Blog on movie review on 'Hamlet'

After watching the movie ‘Hamlet’, which is directed by Kenneth Branagh. I really enjoyed the movie my view on the movie Hamlet given below.

Yes, I want to say that this movie is faithful to the original play of Shakespeare. In original play same dialogues and same characters are same. And soliloquies in the play Hamlet is really enjoy, so at last we can say that it is faithful to the original play.

Yes, after watching movie my thinking about the play and characters as well as situations of Hamlet is totally changed. In the play we do not see the madness of Hamlet but in a movie we can see very well. And the character of Ophelia is tragic one.

When we watch movie we feel aesthetic delight. When in grave diggers scene conversation of two person. And second while Hamlet in madness he makes fun with Polonius. So it creates funny atmosphere in the movie.

While reading a play I can’t feel catharsis much but after watching movie I observe catharsis. Like in a movie Ophelia cries on death of her father and she behaves like mad at that time I feel catharsis.

Yes movie screening helps us in a better way to understand the play. Because in the play some scenes are there that we have no idea to better understanding . In the movie we may find too much madness in Ophelia’s character .and main thing that we observed in the movie that how hamlet procrastinates to take revenge.

I will cherish lifetime the ending scene of the play Hamlet which was well directed by Kenneth Branagh because it touched to my heart and its also heart melting scene so I like to remember the ending scene of the movie.

If I would be a director of the movie then I would like to make change in the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who are deliberately marginalized by the Dramatist Shakespeare but if I would be a director then I like to give more space to both of these characters as they have not given enough space and another change I would like to do that is in the character of Ophelia so she should have given more role to play in the movie.

At the beginning of the movie there is a scene of statue, which symbolizes here a gloomy atmosphere and the statue also gives reminder to Prince Hamlet that He should take revenge therefore it is symbolized of horror which is going to happen.

In the play with the help of movie feministic approach can be found which is more applicable so far as my opinion is concerned because in the play females have not given more space as Hamlet hence I think that this approach will be more applicable to the pay.

Before watching the play I think that approach of Cultural studies of Hamlet is appealing and more effective one behind one reason and that is Cultural study can be done of this play because this play occupies many things which are related or has a direct relation with culture. so I like to put this approach here but it was my opinion when I have not watched the movie. 

Blog on ON@TCC

Contemporary issues in ON@TCC:

ON@TCC deals with the issues Young generation & love story is  in the backdrop.  In this novel all characters are life like  that we can easily imagine our self there. Call Center, globalization, anti- American sentiment, Bossism, and nationalism and many other contemporary issues are beautifully presented in the novel.  Novels also talks about the social realism, and also present the reality of fabric society. In this kind of issues of youth of India is presented in X-ray image of society in literature. all the characters have problem in their personal lives- which reflects here. how call centerd are damaging us is also bring into light.

Narrative Structure:

We can find some similarities in Chetan Bhagat’s novel is that of Prologue and Epilogue. Prologues and Epilogues makes novel realistic and gives a realistic touch. Starting and showing the name and identity of character. The way novel starts, and then it follows the unity of time, place and action. It is also makes interesting side for reader. it has many parrallel with narrative structure of life of pi, novel. experience with god is also common in both the novels.

Mannepean satire:

This form is named after the Greek cynic, parodist and polemicist, and also inspire on varonian satire. Presented the contemporary issues and it is like Horace Satire and Juvenal Satire and connected with prose writing. 

       Serious + Comic = Mannepean satire

In the novel ON@TCC writer symbolically satire on every issues. like Bossism (in India bossism is like politician, authority),  BPO- call center, incompetent professional men of all kinds ( like Mr.Bakshi or Vroom), diseases of the infect ( Mr.Bakshi confidence), God making a call, Loyalty and Marriage institution, two different characters Radhika and Priyanka deals With Marriage.

The effect of Globalization 

Globalization is an economical term .Thomas Friedman’s “The world is flat” in this he talk about the brief history of 21st century Globalization and also criticizes societies that resist these changes. 


According to Suman Gupta: - “Under Construction”

“Gupta himself construes globalization as a relative recent and contemporary development, separating himself”

  Globalization came in like intercultural relations, intercultural conflict, transanationalism, population mobility, hetrognization, homogenization, hybridity, the public private interface, economic integration etc….

Globalization has affected the characters novel at various levels. Novel is based on the theme of globalization. Military uncle is connected with his son and grandson, vroom and Shyam designs webs. The title itself has the heme of globalization.
Globalization is something which has broke the barrier of place and entire world has became a small village. one can work for America by sitting into office in India.

Cyber Punk genre & ON@TCC 

It is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on high tech and low life. It features advanced science such as information technology and cybernetics coupled with degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

- When the web went around and Netscape went public.
- Work flow software
- Uploading, He messing the power of communities.
- “Outsourcing”- India
- “Offshoring”- China 

In the novel Bhagat talk about Ms Office “Bug” how to created, F.M. Radio, Mr.Bakshi’s E-mail conversation.

Anti-American sentiments in novel ON@TCC

 In novel America presented negatively and nationalist ideology. We can say that it is anti American novel. Because in the novel also represented the idea and the Anti- American views. In on@tcc one of theme is Nationalism and also few characters are presents the idea of Anti-American thoughts.


Self- Help Book and ON@TCC

The meaning of Self-Help Book is to self improvement, Genre – non fictional book. It inspire a new writer, it shows and get the slowing the personal problems in difficult situation. Swot Analysis (doubt yourself/life). In the novel Bhagat has put some questioned in the prologue and also some rules in the mouth of God, Detraditionalization on Radhika and Priyanka attack on way of think, Reverse gear. And also the main idea of god’s call coming and give the solution the characters, and in this book we find God tells them not to worry about your problem but you have to face the all problems and also gave confidence to challenge the problems.

Popular Literature and ON@TCC:
 
In popular literature talk about the cause and effect, more familiar and accepted moral teaching, radically way of looking, an instinctive or traditional, highly reflective philosophy of life and also not give the clear cut way or abstract the question. And we can apply this all here in the novel Ex. like suddenly came the call of god, and giving the moral teaching and talk about the four think Intelligence, Imagination, Self-confidence, and failure and last talk about the reverse gear in life is more important.

My view on Poststructuralism by Jacques Derrida

          Poststructuralism is entirely a  difficult approach. Post structuralism is really a cultural movement more than an intellectual movement. Post structuralism moved beyond this questioning the very notions of truth, reality, meaning sincerity good etc. while this series can be very useful for certain movements, ideas, belief systems or historical periods. I think for Poststructuralism brevity sacrifices far too much clarity several times, I found myself spending tree, four , five minutes trying to unpack a single dance sentence.

          “Any of several theories of literary criticism, as deconstruction or reader response criticism that use structuralist methods but argues against the results of structuralism and hold that there is no one true reading of a text”

          Post structuralism is the reaction to structuralism a variety of post modernism. The poststructuralists accuse structuralists of not following through the implications of views about language on which their intellectual system is based. One struturalists said that language doesn’t  but just reflect or record the world.

          When we go deep into foundation of that thing we can deconstruct, subvert, undermine, blast it.

          I would like to deconstruct the movie 3 Idiot. In this movie the characterization of Hero Rancho is like romantic  hero than real, where as the principal of that engineering college is more honest or realistic portrayal. But then even professor is laughed at and hero is praised even though it is not real. The same is about Interview scene of boy named    Raju.  He denies that he will not change his attitude, which is in reality is not possible. Any body will change himself or say yes to get job.

 Thus, we can deconstruct this idea.

Blog on The digital humanities

The digital humanities is new branch of study, for example earlier traditional approaches like history, philosophy , cultural studies etc. But it is a new in this fields.

·       What is digital Humanities?

The digital humanities is an area of research, technique and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. developing from the field of  humanities computing, digital humanity embraces a variety of topics ranging from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets. Digital humanities currently incorporates both digitized and both digital and born digital materials and combines the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines such as linguistic, literature, art. 

Finally today we see the simultaneous explosion of interests in e-reading and e-book devices like the kindle, ipad and nook and the advance of large scale texts digitization project.

After numeric input , text has been by far the most tracable datatype for the computers to manipulate. Unlike audio, video, and so on.
, there is  the long association between computers and compositions, almost as long and just as rich lineage.

Ergodic discourse:

Is appropriated from physics. It is a constituted by the greek word means work and path.

Cybertexts are  not exclusively electronic or digital. A machine for the production of variety and expression. Traditional reader simply does not have the same degree of influence.
Games are labyrinths and worlds, rather than representations. Text as a machine with different parts and users.

My Blog on Structuralism

Structuralism is theory focused upon the structure of human expression. It is a complex intellectual movement that first established its importance in France in 1950 and 1960. A simple explanation of structuralism it that it understands phenomena using the metaphor of language. That is we can understand language as a system or structure which defines it self in terms of itself.

A method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior culture and experience, which focuses on relationship of contrast between elements in conceptual system.
In philosophical way something which behind the truth. Which attack on this meaning structuralism. something behind the world of appearance for example Marxists might argue that we can understand the world by examing the relations of production or some which is very importants fundamentalist. According to Christians that we should kept something in our mind that the world is as a battle of God aginst satan. So it’s hidden agenda but in fact explains the world.

There are many great examples of such struturalists are Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, etc. So we can see that the main theme of these struturalists is their attack on ‘foundationalism’ attacking and thought, ideas in which we can construct a new foundation. All the things emphasize the relatedness of truth, how truth is not something we discover or something around beliefs or can start from but a structure which society invents.

Saussure  was a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study. In the nineteenth century linguistic scholar had mainly been interested in historical aspects of language such as working out the historical development of languages and the connections between them. Saussure concentrated instead of patterns and functions of language in use today with the emphasis on how meanings are maintained and established and how on the function of grammatical structure.



Examples are…..
In Shakespeare’s play boy+ girl or Boy-girl is same (love)
Life= birth, youth, death—structure of life
Book=beginning, middle, end- structure of book.
   

Blog on Tradition and Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot

Eliot says about tradition that from Homer to the present day whatever things are written that comes under the canon of tradition. It cannot be inherited but must acquired by hard work. It is very huge things. One must have knowledge of all this things. So that poet can write well. 

 He says that writer should have historical sense “ the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past but of the presence” and “ this historical sense, which is a sense of a temporal and of timeless together, is what makes a writer traditional”. He says that historical sense helps a writer to understand what was in the past.

Tradition for Eliot is an already an existing monument and the individual can only  add few thing. And  individual makes his  own place in tradition Eliot explains the interdependence of the tradition and individual talent.  

 he says that everyone should be well read but what he finds is Shakespeare is an exceptional. But then even his works, characters, theme are good. Thus one can learn all things after few reading and other cannot do that. They have to sweat for it.
 he says about depesnonalization with an example of science that writer should keep himself aloof from the work. As sulphur and oxygen are mixed it creates sulphuric acid. But it is not possible in the absence of platinum. Thus poet’s mind is platinum.

Eliot says  that poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion. It is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. Means that when artist writes he does not write only about his feelings and emotions. But of poem.  Eliot says about tradition that from Homer to the present day whatever things are written that comes under the canon of tradition. It cannot be inherited but must acquired by hard work. It is very huge things. One must have knowledge of all this things. So that poet can write well. 

. He says that writer should have historical sense “ the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past but of the presence” and “ this historical sense, which is a sense of a temporal and of timeless together, is what makes a writer traditional”. He says that historical sense helps a writer to understand what was in the past.

Tradition for Eliot is an already an existing monument and the individual can only  add few thing. And  individual makes his  own place in tradition Eliot explains the interdependence of the tradition and individual talent.  

 he says that everyone should be well read but what he finds is Shakespeare is an exceptional. But then even his works, characters, theme are good. Thus one can learn all things after few reading and other cannot do that. They have to sweat for it.
 he says about depesnonalization with an example of science that writer should keep himself aloof from the work. As sulphur and oxygen are mixed it creates sulphuric acid. But it is not possible in the absence of platinum. Thus poet’s mind is platinum.

Eliot says  that poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion. It is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. Means that when artist writes he does not write only about his feelings and emotions. But of poem.  

Blog on Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads

The difference between classicism and romanticism is quite clear that Romantic were not strictly following the rules and regulation set by the classicist. Classicist were believing in controlled , restricted emotions. Whereas according to the Romantic it should be spontaneous. Whatever you feel express that freely. One more thing is that classicist were writing with the theme of the city life people. But Romantic were writing on the life of the rural people, their emotion, feeling.

Wordsworth says that what is poet . because he wanted to emphasis that which are the qualities which  makes him poet. Any one cannot be poet, he differs from the other people in their emotive capacity. Poet has that sense which makes him greater than OTHERS. We all experience something, but fails to express it in poetic way, but poet can do that. So he says that what is poet rather than who is poet. He wanted to emphasis that thus poet differs from common people .

Wordsworth believed that simple language can also be the language of poetry. no need   of highly crafted one. It should be the language really used by men. Rural people are more innocent, close to nature so their language should be language of poetry.

According to him, poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling recollected in tranquility, means first you go in nature, enjoy it, then come back , now in leisure time remember all what you have experienced.  Then  sit and write. Now whatever you have written that is truly poetry.