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Thinking activity on Scarlet Letter : Transcendenalist and Anti-Transcendentalism elements in the novel

  Transcendentalist and Anti-Transcendentalist elements from in "The Scarlet Letter" "The Scarlet Letter"  This famed historical fiction novel was published in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthrone.  Set in  Puritan   Massachusetts Bay Colony  during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of  Hester Prynne  who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of  repentance  and  dignity . The book explores themes of  legalism ,  sin , and  guilt . (Wikipedia). This novel contains both transcendentalist and anti-transcendentalist views which centred around the centre theme of the novel. What is Transedentalism? Transcendentalism began as a religious concept rooted in the ideas of American democracy. It is a Philosophical movement which developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the eastern religion of the united States as a protest to the general state of cultural ...

Task on ELT : The role of English in India

This blog is a part of my academic task which was given in ELT-1. 1 )     What is English Language for you?   English Language is worldwide known language. Nowadays learning English language is very valuable as well as it can create many opportunities.   Learning English language is a kind of passion for me. I frequently listen many people talking like that, learning English language is not an easy task or even some may find it boring. But I am not agree with that point, if one really want to learn this language and do it, then one must develop   that grip or understanding over this language. English is the language which is connected with almost every field like Computer, Science, Mass Media or Business. It is also the language of International communication or as well as nowadays when everything becomes digital, it allows us to access more information from google. 2)     What kind of challenges you are facing and have face...

Thinking activity on "The Old Man and the sea" by Ernest Hemingway

This blog is a part of my academic activity which was given to us during classroom discussion. The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the sea, a short heroic Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Ernest Hemingway and was published in 1952. It is the story of an aging Cuban fisherman struggles to make his living who hasn’t caught anything for 84 days and has lost his apprentice, Manoline. Can you mark a critical phase of your life? I just do not have that much critical phase in my life which Old man have in the novel The Old Man and the sea. When I was in my secondary education, I was ill for four months and exam was coming near. During that time I did not study anything. It was hardest task for me to cover up all the studies and equally I had that dream of got 1 st rank in examination. During that time I really struggle a lot to cop up with my study which I missed during that time. Do you have any such person whom you recall in the crisis? Yes, I have a ...

Thinking activity on the novel "Scarlet Letter" and movie Kya Kehna

This blog is a part of my academic movie screening which was given to us during classroom discussion. On 29 th July, we had a movie screening of Kya Kehna in the context of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Kya Kehna is a 2000 Indian Hindi drama film directed by Kundan Shah while The Scarlet letter is a novel written by   American author Nathaniel Hawthrone. The Scarlet Letter Looking at the setting part of novel, the entire novel has a Puritan settlement which sets in the year of 1642 in a Bostan city. The entire plot of the novel mainly moves around the characters like Hester Pryne, Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. But the protagonist character Hester Pryne -mother of Pearl mainly leads the plot of the novel. She is a young wife whose husband has been missing for over a year and she is accused for adultery following the birth of her infant daughter Pearl. Firstly she was forced to stand on scaffold for more than three hours and as she r...

Task on ELT : Register and Sub-register

This blog is a part of my academic task which was given to us in ELT-1. Register - Literature Sub-register : Oral literature and written literature Oral literature  or folk literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word. It includes ballads, folklore, jokes and fables which are passed down by word of mouth. Ballads  Traditional ballads are of unknown authorship. Ballad are usually in the form of narrative which tells the story and it is arranged in  q uatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB.   Folklore Fables Written literature  includes poetry and novels. It also has subsection of prose,fiction,myths and short stories. Poetry Novels

Sunday reading : "Sairandhri" by Vinod Joshi

Vinod Joshi is well known postmodern Gujarati poet, writer and critic who has been giving his notable contribution in Guajarati Literature. He was honoured with the KavishwarDalpatramAward   and with the Sathitya GauravPuraskar. For his contriution in Gujarati poetry, he was awarded by NarsinhMehata award and the Kalapi Award. For his latest poem, “Sairandhri” he was awarded the SamarpanSanman by the BharatiyaCidhyaBhavan Educational Trust. Like his previous poem Shikhandi, this poem is also based on the one of the episode of the Mahabharata.This metrical poem was composed in prabandha from with seven cantos and fourtynine chapters. Through this classical folklore he tries to bring out that hidden personality of Draupadi. Sairandhri : poem of lost identity This is the story of women who lived without her identity rather than it presents the dilemma of identity. It is based on the episode of Mahabharata known as “Viratparv” in which Draupadi spent a year of her ...

Thinking Activity on The Wasteland by T.S.Eliot

This blog is a part of task on thinking activity. Here is the link of it. 1 )     What are your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land'? Do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzche's views? or Has Eliot achieved universality of thought by recalling mytho-historical answer to the contemporary malaise? Eliot and Nietzsche, both have their own views and we can also find conflict in between them regarding their different views. Eliot seems to be regressive and backward looking while Nietzche seems to be forward looking. Eliot believes in backward looking as it tries to find answers of contemporary malaise in Upanishad, Buddhism and Christianity. While on the other side, Nietzche believes in forward looking in giving solution to the problem of contemporary crises in faith and self. Eliot wants to bring awareness among the people through the mythical views and supernatural elements but Nietzsche does not believe in this tr...