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Dark Side of Digital Literacy
Get PDFEducation is a field of indispensable transformation. During the hard time of pandemic outbreak, the method of teaching and learning changed undeniably. What had caused the changes? The pandemic or the learning needs and practices of students. Students’ learning needs are, of course, a priority. What could be the ideal form of teaching learning when students are not able to attend their daily transaction of subject content? It\u27s only possible through the virtual mode. A very challenging period for the teaching fraternity, the student community, and the parents as well. Students must adapt themselves to virtual learning, and teachers must equip themselves with a new method of teaching. It is the parents\u27 responsibility to procure items that please their wards. The current scenario of teaching and learning is therefore reliant heavily on digital literacy skills. In every coin there is a flip side. Similarly, digital literacy also has its pros and cons. The objective of this paper is to bring to light the dark side of digital literacy
Social Alienation in “The Foreigner” A Novel by Arun Joshi
Get PDFThe alienation of men and women in society is conditionally contextualized according to past birth karma as a belief. Currently, men and women want to avoid being tortured, marginalized by society from a social point of view. Sometimes the situation is very critical and there are people who have suddenly lost everything. The belief is that costiveness will turn into an innovation. The crisis is that those who turned the progress of living it into an opportunity. Arun Joshi tried in his fiction novel “the Foreigner” with a character Sindi Oberoi who believed in the cyclical misfortune of losing his childhood family. The shelter collapsed from his head, and he was standing there thinking of a meaningless life and struggling to commit suicide. Everyone is alienated here from birth to death. Only our karma must live a segregated life that shines like gold.
 
Anita Desai’s Cry the Peacock: A Manifesto of Maya’s Psychological Predicament
Get PDFThe present paper aims to explore Anita Desai’s Debut novel, Cry, the Peacock as a manifesto of Maya’s psychological predicament. Cry, the Peacock is Anita Desai’s first novel published in 1963. Anita Desai is one of the most known and distinguished Indian English novelists with worldwide fame and name. She is gifted with extraordinary penetration and sharpness of vision. Her works have provided her with worldwide fame and attention. The novelist is accomplished with prospecting psychological insight. Majority of Anita Desai’s novels are the true and real manifesto of women’s situation and predicament. Cry, the Peacock is a manifesto of Maya’s psychological predicament. Desai’s has very well explored the inner or interior world of woman, her anger, frustration and storm raging inside her mind and heart through the protagonist of this novel. The novelist’s concern with the emancipation of Maya can be seen in almost every page of the work. She often peeps into the interior or inner psyche of her main characters instead of just focusing on the outer view. She is a master in composing the psychological novels. She very well knows how to explore the psychic depth of her main protagonists as well to analyse and examine their motives in details. The novelist is generally considered as a trendsetter in the area of psychoanalytic study. Through her extraordinary penetration of vision and sharpness, the novelist has brilliantly portrayed the inner turmoil going on in the psyche of Maya who is a hysterical personality. She is successful in bringing out the frustration, loneliness and claustrophobia of Maya
Female Autonomy in Anita Nair’s The Better Man and Cut-Like Wound
Get PDFIn any social set-up, women constitute the marginalised group. Women writers present themselves as an authoritative representative of woman’s consciousness. Anita Nair, the living woman writer of this century is a feminist with a difference. Few women characters of Anita Nair’s novels commit adultery and sacrilege to fulfil their desires as depicted in The Better Man and Cut Like Wound. As long as Anita Nair’s female characters confine to the leash of social norms and boundaries of women, they experience submission and slavery in their family and in the society. They go against the society to break this bondage.
 
Food as Signifier: A Semiotic Analysis of Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate
Get PDFFood is something that we all share. We all have a relationship with food and attitudes toward food, from the very beginning of our lives. It is considered essential for the existence of living things, giving nourishment with its nutritional qualities. But far more than its nourishment value, food has surfaced as an object of interest when people began to see it as a part of ‘culture.’ In a cultural setting, different types of food, culinary preparations, eating events, and rituals, and food celebrating occasions are signs/signifiers that generate network of meanings. Food is now recognized as an important area of study, in literature as well. Representation of food in fiction is intertwined with the issues of body, power, gender, class, religion and experience. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food represents complex ideas and deeper meaning in literature. In this paper, Laura Esquiel’s ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ is taken for analysis. The food signifiers in this novel are analyzed within the framework of cultural studies
Conceptualization of Death: Subjective Depictions in Selected Romantic Poems
Get PDFThe theme of death is highly philosophical in the poetry of the British Romanticists. This paper attempts to explore how the poets like Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Byron viewed death in their selected poems and the possibility of why they were interested in this particular theme. Their perceptions on death were varied and subjective. Wordsworth saw it as a punisher of crime. Shelley evoked the omnipresent nature of death. Byron saw it as a means of eternity to merge in love and Keats viewed it as an awakening to life that he sees as a mere dream. Despite the different analyses on death, these poets connect in the fact that they believed in some kind of a life beyond death
Himalayan Dreams-Travel Blogs as Cultural Constructs in Post -Truth Era
Get PDFTravel blogs can be considered as alternative literature. Travel blogs are the digitised version of travelogues or travel narratives. The blogs give impressive, cost effective and immediate impressions of travel. Earlier, the traveller prepares notes during the travel and writes it after reaching his native place. It involves revisualising the entire trip and jotting down the entire memories. The narration adds the real and the images he visualized. The narration will be a mix of myths and personal perspectives. The blogs are live reports of the travel. The rationale of the study understands the digital space and the awareness of “truth”. In the post truth era frontiers are blurred between truth and lie, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and non fiction
Journey Towards Self-realization in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner: A Comparative Study
Get PDFThe Prolific South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001) and the promising Afghan writer, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003) belong to New Literatures in English. The main characters in these two novels undertake their journey from their native place to foreign country in pursuit of happiness, place, prosperity and self-realization. This research paper attempts to make a comparison between Gordimer’s The Pickup and Hosseini’s The Kite Runner in terms of the journey undertaken by the protagonists Abdu and Julie of The Pickup and Amir of The Kite Runner though these two novels are set in a different background
Voice from the ‘Other’: A Feminist Reading of Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark
Get PDFThe concept ‘the Other’is a literary theory, which defines one’s identity among others. It explains the state of a person who is neglected or subordinated and displays how one feels as an alien by gender, caste, religion, culture, appearance, geography, ideology and so on. Doris Lessing’s novels are mostly concerned with human race and criticize the patriarchal society, where female does not get the recognition she is due. Instead of taking care of women, appreciating their talents and providing them freedom of expression and movement, the society makes them feel ‘the Other’. Lessing has crafted the novel, The Summer Before the Dark as to expose the fate of women, who are always submissive and unassertive to their husbands and children, thereby becoming insignificant to the society. This paper examines the status of Kate Brown in her family and in the society, where she is neglected and deprecated by her ungrateful husband and children by the frame of ‘The Other’/ ‘Otherness’
Hard Times as a Reflection of Victorian Society
Get PDFThe present paper aims to show that Hard Times depicts the reality of social prejudice in Britain during the Victorian era. In Hard Times, Dickens provides a vision into the Victorian world. Since the novel written when European Industrialization was at its pinnacle it is studied here how education system, utilitarian philosophy became futile having no human concern. In conclusion society and individual’s role has been firmly contemplated. He takes on the role of a social critic, criticizes the industrial revolution in England and reveals among the most vital issues of the time the modernization of human beings, social discrimination, extinction of fancy as a significance of industrialization, and the unfair position of women. Hard Times reflects how English people and society suffered poverty, harassment, and injustice of the industrial era. Dickens clearly stated his hate towards the divorce law which remains a pleasure of the rich people.In novel the hard worker are simply named as "Hands" with no feeling, which shows that they are included uniquely as far as work, creation and assembling. Except that they are not human beings. The novel is an important criticism against the economic disparity of the age where the rich are extremely rich and the poor have abject poverty, they can’t even have a square meal. All the system is against the blue-collar workers. The \u27Hands\u27 were constantly stifled by law, workers union and their employers. The novel is an excessive example of “attack on the utilitarian’ of the Victorian era, where emotions and feelings were not counted but only the working efficiency, facts, number and calculations were given more importance. The facts have substituted the love and feelings