Review about The Old Man and The Sea and Frenkenstein

Old man and the sea: Generally we can see that young man as a main character in the novel and drama while in this novel there is one change. Old man is the main hero or character in this novel. And there are some other character like Manolin and Marlie. This novel is like struggle of old man. He struggle throughout eighty four days. He not gets single fish and yet he will try every day (continuously eighty four days).  He struggle with fish and before he kill that fish he speak one dialogue as under,

Old man: I like you, I love you but I will kill you.

          And from this dialogue we can say that he accept that what he is doing? But in our life we can see that we can’t accept that we are doing that wrong thing. And we feel that we are doing some good thing. Example is that we are watering to plants and we feel that we are doing for them. But it is not right we save trees because we need it. So indirectly we are selfish. And I learnt this thing from this novel. So we can say that literature is useful for us not harmful to us if we take it rightly.

Frankenstein: We can say that it is related with science or scientific novel. In this novel we can see great invention by Victor. He creates a human being, and through that invention he wants to be powerful and get respect from others. But what happened that his creation become curse for him. He create monster and then he want lady monster but Victor deny creating and that’s why that monster kill some family members of Victor. Then his whole family died because of some reasons which are related with Monster. And that’s why we can say that his own creation become curse for him as same in the Hindi movie ‘Victor’.

          There is one proverb in Gujrti like ‘ Je poshtu te maratu e kram dise kudrati’. And it is applied here in this novel. So from this novel we know that so much use of technology is also harmful for our life. And one other thing is that women characters are silent in this novel. But by story wise this novel is wonderful novel and also interesting one.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

~ Review of the novel ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.

       This novel is written by Thomas Hardy. The original title of the novel is ‘The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge’. We can see the interpretation of Wessex area. This is the story of Michael Henchard who quarrels with his wife Susan. And then he decided to auction off his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane to a sailor, Mr. Newson and get five guineas from him. On the next day when he recover from drunk at that time he realize that his wife and daughter gone and then he take a vow before God in this solemn place that ‘I will avoid all strong drink for twenty-one years to come’.

       Then, eighteen years later he became successful grain merchant, or Mayor of Casterbridge. And he kept secret of ‘loss’ of his wife. In Casterbridge people believe he is a widower. Then while travelling to the island of Jersey on business he fall in love with Lucette, then she want to marry him but there is an obvious problem that Henchard is already technically married. And if you want to know about it so please read it.

       And critically we can see that in this novel woman treated as any material thing and Henchard treated her as material and sell her to merchant. So in this novel also we can see the condition of the woman. And also many other things we can see in this novel so please read it.

       

Where is Happiness

~ Where is happiness?

      There are two types of happiness 1) Happiness for while, 2) Contemporary happiness. We want to be happy and we are happy when we get new clothes, mobile, laptop, etc. And it means that happiness for while because when our mobile and all other things become old so once again we want to buy new one. If any poor person is walking on the road and other rich person sitting in the car it not mean that poor person is not happy and rich one is happy. Because of our happiness is not in deadly things.

      If we ask about contemporary happiness then we can say that it is within us. We can’t find it here and there because it is within us or perhaps it is related with our mind, we are happy or unhappy because of our self so don’t try to find it everywhere but just look at our own self. And it my view regarding this thing so if you like it then take it otherwise left it.

     

~ Applying of Archetypal criticism in the drama ‘HAYAVADANA’ which is written by Girish Karnad.

~ Over view of the story ‘HAYAVADANA’.

       It is a play written by Karnad from the base of Indian ancient stories collection in Sanskrit ‘KATHASARITSAGAR’. But Karnad borrowed it through Thomas Mann’s retelling of the story in THE TRANSPOSED HEADS. Karnad’s play poses a problem, that of human identity in a world of tangled relationships.

       The play opens with the friendship of Devadatta and Kapila ‘one mind, one heart’. Devadatta a man of intellect, Kapila a ‘man of body’. Then after some time Devadatta marries Padmini and Kapila also fall in love with Padmini. So their relation becomes more complicated. Then both the friends kill themselves, and then Padmini get bliss from the mother Kali to live them once again. But Padmini transposed their heads, giving Devadatta Kapila’s body and Kapila Devadatta’s. Result is the confusion of identities that who is Kapila and who is Devadatta.Initially both the friends behave differently but after passing sometimes they look like as usual after some troubles. But Padmini felt the complete man from those both. And she has experience of complete man. Then she is going in the forest to meet Kapila and Devadatta also going behind her. So once again they fight and kill each other and Padmini become ‘Sati’ after their death.

       There is also one sub-plot ‘Hayavadana’. The horse man it means significant theme of the incompleteness by treating it. That horse man search completeness and end with comically. It means we find story within a story in this play. So this is the over view story of this play.

~ Applying Northrop Fry’s the Archetypal criticism in this play ‘HAYAVADANA’.

       As we know that archetypal criticism means related with the original idea. For example our development from the idea which is already Laing in the world, our birth – youth- death, as same in the drama rising – climax – falling. Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics but in real sense he is learning nature while for students of literature take it different. We can also find some threads related the history in this drama. The story of Lord Ganesh ‘transposed head’. We can find that myth in this drama heads transposed of those friends – Devdatta and Kapila. And it also connected with Philosophy like Padmini commit a mistake selfish that she want complete husband and so she must be punish. We find tragic end of Padmini in this play. We also apply Inductive method in this drama that in last some pages there is one scene ‘Kapila picking up an axe and felling a tree. A long silence. Only the soundless image of Kapila cutting the tree’. And then their relation fall down. Both the friends kill each other and Padmini perform ‘Sati’. So from that symbol or reading of back ground we know that the tragic end will happen. Then deductive method. How we apply in the drama. We know that if we want to observe any painting so that complete place is need able. And if we want to listen any music so time is important. It means music related with time and painting related with space.

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 And literature is in between them that it related with both the things time and space. It means we must understand rhythm and pattern. So pattern of the play and rhythm means after completing the play we observe rhythm.

 In many literatures we also observe the falling of hero because of his love. Not only the love for beloved but also the love for knowledge for example Dr. Faustus. As same in this drama their friendship breaks because their love of Padmini.

       So, this I can understand in this drama.

Review of Lok Gunjan

Lok Gunjan

        It is a wonderful collection of various lyrics, hymn, crotchet, etc. It is published by Lokbharati Sanosara. There are four editors of this book Bhavana Pathak, Hajibhai Badi, Hasit Maheta, Champak Soni and three edition of this book.

        There are total three hundred zero six lyrics in this book. There are thirty six prayers, ten morning songs, thirty three Nature songs, sixty five hymns, fifty five lyric songs, fourteen Gandhi songs, forty four child songs and twenty one folk songs. And my favorite song is ‘Tame re Sundarvan na Sudala’ from the book Lok Gunjan. There are many other beautiful songs in this book.