Thinking Activity :- view on marriage system

Thinking Activity :- view on marriage system

Hello readers! 

                     Here I would like to write blog about marriage system. We have task about ask to people about their opinion of marriage. In the novel 'sense and sensibility' we can see the marriage issue. So this task is given given by Hinaba zala proffesor of English Department. 

' sense and sensibility' 

                            
                          'sense and sensibility', novel written by Jane Austen. In this novel published anonymously in three volume in 1811. And that became a classic. 'sense and sensibility revolves around marriage. The novel begins with Elinor and Marianne as unmarried but eligible young woman and only concludes when both of them settle into marriages.

• My opinion about marriage

          

                   According to my opinion about marriage. In Indian culture, marriage is considered a sacrament. Everyone who has to go through it. In my view, marriage is a scared relationship that involves sweetness and love, sorrow and new experiences and adaptations. There is something in the marriage that is the responsibility of the two men to live together. There are two things in all things, happiness and sorrow. The spouse should cooperate and with the situation. 

   

                  Everyone is saying that getting annoyed after marriage. Not one percent is true because such as person does not really understand responsibility or does not havs the ability to take responsibility. 

• People's view on marriage 

                I have got some  opinions of peoples about the marriage and marriage system and also many issues about marriage. 

Hetal Ramani

                       Knowing my opinion about marriage. Marriage is a basic necessity of every society. Every one marries and runs his own family. Love marriage is increasing due to the marriage of the father in the past and today for social media and many other reasons. Although it is not arrange marriage two people understand each other and give life support. I think everyone must marry. 

   

                       In the modern age, the education of women is increasing in the age. So they marry at an older age but marriage is a connection of two souls and prices are not closed. In our scriptures, marriage is also considered a sacrament. 

• Jaydeep Dangar

મારા મત મુજબ લગ્ન એક પ્રકારનું લગ્ન જીવન અથવા સિસ્ટમ છે જેણે યુનિયન બનાવ્યું અથવા પવિત્ર સંબંધ બનાવ્યો.  લગ્ન સિસ્ટમ દ્વારા જોન્ટ પછી બંને પાત્રો ઇચ્છા, બલિદાન, તેમની આદત અથવા જીવનને પરિપૂર્ણ કરવા માટે તૈયાર રહે છે.

 હું માનું છું કે લગ્ન જીવન સારું છે કારણ કે અમારા માતાપિતાને અનુભવ છે અથવા તેઓ તે રીતે પસાર થઈ ગયા છે તેથી તેઓ તેમના બાળકો વિશે ક્યારેય ખરાબ વિચારતા નથી તેથી તેઓ તેમના બાળકો માટે તે પ્રકારનું પાત્ર પસંદ કરે છે જે આપણા માટે ભવિષ્યમાં યોગ્ય હોઈ શકે.

 પ્રેમ લગ્નમાં કોઈક વાર લોકો પ્રેમ વિશે બરાબર સમજી શકતા નથી કારણ કે પ્રેમ અને શારીરિક આકર્ષણ વચ્ચે નાના તફાવત હોય છે તેથી યુવાનની ઉંમરે તેઓ સામાન્ય રીતે શારીરિક આકર્ષણ દ્વારા પાત્ર પસંદ કરે છે પણ પ્રેમ દ્વારા નહીં.  લવ મેરેજ પછી તેમની પૂર્ણ મહત્વાકાંક્ષા, તેઓ દરેકને ધિક્કારે છે કારણ કે તેઓ પ્રેમ શું છે તે સમજી શકતા નથી.

• Nishant Goswami 

In India we know that from ancient time our marriage system is ruined because of many reason dowery system is one example of themPeople in India ask for huge amount of dowery which spoils the marriage of individual Second thing since we are living in modern society people are well educated but then also girls have less freedom they are forcefully get married after 12th which is very bad at least if they complete graduation then they can be self independent and they can survive individually in the society.See marriage system in India is in very bad situation still.Specially for girls.

So hear I found some opinion on marriage system. View's on married and unmarried people. 

                                 Thank you... 

Paper - 8 cultural studies assignment

• Paper :- 8 cultural studies

• Name :- Hitixa Goswami

• Class :- M. A. Sam 2

• Roll No :- 8

• Enrollment No :- 2069108420200013

• Subject :Cultural studies

• Assignment Topic :- Five types of cultural studies

• Email:- hitixagoswami28@gamil

• Submitted to :-S.B.GARDI, Department of English Bhavnagar University

• World :-1212

Introduction

                         Culture is the world which is next to impossible to describe in one word. Culture is something which reflects in your identity. In dictionary cultural means the art, customs, lifestyles, background and habits that characterize a particular society or nation. It we go deeper in meaning of cultural studies than we find that culture cultural studies is an academic field of critical theory and literary criticism initially introduced by British academic in 1964 and subsequently adopted by allied academic through out the world. 

• Definition of culture 

           “ culture is the abstract, learned, shared rules and standards for generating behavior and understanding experience”

• Definition of cultural studies 

                  “ cultural studies is an innovative interdisciplinary field of research and teaching that investigates the ways in which ‘culture’ creates and transform individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power”

                            Culture is mad by different types of group of people, defined by every thing from language, religion, food, social lifestyle, music and arts. Today, In the United States as in other countries populated largely by immigrants, the culture is made by the many groups of people who are leading the country, and there are some types of culture like, 

• Five types of cultural studies 

             There are five types of cultural studies. Now let’s chek it out that how these five types of cultural studies differs from the other one.

1. British cultural materialism

2. New Historicism 

3. American multiculturalism 

4. Post modernism and popular culture 

5. Post colonial studies. 

1. British cultural materialism 

       

                        Cultural studies is referred to as “cultural materialism” in Britain, and it has a long tradition. In the later nineteenth century Matthew Arnold sought to redefine the “ givens of British culture. 

     

                       Cultural materialism began in earnest in the 1950s with the work of F. R. Leavis heavily influence by Matthew Arnold’s analysis of bourgeois culture. Centralism says that the best way to understanding human culture is to examine material condition cultural materialism makes analysis based in critical theory in the tradition of Frankfurt school. 

                     Cultural studies also turned to the more humanized and even spiritual insights of the great students of Rabelais and Dostoevsky, In modern Britain two trajectories for “culture “developed one led back to the Dast and the feudal hierarchies that ordered community in the past : here, culture acted in its sacred function as preservation of the past cultural materialism also complete whole whose includes knowledge, belief or morals.

2. New Historicism 

   

                              New Historicism Is a school of literary theory which consolidates critical theory into easier forms of practice for academic literary theoriest of the 1905 it first developed in the 1980s. Primarily though the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the following decade. 

   

                        New Historicism is often criticized for lacking a group of historiography as practiced by professional historians As a postmodern from of historiography, new historicism denies the grand narrative of modernity, often taking relativist stance which deny scientific trans historical concept or social forms.  

“ The text is historical, and history textual”

 “ History is always historicized” 

- Michael warner phrases

         

                    Much new historicism focuses on the marginalization of subjects such as those identified as withes, the insane, heretics, vagabonds, and political prisoners. New Historicist seek “surprising coincidence” that may cross generic, historical and cultural lines in borrowings of metaphor ceremony or popular culture. H Aram verse introducing an anthropology of essays, the new historicism noted some keys assumption that continuously reappears in new historicists discourse. 

3. American multiculturalism

   

                   First we know what is multiculturalism?

“ multiculturalism is involving or relating to several ethnic groups or cultural groups within a society. It includes people who have many different beliefs and customs. It could be designed for cultures of different races”.

                     As a philosophy, multiculturalism began as part of the pragmatism movement at the end of the 19th  century in Europe and the United States. American multiculturalism was come into existence in 1964 with the passing civil right Act.

              In literary Field American existence with different culture which belongs to different idea about literature cultural studies, regarding American with other culture and then their production of literary forms also. Cultural studies regards four writers from different culture whose concerns with American literary field.

4. Post modernism and popular culture

Post modernism

                              The term ‘postmodernism ‘ first entered the philosophical lexicon in 1979.with the publication of the post modern condition by jean – Francisco Lyotard. The term usually applied to the period in literature and literary Theory since the 1960s.though some regard post mordenism as tge prevailing intellectual mood since world war – 2 ended in 1945.

  

              Post modernism borrows from modernism disillusionment with the givens of society : a penchant for irony, A key theme is the notion of post modernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie explore everyday life as a site of immense social and psychic completely to wich she argues that cutural studies scholars.

Popular culture 

                       Popular culture is the totally of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are preferred by an informal consequences within the mainstream of a given culture, popular culture is the media, products, and attitude considered to be part of the mainstream of a given culture and the everyday life of common people. Studing media culture is not only to focus on the ‘cultural aspect’ of any media but also paying attention to the economics of media.

                              This term it is also known as pop culture so the term ‘popular culture’ was coined in the 19th century traditionally, the term has denoted the education and general “culturedness” of the lower clases, as opposed to the “official culture “ and higher education emanated by the dominant class.

5. Post colonial studies

                 So far as my reading concerned about this study of post colonial we can say that it is against colonialism because colonialism came into existence at the beginning of the century. At first glance postcolonial studies would seem to be a matter of history and political science, rather than literary criticism British seemed to foster in its political institutions as well as in its political institutions as well as in literature universal ideas for proper living, while at the same time perpetuating the violent enslavement of Africans and other imperialist cruelties around the world, causing untold misery and destroying millions of lives.

                         Therefore we can say that all cultural studies passess its own value by its culture. Thus, postcolonial studies opposite to colonial studies, it studies beyond to colonial studies. 

Conclusion 

    

              So, cultural studies we can find five types of cultural studies. Which were helps to recognize the different communities and histories. Cultural studies exists which particular ideas which shows particular cultural words. Some times popular culture can so overtake and repackage a literary work that it is impossible to reads the original text without references to the many layers of cultural studies 

Works Cited 

 Wilfred, Guerin.A Handbook of Critical Approches to Literature. Fifth Edition.Oxford University Press, 2005, 1966.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/other-religious-beliefs-and-general-terms/miscellaneous-religion/cultural-studies

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html

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Paper :-7 Literary criticism - 2 assignment

• Paper: 7 Literary Theory and criticism –
• Name :- Hitixa Goswami
• Class :- M. A. Sam 2
• Roll No :- 8
• Enrollment No :- 2069108420200013
• Subject :- Literary Theory and criticism – 2
• Assignment Topic :- T. S. Eliot’s tradition and individual talent
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• Submitted to :- S.B.GARDI Department of English Bhavnagar University
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Introduction

                          Essay ‘Tradition and individual talent ‘was written by T. S. Eliot. He is a famous critic. Tradition and individual talent is an attack on certain critical views in Romanticism particularly up on the idea that a poem is primarily an expression of the personality of the poet.

T. S. Eliot

                         Thomas streams Eliot was born on September 1888, 4 January 1965. ‘One of the twentieth century’s major poets’. Was also an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25,setting working, and marrying there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport. 

                               Eliot attracted wide’s pared attention for his poem “The love song of J. Alfred prufrock “which was seen as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. If was followed by some of the best known poems in the English language, including the waste land, “The Hollow men “, As Wednesday “, and four Quotes plays, particularly murder in the cathedral and The cocktail party. He was awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1948,” for his outstanding pioneer contribution to present day poetry.”

                                T. S. Eliot’s“tradition and individual talent” was published in 1919 in The Egoist the – the times of literary supplement. Later, the essay on poetry and criticism in 1920. This essay is described by David Lodge as the most celebrated critical essay in the English of the 20th century. The essay is divided into three main sections. 

 The first is Eliot’s concept of tradition. 

The second is theory of depersonalization and poetry.

In the third part he concludes the debate by saying that the poet’s sense of tradition and the  impersonality of poetry are complementary things.

                                     Now I am explaining the three parts of the essay. The essay is a challenge to the conversations of early twentieth century literary criticism. Eliot’s most concise statement of his thesis comes at the start of the December installment. “Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry”. This is one of the central paradoxes of Eliot’s writing. 

      

1. The concept of Tradition. 

                           In first part Eliot speaks about tradition, He says: “seldom, perhaps, does the word appear except in a phase of censure”. Eliot’s critical writing offers intellectual insight into the work of literature or art. He says that poem requires a mental exercise should be happen in the minds of the readers. The word ‘Tradition’ and ‘Individual talent’ gives some clues to us about his work and what is it about. 

                            Eliot says that the meaning is within the text not out of the text. So it is related to reconstruction. Someone in the starting point of the essay he writes that ‘criticism is as inevitable as breathing’, but almost in the some breath that ‘we should be none the worse for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism’. He explain the concept of tradition what we had adopted it in normal course or in easier way. It is somewhere connected to the reconstruction because if the reader will read the text of the poems then he will interpret it in their way of understanding the thing. 

     

                             Eliot says about English men’s attitude towards French literature. Englishmen have a habit to feel proud on themselves. That is the proud for their creativity and more for their ‘less’ critically. In French there is a mass of critical writing. Eliot compares English with French that they have habit of critical method and English have habit of ‘conclusion’. 

He says:

              “Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. It involves in the first place, the historical sense”.

2. The Theory of Depersonalization 

                          In this he defines the process of depersonalization and its relation to the tradition. He gives the example of two gases oxygen and Sulphur dioxide. Through this example he wants to say that if poet wants to write a poem then he doesn’t have and history or background or any feeling then the writing process will be stooped. He start with “Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry”. Process is A Continual Surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. 

                              New criticism is important this part begins with the sentences, “Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry” like poetry but not poet and person this thing he wants to say in this part. Here he says that appreciate work rather than the person. He believes that poetry is depersonalized of poet. This idea is opposite idea then the romanticism. Because Romanticism believes that whatever there is in poem is the feeling of poet. 

                                There are two elements which are experience of poet feelings and emotions. It shows the relation between the poem and poet. He farther says that “the poet has not a ‘ personality’ to express but particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impression and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. Impressions and those which become important for the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man, the personality”.

                                 Where he should be conscious and he became conscious where he must be unconscious. When a poet escapes from his personality, then and then the great poem comes out. A poet must not show his emotion in poetry. Eliot says:

 “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotions; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. 

He concludes the debate by saying that the poet’s sense of tradition and the impersonality of poetry are complementary things. 

   
3. In third part he concludes the debate by saying that the poet’s sense of tradition and the impersonality of poetry are complementary things. 

                     “To divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim: for it would conclude to a jester estimation of actual poetry, good and bad”. Family he ends his essay with:” very few know when ether is expression of significant emotion, emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet. 

                  By this statement, he says to that admire a poem ‘with poet’s skill and his name is easiest thing. The harder is to know technical skill or art of the poem. But the hardest thing is to find the significant emotions from the poem, which separates the poet from the poem. And a poet must know that to reach at the level of impersonality. He first has to sacrifices himself and has to surrender himself totally to that work. The radar must know that after giving birth of the work of art, the connection between that art and artists is ended. 

                           Finally he ends his essay with: very few know when there is expression of significant emotion, emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet. The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot teach this impersonality without surrounding himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious not of what is dead, but of what is already living”. 

Conclusion 

                       We can say Eliot‘s idea of ‘Tradition and individual talent’ is similar with new criticism. This is somewhat ironic, since he latter criticized their excruciatingly detailed analysis of texts. The new critics resemble Eliot in their close analysis of particular passages and poems we can say that Tradition and individual talent both the thing is important in poet’s life. Without any of this he will not able to survive in long history of literature. 

    

Work cited

Kevin, Dettmar. A HUNDRED YEARS OF T.S,ELIOT'S " TRADITION AND THE INNDIVIDUAL TALNT". 27 Octomber 2019. March 2020 <https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-hundred-years-of-t-s-eliots-tradition-and-the-individual-talent>.

Dr, Tearle, Oliver. A Short Analysis of T.S.Eliot's 'Tradition amd Individual Telant. 2018. March 2020 <https://interestingliterature.com/2017/02/a-short-analysis-of-t-s-eliots-tradition-and-the-individual-talent/>.

     
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Paper :-5 Romantic Literature assignment

• Paper: - 5 The Romantic Literature
• Name :- Hitixa Goswami
• Class :- M. A. Sem 2
• Roll No :- 8
• Beach :- 2019-21
• Enrollment No :- 2069108420200013
• Subject :- The Romantic Literature
• Assignment Topic :- Frankenstein as a gothic novel
• Email :- hitixagoswami28@gamil
• Submitted to :- S.B.GARDI Department of English Bhavnagar University
• World :- 1402

Frankenstein as a gothic novel

Introduction :-

As we all know that Frankenstein is novel written by English author marry Shelley. Frankenstein is a story with many ideas. The main being scientists should not play god and judging by appearances. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteenth, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.

About the author

                         Frankenstein is written by Mary Shelley. She was born on August 30,1797. Her mother died immediately after giving birth to her.

                           Mary married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814. In the 1816, the Shelley visited  lord Byron on Lake Geneva. It was here that marry got the idea for writing her novel, Frankenstein. This book made her famous. Mary, however, always remained in need of money. She wrote novels, articles, poems and short stories. In 1826, The last man was published.

About the novel

                               The novel is about a young swish student victor Frankenstein, who discovers the secret of how to create life, Frankenstein carefully assembled body parts of human corpses in the hope of creating something beautiful. Frankenstein is a novel about victor Frankenstein, who is scientist creates the monster as a scientific experiment, obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but, upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creatures hideousness.

                                Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be come of the earliest example of science fiction.

                              Opening the novel one person Robert Walton. One day he would make a voyage to the nothpole. Robert’s ship was surrounded by ice and thick fog. After a few hours, the fog cleared and they saw large sheets of ice floating away. They saw a sledge drawn by dogs going northward. The sedge was being driven by a giant of a man.

                           As well as Robert say to Margaret about latter Robert told to Margaret story about victor Frankenstein Walton write about victor. He wrote a letter of Margaret victor was born in Geneva in a family of famous counsellor who held important position In the government. His father was a man of high public rank one of his closest friends was a rich Marchant who fell and hard days and lost his business Elizabethan is Adopted girl. Adopted by Victor’s family. She is Victor’s companion henry is Victor’s close friend and William is brother mother and father full family.

                             Victor’s family gave to victor in university for higher education. Victor’s passion is natural philosophy. Victor Frankenstein continually wants to transcend  boundaries and limitation. This is Romantic drive towards transcendence or “enlightenment “ which due to the gothic nature of Frankenstein is translated as being a transgression. In understanding Victor’s need for transcending human limitations, Mary Shelley continues to highlight the boundaries that victor can in fact not break through. He is continuously confident.

Definition of Gothic Fiction

                                 Gothic Fiction is a type of novel or romance popular in the late 18th and early 19th century. ‘The word ‘Gothic’ had mean ‘wild’, ‘ barbarous ‘and crude’.

                             Gothic is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death and at times romance. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The castle of attranto. In gothic fiction, characters are overcome with anger, sorrow and terror.

Frankenstein as a Gothic Science fiction

                      Frankenstein is an example of a gothic novel. In Frankenstein by marry Shelley, the Romantic, Gothic and Science fiction elements are combined to create a my serious and supernatural novel.

                     The situation were victor Frankenstein use body parts to create a monster gives a sense of terror and the idea of creating life is just unbelievable and terrifying. The way victor develops this task with science and technology is a new element for the readers at 1818,which adds to the story science fiction and cause the public to question or give an opinion on victor’s use of death for scientific experimentation and the creation of new life.

                            There is no logical or valid reason why victor decides to create a monster other than ambition. This feeling is oftrn being presented as wrong, and this is why it is represented by Frankenstein, a monster. Because it is typically one of the first things we read in a novel, a story’s setting holds great importance to the tone that the rest of the book will carry. Victor Frankenstein himself is a highly romantic character and dreams of breaking the boundaries of rationality and using his knowledge go beyond them.

Creation of monster of supernatural beings.

                           It is one of the themes of the gothic novel and gothic fiction which is common to the two works of fictions. In Frankenstein, the hero decides to invent a creature that will resemble a human being. He says :

“ I resolved to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet, in height, and proportional large”.

                    He start assembling materials:

“ I collected bones from charnel – house and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the Human frame The desecration rom and the slaughter house furnished many of my materials “.

                   The readers witnesses the Creation of the monster in chapter 5. The weather anxious. The operation tacks place in a “dreary night”.

                          The time is symbolic :- “It was already one in the morning “.   

                           Frankenstein also has a creation spiritualism and you could say that marry Shelley wants to give the reader a kind of warning and teaching through the death of victor ‘s brother William and the tragic events that the  Frankenstein  family experience due to this fatal experiment the monster, his own creation.

                 Nature’s supernatural effect on Frankenstein and his monster nature influences us everyday, weather it is noticed by us or not. However, nature

Rarely has a supernatural effect on us in comparison to victor Frankenstein and his monster. Nature controls the plot of marry Shelley’s book frankenstein. The monsters existence represents the theme of the supernatural. The monster was created by unique bodies of the deceased.

The Gothic nature of monster

                      Marry Shelley ‘s novel Frankenstein implements many elements of the gothic genre in order to enhance her horror story. The two elements that animate this genre within the text the most are isolation of characters and the dark, gloomy setting where they are isolated. Shelley also incorporates scenes containing a sublime nature in order to make the monster appear more  bizarre, however the scenes where he appears in a gothic setting provide a greater sense of terror for the reader, and increases the rider Sense of his looming presence and vengeful spirit.

                           The monster is a more effective character when he appears in these dark and gloomy setting sure, there is a sense of and granular when victor encounter him on mont Blanc amidst the beauty of nature. But the monster is Victor’s tormenters a demons to haunt him until he has his vengeance. The esence of this horror is only captured when the monster appear in the gothic nature.

Conclusion

                           Frankenstein by marry Shelley is a gothic scientific fiction novel in genre. And we prove this thing with help of this all the things Frankenstein is an example of a gothic novel. In Frankenstein by marry Shelley, the Romantic, Gothic and Science fiction elements are combined to create a mysterious and supernatural novel.

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Aldridge, Tucker and Kathryn Schroder. Essay on Gothic Elements of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 29 December 2016. March 2020 <https://www.cram.com/essay/Gothic-Elements-Of-Mary-Shelley-s-Frankenstein/FKKGPEH9JXXW>.

Colin, Nicholls. Element of Mystery and the Supernatural in Frankenstein. 7 May 2014. March 2020 <https://prezi.com/ycnu-hiw2c4-/elements-of-mystery-and-the-supernatural-in-frankenstein/>.

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Paper :-6 victorian literature assignment

• Paper :- 6 The Victorian literature
• Name :- Hitixa Goswami
• Class :- M.A Sem 2
• Roll No :- 8
• Beach :- 2019-21
• Enrollment No :- 2069108420200013
• Subject :- The Victorian literature
• Assignment Topic :- Thematic aspect of Middlemarch
• Submitted to :- S. B. Gardi, Department of English Bhavnagar University
• Email :- hitixagoswami28@gamil
• World :-1362

Introduction

                                      Middlemarch is a study of provincial life and the scene is laid in the provincial town of Middlemarch in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is a love story principally dealing with the affairs Vinci ending in despaired.

                                     In the novel Middlemarch George Eliot examines the themes and some ideas of society and the risks of all these motives in provincial life. The novel is set in the fictitious middle town of Middlemarch. Middlemarch is a complex work of art and a number of themes and ideas are woman into its complex fabric.

1.The major Theme of Middlemarch

2.The imperfection of marriage

3.Prejudice

4.Conformity

5.Stubbornness

6.Responsibility

7.Self Determination v/s chance

8.Unity of Middlemarch

9.Love

10.Self discovery

11.Family obligation

12.Social Expectation

13.Gender roles and expectations

14.Money

15.Progress

16.Reality v/s Expectations.

1.The imperfection of marriage

                Most character in ‘Middlemarch ‘, marry for love rather than obligation, yet unromantic. Marriage and the pursuit of it are central concerns in Middlemarch. In many novels of the time, marriage is not considered the ultimate source of happiness Two example are the failed marriage of Dorothea and Lydgate.

2. Prejudice

                         This theme that Lydgate and Ladislaw can’t seen to beat. People in Middlemarch dislike anyone who is not form Middlemarch or anyone whose reputation seems questionable. Ladislaw and Lydgate are both, good people, but it is invalid or circumstantial reasons, those mean that they are never liked or accepted in Middlemarch.

3.Conformity

                         People are supposed to conform to certain social ideas and norms. Dorothea is supposed to be a proper wife and then a proper window, and follow society’s set guidelines about how to fill each position social expectation that it is some what different. An issue that is related to social expectation.

4.Stubbornness

                            The meaning of this sentence is that it things aren’t done, her ways, she will go behind other peoples backs to do things the way the thinks they should be done. People want what they want, for whatever reasons, which means that they are blind to things that might be best for theme. Societal Stubbornness is responsible for Lydgate ‘s failure with him medical practice.

5.Responsibility

                              This is a major Theme of Fred’s story, and he must become responsible for his finance and his choices. Will do too, a certain extent. He also must learn how to become independent in many ways. Bestrode tries to give him money to repent for hiding his existence from his grand mother. He refuses money because he knows it come through thievery. He worships Dorothea. He doesn’t care for money and loves everything that is beautiful.

6.Self Determination v /s chance

                                In the present novel, self determination and chance are not opposing forces but rather a complicated balancing act, when characters strictly adhere to a belief in either chance or self determination. Bad things happen. Her act of self determination putts Lydgate in unsavory and tense situations coupled with a refusal to bale on the film when Rosamond goes against the wishes of her husband and write a letter asking for money from his relative.

7.Unity of Middlemarch

                           The decision made by every person in Middlemarch seem to have a direct effect on at least one other person. Dorothea’s decision to choose Casaubon leads sir James cottar to choose Celia. Mary’s decision to marry Fred Vincy means that fare brother is without a wife. Bulstrode’s dirty dealings with regard to Raffles in the husband and wife relationship in Middlemarch.

8.Love

                     Love keeps people together, or the drift apart. Those who are truly in love like ladislaw and Dorothea, Mary and Fred are bound together by it. They are very a like in temperament and outlook. Will is the grandson of Casaubon’s disinherited aunt Boltrope trips to  give him money to repent for hiding his existence from his grandmother. Those who lake it like Lydgate and Rosamond, Casaubon and Dorothea are ill-suited to each other in marriage and they are very disappointed by their unions. He worships Dorothea. He doesn’t care for money and loves everything that is beautiful. He refuses the money because he knows it came through thievery.

9.Self Discovery

                               There are certain truths which every character learns about him in the course of trials. Lydgate and Rosamond find out more about their characters. Dorothea Broke makes the most dramatic journey of self discovery and changes as great deal within the course of the novel, Through their money troubles, though they do not always adjust accordingly.

10.Family obligation

                                     People within the novel have varying ideas of family, obligation in the novel, though it is a strong force in Middlemarch society Mr. Featherstone’s relations believe they are entitled to money : Mrs. Bulstrode’s believes that she must help her family in order to show support. Sir James shows his regard for his family by being very protective and a constant advisor as well.

11.Social expectations

                                     Closely linked to society ‘s hierarchy. They are ideas about how everyone should act in certain situations. Lydgate proposes to Rosamond because society expects that he should do it. Dorothea is pushed to live with someone else or marry again after she is widowed because society expects that it is right.

12.Gender roles and expectations.

                                Middlemarch society had very defined ideas of what people of each gender should do within the society, and people, especially woman, who deviate from this norm, are looked down upon. Dorothea is tolerated because she is of good family and does not disrupt the society. She is however, she faces a great deal of pressure to change Herself conform to other’s ideas, and submit Herself to male leadership at all times.

14.Money

                              Money is the root of many evils but much good, in the novel. Lydgate get desperate for want of it, freed despairs when he has little, Dorothea becomes generous when she carefully since their money is limited. Money has profound effect on character within the novel, and though many people are judge by now much in the money.

15.Progress

                       Much is changing in the world of Middlemarch. English society is evolving in social economic, technoloic areas. Socially, ideas of gender and class are in flux, as women are proving more and more competent and the Industrial Revolution is causing a greater amount of social mobility. Technology is also changing, in medical science, and in areas like transportations, and these are changes that are beginning to sweep through Middlemarch. The economy of England is changing, from an aristocratic, inheritance based system of holding weather and land, to one based on commerce, business, and manufacturing.

16.Reality v/s Expectations

                          Many character’s preconceived ideas, especially of marriage, are proves tragically wrong in the course of the book, casaubon and Dorothea Brooke both have unrealistic ideas about marriage and are disappointed. Life often defines what one expects. Or could predict of it and the people who are happiest ate ones who have few expectations, or are most flexible Lydgate and Rosamond have the same idea and are Late down.

Conclusion:-

                                      In this novel we can see many themes. In this novel everything is political in Middlemarch, with most people strongly backing the conservative party. People within the novel have varying ideas of family obligation in the novel, though it is a strong force in Middlemarch society. This makes it a valuable social document which tells us more about the real, day to day, common, provincial life of England in the 1830’s than any book of history.

   

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