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The White Tiger: A Novel with Paradox & Irony
Get PDFThe White Tiger is an epistolary novel in seven parts with shocking fictional narrative. The protagonist Balram is an anti-hero, cleverly escapes from his crime; his innocence gone with the taste of fugitive life and become a criminal; boosted never to be catch by police. Balram’s journey starts from Laxmangarh to Delhi and to Bangalore. The writer presents a riveting tale of the realistic anti-hero Balram Halwai, who although born in the most humble surrounding, ambitions to rise above his predetermined fate to be born and die in “the darkness” and achieves it through his ruthless planning of the murder of his master Ashok. Balrams’ ascend represents subalterns’ progress in post colonial world; it is a protest that no bigotry any more is tolerable. He broke ‘the Rooster Coop’ and became The White Tiger. Balram’s acts are the product of age old resentment of marginalised generations; exhibit revenge therapy. This work advocates wild justice. This novel is well stuffed with paradox and irony
Repression and Resistance in Dalit Feminist Literature
Get PDFFeminist movements and Dalit feminist movement in India are mainly based on the experience of Repression and gender discrimination. Patriarchy, gender disparity and sexual violence are the basic reasons for these movements and they also find place prominently in the writings of Dalit women as they have come forward to write their experiences from women's point of view around 1980s. Baby Kamble, Urmila Pawar in Marathi, Geeta Nagabhushan in Kannada, P. Shivakami, Bama in Tamil have got national level consideration. Dalit women were raped; insulted and abused by the upper caste people. They are insecure in the society as they have been exploited on the various levels. This feeling of insecurity of the Dalit women is the central theme of their writings. These women writers have come forward to express their ideas, their experiences in social violence as well as in domestic violence and thus they protest their traditional existence with anger and anguish. Geeta Nagabhushan’s dalit novels, Barna’s Sangati (2005), P. Shivakani's Grip of Change (2006) are initial important writings of dalit feminism; Datit feminism writing is different from the conventional way of Feminist writing. Their experiences, expression, method of narration are extremely different from the upper caste women writers. It is found that every woman in the world has been degraded to second grade citizenship. The Dalit women in India suffer more due to their Dalit identity
Freud's dream analysis of "Tell Me Your Dreams" by Sydney Sheldon
Get PDFAs humans, our minds are divided into various different parts, and it is often our experiences that help shape the person we are. "Sigmund Freud viewed dreams as "the royal road" to the unconscious and developed dream analysis, or dream interpretation, as a way of tapping into this unconscious material." (Aurora, 389-410). This paper tries to analyze the different identities that reside within Ashley Patterson, the protagonist in "Tell Me Your Dreams," a masterpiece by none other than Sydney Sheldon, how Freud's dream analysis help us understand the chaotic state of Ashley's mind and bring us closer to the origin of her nightmares. This paper will closely review the novella by Sheldon. Keeping it as the primary source, the report will uncover the various conditions that can trigger the defense mechanism of our ego and create multiple personalities as a result. It is a descriptive paper as the writer obtains information from reviewing earlier works and the novel at large and draws a conclusion using it. The research technique used for the report is an extensive study of various library and scholarly articles on similar topics, information is gathered in the forms of books, articles, encyclopedias, or literary reviews that may have related to this study are collected and taken as the sources
In Pursuit of Identity and Survival: Deciphering the Existential Concerns in the Movie Forrest Gump
Get PDFToday, the life is full of struggles, negativity, competitions, and failures. We all need to remain motivated either by self or others. The film, "Forrest Gump", deals with finding the true meaning of the life despite facing numerous hurdles. It encourages never to stop and cry over the past experiences. The story is about a man named Forrest Gump. He was born with disabled legs and had a very low IQ of 75. No-one could ever imagine that one day, he will be a billionaire. The film teaches, the importance of life, that it is like a chocolate box, no one knows what will come next. To get rid of all the pains, we have to bury our past and just move forward. The film depicts the importance of hard work without desiring anything out of it. It also teaches that, our destiny is the result of how we used the opportunities and never missed any opportunity. The characters of the film whether Forrest Gump or Lieutenant Dan, all are very inspiring and motivating. The hard work without any desire makes Forrest, a billionaire. He never desired of anything, but got everything in his life. This film is the beautiful portrayal of the life during present scenario. It perfectly fits in today's world and is applicable to inspire the next generations. The film, also touches the aspects of Karma-theory as mentioned in the 'Bhagwat Geeta' that we should do hard work without having any desire and this will lead to the success. Forrest's unconventional love for Jenny melts my heart. Every scene of the film depicts the different colors and shades of life. The film teaches, how to deal with the problems of life, as Forrest said, "Shit Happens". This shows that, we should keep positive attitude towards life. The phrase, "Run Forrest, Run" said by Jenny, holds a deep meaning that we should keep moving forward without looking back. After all, we are intelligent enough and it is on us how much we apply it
Gendered Violence: A Look at Northeast Women’s Writing as Literary Interventions
Get PDFThere are more than enough writings and debates on political conflict and violence in the Northeast region of India, but violence targeted at women specifically, has not received equal attention. This paper aims to initiate honest and serious critical examinations about sexual abuse and other forms of gendered violence that are inflicted on women in these communities, but which continues to remain like a taboo subject. Violence against women in Northeast has roots deep in cultural and colonial history. Set against this context, the paper is based on a framework of referencing literary studies and intersecting it with empirical evidence from other relevant studies. The literary works are all based on actual lived experiences of women. Hence these writings also intersect with and validate the social reality of our times. It also highlights how Northeast women writers have been voicing and questioning the silence and shame attached to this issue through their writings. The paper contends that these significant literary interventions into gendered violence are noteworthy and point to the need for understanding the experiences of tribal Northeast women from their specific context
The Plight of the Female Protagonist Depicted in Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing
Get PDFThe Woman is a God-given boon to mankind. She is the most lively and endearing personality on the earth because of her never-ending compassion and her care for fellow human beings. She is such a protective shield for humanity that tolerates everything with a smile. But ironically this male-dominated society has been harming, crushing, and suppressing its armor for centuries. The status of a woman in our society is still debatable. A woman sacrifices her desires, aspirations, and ambitions at every phase of her life sometimes by being a daughter, a wife, a sister, or a mother. From time to time woman finds herself in such an odd and precarious situation that later causes her plight. The present paper attempts to explain the plight of the female protagonist, Mary Turner in the novel The Grass Is Singing written by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing
Impact of Globalization in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Centre
Get PDFLiterary genius of Indians has been widely appreciated all over the world. The prestigious titles starting from Nobel Prize to Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize are bestowed to Indian writers. It becomes very common phenomenon to nominate Indian writers for such honors in the world literature. Chetan Bhagat emerged as youth icon to contrive undercurrents of transformation evident in young generation of India. This paper is a modest attempt to trace out impact of globalization in Bhagat’s novel One Night @the Call Center
Quest for Identity and Individuality in Radaw Ashour's Granada
Get PDFThis paper discusses the concept of identity in Radwa Ashour's novel Granada. Ashour in this novel explores the suppress potential of her female characters to maintain their cultural and national identity in time of crises. In this novel Ashour presents both of Saleema and Maryama as active figures. Despite the oppression and the marginalization, they capable to engage in the social life and get things accomplished. Ashour in this novel exposes the hidden stories of these female characters, whose daily activities are quiet important to the function of the society. In this regard, I have use Judith butler's theory of feminism and the subversion of identity with references to Julia Krestiva's notion of semiotic approach and Paula Moya's notion of identity to analyze the characters of Saleema and Maryama in Ashour's novel Granada
Shifting of Language Teaching Methodology from Traditional Classroom to Virtual Classroom
Get PDFA new paradigm in the field of education has been noticed since last few years. The educators have accepted that they have to indulge themselves in technology based education with innovative methodology to challenge the current need and to coexist in the modified world. The instructors and the learners shift from traditional method to virtual method of teaching learning by adapting the conditional role of staying at home for the pandemic of corona virus all over the world and subsequently have understood the flexibility nature of teaching learning on this way. However, this is a challenging phase to shift educational environment from contemporary traditional classroom to a technology oriented learner centred classroom. Here, the teachers need to expertise on technological use, methodology of teaching, instructional strategy, and assessment and evaluation system and so on. This paper mainly aims to focus on methodological transformation in language teaching. For this study, information is collected from internet sources, books, newspaper article, lectures, and workshops
Formation of Identity through the Presentation of Motherhood in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age
Get PDFTahmima Anam is the first Bangladeshi novelist in English who draws international attention to the Liberation war of 1971 of Bangladesh through the publication of her first novel A Golden Age in 2007. The Liberation war is replete with the incident of genocide, rape, inhuman torture, abductions etc. The war has instilled a kind of horror into the psyche of Bangladeshi people. During the war the Muslim majority of people of East Pakistan are in an acute identity crisis. Pakistan was formed on the basis of religion Islam. But even religion cannot unite the two wings of Pakistan. Therefore people are in an identity dilemma between religion and nationalism. They are also in a fix as to whom to support- East or West Pakistan. Anam captures this particular complexity in her novel through the protagonist Rehana Haque. In this paper, I will bring forth the complexity of identity formation through the depiction of motherhood of Rehana Haque from feministic standpoint