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Thinking activity on Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"

    "To The Lighthouse" This blog is a part of my thinking activity given by professor on "To The Lighthouse". Click Here to get the task link. 1)    How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said?  Stream of Consciousness is generally used to describe the flow of thoughts of mind. Use of the ‘stream of consciousness’ is a best way to bring out psychology and complexity of relation and thoughts which every person have. In the novel each and every event was narrated by multiple angle which helped her to tell her about what is going on in the various minds.   In a term of narration, in this novel Verginia Woolf used a specific form of the stream of consciou...

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...