Blog on Harry Potter

Children’s Literature and Harry Potter

In children literature we can found the repetition of words, phrases, situations and patterns. In the novel the magic and magic tricks are repeat.

Simple and straightforward complex in the novel writer created ‘New World’, narrative is highly done.

In the novel optimistic, hope, full of action, fantasy and fanciful idea, think wishful thinking ,tone of  joy and innocence, unquestionably reliable friends.  The characters are children. Good wins over evil. So it is children’s literature.

At the same time it would have only children’s literature then it might novel have depths, which it has actually. It is open for interpretation on many other grounds, so it is not only children literature.

The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter

Discourse is to designate the forms of representation on codes, conventions and habits of language that produces specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings.

Harry Potter novels talks about the discourse of the origin and distribution of power through an effective use of the strategies of visibility. These narratives divide characters into two categories of power relation: the one who sees and the one who is seen.

When we talk on politics in Harry potter included this topic like Discipline & Punishment, prohibition, Single gaze, ideal person, surveillance, education, power & knowledge. Power construe the knowledge.

 But where are the politics? At the most explicit levels Rowling provides the readers with a outline of a political system: the ministry of magic. Harry Potter presents at multiple levels the different manifestations of power. There is the struggle between power and ethics showed through the war between the death eaters and the wizarding community. The specific function of a school means that essentially a power structure. Starting from the headmaster, professors, prefects, students and finally servants- Hogwarts presents a hierarchical power structure.

When asked about the politics and message in Harry Potter, Rowling explained: “I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the wizarding world. Rowling wants to say that politics has become apart of modern life, but it is the root of all problems, not solutions.

Voldemort’s thirst for power takes him on a torturing and murdering spree. The prime example of this is Voldemort, whose unquenchable thirst for power takes him on a torturing and murdering spree. The moral of the story is, power isn't all it's cracked up to be – and we should all hope that we would have the same strength of character that Harry does when he's offered ultimate power, and turns it down.

The theme of Love and Death

          In the novel Love and Death are the themes that go simultaneously. All the books of Rowling have these common theme “Selfless Love gets triumph” as is said ‘Truth always wins’.  We can talk on this theme is traditionally and mythically. Last line of book…

“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”

Love is a significant theme in all the books of Harry Potter series. Harry loved all, and was loved by all. This book delineates the concept of strongly tied of love among the character.

Love plays vital role in Voldemort's downfall than he or Harry realize.“Voldemort also unwittingly ensures that Harry is tied to life while Voldemort lives by taking some of his blood in the hope that he will be able to gain some of the protection that lingers in Harry as a result of Lily sacrifice.

“You should have died for them! As we would have done for you”.

Death has played a central role in each book, and is at the heart of  the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort. Both Horcrux, which form the main thrust of the entire series, and the Deathly Hallows which are a major part of the story of the seventh book, are shown to be means of avoiding or mastering death. Harry’s attitude toward death is usually shown as a balance between recklessness and respect. Many times, Harry’s actions have led to his being in a dangerous situation, yet he has faced death bravely.

 gains courage to face Voldemort and his own death 

                                  

‘'Do not pity the dead Harry, pity the living.”

-- Dumbledore

Thus, Love and death are the prominent in novel. It is the mother’s love which protects harry at the same time is death prominent here.