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Second Coming - Yeats

Second Coming ( Yeats) Post war narrative  Major symbol of gyre used Book of apocalypse references which discusses about end of world as the world was created in 7 days it will be destroy one day  Anti- Christ the evil present. In other scriptures it is referred as Dajjal( embodiment of all evil which wants to control the whole world) To fight this dajjal the second Coming of Christ takes place. Stanza 1-  spiral movement of gyre represent movement of life . With that movement what it was holding falls apart. You can't put it together even if you try to. What follows is just existence of anarchy. It is am ocean full of violence, it is soaked in blood. A tidal wave that smeared in blood is loose in this world and whole innocence drown into it. It is an age devoid of determination. While the evils are full of passionate intensity they are out here to show their violence.  Stanza 2. It is the time when something terrible is about to unfold. Something is gonna happen fro...

Fefu and Friends

 Fefu and Friends- -Act 2- total 4 scenes Idea of gender role reversals like Sultana's dream (pg 15) Idea of what she desires, she talks about suppression of desires and concept of patriarchy. Even if she desires to be a man she have to pay for it.  Patriarchy acting as a mental guardian . Patriarchy is the very source of her madness.  Julia has a very peculiar kinda condition. She ends up being disable. Disability here is projected here as a metaphor to describe the punitative action of the imagined judges out of patriarchy. Disability is kind of a punishment here . It isn't a desirable thing. The writer is picking up a very discussed topic of disability seen as an undesirable trait.  Writer is celebrating Julia's character as a punished being who tries to challenge patriarchy.  The interactive type of theatrical performance where the audiences are divided in small groups to watch all the acts simultaneously. Epic theater- Bertolt Brecht - the idea of alienat...

The Yellow Wallpaper

 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman  Author   July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935 American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. During Charlotte's infancy, her father moved out and abandoned his wife and children, and the remainder of her childhood was spent in poverty.[1] the Perkinses were often in the presence of her father's aunts that included education activist Catharine Beecher, suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker, and, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. she lived a childhood of isolated, impoverished loneliness, she unknowingly prepared herself for the life that lay ahead by frequently visiting the public library and studying ancient civilizations on her own. 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson, Their only child, Kath...

Dalit Literature

Namdev Dhassel 1949-2014 From Maharashtra Dalit activist Militant dalit organisation - dalit panthers along with Raja dhale and Arjun Dangle , JV pawar - may 29 ,1972  Drew upon SC community of Mahars in Maharashtra Gained prominence in 1990s March 1977 came to an end But it is mutated versions were still there in state of Gujarat Maharashtra have highest population of Dalits ( Mahars majority) Babashaheb and Gandhi started there fight against untouchability together but Gandhi was not certain abt the difference between racial and caste discrimination. The connection between class and caste is major. Graded inequality prevails in India. 1956 Babashaheb died Entry into well and temples was a initial move to equality Gandhi was not a man of well education Whereas Babashaheb was a scholar with great ideas of French revolution. Gandhi was political more into religious sentiments. He always wanted a sentimental reason. His approach was always moral and spiritual. 1950 - Babashaheb ...

Jane Eyre

Addressing readers in ch 10 Fairy talking to her abt placement and stuff- advertisment Gothic aspect comes from the screaming and dreaming out there in Jane's lyf. Feminist aspect can arise from - lively experience The recommendation letter- Jane analysing the handwriting estimating it to be a elderly woman, imaginative part  Adventures as escape Chapter 11 The dark and light theme brings out gothic motif . Clocked and experienced time (duree)- Henry Bergson  a)objective which is measured b) lived time Pg91 Jane curiosity - extreme Curiosity a gendered thing  Omniscient narrator moulding the perceptios of readers  Attic- store where useless things kept ( Bertha considered a useless entity for Rochester) Shrine of memory- Thornfield Laughter as gendered thing  Henry James- turn of the screw  Transgression  Gytrash    Pg109 - painting skills : she paints vividly , draws her dreams, unconscious mind.  Her Paintings depicting inner spirit an...

Gulivers Travel

Swift is drawing parlell between contemporary period- academy of Lagado similar to Experimentation by royal society of London .  Experimentation mere wastage of human power comments Swift, coz they are divorced from reality. Political problems highlighted.  Knowledge of ancient and modern debate Purpose of engine / machinery - context of book writing , phrasing etc  Writing for the political parties  Mechanical book production  Why to waste money into printing of books when people aren't interested in buying.  Modest proposal by Swift - abt Ireland's economic crises.  Against writing pamphlet who jus wrote for the sake of writing  Idea of political projectors - absurd idea of adding different political parties representatives brain Pride over history Pride over scientific research Pride over political science Pride over historical knowledge He considered that this historical heros are celebrated in history coz of some fate or luck otherwise th...