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This is the part of my thinking activity which is given below link... Click here 1) How do you understand memory and history with reference to your reading of this novel. After reading this novel the understanding related to history and memory both have changed. I used to think about memory that it will at some extent forgotten but never distorted. After reading this novel I really feel that we also have those distorted memory, which we want to store as something which has actually not taken place. By doing that we are cheating our selves and others also. So memory and history both are connected. History is written from memory. Now we have seen in this novel how distorted memory can be stored by individual. If historians takes their statements in to consideration, we can not trust history either. In novel Tony says history is not lies of victors or self delusion of defeated, history is the memory of survivors. It is told by them who has not gone for fight from either side and ...

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1) Does the novel have social realism? If yes, illustrate. If no, what did you expect as social realism which is absent here. The realistic depiction in art of contemporary life as a means of social or political comment called the social realism. So, yes, the novel do have social realism. Chetan Bhagat has taken the side of young people and may be because of that, some people believe that the novel don’t has social realism but it do has. For example, when everyone are taking call centres in positive way, Chetan Bhagat takes the side of youth, understands their problems and he said that call centres are sweat shops.  Then break-ups, divorces, extra marital affairs and harassment of employee or job seekers. These all are happening in our society and that is what Bhagat has shown in his novel. Love and break-up of Priyanka and Shyam, Divorce of Radhika, Extra marital affair of Anuj, Bakshi’s harassment of Shyam and Vroom and also Esha’s molestation by some producer. By looking at a...

Hello Readers, Here I'm going to share one criticism's chapter - "From work to Text" by Rolland Barthes. ◆ About author : Rolland Gerard Barthes was born on 12th Nov. 1915 & died on 26th March, 1980. He was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguistic, critic and semiotician. To know more about him please ... Click here... ◆ Introduction :  Rolland Barthes's essay called 'From Work To Text' gives an in depth view and compare & contrast between work and text. He starts off by giving an introduction to explain that there is this new component that was once not so obvious. ● This essay based on this seven theories : 1. Method 2. Genre 3. Signs 4. Plurality 5. Filiation 6. Reading 7. Plesure 1. Method : Text is not a defined object. It would be useless to attempt a material separation of works and texts. One must take particular care not to say that works are classical while texts are avant garde. The work is concret...

Hello Reders, Here I'm going to share one poem named - I Love all Beauteous Things written by Robert Bridges. ◆ Introduction :- Robert Bridges was a British poet, and poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. As a poet Bridges stands rather apar5 from the current of modern English verse. To know more about this author Click here... ◆ Poem : I love All Beauteous Things "I love all Beauteous Things" by Bridges is a poem based on a very simple but extremely effective theme devided into 2 stanzas. It deels with human being and their mind-set with regard to the natural things around.    Here the poet says that all of us are so engrossed in our daily lives that we find no time to appreciate beauty gifted to us by God. ● In the very first stanza , the poet opens the poem with its title and says that he is always in search of beautiful things in the nature around & he strogly belives that god has gifted human beings with natural beauty around but because we are s...

◆ Introduction :- La Belle Dame Sans Mercy as a poem of sensibility. This poem written by John Keats. The poem is decided in to 12 stanzas with the rhyme scheme ABCB. Basically a French title which converted into English means "The beautiful lady without Mercy". ◆ Poem: ●Introduction:-  The speaker meets a knight by a lake in Autumn. The narrator of the poem initially comes across the knight who is evidently dying. On asking, the knight narrates his suffering by saying that he met a beautiful wild looking woman in the meadow. He spent a lot of time with and praised her with flower. She didn't speak much, but it was apparent that she loved him. He gave her his horse to ride and he walks besides him. He saw nothing but her because she leaned over on his face and sang a mysterious song.    She speak a language that he couldn't understand but he was confident then she said she loved him. He kissed her to sleep and slept himself. All pale in death. ● ...

Hello Readers, Here I'm going to share one poem named "Conscience" which is written by Henry David Thoreau. ◆ Introduction :- Henry David Thoreau was an American author , poet, philosopher, naturalist, tax rasistar , surveyor, critic and historian. To know more about him... Click here... ◆ Conscience : In this poem "Conscience" stands for Inner sense and indirectly also ask the question :  " Do I have my own Conscience ? "    The very first problem is society itself. Because there are innumerable tabboosin society and also confusion which suggest that life is not rhythmic. It is also said that conscience is based on fear not love.    This poem also talks about individuality because in society what happens with every individuality is that he/she does not sustain any individuality. There is no among people. He directly asked the question like ... " Where is your individuality? "   The poem is actually in the form of d...

Hello Readers, Here I'm going to share my BA text named "The Hairy Ape". Let's have look at....below... ◆ Introduction :- This play - " The Hairy Ape" was written by an American playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, Eugene O'Neil. He use to write political plays and he was the one who introduced it into American drama technique. Major topic of his writing is realism and social issue. He use to pen character who are struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillustionment and despair.   " The Hairy Ape"  is also a part of his league of plays with realism and social issue. This play is about a british, unthinking labourer named Yank. He is searching for his belongingness. At the end , he knew that he was no belonging and he is just an ape as per society. ◆ Title of the play : " The Hairy Ape"  The title of literary work should be appropriate and suggestive. Most of the time, th...

Hello Readers, Here I'm sharing novel " Far From the Madding Crowd" written by Thomas Hardy. ● About Author:- The author , Thomas Hardy of this novel - "Far from the Madding Crowd" was an English novelist and poet, who set much of his work in Wessex, his name of the counties of southwestern England. He was an architecture by profession but from his soul. He was a Pure artist. He wrote poems but he was not get that position among literary writers. So he drow his attention towards novels and got name and fame as writer with the help of short-stories became famous among readers. ◆ About This novel : Far From the Madding Crowd    This novel is one of the best novel written by him. Main characters of this novel Bathsheba Everdene protagonist of the novel. We can even say that Hardy tries to write feminist novel because during the time of this novel - 1873 , we cannot find so many novel in which female character is in the center. As most of Hardy's ...