English Literature: September 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

HEDDA GABLER BY HENRIK IBSEN, IMPORTANT POINTS

1.       Cock of the yard - Judge Brack
2.      Triangle is based on mutual understanding - Judge Brack
3.      "people don't shoot their pet rooster" and certainly not their cock of the walk.
4.      Hedda Gabler - i'm burning you child
5.      Hedda seems to be extremely angry people calling books and words as child and as something really important than a human
6.      Childish happy -- Tesman seems to be -- when Hedda Gabler tells him that he has burnt Eilert manuscript for his sake.
7.      Hedda "at last such beauty" "Eilert had the courage to do one right thing"
8.      Then hedda regrets doing that
9.      "everything i touch becomes ludicrous and despicable" - Hedda says that, when Judge Brack tells Hedda that the pistol in Eilert pocket accidentally went off
10. "no longer free, not free, i can't bear that though" - when judge tells that he recognizes the picture
11. George Tesman - concerned about his studies, his family, aunt julie, aunt rina and money
12. Aunt Julie - concerned about george, misses him
13. Berta - diligent servant, always trying to please
14. Judge Brack - flirtious - cock
15. Elvsted lovborg - drunkard genius, now sober but in trouble
16. Hedda Tesman - vine leaves ; Dinoysian self (god of merrry making and wine)- aristocrat, pregnant, unhappy with life - cannot get what she needs from Tesman - her material desires Tesman cannot fulfill,

Monday, September 27, 2010

PERCEPTIONS: OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY

if you believe in religion being objective then you must believe that you are taking subjectivity/ digesting things subjectively in your own way.

So, religion stays religion, but every religion is dependent on our perceptions. You will perceive a moving train differently when you are standing at a higher platform, you'll see the train as an oblong and when you are standing and the train is static as well, you will perceive it as a rectangle.

Einstein theory of Relativity, if it's so. Let me see it on google.

Here are two excerpts from perkel.com

"Isaac Newton was our first scientists to dabble in relativity (not Einstein relativity) in that he discovered that speed and distance traveled were dependent on the frame of reference of the observer. For example, if you are on a train and you roll a ball in the same direction the train is moving at a speed of 5 feet per second, you will observe the ball moving 5 feet in one second. Suppose however that the train is moving down the tracks at 10 feet per second. A person standing next to the tracks will observe the ball moving at 15 feet per second and traveling 15 feet in the same one second. So who's right? The both are, but from their own frame of reference."

"According to relativity, there is no such thing as absolute space and absolute speed. If these things don't exist, then there can never be a way to measure any changes caused by speed. If relative space and time don't exist, then it is necessary that the laws of physics appear to be identical to all moving observers so that you can't measure something that doesn't exist. If you can measure something, then it's real. For something to not be real requires that it can't be measured. Thus in order for absolute space and speed to be not real means that no measurable changes can occur that would allow you to calculate it. Thus the concept of the laws of physics appearing the same and the lack of absolute space and speed are linked. Relativity depends on the lack of absolute references."

And perceptions are deceiving.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

TONI MORRISON AND WRITERS LIKE HER

Afro-American writer, an activist, Toni Morrison has authored nine novels in total. Let me see wikipedia for it. Okay! copied from wikipedia these list of books. Here is the list of six books.

Novels : Six Novels, I am presenting the facts, that I want to share, which I think everyone should remember (apart from every other thing in the novel)

The Bluest Eye (1970; ISBN 0-452-28706-5)

Ok! I am adding the description of all of the novels. Then, again my source is wikipedia, which is not appreciated by critics or anyone from literary background or knowledge. Forget about this. Let me write something.

Ok! the novel is based on the perspective of Claudia MacTeer as a child and as an adult on racism, incest, and child molestation.

Sula (1974; ISBN 1-4000-3343-8)

Sula Peace: the main protagonist, who affects the whole town of Medallion with her return.

Song of Solomon (1977; ISBN 1-4000-3342-X)

The main theme in the novel is Milkman's quest for identity as a black man in the 20th-century United States, as he slowly tries to piece together the history of his ancestors. He does this by taking a journey into his father and aunt's past, searching for origins.
The main character, Macon "Milkman" Dead III, derives his nickname from the fact that he was breastfed for far too long.

Tar Baby (1981; ISBN 1-4000-3344-6)

Love affair.
The struggle of Jadine and Son reveals the pain, struggle, and compromises confronting Black Americans seeking to live and love with integrity in the United States.

Beloved (1987; ISBN 1-4000-3341-1)

Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner,

Major Themes:

Mother-daughter relationships
Psychological impact of slavery

Jazz (1992; ISBN 1-4000-7621-8)

The novel deliberately mirrors the music of its title, with various characters "improvising" solo compositions that fit together late a whole work.
One of the main themes of the novel is purgatory and the cathartic ability of Jazz music.

Major themes according to gradesaver.com: Youth Vs. Age, Music and Memory

http://www.gradesaver.com/jazz/study-guide/major-themes/

Sorry, I didn't give you examples because I can't write now. Thankyou.

Paradise (1999; ISBN 0-679-43374-0)

The novel tells the story of the tension between the men of Ruby, Oklahoma (an all-black town^[2] founded in 1950) and a group of women who lived in a former convent seventeen miles away.

Love (2003; ISBN 0-375-40944-0)

Love is the story of Bill Cosey, a charismatic but dead hotel owner. Or rather, it is about the people around him, all affected by his life — even long after his death.

A Mercy (2008; ISBN 978-0-307-26423-7)

A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery in early America. It is both the story of mothers and daughters and the story of a primitive America.