Disha 's Blog

In Department of English MKBU , we have task given by Dr. Dilip Barad about Existentialism. To read the blog of Dr. Dilip Barad click here.  I  like following thought from videos of Existentialism Video 1 What is Existentialism? Existentialism starts with Kierkegaard . It is explained by Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Heidegger ,Hesse,  etc. Their views are different from each other. For all of them ,philosophical thinking of Existentialism begins with individuality, freedom and passion. Believing in God is aslo explained by speaker here. Existentialism is mainly popular in young people mostly because it defines the subject which his /her views of destroy. Shoes existence is attractive like suicide, anguish, absurdity,passion , emotion etc. Video 2 The myth of Sisyphus ,the absurd reasoning Suicide is philosophical thing . committed suicide is an individual act. We are concern here with relationship between individual and suicide and act like this wit...

On 27th september in our Department of English MKBU we have movie screening of Waiting for Godot. This movie is based on Samuel Beckett' s play Waiting for Godot. The place:- In movie there are two tramps , Vladimir and Estragon. Both are waiting for Godot . The place where they are ,it is a barren place. Rarely you can see other people at that place.  Around the place, we  can find debris  which shows effect of world war that what was the situation after world war. Two tramps:- There are 2 tramps Vladimir and Estragon who are waiting for Godot there. Vladimir called Estragon as gogo and Estragon called Vladimir ,Didi. Vladimir as an intellectual personeel here while Estragon as a fool man. He can not remember that ,why he is there,what he was done yesterday etc. He passed  the time in sleeping. When he wake up he forgot that why they are there and what they are doing. Both of them are waiting for Godot ,who never come still the end of movie. In their ...

Breath a play by Samuel Beckett. Breath is a thirty seconds play. This is a play by Beckett. CURTAIN Up 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds. 3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. CURTAIN Down To watch the video of play Breath of Samuel Beckett by Liana De Jourdan   click here . To watch video of play Breath of Samuel Beckett by Damien Hirst click here. About the play Breath In video of play Breath, we can find the things spread here and there. There are so many thing like medicine,computer , plastic bags and other garbage. These all the things are related with human life . First we  can listen the ...

On 24th september in our Department of English MKBU we have movie screening of Morning Becomes Electra. This was amazing experience of watching movie. This movie is based on play by O'Neill which has same title. In this movie and in original play there were no huge difference. One can find similarities in both. My observation of the movie Morning Becomes Electra:- Christine' s life:- Christine is a wife of Ezra Manon and they have two children. Ezra had gone for war  and here Christine has extra marital affair with Adam Brant. When Ezra Manon come back from war Christine  is not able to face him . She can not do eye contact with her husband .  She has not any feeling for her husband. That shows that she has done something wrong. Her daughter is aware about her affair with Adam Brant. Character of Lavinia:- Lavinia Manon is a daughter of Ezra and Christine. She loves Adam Brant but  when she came to know about her mother's affair with Adam,she starts ...

On 19-20-21-22 in our Department of English MKBU Dr .Dilip Barad organized guest lecture by Dr. Jay Mehta. Jay Mehta is teaching now in  Ahemdabad. During those days he introduce us to short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Let's discuss Poe's short stories characteristics in brief . 1)Horror element:-  Poe was the father of Detective story.  In Poe's short story we can find romance or love theme but very horror ,terror and detective type of stories which  creates horror atmosphere in readers mind. 2) Violent characters:- In Poe's short story the main   protagonist of the story is very violent. He /she always became violent  on animals or human beings. 3)Theme of revenge:- Some of Poe's short story in which we can find theme of revenge like The cask of Amontillado. This is based on revenge. 4)Murder is like basic theme:- In Poe's major  stories , theme is  murder. Many of his stories in which we can find murder as a basic...

On 14-15-16 september in Department of English MKBU we have guest lecture by Professor Balaji Ranganathan. He comes from Central University Gandhinagar. He had  deal  with post colonial study in our department. 1st Day On 14th he had taught us Black skin white mask by Frantz Fanon. He taught  the unit very interestingly and deeply. He said that white man sealed in his whiteness and black man sealed in his blackness. Humanism is larger inclusive humanity. Higher state of awareness is humanity. Which make us human is that dominated Peace, psychoanalysis ,start to organization and consciousness. I learn so many new thing from him.  He explain all the topic of unit one very interestingly. He add his experience of learning in his teaching method. He proved very good and appropriate examples of the the unit. He said that your colour is biological , impression is simple so you are observed by not your skin but by your culture. He explain to deconstruct the ...

If we see from first colonial perspective from the  time of Vasco da Gama 's  arrive to the final emergence of English as the principal coloniserse of  Indian subcontinent. British power ruled over India . After independence there were lot of debates going on ,on colonial and post colonial idea. Let's see Shashi Tharoor's view on postcolonialism 1) Shashi Tharoor's view on British empire on India. They come from rich British countries. There are many people who live the life in poverty after independence only because of Britishers. They doing loot in India , sending Indian important thing to their country and became rich. So he said that growth of education and growth of people from 1900 to 1947 was 0.001 percent. He talks about life and situation about India after independence. Homosexual rights: Transgender moving fast in 21st century. Homosexuality completely accepted by indian culture. Western culture have an influence ,for example In India it's de...

Edward Said ' s interview was taken by Sut Jhally about Orientalism. This is very important work of Said about postcolonialism. I have found this 5 important points in the interview. 1 )Orientalism presents our thinking of east. The way to look towards east it is an attitude. Everything is not Orientalism because it was the parameter to look towards west. This is the perspective to look towards east people's life and their culture and their look also. Orientalism tries to get the idea of how do we come to know about that people who are different from other only by their skin color. Orient helps to define yourself. Orient define Europe and Europe define orient. 2)Orient is material foundation. It's not only an imagination. Orient is part of orient material civilization of European culture and civilization. Philosophical order and discourse is aslo Orientalism. Orientalism became an academic now.who is Orientalist now? The person who done philosophy ,who tea...

Edgar Allan poe was an American author ,poet , editor and literary critic . In his short stories we find the characteristics like physical and psychological abnormalities , guilt  ,ridden conscience , horror caused by ghostly appearance ,detection  of crime  and culprit etc. Here are some horror and terrible experience of my life which show abnormalities . 1)  Recollect a moment of your life when you were at the height of ferocity (anger) on someone with/without some specific reason. What did you feel like speaking to or doing with that person? When I am angry first I don't know what to do . Sometimes I starting shouting on other . Very fact thing of my life that I have not control on my anger. My real life experience of anger is that  4 month ago when I organized birthday party for my nearest person. I hade done all the preparation for it at that time that person told me that ,"I am not able to reach that place " because of some specific reason. At...

On 9th September in Department of English MKBU I saw the  movie Reluctant fundamentalism. This movie is based on Mohsin  Hamid 's  novel which has same title. This movie has framed narration. About the movie:-  The movie began with Lahor's professor Named Changez khan. He was the main protagonist on novel and hero of movie. He was pakistani and have dream to settle in America. Narrate the story to Boby:- Boby was American journalist and secret agent of CIA . Changez khan narrate his story to him. At last Boby had misunderstanding that Changez had involved in terrorism and he shoot changez's one student. Changez narrate all the things to Boby that how he got success in America ,about his girlfriend and about his disappointment. Changez's love for America:- Changez had dream to settle in America . So he went there and find good job in MNC. His success  was touching to the hight and he became CEO of  company. He loved her girlfriend and wants...

On 9th september in Department of English MKBU I saw the movie Midnights children. This  movie is based on Salman Rushdie's novel which has same name. Movie is directed by Deepa Mehta. This is best booker prize winner movie. Movie and novel present idea of Chatnificaion and movie symbolized allegory of India and symbol of spitton. About the movie Midnights children:-  Saleem sinai was the hero of movie. Saleem and Shiva born on midnight when India got freedom from Britishers. Same night other children also born. Nurse interchang the babies:-  When the babies born on that midnight , the nurse of the hospital interchange the babies. So the rich became poor and poor became rich. Shiva always felt jealous to Saleem only because of he was rich and he was poor. When saleem's teacher injured him, he was in hospital and doctor said  his parents that his blood was not matched with both of them. Saleem's father has  doubt on him that he was  not hi...

1)How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? (Key: The 'How' of the narrative technique is to be discussed along with features of Stream of Consciousness technique which helps Woolf to put in effective manner what she experienced in abstractions.) Virginia Woolf use the modernism in her novel To The Lighthouse. She expressed her all the characters very well. She also use some autobiographical element here. She use stream of consciousness. She present here complexity of human relationship between Mrs. And Mr. Ramsay. Lily Briscoe a female artist struggle a lot . In her era people think that women cannot write or paint. She also face the struggle with Mrs . Ramsay and Charles Tansley . ...