I am Bhavna Sosa and I am a student of the department of English MKBU. This blog is about thinking activity on the 'An Artist of the Floating World' by Kazuo Ishiguro. This task is assigned by Pro.Dr. Dilip Barad sir.
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro, is set in Japan in the years just after the Second World War – which ended with the country’s surrender. It is narrated by Masuji Ono, a widower with two grown up daughters. His only son died in the hostilities. Resulting changes in the country are a challenge for the older generation as they watch their offspring embrace more western ideals.
1) 'Lantern' appears 34 times in the novel. Even on the cover page, the image of lanterns is displayed. What is the significance of Lantern in the novel?
Because Lanterns in the novel are associated with Ono’s teacher Mori-san. They represent the fleeting beauty and warmth of nightlife as well as the transience of the traditional way of life in Japan, which vanishes after the war.For Mori-san, the flickering, easily extinguished quality of lantern light symbolizes the transience of beauty and the importance of giving careful attention to small moments and details in the physical world.
2) write in brief a review of the film based on the novel.
In brief a review of the film based on the novel. An artist of the floating world in the face of the misery in his homeland,the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World war ll.
3)Debate on the Uses of Art / Artist (Five perspectives: 1. Art for the sake of art - aesthetic delight, 2. Art for Earning Money / Business purpose, 3. Art for Nationalism / Imperialism - Art for the propaganda of Government Power, 4. Art for the Poor / Marxism, and 5. No need of art and artist (Masuji's father's approach).
Ono is the protagonist of An Artist of the Floating World, and is to be an acclaimed, significant artist. But while Ono is technically adept as a painter, his understanding of the world-and art’s role in it-is unsophisticated. Lacking a strong personal vision for his art and its message.That art serves no purpose other than to drive the artist into a life of self-absorption and depravity is presented through Ono’s father whose prediction that such a life will befall Ono ironically comes true for a time.The novel further explores the dire consequences which befell artists whose art is viewed as divergent. These five perspectives uses of the art.
4) What is the relevance of this novel to our times?
The novel's title 'An artist of the floating world' is based on the literal translation of Ukiyo-e, a word referring to the Japanese art of prints. Therefore, it can be read as "a printmaker" or "an artist living in a changing world," given both Ono's limited understanding and the dramatic changes his world, Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, has undergone in his lifetime.The title also refers to an artistic genre. Ono's master is especially interested in depicting scenes from the pleasure district adjacent to the villa in which he and his students live.
Ono mentions the ephemeral nature of the floating world that could be experienced during each night. His master experiments with innovative softer Western-style painting techniques, rejecting the hard black outlining that was considered more traditional. Under the influence of right-wing political ideas about tradition, Ono becomes estranged from his master and forges his own career. He feels gleeful when his master's paintings fell into disfavor during a return to the use of more traditional bold lines in the paintings used for nationalistic posters.
I am Bhavna Sosa and I am a student of the department of English MKBU. This blog is about 1984 by George Orwell. This task given by our Pro.Dr. Dilip Barad sir
About George Orwell :-
Eric Arthur Blair known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, total opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
About 1984 :-
Nineteen Eighty-four, also published as 1984, novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949 as a warning against totalitarianism. The chilling dystopia made a deep impression on readers, and his ideas entered mainstream culture in a way achieved by very few books. The book’s title and many of its concepts, such as Big Brother and the Thought Police, are instantly recognized and understood, often as bywords for modern social and political abuses.
1) What is dystopian fiction? Is '1984' dystopian fiction?
Dystopian Fiction :-
Dystopian literature is a form of speculative fiction that began as a response to utopian literature. A dystopia is an imagined community or society that is dehumanizing and frightening. A dystopia is an antonym of a utopia, which is a perfect society.
The dystopian genre imagines worlds or societies where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror, and human society is characterized by human misery, such as squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war.
'1984' as dystopian fiction :-
1984 by George Orwell belongs to the second category. It's a dystopian novel, which means that Orwell speculates on the future by emphasizing the ways a present situation could turn ugly. Unlike utopias and utopian fiction, which imagine a perfect and idealized society, dystopias dramatize the many ways things could go wrong. War could break out. The government could watch us on a massive surveillance system. People could lose the right of free speech, and censorship could make propaganda indistinguishable from the news.
All of these things come true in Orwell's 1984. The novel is bleak, gloomy, and pessimistic. This society Orwell portrays is ruled by fear. In Oceania, there is no freedom to speak of. It's the textbook example of dystopian society. Orwell re-imagines world geography and remaps the borders of countries. He establishes a perpetual war between three giant nations: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. The first, Oceania, consists of the Americas and England, where the novel is set. The state is controlled by a totalitarian regime known as ''The Party,'' and an all-seeing law enforcement entity referred to as ''Big Brother.''
2) What according to you is the central theme of this novel?
Totalitarianism :-
The primary theme of 1984 by George Orwell is to warn readers of the dangers of totalitarianism. The central focus of the book is to convey the extreme level of control and power possible under a truly totalitarian regime. It explores how such a governmental system would impact society and the people who live in it. In the book, "the Party" represents communism, but can apply to any totalitarian or authoritarian approach to government. It's a cautionary tale on how tenuous freedom really is.
3) What do you understand about the term 'Orwellian'?
The term was named after British author Eric Blair known by his pen name George Orwell. Because his most famous work, the novel "1984," depicts an oppressive society under a totalitarian government, "Orwellian" is often used simply to mean authoritarian. But using the term in this way not only fails to fully convey Orwell's message, it actually risks doing precisely what he tried to warn against.n his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures. But even more mundane abuses of language can affect the way we think about things. The words you see and hear in everyday advertising have been crafted to appeal to you and affect your behavior, as have the soundbites and talking points of political campaigns which rarely present the most nuanced perspective on the issues. And the way that we use ready-made phrases and responses gleaned from media reports or copied from the Internet makes it easy to get away with not thinking too deeply or questioning your assumptions.
4)Write in brief about ' Newspeak' - and refer to Orwell and Painter's essays.
Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy.
It’s easy to hear “Newspeak,” the “official language of Oceania,” as “news speak.” This is perfectly reasonable, but it gives us the impression that it relates strictly to its appearance in mass media. Orwell obviously intended the ambiguity-it is the language of official propaganda after all-but the portmanteau actually comes from the words “new speak”and it has been created to supersede “Oldspeak,” Orwell writes, “or Standard English, as we should call it.”
Orwell then goes on to discuss the difficulty of translating the work of the past into Newspeak. He uses as an example the Declaration of Independence: “All men are equal'' was a possible Newspeak sentence,but only in that “it expressed a palpable untruth that all men are of equal size, weight, or strength.” As for the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s rousing preamble, “it would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak,” writes Orwell. “The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.”
I am Bhavna Sosa, a student of the Department of English,MKBU.This blog is the part of my classroom activity that is given by our Prof. Dr.Dilip Barad sir.
First of all I would like to give a brief introduction about this poet and poem.
About T. S. Eliot :-
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there.He became a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.
About Poem :-
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.
Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922.
Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih".
The poem's structure is divided into five sections.
1)"The Burial of the Dead"
2)"A Game of Chess"
3) "The Fire Sermon"
4) "Death by Water"
5)"What the Thunder Said"
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?
I think of the Eliot view as regressive compared with the Nietzsche view as progressive. No doubt Eliot had historical sense and tried to explain univer problems with the reference of religion. So his work may have become a universal reality of human beings. While Nietzsche talked about the practical truth of humanity.
Nietzsch was a German philosopher, cultural,critic,composer,poet, philologist and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
Then I think he was better in various fields than Eliot. Because he was not only a great historian but also a great scholar who thought in various ways and also gave solutions to the problem of contemporary crisis in faith and self.
2) Prior to the speech, Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy made these remarks:
What are your views regarding these comments? Is it true that giving free vent to the repressed 'primitive instinct' leads us to a happy and satisfied life? or do you agree with Eliot's view that 'salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural tradition'?
Frued is believed in individuality and talks about "primitive instinct '' whereas Eliot believed in preservation of cultural traditions which means all together.
I disagree with Eliot. By suppressing the desires or by controlling it the desire gets stronger and it also affects at psychological level. It is better to give free vent to primitive instincts as Freud suggests.
3)Write about allusions to the Indian thoughts in 'The Waste Land'. (Where, How and Why are the Indian thoughts referred?)
1) The Fire Sermon :-
“The Fire Sermon” is also the name of one of the sermons given by Buddha.
Here Eliot gave the same name to the third part of his poem. The whole poem describe the theme of sexual perversion and by referring to this sermon of Buddha because he also wants to convey a message to stay detached from all the senses.
2) River Ganga and Himalaya :-
"Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant."
River Ganga is known for its purity and also for purification. While Himalaya is known for spirituality and peace. Eliot finds the solution of all contemporary problems in spirituality. That is the reason he refers to Ganga and Himalaya here.
3) What The Thunder Said :-
In Upanishad the Prajapati spoke the message of salvation through thunder which was called “Akashvani”. Here Eliot also gives reference to Thunder to convey that now the solution of all problems will be given by Thunder, that is the reason he gave name to his 5th part of poem “What the Thunder Said”.
4) Three DA :-
DA-
Datta means to give
DA-
Dayadhvam means sympathise
DA-
Damyata means Self Control
5) Shantih, Shantih, Shantih :-
The Shantih mantra is for inner peace, peace that passes understanding. Eliot ends his poem with this mantra and with hope. The hope of re-birth, end of modern malaises, and growth of spirituality. To show the hope he ends this poem with Shantih mantra.
I am Bhavna Sosa, Student of MK Bhavnagar University. This task given by our Pro. Vaidehi ma'am. Here I have discuss war poetry.
1) What is your understanding of war poetry?
War poetry is, simply put, poetry that deals with the subject of war. War poetry as we know it effectively began during World War I.
Often composed during a particular conflict, these poems are usually written by soldiers. However, nurses and doctors in military hospitals, and even war correspondents have written war poetry. In general, the authors are all people who have seen what really happens on the battlefield with their own eyes. Although people have been writing verses about war for thousands of years, war poetry differs considerably from previous eras’ poems about conflicts. The poems written by soldiers from World War I and later conflicts were not epics; these verses did not praise heroes or epic battles. Rather, they often questioned the purpose of war, why people fight, and overall an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the nature of battle. War poetry is exclusively realistic, showing warfare in an unglamorous and unromantic light.
What is a War Poet?
Rupert Brooke : 1887-1915
Siegfried Sassoon: 1867-1967
Wilfred Owen : 1893 - 1918
Robert Graves : 1895-1985
Edward Thomas : 1878-1917
Wilfred Wilson Gibson :1878-1962
Ivor Gurney:1890-1937
Note down the difference of all the War Poets.
Rupert Brooke : 1887-1915
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".
Siegfried Sassoon: 1867-1967
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".
Wilfred Owen : 1893 - 1918
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Spring Offensive" and "Strange Meeting".
Wilfred Wilson Gibson :1878-1962
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.
Ivor Gurney : 1890-1937
Ivor Bertie Gurney was an English poet and composer, particularly of songs. He was born and raised in Gloucester. He suffered from manic depression through much of his life and spent his last 15 years in psychiatric hospitals. Critical evaluation of Gurney has been complicated by this, and also by the need to assess both his poetry and his music. Gurney himself thought of music as his true vocation: "The brighter visions brought music; the fainter verse".
3.)Compare any two poems with reference to the subject, style of writing and patriotism.
1) The Soldier
The poem "The Soldier" is one of English poet Rupert Brooke's (1887–1915) most evocative and poignant poems—and an example of the dangers of romanticising World War I, comforting the survivors but downplaying the grim reality. Written in 1914, the lines are still used in military memorials today.
Subject :-
If I should die, think only this of me:
From the first line, the reader is asked to pay close attention to what the speaker (henceforth referred to with male pronouns) has to say. The reader will be instructed on how best to commemorate the speaker once his time has come to pass. This is clearly a very important matter.
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
These two lines form a rather confusing sentence. How will a foreign place be another place, specifically England? The wording "some corner" also makes it sound like the place being referred to is out of the way and likely to be forgotten. This presents another type of conflict because the reader is being told how to remember the speaker.
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
As the stanza continues, the reader may continue to be confused. Now the speaker claims a "richer dust" will be covered by a "reach earth." By earth, the speaker most likely means dirt or soil. If the dirt is covering something, the conclusion of burial can be drawn and the three lines begin to come together.
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Now, the ideas formed from the previous lines really begin to be more cohesive to the reader. The "dust" that will be buried was born and raised by England. This strongly suggests the speaker is referring to himself. He will pass away and be buried; he will be forever English just as sure as he was born. With these observations, the lines "That there’s some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England" make sense. The speaker is the piece of England and, should he die and be buried in a foreign land, that area right around him will be English.
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
The "her" in this line is England personified in a nurturing, or motherly, role. Along with the previous line, the reader truly begins to feel the strong attachment the speaker has with his homeland. The speaker’s English background is brought up within the first three lines of the poem and further explored as it progresses.
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
The speaker’s attachment to England becomes all the more evident in these lines. He is not only very devoted to his homeland, but very proud of it as well. This is perfectly plausible given he is a soldier and out fighting for his country. He even goes so far as to claim his body belongs to England. "A body of England’s" sounds quite possessive, given the use of the word of rather than for. He is entirely English and belongs to England, so much so he has proudly served his country’s military force. It is unclear if the soldier is thinking of death or is dying due to warfare.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
This is the first line of the sestet, marking a turn in the poem. The reader is directly addressed again for the first since the first line of the poem. Similar to the beginning, the speaker is instructing the reader’s thoughts. In essence, he is asking to be remembered in a positive way. This is insinuated with him saying his heart has "shed away" evil.
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
A pulse is a sign of life. However, it is death that is being discussed. For this reason, the "eternal mind" is mentioned. The mind is what lives on, not the physical brain. Once again, the speaker’s devotion to his homeland of England is demonstrated. He claims his thoughts were "given" to him by England and to England they shall return. He attributes everything he has and is to his homeland, including his very body and his thoughts. He was born from England and he will die to and in England, even if just spiritually.
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
The poem ends on a peaceful note of death. The speaker describes the calming effects of England. The "her" in these lines is used to refer to England, as was previously done in the poem. Through the use of words such as dreams, laughter, and gentleness, the reader is able to feel as tranquil as the speaker does. The final line may be taken as the end of the soldier’s life. Now that he has said what was on his mind and what he would like the reader to think of, he is able to rest peacefully "under an English heaven."
Style of writing :-
The Soldier” borrows from both the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet tradition and the Elizabethan, or Shakespearean, tradition. Like a Petrarchan sonnet, Brooke’s poem is divided into two main parts, the octave and the sestet.
However, Brooke’s octave is rhymed in the Elizabethan tradition, ababcdcd, while his set follows the Petrarchan rhyme scheme, efgefg.
Patriotism :-
Brooke’s poem was famous for its expression of patriotism. The speaker’s unflinching acceptance of his possible death and the way by which he assigns meaning to it, all underscore his unquestioning pride in his country and his devotion to it.
He equates his very body with England in the first stanza, stating that the earth in which it is buried is richer because of his nationality. Even the speaker’s thoughts are “by England given,” and the sky his corpse lies beneath is “an English Heaven.” Extreme patriotism, where one not only loves and is devoted to one’s nation, but also holds that nation as better and more important than any other, is called nationalism. Nationalism ran rampant in the Western world at the beginning of the twentieth century and was a primary cause of World War I.
Ironically, it was the language of nationalism that both the attacked countries and the attacking countries used in justifying their actions.
2) The Hero :-
The Hero, by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886-1967), is one of the disputed war poems this British officer and poet wrote in the period 1915-1918. When The Hero appeared in print, in 1917, many people were shocked. Fellow-officers condemned him.
Subject :-
Jack fell as he’d have wished,’ the mother said,
And folded up the letter that she’d read.
‘The Colonel writes so nicely.’ Something broke
In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.
She half looked up. ‘We mothers are so proud
Of our dead soldiers.’ Then her face was bowed.
The diction in the first stanza imitates older war poems that focus on honor, misleading the reader. The mother’s diction in this stanza is characteristic of old-war rhetoric and alludes to themes such as honor and pride about a soldier’s death.
In this stanza the mother comments on the colonel’s nice writing almost immediately. Readers wonder why the mother focuses on something as insignificant as the colonel’s writing when she should focus on her son’s death. By emphasising the inappropriate comment on the colonel’s writing, Sassoon demonstrates how World War I made romantic diction in poetry appear inappropriate. Sassoon accentuates “dead soldiers” by dividing the mother’s sentence between two lines. By emphasising that the soldiers are dead, the poem suggests that mothers are only proud of their soldiers when they die. Sassoon overstates this pride mothers have for their dead sons when, later in the poem, the mother is so proud of her son that she “brimmed with joy”. Such seemingly incongruous diction Sassoon dramatises society’s obsession with the honor of dying for one’s country.
At the end of the first stanza, the reader pities the mother but takes comfort in knowing she is proud of her son. The reader then discovers an unexpected turn that defines the purpose of the poem. As the “Brother Office"leaves, the speaker reveals the “gallant lies” the officer told the mother. Instead of thinking the soldier died an honorable death, the reader experiences the final instance of dashed hope by learning the son died as a “cold-footed, useless swine”. Sassoon misleads the reader into believing the soldier died in a more romantic sense characteristic of older wars. He did not die heroically, but rather could not cope with the horrors of trench warfare and, after many failed attempts to return home, finally died in a panic.
Style of Writing :-
Written in iambic pentameter, ‘The Hero’ comprises three stanzas of six lines length largely made up of rhyming couplets, save the first four lines of the second stanza, which have an alternating rhyme scheme. Rhyming couplets, of course, are particularly effective in relaying neat epigrams or moral statements. The simplicity of the rhyme scheme perhaps apes the newspaper poetry of the time, which often went in for sentimental attitudes about the heroism of the British ‘boys’ and their sacrifice.
Patriotism :-
Perhaps the mother should know the truth so that she can become more aware of reality. However, the mother is so certain of her son’s bravery and war’s prestige that she would not be able to assimilate the truth with her own misconceptions. The mother’s ignorance represents society’s inability to accept the reality of war and therefore there is little reason to try to reform society’s outlooks toward war.
4.) Do you find any such regional poem/movies/web series/songs which can be compared to any one of the poems given here. Also, give a proper explanation of the similarity.
There are many songs and poems relevant to war. Here I have compared one song ' Oo Desh Mere ' with 'The Hero' poem.
Here we can see that 'Oo Desh Mere' song and 'The Hero' poem are very similar.
This blog about Waiting for Godot by Samuel Buckett. This task given by our Pro. Dr. Dilip Barad sir.
About Samuel Buckett :-
He was an Irish writer.He write various forms in English language.He write this form like playwright short story , theaet.. He famous as director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French.He was famous English writer in his time.
About Waiting for Godot :-
Waiting for Godot is one of work by Samuel Beckett.It is tragic comedy in two parts. It is original play in French language. This is an attendant Godot.In the play we find various character but two character is very important.Vladimir and Estragon.They both are famous as didi and Gogo.They both doing discussion about the Godot and both conversation is very interesting.
The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.The English-language version premiered in London in 1955.It was voted as the "most significant English language play of the 20th century".
This is only one scene throughout both acts. Two men are waiting on a country road by a tree. The men are of unspecified origin, though it is clear that they are not English by nationality since they refer to currency as Francs and tell derisive jokes about the English – and in English-language productions the pair are traditionally played with Irish Accents.
The play opens on an outdoor scene of two bedraggled companions.The presents Godot as a baker who ends up being condemned to death by the four main characters.So let's we can try to explain very well with this discussion :
1) In both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would you like to interpret this ‘coming of night and moon’ when actually they are waiting for Godot?
In this picture we can see that both wait for Godot and wait also nightfall.They believe that every night and moon come that time we will waiting for Godot.Here we can see the interpretation of night like dark we can compare with the death also.
Nightfall is the correct time. While Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, they also wait for nightfall. For some reason (again, arbitrary and uncertain), they don't have to wait for him once the night has fallen. The classic interpretation is that night is death.This is main concept of the picture in Waiting for Godot.
2) The director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the contours of debris in the setting of the play?
We found setting with scattered fragments, something wrecked or destroyed. After two world wars people's life became miserable. They find nothingness in the world. It inspires many literary writer to portray such images in artistic expression. Buckett was one of them. Setting reflects the influence of World war ll.
3))Do you agree: “The play (Waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: 'No matter what— atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, anything—life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can't kill life." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?
Yes i agree because its representation of absurdity and philosophy an existentialism, that's why display is not negative or Pessimistic just because it's a reflection of hope that at the end of the life there is good thing happened up till and of the last breath we have to wait for something which give us success peace honour or some kind of social important anything which we are waiting for.
4) Do you think that the obedience of Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable?
Pozzo and Lucky can sustain spectator's attention because it shows the universal desire of mastery. Every human wants to be like pozzo, the master. Which Nietzsche called "Ressentiment". Plcan ay shows the culture of mastery of contemporary era. Even if Pozzo was blind, Lucky obediently hands the whip in his hand. it shows the slavish mindset of the people. Even if they are free they can not feel liberty after several years of slavery.So the behavior of lucky is not a newer one.
5)Do you think that plays like this can better be ‘read’ than ‘viewed’ as it requires a lot of thinking on the part of readers, while viewing, the torrent of dialogues does not give ample time and space to ‘think’? Or is it that the audio-visuals help in better understanding of the play?
According to me the reading and viewing both can be beneficial and required of the play. Because if you only watch the movie then it can be bore. Because it has the continuous dialogues and less action. For the understanding of the deeper philosophy one has to read the play. only reading also makes you boring because you will not be able to imagine vladimir and Estragon and their useless actions. We have done both the things in the class which enriched our understanding of the play.
6)Which of the following sequence you liked the most:
-Vladimir -Estragon killing time in questions and conversations while waiting
-Pozzo – Lucky episode in both acts
- Converstion of Vladimir with the boy
I like the here conversation between Vladimir and Estragon because both characters are present reality of human being during conversation. Both are create interesting conversation through hat and boots. I like the Estragon’s idea rather than Vladimir because his idea reality of human being and daily life.
This Blog-post is a response to the thinking activity on Bob Dylan and Robert Frost,given by our professor Vaidehi Hariyani Ma'am.
About Bob Dylan:-
Bob Dylan, original name Robert Allen Zimmerman, American folk singer who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, therefore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold tens of millions of albums, wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists, performed all over the world, and set the standard for lyric writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
In April 1963 Dylan played his first major New York City concert, at Town Hall. In May, when he was forbidden to perform “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” on Ed Sullivan’s popular television program, he literally walked out on a golden opportunity. That summer, championed by folk music’s doyenne, Joan Baez, Dylan made his first appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and was virtually crowned the king of folk music. The prophetic title song of his next album, The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964), provided an instant anthem.
His songs are :-
Blowin' in the wind
Like A Rolling Stone
All Along the Watchtower
About Robert Frost :-
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death. The move was actually a return, for Frost’s ancestors were originally New Englanders, and Frost became famous for his poetry’s engagement with New England locales, identities, and themes. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School, in 1892, as class poet , and two years later, the New York Independent accepted his poem entitled “My Butterfly,” launching his status as a professional poet with a check for $15.00. Frost's first book was published around the age of 40, but he would go on to win a record four Pulitzer Prizes and become the most famous poet of his time, before his death at the age of 88.
His poem's are :-
Stopping by woods on a snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Fire and Ice
Merge the five chosen shots and upload the video on your YouTube channel with any background music you like.
Answer this two questions:
1.Write down the message you want to give from your lyrics.
In this YouTube video,I choose the Bollywood song, this song sung by Kishore Kumar and lyrics by Anand Bakshi and music given by Laxmikant Pyarelal from the movie Rajput. We go through the entire original song, the lyrics also connected with memories. This song has a deeper meaning of nature and life.This entire song gives us beautiful messages from memories Fair. The lyrics are,
अकेला गया था मैं हाँ मैं
ना आया अकेला
मेरे संग संग संग संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
मेरे संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
अकेला गया था मैं हाँ मैं
ना आया अकेला
मेरे संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
मेरे संग संग संग संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
तेरी गली से
तेरी गली से मैं जब निकला
सब कुछ देखा बदला बदला
जैसा अब है वैसा कब था
ये मौसम अलबेला
मेरे संग संग संग संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
मेरे संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
अकेला गया था मैं हाँ मैं
जीकरता है
जी करता है बापस जाऊं
जाकर तुझको साथ ले आऊं
मैं यादों के इस मेले में कैसे रहूँ अकेला
मेरे संग संग संग संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
मेरे संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
अकेला गया था मैं हाँ मैं
ना आया अकेला
मेरे संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
मेरे संग संग संग संग संग आया तेरी यादों का मेला
2. Which Poem/Song of Bob Dylan/Robert Frost is relatable with your Video. Why?
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Say by Robert Frost has a deeper meaning of life. In early spring, the fresh buds on the trees are gold. This colour is the quickest to disappear from the natural world, however. The fresh blossoms on the trees are flowers, but these flowers disappear quickly too. They turn into leaves that fall to the ground, just as humankind fell from the paradise of the Garden of Eden, and just as the promising early light of morning gives way to daytime. Nothing beautiful, fresh, or pure can last forever.
So in my video shoot the community of cow and set of birds spend their life with nature.
I am Bhavna Sosa and I am student of MK Bhavnagar University. We are going to making a video on ‘Breath’ By Samuel Buckett. This task given by our pro. Dr. Dilip Barad sir.
Meaning of the Breath : -
Breath means both life and death. In life it consider as the symbol of action. Sometimes person so much habituated of breathing. Person doesn't realise its actually importance for live life. The play reflects the reality of human life. It reflects meaningless and Existentialism. Meaningless in the sense that people has no any purpose of living life. We live life just waiting for death. Breathing help us to reach ultimately death. So Breath is the symbol of Bridge between life and death.
The script of the play: -
CURTAIN Up
1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.
2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.
3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds.
CURTAIN Down
My interpretation :-
Here I put one video so in this video wa can see that everyday our life is meaningless. We studied Existentialism and Absurdity. In this shortest play has wild meaning. In my video I choose tree. Whole video in black. In our every day life, we always try to live how other people lives.
