1. Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in
Harry Potter
Hermione Granger, a good, loyal friend of Harry Potter. She is a manifestation of the author herself within the text. “Hermione is me,” Rowling has said in several interviews, “A caricature of me when I was younger”. She is not only as a strong female character, an essential part of Harry's life, but also as a feminist protagonist in her own right. Hermione represents the bookish knowledge, she knows the spells very well and also knows how to apply it. In the first and second part she represents the good virtues like, friendship, loyalty. In any kind of situation she stands for Harry.
Hermione is the perfect example when examining the feminist principles in the novels. Throughout the series she has many strengths and weaknesses, but she is mostly criticized about her weaknesses as a character. At some time she becomes concious about her look, which becomes very problematic from feminine perspective.
Other female characters like Mrs. Weasley, who represents motherhood, caring nature. Ginny, Luna, ProMcGonagall, all has significant role, though they remains shallow under the patriarchal power.
2. Discourse on the purity of Blood and Harry Potter
In Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling includes several issues like racism discourse of blood like wizard blood, muggle blood.
1) Muggles (non-magical persons)
2) Muggle-borns (witches/wizards with magical abilities but non- magical parents)
3) half-bloods (witches/wizards who are not pure-blooded, but also not Muggle-born)
4) purebloods (those with complete magical ancestry)
5) Squibs (a non-magical child with magical parents
In the world of wizards Hermione portrayed as marginalized, she doesn't have pure-blood, her parents are muggles. She insulted many times by Draco Malfoy on the name of muggle blood.
Harry described as
half-blood, because only his father belongs to wizard world, and her mother is
not. Through the aspects of blood author satires on the American society, and
the raises the question of racism. Ron Weasley, a pure blood and good friend of
Hermione and Harry. So, here author makes possibilities that the intellectual
and ability does not dependent on the race or cast.
3. Confronting reality by reading fantasy
Fantasy story could be the reality of our own world. In this series we can find author tells many problems of racism, class conflict, in the form of fantasy. But the characters are very much realistic which represents the universal emotions, moral values and so on. Through the fantasy author shows the reality of contemporary time. May be it speaks of, the racial issues, class discrimination. As the issue of blood described in the series. Harry Potter is a fantasy story, but it is not stereotype. Harry who is protagonist, he is presented as a orphan, wearing glasses, which breaks the stereotype of great hero. Writer presented 21st century’s mind, modern ideas, Rationality well though it is fantasy.
4. Self-Help culture and Harry Potter
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. It can also called 'self improvement'. In the novel Harry himself find his own way. In the whole novel he and his friends do self learning in Philosopher's Stone, chamber of secrets, and in order of phoenix they chooses practical education and practice with great effort. Hermione, leaps and bounds ahead of her classmates in wizard knowledge, potions and spells. This great intellect was both gifted to her, but also the result of hard work and intense studying. At times her skills (and confidence) was off-putting to others, but she never felt she needed to hide just how capable she was. So, characters finds their own way.
5. Self help culture and Harry Potter:
3. Confronting reality by reading fantasy
Fantasy story could be the reality of our own world. In this series we can find author tells many problems of racism, class conflict, in the form of fantasy. But the characters are very much realistic which represents the universal emotions, moral values and so on. Through the fantasy author shows the reality of contemporary time. May be it speaks of, the racial issues, class discrimination. As the issue of blood described in the series. Harry Potter is a fantasy story, but it is not stereotype. Harry who is protagonist, he is presented as a orphan, wearing glasses, which breaks the stereotype of great hero. Writer presented 21st century’s mind, modern ideas, Rationality well though it is fantasy.
4. Self-Help culture and Harry Potter
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. It can also called 'self improvement'. In the novel Harry himself find his own way. In the whole novel he and his friends do self learning in Philosopher's Stone, chamber of secrets, and in order of phoenix they chooses practical education and practice with great effort. Hermione, leaps and bounds ahead of her classmates in wizard knowledge, potions and spells. This great intellect was both gifted to her, but also the result of hard work and intense studying. At times her skills (and confidence) was off-putting to others, but she never felt she needed to hide just how capable she was. So, characters finds their own way.
5. Self help culture and Harry Potter:
The characters of Harry Potter series
are struggling to gain something. In a way all are helping themselves with some
ideologies. Harry is treated very badly in his guardian home. He learns to stay
strong in terrible situation in the life. He fights with the obstacles of the
life without other's support. When he lives all alone in he dangerous situation
then face all the problem with his ability. There is one scene in the last part
when Sirius is killed then Harry saves his body and himself and also from the
Dementors, same case with other character like Hermione, Ron who are constantly
struggling for their identity. Hermione wants to show her talent that she is
best from all the pure blood students. She is intelligent and with her
knowledge she defeated everyone and in this way help herself. So, in this way
we can get the idea about self-help and how overcome all the problem of life by
our own self so from children to man all can learn this from Harry Potter
series.
6. Christianity and Harry Potter:
Harry Potter series directly have no
relation with Christianity. Many critics say that the novel is
anti-christianity because there are many thing in the fiction are ant Christian
like magic. Magic js abondon in Christianity so Rowling written an anti
christian work. In addition, there is not any kind of church for prayer even
the good fights with powerful evil force though they do not pray to God for
survival. All the characters fights and save themselves without any divinity
power. But there are couple of scenes which somehow connected with Christianity
like Christmas celebration and after the death of Albus Dambledor we see the
view like heaven. So, at last we can say that Harry Potter is ant Christian
fiction.
7. Theme of Love and Death:
Love and death are the major themes in
J. k. Rowling's fantasy novel and she also said that these series all about
death and love. She justifies her point by presenting the characters of Ron and
Hermione who are in love from the very beginning even they are fighting with
each other. Further, the love between Harry and Dumbledore, Lily's love for
Harry, harry's love for his friends, etc. In the other death also a crucial
element in the novel. At the very beginning of the story we heart that Harry's
parents have died, and in due course both we and Harry learn that they were
murdered. The Shadow of death hangs over Harry; he learns that he, too, was
intended to be a victim, but spared in a way no-one can explain. He narrowly
escapes death again at the close of the first two books, and third is concerned
with his pursuit by an escaped murderer. At the end of the fourth book, a
school friend is killed before his eyes, and he himself barely escapes again.
In the fifth book he loses his newly regained godfather, and in the sixth even
his great and seemingly indestructible mentor, Dumbledore. Yes, death is a
constant visitor to Harry's world.
8.
theme of choice and Chance:
Harry Potter novel says that in life
chances and our choices both are important. First, it was only chance that
Harry lived. When he needed help, help is always there. He gets invisibility
cloak when needed. In Chamber of Secret Phoenix comes to hlep Harry. There are
fortune portion alos. When Harry can't find way the fortune potion works. But
choices have given same importance. Sorting hat puts Harry in Gryffinder
because he wanted. Harry doubts that sorting hat may have put him in wrong
house but in answer Dumbledore tells him that it is not our abilities that make
us, it is our abilities who define us. Sirius Black also says same things.
There are good and bad inside us but what path we choose determine us. In the
final part, king cross station chapter when harry meet Dumbledore, Dumbledore
says Harry that it is your choice to return or not. So both choice and chance
are important in life.
9. Moral and Philosophical
reading:-
Harry Potter series i all about moral
lessons and Philosophy of life. Dumbledore used to teach morality and
philosophy to Harry Potter. There are many moral lesson that teach us how to
become a moral being. The characters like Dumbledore and Harry Potter
themselves moral being and philosophers. For instance, we see that Harry Potter
who used to help bad people like Malfoy and many others.
As per the Mitchel Foucault's theory
"Power and Knowledge. J. K. Rowling similarly conveys the message that
question the power because what is written is not always true in the post truth
era. These lines by Rowling is also relevant in the present era, we see in many
political leaders and media who keep on speaking lies for remaining in the
power and also there are many speeches or write fake history. So, we have to
cross check everything rather than follow blindly.
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