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Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (pre-task)

Generally dream means a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. As we know that dream is a collection of images and ideas that occur involuntarily during certain periods of repose.  1) When did you have a dream?      I oftenly used to dream during the sleeping at night.But the problme is that I don't remember anything aftet waking up.Hardly I remembered only few parts of dream.Mostly I used to have a horror dream. 2)What did you see in your dream? One night I had a very horrible dream.I remember only few part of it. In the dream I was standing at the top of the hill.Suddenly the atmosphere surrounding me started to change and felt like something mysterious could be happen. At that time mighty man appeared infront of me and forcefully pushed me into the valley. I only remember this part of my dream. 3)Based on your dream if you are asked to create something, What type of creation would be there? ...

Thinking Activity on T.S.Eliot : "Tradition and Individual Talent"

Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the major poet of the 20h century. He was also an essayist,publisher,playwright and literary and social critic.His essay Tradition and Individual Talent is an attack on certain critical views in Romanticism particularly up on the idea that a poem is primarily an expression of the personality of the poet.Eliot argues that a great poem always asserts and that the poet must develop a sense of the sense  of the pastness of past. 1.How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?                                 Yes, I agree with Eliot's concept of tradition.Eliot takes the tradition in a positive way as well as in a larger sense. He also points out that following the tradition is not only slavish imitation. The countries and nations try to preserve their tradition as heritage which is essential part of their c...

Thinking Activity on Northrop Frye: "The Archetype of literature"

                                                      Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of 20th century.Northrop Frye developed a theory of literature based on myths and Archetypes. 1. What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent designs,pattern of action,character-type,themes and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature,as well as in myths,dreams and even social rituals. The archetypal critic tries to find this pattern,symbols and myths in present literary work. 2 .What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'? Northrop Frye has given a very unique idea of Archetypal ...

Task on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"

Biographical Information Jane Austen was one of England's foremost novelists.She was born in 16th December,1775 in the Hampshire village of Steventon. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight- six boys and two girls. Her father the Reverend George Austen   served as the Oxford educated rector for a nearby Anglican Parish. Her father was a great scholar who always encouraged the love of learning in his children. The children of family grew in an environment that stressed learning and creativity. Her elder sister Cassandra who remained the coolest companion throughout her whole life. Both sisters were never married.In order to acquire more formal education along with her sister, Jane were sent to boarding schools during Jane's pre-adolescence.During this time Jane and her sister caught typhus, with Jane nearly succumbing to the illness. After that due to some financial problem they returned to home and lived with the family from that t...

Task on Marry Shelley's "Frankenstein"

      Brief introduction of Marry Shelley  Biographical Information                              Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the daughter of the two  radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft . William Godwin described her as 'singularly bold, somewhat imperious,and active of mind'. Mary Shelley did not receive any formal education but from an early age she received great intellectual stimulus.Her father's house was a meeting point of famous philosophers and poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was also said that or a kind of anecdotes about her was that as a young girl Marry Shelly used to hide behind a sofa while Coleridge read aloud his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Which exercised a great influence on her novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. She is a...

Thinking Activity on Matthew Arnold - The Study of Poetry

Here is my answer of thinking activity which is given by our professor Here is the link of given task.... Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic of Victorian era who worked as an inspector of schools. Arnold is acknowledged as being one of the first poets to display a truly modern perspective in his work.Perhaps his most famous piece in literary criticism is his essay "The Study of Poetry". In the Victorian period in between the two two esteem of Art for Art's sake and Art for Life's sake Arnold presented the Golden mean. Write about one idea of Matthew Arnold which you found interesting and relevant in our times. Mathew Arnold in his definition of poetry said that, Poetry is a criticism of life.It also seems very relevant in present time also. It must concern itself with life and its problems. Whatever poet or writer write that is not only considered as a  creative work but it is also a criticism of surrounding n...

"Lagaan" - Movie Review

On the special occasion of Independence day ,film screening of movie "Lagaan" was organized by film screening committee members of our our English department of  MK Bhavnagar University. As a students of Literature we have to watch the movie with the help of various literary approaches and theories not only as a sake of entertainment. “ Lagaan – once upon a time in India” movie  was released in 2001.                      It is a sports-drama film, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, produced by Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan, written by Gowariker and Abbas Tyrewala. The film is set in the Victorian period of India's Colonial British Raj.  Here I am interpreting film as per my understanding. Patriotism The main theme of the movie is patriotism. In the movie the protagonist Bhuvan has a such qualities. Bhuvan shows the great courage in his rebellion against British provience. He wants the welfer o...