Respected Sir,

Darkness:

           There is a word “star” shows the beauty of stars in the dark sky and without stars sky is all dark and “darkness” itself is the symbol of “fall”. But star is a symbol of brightness and hope. So here we can say that shine of a star and a silver ribbon represents the positive side of this age.

Image:

                        Image shows the inner side of our human mindsets. - Lustful nature of human beings ultimately leads towards "burning" ,fall of man. - Love & death goes side by side, like life and death in short. Lust & desire forces to us to lead it before time. 

The Red wheel barrow :

                         Two sides of life, negative & positive reflect here. - Hardships of life turn to reliefs. - Dying stage is the ultimate way of living life throughout.

In a Station of a Metro:

                   Pound describes watching faces appear in metro station. It is not clear that from which point the poet writes a poem whether he is on the train itself or on the platform. “Crowd” suggested that station is quite busy. He compares faces of people which he found in the crowd with the “petals on a wet, black bough,” suggesting that on the dark subway platform, from there people look like flower petals that stuck on a tree branch after a rainy night. Here in the poem pound contemplating the fragility of life.

The Pool:

                   As a bi-sexual person, Doolittle faced just such a situation. She played many roles; but, ultimately, she became a many faceted person. Sometimes, we have difficulty, especially as adolescents, understanding our feelings. We do not know what our emotions mean. We question who we are and what we want from life. It might be satisfying to have someone pull us close and help us to understand as the poet says in the last line.

Morning at the Window:

                  

                        Morning at the window - morning at the window signs towards the way of living without end , purpose ,if you try to pass your life then it can't provide us that real joy of life that actually we have to. - Enthusiasm only has chances to wait for death with new spirit within.

 Insouciance:

                   In this poem there are many images like “dreary trenches” which means a dark hole or dug in the ground, it is used as a metaphors for the ups and downs of life, or we can say that life is a two side of one coin one is negative and one is positive. There are other words like “trudging” and “cheerily” which represents the image of a person who has to do his work but he don’t want to do. Here poet focused upon the ups and downs of life during the rough time of a person.

Views on movie screening - Waiting for Godot

Respected Sir,

Here are my views while watching movie “Waiting for Godot”.

·         The connection between the play and paintings is that, the play and paintings are connected with each other. Because paintings’ name ‘Longing’ is connected with our desire and in the play- Vladimir and Estragon’s desire are also waiting for Godot. It means bucket uses the paintings as play’s setting.

·         The tree is only important- ‘thing’ in both the acts. In first act – the tree was barren and in the second act – we will see few leaves. So, in first act we could not find leaves and in the second act we can see four-five leaves, it means at some point the tree represents the symbol of ‘death’ and also ‘Hope for Godot’.

·         In both acts, evening falls into night and moon rises, it means that there is progress of evening into night and moon rises. It symbolizes “Hope” and “Desire” for Vladimir and Estragon that Mr. Godot will come next day.

·         Debris means, waste, wreckage of rubbish or garbage. So in the movie, we can see that idea of Debris is represented waste or garbage of our life, it is like nothingness in life as we can see in the play that the main theme is ‘Nothingness’.

·         In the play the first line is “Nothing to be done” – so, it’s clear that the main point is nothingness. In the play, we know that Vladimir and Estragon are doing nothing same as we (people) are also doing same thing. We are doing or achieve many things but at last it will come out as nothing.

·         Yes, I am agree that “Waiting for Godot” is positive play, because in the play Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for something with some hopes and desires that someone will come and solve their problems. So, in the play- nothingness is something that it is positive thoughts effects.

·         Hat and Boot – represented the thinking process of Vladimir and Estragon. Hat represented – higher thinking and intellect as Vladimir a thinker and play with the hat. And Boot is represented level of lower thinking which is shown material life as Estragon plays with his Boot.

·         Yes, it is too much irritating that Lucky is obedience of his master Pozzo and in second act – Pozzo is blind and if Lucky wished, he escaped from slavery but he likes to be slave and it is unbelievable.

·         According to me, Godot is god and all are waiting for him because all human being believe that God will come and solved their trouble. As we see in the play that Vladimir and Estragon are also waiting for someone who solved their problems. So, here we can also say that Godot is an object of desire.

·           The subject of the play is waiting, not Godot, and I agree with this point because we see throughout the movie that Vladimir and Estragon are constantly waiting even without knowing that who is Godot, how he looks and even they don’t know the place they are waiting is right or not.

·         When we watched movie first time, we cannot understand because we cannot get clear dialogues in proper way. So, “Waiting for Godot” is better understood by reading not by watching.

·         I liked two sequence: 1) Pozzo-Lucky episode in both acts

                                                2) Conversation of Vladimir with the boy

·         Yes, there is existential crisis or meaninglessness of human existence. Because in the movie, we can see that they both are waiting for Godot, who never comes. They are doing meaningless actions to pass their times.

·         After too much Waiting for Godot and when Godot didn’t come, Vladimir and Estragon end their useless and meaninglessness of life but they could not do suicide. Here, we can see the effect of existentialism because existentialism represents the empty human condition.

To The Lighthouse

Respected Sir,

          2) Yes, this novel found both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is like typical woman, kind hearted mother and wife and also ideal Indian woman. If we talk about Lily’s painting, in her painting, she represents a struggle against gender against convention. So, when we compare character Mrs. Ramsay with Lilt Briscoe, we can say that Lily is a free minded woman and always thinks for her own freedom.

          3) We can interpreted that Lighthouse stands for the symbol of Mrs. Ramsay because she is a good wife and mother also. She takes care of every person in the house and she gives enlightenment to her family. She is center of this novel and other characters are surrounded her. So, as Lighthouse is central figure of the novel, Mrs. Ramsay is also in the center of the novel.

          6) Lily Briscoe lives in dilemma because her wish to portray a picture of Mrs. Ramsay by her painting. Here, Lily introduces as an artist. She is a free minded and always thinks for her and therefore at the end, she may be realized that – for her, right place is to paint and she wants to build up her career not wants to live in four walls but she wants to come out of it. And at the end, she proves herself as an artist.

          9) “Army and Navy” stands for capitalism and consumerism and also connected with shaper of culture. It is connected with the catalogue which is signified the world war. James cutting the refrigerator, it shows the negative thing to cut by seizer which is not good sign.

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movie review - The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Respected Sir,

                   “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is written by Mohshin Hamid. It is a postcolonial book. The film is directed by Mira Nair.   In this movie, the whole story is about 9/11 attack and also about the impact on one man of the “AL Qaida” attacks and the American reaction of them.

                   In this movie, professor of Pakistan University ‘Changez’ and ‘Bobby Lincoln’ played a vital role. The director of this movie used flashback technique. In the movie we can see that how Muslims are portrayed and how they are treated in the airport.

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Movie review - Midnight's Children

Respected Sir,

                   The movie “Midnight’s Children” is directed by Deepa Mehta which is based on the famous novel by Salman Rushdie which is written in 1981.

                   This novel is considered as an example of postcolonial literature. In this novel, character of “Saleem” represents as an author himself. In this movie, we can see the journey of two individuals and their live and also we can find tragedy, romance and comedy through this movie. The movie becomes controversial because of post colonialism between two nations and we can see in this film also. In this movie, Deepa Mehta used Salman Rushdie’s narrative style – “Magic Realism”. Magic realism is a postcolonial device and Salman Rushdie composed literary theory very well in his writing through his magic realism.

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The Wasteland

Respected Sir,

1. Eliot and Nietzsche’s views are different, so we can say that- Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzsche’s views. For proved his views, Eliot has used myths because myths represents desire, dream and myths are also from past. When Nietzsche’s concept about superman is about individual life, it means to make individuals and powerful free life.

2. The concept of Eliot and Freud, both are important. But Freud’s views are objective and Eliot’s views are philosophical.  So, both are opposite from each other. The poem ‘Wasteland’ depends on sexual perversion and spiritual degradation.

3. In the poem ‘Wasteland’ Eliot used Indian myths from different religions and in the 5^th part “The Thunder Said”- we can see the Indian thoughts. Like, Da, Dayadhvam and Damayata which means, Da = Giver, Dayadhvam = sympathize, and Damayata = control. 

My views on Deconstruction

Respected Sir,

According to Derrida, the term Deconstruction is hard to define as it has no exact meaning at all. It is a form of philosophical and literary analysis. Deconstruction is a way of reading and text and there by exposing the instability of meaning which the text tries to cover up.

As a post-structuralist critic, here I want to give an example of literary text. T.P. Kailasam’s “The Purpose”, in which he deconstructs the original myth from Mahabharata and in his play he gave more importance to the Eklavya’s character and presented the unknown things which are not originally in Mahabharata.

In structure we find intention of author and in post structure author is dead. So, post structuralist stand against the text and deconstruct the work of literature.

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Respected Sir,

                           Structuralism means analysis of different perspective of human behavior. Structuralism is the given to Saussure’s approach to language as a system of relationship. Our structuralist critic, Gerard Genet,  Roland Barthes , Julia Kristeva and Tzvetan Todorov , they are believed that every work goes with same structure in films, TV serials or literary texts. In this essay , the method of mood, order, voice, duration, frequency are used and we can see this method in films and TV serials also.

For e.g.:   Karan Johor’s movies like, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Student of the Year, these both movies are based on friendship and main idea is also about friendship but as we can see the method of this essay, order, mood, voice, frequency and duration are used in different way in both films.

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