word which they say we may lead to the downfall of democracy or an individual one.

Youth festival 2018

Aishwaryam Youth Festival 2018, MKBU

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University has celebrated the Aishwaryam youth festival of three days 26th, 27th, and 28th October. This whole festival of three days is hosted by Takshashila institute of commerce and Science collage. The whole university was spangling with lights. This festival is for young people. This is not only for watching. This festival let young generation show their talents through various competitions. In which they include every type of talents like writing, singing, dancing, drawing, acting, playing instruments and many things. It includes modern and folk both the theme. I was present in some of the events which here I am trying to look critically towards it.

I have witnessed poetry recitation, one act play, clay modeling, collage making, poster making, painting, cartooning, Rangoli and installation.

Poetry recitation

Judges and Anchor of the event

When it is come to recite the poem which is recently written and nobody has any idea of what the poem is about then recitation is the most important part which performer has to play. We have the competition of self written poetry and recitation. 20 to 25 students have participated in this competition. The subject on which poetry should be written is given on the spot. The subjects are like, story of a pen, song of rain which does not come, feelings of jungle girl, significance of friendship or love, life could may life will be homage and on Diwali. Most of them have wrote on friendship or love and the story of a pen. On Diwali as per my knowledge no one has written.

With this topics I have seen that most of them are using old metaphors like for pen they use sword and pen has seen the best of the best things and worst of the worst things. On friendship also almost all of them are praising their friends and some also has written on love. When everyone has recite their poem one of the judge who came to give their overall feelings has recite her one of poem which was titled as “Shyam Mari Windows Par Kem Na Ave?” and she also has used new metaphors like hang, memory, ram and many more. These new metaphors are missing in the poems.

We can apply the definition which Wordsworth has given that, “ Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings… recollected in tranquility.” In this competition also we can see that it is spontaneity which is working the most. Most of them have written in Gujarati language and they also has used high level of Gujarati words. We can not find that they have used the theory o depersonalization by T. S. Eliot. Almost all of them are singing the songs of their own life and experiences. So it is difficult to see the depersonalization in those poems. In some poems we can see the paradox has been used. In the subject like story of a pen they are describing the good and bad written by pen. One thing I have remembered in poem it is said that pen has written novels also and at some where judge of judiciary has broken the nib of pen after giving death to someone. So this is how they are trying to put things in binaries.

As far as recitation is concerned I found only four or five out of 25 who has recited well. Others are having some problems in reciting like they do not make the word feel. Their voice is too law or they are yelling. Some of them are just reading. They don’t make listeners feel the weightage of some words by stressing on it. Every word has been spoken with same loud or law voice. Some of them are good at reciting where after listening we can have the aesthetic delight of art. 

One Act Plays

I have seen three plays and only starting of last play. The participants have 30 minutes to perform their play. The plays which I have seen has names like “Sikka Ni Triji Baju” (Third side of the coin) which has theme of third gender, second one is “Aur Mujhe Fakr Hai” (And I am proud of it) which has theme of nationalism, third one is “Papan Vache Dariyo” (Sea between the lashes) which has theme on the life of a fisherman. Three of them are very well performed. Acting was very good by all the actors. We can feel the catharsis during play.

It seems the plays are following the traditional way of plays in which they have rising action, falling action and happy ending. It is like Aristotle’s Poetics. The play “Sikka Ni Triji Baju” can be view from the perspective of cultural studies as it includes the society and the dilemma and misery of third gender. In the play family even father don’t want his baby who is eunuch. The mother struggles and fight for equal right of the baby and she win. These types of play shows mirror to our society and also gives message to change the stereotypes. The performance was very good.

Second play “Aur Mujhe Fakr Hai” has a theme of nationalism. It also shows terrorism, violence, brain washing, suffering of innocent people, honesty of soldiers and suffering of their families. The fundamentalist ideas of terror group. It also has used the flashback techniques. It focuses on one religion. We can again study it from the angle of cultural studies where it shows nationalism and religion. Though the audience is very enthusiastic after the performance of the play all are hailing the name of country. The audience mostly includes youngsters, and this kind of attraction towards nationalism shows how youngsters can be easily flow in the stream of nationalism.

The third play “Papan Vache Dariyo” has theme on the life of fisherman. This play shows the life of a family of fisherman, who goes for fishing and don’t came back for many years and during that time how the family has suffered and survived. Theme is common but acting was very nice. They made us feel their pain. We can see the glimpses of “Robinson Crusoe” in this play as the ship was broken and the main character has dropped on the island where no one lives and after many years he came back. We can look at this play from the perspective of feminism. As for marry a girl two men are fighting, one who wins will marry the girl. The girl has her own choice but it doesn’t matter front of the male ego. And after marriage her husband was lost so she was also raped by the person who has lost the battle. After that girl has committed suicide. At the end the person who has lost came back home to his father and his son and play happily ends. This play has also used the flashback technique.

The play which I have only seen for first few minutes has done very dull performance. The actors are nog good in dialogue delivery and not in acting also. They don’t announce the name of play in beginning. I have seen first 5 to 7 minutes and we don’t understand what it is about because dialogues are not clearly heard, and it also don’t give any feelings. It was flat. Nothing has felt and nothing has understood in first few minutes. In short the actors are failed to connect the audience.

Clay Modeling

The art was very good. Most of the participants have followed only same themes like making idol of God, nature or persons who are playing instruments. Some are very nice. In modern themes one has made a car other than that we can not find any new or modern theme in it.

Installation

In this all are very good work but one which has grab my attention is with hat and boots, which suddenly reminds me of the play “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett. Though it don’t has that theme as per my interpretation it wants to show the necessary of money that money is the key of every lock.

Other work has themes like equality of all religions, cleanliness, countryside, farming and festivals. These all works are looking very good. They all have created it from newspapers and other useless things. I don’t find any experimental work there they all have followed the same tradition or may be they are bound to themes.

Rangoli

Rangoli is traditionally made from different colors and most of people have made it from colors only. Their theme is also mostly same like they have drown some figure or traditional Rangoli. Though some of them have tried well with other things rather than color. They have used puffed rice, chalks, different grains, rope, water color and clay, flowers, and candle wax. With all these things only few have did something different. One Rangoli has theme of equality of all religions and second one has theme of social media. This is how we cansee some of the different themes in this competition.

Painting/ Collage/ Cartooning/ Poster Making

Here we have some varieties in theme like we have political satire, mobile, social awareness, #MeToo movement, satire on education system, and some modern ideas. One person has drown that people are busy in eating while on the other hand ants are reaching at library. One has drown Shurpankha with mobile accusing that she is also the part of #MeToo movement. In collage almost they have followed traditional themes like nature or some figure. In cartooning we can see political satire that how the price of petrol is increasing and PM is on world tour. There is also a satire on education system that how it is corrupted. On technology we have positive negative and neutral views like some are favoring use of mobile phones others are rejecting it and some has said that it is good and bad both, it is our choice how we use it.  Child abuse and traffic rules was also a theme. These all themes are showing the mirror to the society and it also captures the current moment. With all these things many of them have stick to traditional way and drown festivals or natural world.