Pepar - 1 assignment

Name:- Hitixa Goswami 

Class :- M. A. SEM-1

Roll No:- 13 

Beach :-2019-2021 

Enrollment No:-2069108420200013

Subject :-Renaissance literature paper - 1

Assignment Topic :-character of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet 

Email :- hitixagoswami28@gmail.com

Submitted to :- S.B.GARDI, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MKB UNIVERSITY BHAVNAGAR. 

Word:-1,214

Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead in Hamlet. 

                  Hamlet acts as a foil, or opposite, to Rosencrantz and guildenstern unlike his friends, Hamlet does not seem confused by the incomprehensibility of the world, nor does he have trouble making choices or decoding how to act. In fact, Hamlet has a lot of power within the play, as symbolizes by his lantern. He right the scene, then plunges the scene into darkness. His ability to control what viewers see signifies his immense power. He changes and affects people's lives in ways that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern cannot. For example, he kills Polonius, then disposes of the body. When Hamlet speaks, he frequently confuses other characters with riddles, another sign of his ability to have an effect on people. In this section of act 3.Hamlet reads the letter ordering his execution in England. But he reads in offstage and silently, masking whatever emotion he might be feeling about his friends betrayal. Unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet acts decisively Regardless of whatever he is actually insane, Hamlet’s cool, rational behaviour stands in contrast to the dopey. 

                 Rosencrantz watches as Guildenstern flips coins. Each time a coin lands on heads, Rosencrantz gets to keep it. Guildenstern can hardly believe that Rosencrantz has a massed so many coins, but the coins keep coming up heads, he speculates that the two have entered and alternate universe, in which normal laws of probability.time, and chance do not apply. Unlike Guildenstern,Rosencrantz contentedly continues watching, not bothering to worry from why the coins keep landing heads up. Guildenstern speculates about possible reasons for the run of heads, including whether he is making his friend win as a way of subconsciously punishing himself, whether time has stopped, and whether a god of some kind has stepped in to influence their lives. He also begins in wonder inactions have stop to exist in relation to one another. 

                  Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz to describe his earliest memory, but rosencrantz forgets the question almost immediately. Guildenstern suddenly remembered that the pair has been 'sent for' then be returns to his speculation about whether they have arrived somewhere in which the usual principles of the world do not apply, he uses logic to reassure himself that they have not emoted a great universe. But, still he reasons that the coins have landed heads almost a hundred dreams, a sure sign that the laws of probability have ceased working. He had music in the distance. As the Times his fingernails, Rosencrantz idly reminds Guildenstern that fingernails and facial hair continue to grow after a person has died. 

                   Unlike that of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s fate is portrayed on stage. Those familiar with the play Hamlet knows that he disappears from the ship and goes back to Elsinore. Although readers do not witness his Travels or death, they do see his corpse in the final scene of the play. Shakespeare describes their deaths in Hamlet, and expects the readers of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead to recall the multiple death bloodbath  that ends Hamlet. 

                Rosencrantz their mentions that he does not remember over the toe of the foot. These comments annoying Guildenstern, who asks Rosencrantz if he remembers anything from that morning. Rosencrantz recalls being woken by a stranger, an answer that calms Guildenstern. Rosencrantz says that they are on the road as a result of this stranger, who asked them to hurry up and go. But they do not know where they are going. Rosencrantz he was magic but decides that he has only imagined it. Guildenstern claim, that audience makes any event real. The tragedians enter.

It has orders for the king of England to kill Hamlet as soon as he reaches England. Hamlet writes a new letter requesting that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be killed as soon as they reach England. He feels that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern brought their death upon themselves by doing whatever Claudius asked of them. 

Their different responses to the coin tosses reflect the different personalities of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz blithely flips a coin, notes it as heads, and pockets it, over and over again, never questioning why the coins keep coming up heads. Guildenstern, in contrast, worries that the two have entered an alternate universe, since standard laws of probability dictate that a coin has an equal chance of coming up heads or tails. The more coins Rosencrantz wins, the more frightened Guildenstern gets. When Rosencrantz tires of the coin flipping, he begins cutting his fingernails and imagining what happens to the nails after death, foreshadowing the deaths in act 3. His actions demonstrate a relaxed attitude toward the world. He generally believes that everything is and will be okay, and he has no interest in worrying about unknowns. Guildenstern, however, shows a more complicated range of emotions and thought patterns. While Rosencrantz passively accepts the results of the coin flipping, Guildenstern actively struggle to fighre out what the result might mean. Unlike Rosencrantz, Guildenstern demonstrates a willingness to interpret and engage with the world around him.

Rosencrantz and guildenstern constantly make ridiculous comments, and the men are wholly unable to understand their specific circumstance or the larger forces at work in the world. For example they applaud as the tragedians gather around them, mistaking the tragedians evil intentions for a performance. As he leaves the stage, Guildenstern cannot remember if he is in fact Rosencrantz or Guildenstern. Earlier in the act, several men hide in one small barrel, a hiding spot that nobody questions or wonders about. Although these instance are meant to be funny, they also demonstrate the dark forces at work, in the play, as in life, things often happen for no real reason. People struggle to develop identities, to imbue their lives with meaning, and to do something significant,but, in the end, everybody does. We want a world in which the good are rewarded and the bad punished, but that world simply does not exist. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Deadpoints to horrific the world is chaotic, life is random, and the possibility of achieving success is slight. 

  

           Hamlet, Horatio and another character have a dialogue that dose not include here. While he wants to acknowledge his debet to shekspeare, he also wants to assert his creative power. In his play, he controls the characters, including when and how they speak and die. Stoppard lets hamlet die on stage, but he keeps the death of Rosencrantz let's Hamlet die on stage, but he keeps the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern away from his audience.

Conclusion :-when faced with the chaos of life, Rosencrantz decides that his personal purpose will be to seek pleasure for himself. That is not to say that Rosencrantz is advocating hedonism and fulfilling every desire however and whenever he wants that is rosencrantz says that even though the universe does not care about us, we should care about ourselves and strive to find happiness and personal fulfillment. It is the realities of life in a pointless universe. 

               

Love after love By Derek Walcott

Love After Love

      Hello readers!

                           Hear I am going to wrote about the Derek Walcott's poem love after love. So lets see

     
                       Derek Walcott was born in 1930, died in March 2017. He was a saint Lucian. He was a writer, poet and play wright. He received the 1992 Nobel prize in literature. His works include the home poem " omeros" which is Walcott's major achievement. He also received awards for his play - “ Dream on monkey mountain ". In 2011 he got To st. Eliot prize for his books of poetry white egrets.

Love After Love 

                        This poem encourages the leader to recognise and make peace and accept your own self - the poet says you make peace with your own previous rejection, denial and abandonment of your self. The poem shows to accept, enjoy and love your self and your life. The poet feeds that when we are young, we are completely at ease with ourselves but as we grow we got lost in the whims of the world loose our selves and we ignore who we really are and what we really want.

                          The poet wants to tell the readers to accept all that part of us. That is not just the good bits and virtues but we have to accept our selves wholly and fully. That is we have to tack except both the existance of the darkness within. The poet feels that in trying to see through our darkness, we may easily understand in other and when we understand the darkside of our life, it may help us to tune our life, balance our. Life and to become whole again.

                         Walcott uses his mixed heritage as an analogy and as a platform to asking the deeper question in the poem. He wants to tell the readers the purpose that God has sent us on this earth celebrate and feast on all that God has mad for human beings. The poem also reflects self compassion that is accepting all your flaws and weakness, sit and love "being with your self laugh and share. Be at peace again fake down all the negativity about your self and learn to love the person that you are.

Conclusion 

                      This poem is also about letting go of your past memories, the bad obstacles that you may have faced in life. It is about focusing on a good things that you have achieved and looking forward in your life. It also explains how you have to learn to love your self before you love some one else.
 
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Penelope by cerol ann Duffy

Penelope by Cerol ann Duffy

 Hello readers!

                               So here I am going to wrote about the famous poet carol ann Duffy's poem Penelope. In “ Penelope " Duffy creat the female voice. Duffy presents" Penelope " as a woman who grows more independent of her husband as she casually pusses time by embroidering.

                       Carol ann Duffy is a poet, play wright and freelance writer. She was born in 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at river pool University. She is a former editor of the poetry magazine - Ambit. She is a regular reciever and a broadcaster. She moved from Landon to manchester in 1996.

Penelope 

                     Duffy subwords the male dominance of this tale of odyssey by showing unlike in the original myth, Penelope grows accustomed Odysseus absence and embroidery becomes the local point of her life. In her collection "worlds wife" Duffy makes women the protagonist of the stories and there for subwords the idea of weak women behind powerful man carol Duffy herself is a feminist and leftish, she is the first female poet laureate further more. She is the first openly Gay poet laureate as Duffy describes herself As "Penelope" becomes more engrossed in her embroidery. Her view on reality widens. Her life is depicted in her embroidering as she describes her.

    " thimble like an acorn.
                Pushing up through umber soil".

                           This symbolises how embroidery has become her re-brith and new found voice of independence from her husband. Duffy uses emagery to give meaning to the female voice, and the mentions of the colours show how Penelope felt during time's of her life Penelope recalls her childhood at first.
       
                  " I swed a girl
                            Under a single star-cords-stitch silver - silk".

                        This line illustrate the innocense and beauty of a young " Penelope" while waiting for her husbands return she gives the image of

                   " Running after childhood 's
                       Bouncing ball".

                    Than, she uses bright colours such as pinks and greens to show the hopefulness of youth, however, she also depicts a disappointing image by adding grey threads and brown, the change from silver to grey emphasizes Penelope's des
Disapointment.

                      In the last stanza the narrator again depicts the change of events in Penelope 's life. Here Penelope' s voice is strongest Penelope is so engrossed in her work. She is used to her life, she lives alone she feels that she does not need her husband that she herself does not need to fall back on the male domination.

Conclusion 

                         Duffy areas the female voice in Penelope by allowing the character to grow in strength and independence through satirizing the sterio type of embroidery being associated with the weakness of women and instead she makes it a symble of strength in independence.

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Eklavya by Meena Kandasamy

Eklavya 

Hello readers!

                              Hear I would like to write blog about poem Eklavya written by Indian poet meena kandasamy.

                       Meena kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction, writer, translator and activist who is based in chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Most of her works are centred on feminism and the anti cast " annihilation movement" of the contemporary Indian milieu. Meena kandasamy has published two collection of poetry. She also edits the Dalit - A bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit media network.

                       Meena kandasamy, a part from her literary works, she is bold and vocal about various contemporary political issues relating to caste, corruption, violence and womens right is an influential and regular on social media.

Eklavya 

                         In the poem " Eklavian" which is an extract from her collections of poems that "Touch" meena kandasamy starts the poem by assuring the tribe man of so - called low caste - Eklavya and consoles the character by saying 

          " you can do a lot of things 

              With your left hand." 

                         She takes up the, episode of the " mahabharata" where Eklavya was exclude from the "Art of Archery". By the great Guru Dronacharya, and he had to pay a heavy price for being a tribe man of so called low caste. Meena kandasamy is critical of this treatment mented out by Eklavya from a Guru like Dronacharya. 

        " Besides facist Dronacharya warrant left - handed treatment". 

                          Eklavya possessed the noblest soul and a noble character. He pasted with his table only to gratify the will of a Guru who did not taught him but rather humiliated him by debarring Eklavya and stopping him from learning Archery. His right thumb was amputated just because he should not become a better Archer than a boy of uppercasts. 

Conclusion 

                 Here the poetess again consoles such Eklavya that they don't nerd their right thumb. To do any type of work. That what the poet is troubled with is that Dronacharya's decision was affected by verna system. 

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Search for my tongue by Sujata bhatt

Search for my tongue

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                          Here I would wrote to blog about the famous poem search for my tongue by Indian poet sujata bhatt. Her poem search for my tongue was widely praise by critics and she received a cholmondelay award in 1991 and the Italian tratti poetry prize in 2005.

                  Sujata Bhatt was born in 1956 Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in pune until 1968,when she emigrated to United States with her family. She received the commonwealth poetry, prize and the Alicehunt Barttett prize for her first collection of poems “ Brunizem" in 1987.she news lives in Bremen Germany with her husband the German writer. She is visiting proffesor in creative writing at nothing huntrant University.

                            Search for my tongue is a work that describes the struggle of person embracing a new culture and ' tongue' the poet depicts the situation in ways that express her desperation to hood that ' mother tongue'. The final thoughts of the poem indicat her fears of losing it are unfounded as in will always to her an even graw.

                             Sujata Bhatt's multicultural perspective on language, culture, art and history surely originate in her own life expiriance. The poet asks the questions that what does it means when you say and ask me.

              " I have lost my tongue "

      

                                The question then she wants to ask is " what would you do it you had two tongues in your head and than you lost one of them". The lost tongue is the mother tongues. And the speaks has left the mother tongue and she could not really know the other language that is the foriegn tongue. 

        

                  The speaks then continues to suggest that 

"you would not use them both together 

                             And the foreign tongue". 

                                This line is what our speaker tongue happened to her until she had a dream and than the poem takes a different angle and a different furn, where the speaker in the middle part of the poem present her Gujarati writing. 

                                This idea of a mother tongue representing an entire language is a fency  metaphor could "metonily" this comparison compares the speakers tongue to a plant that grows back after being cut down because they are vcains that is our speakers mother tongue. 

            " It blossoms out of her mouth". 

                    This last Image shows the joy and peace of being able to speak in once own language that is the first - language. The mother tongue. 

Conclusion 

                  So hear poet 's first and native language comes alive inside her, pushing aside the foreign language that she can't ever really know compared to her mother tongue. The poet concludes the poem by stating that whenever she thinks she has forgotten, she has lost the mother tongue. 

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B. A. The Portrait of a lady

' The Portrait of a lady'

Hello readers!
 

                              Here I would like to write 'The Portrait of a lady' is part of an autobiography by khushwant singh. In this story, the author draws a pen portrait of his grandmother. He beautifully unfolds their several changes.

 About the author

                     Khushwant singh was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956. He served as the editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two newspapers, Through the 1070s and 1980s. Between 1980 1986. He served as member of parliament in Rajya sabha the upper house of the parliament of India.

Notable works 

• The History of sikhs
• Train to Pakistan 
• The sikhs Today
• The fall of the kingdom of the punjab 
• A History of the sikhs

The Portrait of a lady

                       The Portrait of a lady is sory is a loving tribute from a grandson to his grandmother. He presents her as a tender, loving and deeply religious old lady singh says that his grandmother was an old woman. She was so old that her face was wrinkled that at the present it was difficult to believe she would ever had been young and pretty. Her hair was white as snow. She had a little stoop in the back. 

                              She could be seeing reciting her rosary all the time. The author says that " she was like the winter landscape in the mountains and exponcce of pure white serenity breathing pace and contentment.

                            Author's grandmother was hung on the wall. He appeared too old and it was that he over hada wife. He appeared to have only lots and lots of grandchildren. Singh was the only child at that time his presents had gone to live in the city leaving him behind the village under the care of his grandmother.

Conclusion 
   
                      All the children sat in the veranda reeiting alphabets while his grandmother is engaged reading holy scriptures. Finally in the evening. The author and the grandmother would walk back home feeding the dogs.

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B. A. The meeting pool by ruskin bond

The meeting pool

Hello readers!
     

                            Hear I would like to wrote about 'The Meeting pool' by Ruskin bond. The beautiful short story Bond about three friends who take a pledge to return to their favourite pool after ten years.

Ruskin Bond 

            Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in Landour, sussoerie, India. He was awarded the sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for our Trees still Grow in Dehra, his novel in English. He was awarded the padma shri in 1999 and the padma Bushan in 2014.

Notable works

• Our Trees still grow in Dehra
• A fight of pigeons
• The Blue umbrella 

The meeting pool 

             The meeting pool also known as my Boyhood days. The story starts with Rusty, the narrator. Strolling on a Road, it is about to rain, and then suddenly he hears the sound of water running, like in a stream behind a dark line of forest. The best part of their childhood revolves around a pool, which was discovered by Rusty and thus came to be known as Rusty 's pool. As soon as Rusty discovered the pool near the ravine. He was excited to convey the news to his two friends.

                          The secret pool became their meeting point. They indulged in activities like fishing, swimming, wrestling and buffalo rides. The pool not only symbolized the bond of friendship between them but also became a part of their consciousness. They decide to return on a fifth of midday ten year letter the pool again. Rusty keeps up his word and comes to the pool. Rusty was the only one who went to the pool on the schedule day.

Conclusion 

                         So, However, there is no bitterness or rancour as he understands that with the passage of time, their needs and priorities, his amazement, he discovers another pool another group of friends splashing about in it. The story thus convey the message that life goes on come what may.

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