Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Deconstruction


What is Deconstruction 

The word "deconstruction" literally means to break something down into parts in order to better understand its meaning. In the philosophical context, deconstruction refers to the process of dismantling language to discover what is really being said beneath the surface; usually, this will be different from what is already considered to be known about the text. The deconstructionist examines not only what the text says but also what is doesn't say in order to ultimately conclude that no text has one fixed meaning and that if one can break down language enough, they will discover that it can mean anything to anyone. 

For example, consider the culinary industry. A recent trend in the food world is deconstructed dishes, or food that has been broken down into its most significant parts and served dismantled. Chefs who serve deconstructed dishes believe that by breaking down a popular dish into parts and serving it in an alternative way, they are reintroducing people to the dish and giving them an opportunity to experience it in a new way. This use of deconstruction is similar to the deconstruction definition as applied to literature.

Jacques Derrida is the founder of deconstruction. His goal was to disrupt metaphysical thought built upon binary oppositions. A key aspect of Derrida's thinking is his concept of differ'ance, a play on the French verb "differer" which means both "to defer" and "to differ." In practice, this means that words are incomplete in meaning unless supported by other chosen words, and that the goal of specificity in language is to differentiate meaning. 

For example, if someone said the word "flower" to a room full of people, it is likely that every person in the room would conjure a picture of a different flower in their minds. If the speaker clarified by saying "single red rose" then the audience would be more united on their understanding of the concept being presented. Furthermore, in using more specific language, the speaker is causing the audience's original understanding "to differ" from the speaker's intended meaning, their new understanding is clarified by more specific language. However, even with more specific descriptors, it is unlikely that that every person in the room thought of the exact same rose. According to Derrida, all interpretations of language are valid, but this also means that nobody can ever understand exactly what another person is speaking or writing about. Language is only an approximation of what we know, but true definitions of terms are unattainable because it is all relative to individual experience. As in the example with the rose, we tend to describe things by what they are not.

Example in Deconstruction 

1. Poem Ozymandias in deconstruction 

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

The story of the fallen leader in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is a reiteration of other tales that depict the inevitable destruction of great, political giants and the impossibility of enduring greatness. As told by the "traveller"  to the narrator in the format of an abbreviated frame story, the king in Shelley’s has a large statue built in his likeness to preside over his, now fallen, kingdom which serves to ironically announce the futility of absolute rule. Though he likely realized he would not physically live forever, he sought to secure a place in earth’s future by elevating his visage upon a  physical pedestal. The base declares both his arrogance and cruelty by placing himself as the "King of Kings"  and commanding all to "Look upon  works, ye mighty, and despair!" . His statue, as he likely saw it, would live on into eternity where no one would ever forget his name or face. The reality is that his statue is now a ruin, "Nothing beside remains" and his name barely recognizable in stone, and even less so in the history books.

 The first line of the poem, the narrator states that the "traveller" , to use the British spelling for the word, he met was from an "antique land" , which connotes something that has gone out of fashion or, conversely, is now  vogue for its age and uniqueness. It is interesting to note that the literal definition for this spelling of traveller in the Oxford dictionary refers to a nomadic person, especially a gypsy, or one that "leads and itinerant and unconventional lifestyle." This is not a person of good repute one should trust a story from. Because of this word, the entire verity of the quoted statement regarding the fallen king, Ozymandias, is thrown into doubt. The overt lesson of the piece could have been orchestrated by design of this travelling storyteller.

2. Anouk Bold Is Beautiful - The Calling ( Fashion brand Anouk) 


 I this Ad By Fashion brand Anouk took a strong stand against discrimination that pregnant women face at the workplace with this powerful ad. In ad Two woman and One young woman as modal Second  his his boss. so in ad woman not choose as the modal "Handicapped because I am pregnant,"  and boss and others people decided next time select another because of she is pregnant  and she not carry to work lord etc. she is hard working woman and she not select only a reason is pregnant not a other reason and his boss conversion  only focus his baby but woman not agree with his boss decision. who plays the protagonist in the ad, as she looks her boss in the eye and makes a bold decision. Ad present woman is pregnant so is not work a very well because she not carry both thing together and some woman lost his future because she not handles as mother and working women. In India many woman scarify his dreams reason is that she pregnant or After born baby Family not allowed work. But this ad Pregnant woman inspired the woman's not scarify dream and nobody take decision his life.

3. Ariel - Share The Load

Moving beyond ads that show women (wife and mothers usually) making sure that their child’s and husband’s clothes are sparkly white, there’s finally a campaign that highlights the need for equal distribution of household chores. What’s great is that Ariel turned this into a 'movement' with actors and other influential personalities talking about the issue as well. This ad related the Working woman and housewife woman. Two old woman sitting near camera's and talk with past life working day and his salary. Now his daughter-in-law work in office and his daughter-in-law salary more than is son. In ad woman prospective and woman development it self compare the man.









Wednesday, July 13, 2022

An Astrologer's Day

  Hello, Everyone This Blog is our Study Short Story An Astrologer's Day by R. K. Narayan and given the task by Yesha Bhatt. 

  R.K. Narayan 



R.K. Narayan, in full Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan, original name Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanswami, born October 10, 1906, Madras [Chennai], India—died May 13, 2001, Madras, one of the finest Indian authors of his generation writing in English.

Reared by his grandmother, Narayan completed his education in 1930 and briefly worked as a teacher before deciding to devote himself to writing. His first novel, Swami and Friends (1935), is an episodic narrative recounting the adventures of a group of schoolboys. That book and much of Narayan’s later works are set in the fictitious South Indian town of Malgudi. Narayan typically portrays the peculiarities of human relationships and the ironies of Indian daily life, in which modern urban existence clashes with ancient tradition. His style is graceful, marked by genial Humour, elegance, and simplicity.

Among the best-received of Narayan’s 34 novels are The English Teacher (1945), Waiting for the Mahatma (1955), The Guide (1958), The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961), The Vendor of Sweets (1967), and A Tiger for Malgudi (1983). Narayan also wrote a number of short stories; collections include Lawley Road (1956), A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories (1970), Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (1985), and The Grandmother’s Tale (1993). In addition to works of nonfiction (chiefly memoirs), he also published shortened modern prose versions of two Indian epics, The Ramayana (1972) and The Mahabharata (1978).

AN ASTROLOGER'S DAY By R.K. Narayan 



An Astrologer's Day is a thriller, suspense short story by author R. K. Narayan. While it had been published earlier, it was the titular story of Narayan's fourth collection of short stories published in 1947 by Indian Thought Publications. It was the first chapter of the world famous collection of stories Malgudi Days which was later telecasted on television in 2006.

Fallon and et al. described the work as "a model of economy without leaving out the relevant detail." Themes found in An Astrologer's Day recur frequently throughout Narayan's work. The story was adapted into a 2019 Kannada movie Gara.

    1. How faithful is the movie to the original short story?

👉In Short Film is quite faithful to the short story because it has followed the story well but also creative dialog by director and some scenes like the conversations between Astrologer and Guru Nayak character in story and in film also well performed by directed.

 2.  After watching the movie, have your perception about the short story, characters or situations changed?

👉After I watching the short film, some point or Scenes I has Changed my perception about the short story. While reading the short story about the astrologer and his conversation with the  different people and people's different situation but conversation his same by astrologer in short film scenes. After watching the film we know about the characters how delivered dialogue by film.

  3. Do you feel ‘aesthetic delight’ while watching the movie? If yes, exactly when did it happen? If no, can you explain with reasons?

👉First and foremost reason is the change of setting. In the short story setting is important. R.K.Narayan is famous for his fictional town ‘Malgudi’. So if the filmmaker used the setting of ‘Malgudi’ town then it might give an appropriate idea. Inappropriate introduction of the most important character ‘An Astrologer’, when we read the story then we found a proper image of an astrologer. In the initial part of the story we can read very knit observations in the story.

  4.  Does screening of movie help you in better understanding of the short story?

👉Yes, movie Screening is helpful in better understanding of the original  short story Witten by R. K. Narayana.

  5.  Was there any particular scene or moment in the story that you think was perfect?

👉Yes I was think one Particular scene or moment was perfect. In the end of the short story and end of the shirt film part is night scene one man come and talk with the astrologer. he says astrologer he found a man and he kill him man. he question the astrologer he found the man and astrologer answer man is died in Larry. so in the part in story or film is perfect.

 6. If you are director, what changes would you like to make in the remaking of the movie based on the short story “An Astrologer’s Day” by R.K. Narayan?

👉'An Astrologer's Day' is a very eye-catching story. Some good adaptation is also made on it. While discussing the question as a Filmmaker then I would like to do some kind of changing. First the age of astrologers. It might be around forty. My setting might be in some fictional small town like Malgudi. The biggest change is the characterization of Guru Nayak. In the story Guru Nayak blindly trusts an astrologer but my Guru Nayak will cross check what he actually tells and at the end Nayak will catch the real identity of an astrologer.




Monday, July 11, 2022

Derrida and Deconstruction

Video 1

In frist video discuss the definition of Deconstruction.

In video letter to a Japanese friend 10 July,1983 to professor Izutsu. The very condition Derrida argues is beased on Deconstruction or binary opposition.

Video 2 

In this video the speakers talk about the influence of Heidegger on Derrida. Derridian rethinking on the foundation of western philosophy.

So this video discuss the three important thinkers: 1 Martin Heidegger (1889- 1976)

2 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

3 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

In which Derrida acknowledges in his very famous as a sturcture,sign and play as the ideas in the philosophy are in many was continued dairy down Heidegger his philosophy deals with some very important theme.





 1.Why does Derrida consider Nietzsche and Freud to be precursors of Deconstruction ?

2.What is the purpose of Deconstruction in literature?

3. What is the Deconstruction theory attributed to Derrida ?

Sunday, July 10, 2022

wide sargasso Sea

 Hello ! This blog is our study novel wide Sargasso sea by Jean Rhys  and task by Yesha Bhatt. In Blog I am Written Postcolonial theory to Jean Rhys novel wide Sargasso sea.

                                            Postcolonial  Studies by Jens Rhys Novel Wide

                                              Sargasso Sea



 

About The Author 


Jean Rhys, original name Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, born August 24, 1890, Roseau, Dominica, Windward Islands, West Indies—died May 14, 1979, Exeter, Devon, England, West Indian novelist who earned acclaim for her early works set in the bohemian world of Europe in the 1920s and ’30s but who stopped writing for nearly three decades, until she wrote a successful novel set in the West Indies.

The daughter of a Welsh doctor and a Creole mother, Rhys lived and was educated in Dominica until she went to London at the age of 16 and worked as an actress before moving to Paris. There she was encouraged to write by the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. Her first book, a collection of short stories, The Left Bank (1927), was followed by such novels as Postures (1928), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931), Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Good Morning, Midnight (1939).

After moving to Cornwall she wrote nothing until her remarkably successful Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a novel that reconstructed the earlier life of the fictional character Antoinette Cosway, who was Mr. Rochester’s mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Tigers Are Better-Looking, with a Selection from the Left Bank (1968) and Sleep It Off Lady (1976), both short-story collections, followed. Smile Please, an unfinished autobiography, was published in 1979. 

About The Novel


Wide Sargasso Sea, novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in Jamaica and returns with him to his home in England. Locked in a loveless marriage and settled in an inhospitable climate, Antoinette goes mad and is frequently violent. Her husband confines her to the attic of his house at Thornfield. Only he and Grace Poole, the attendant he has hired to care for her, know of Antoinette’s existence. The reader gradually learns that Antoinette’s unnamed husband is Mr. Rochester, later to become the beloved of Jane Eyre.

Much of the action of the novel takes place in the West Indies. The first and third sections are narrated by Antoinette, the middle section by her husband.

Characters 

Antoinette

Annette (mother of Antoinette)

Tia (Black girl Cheated Antoinette)

Pierre (Insane brother)

Daniel Cosway (Step Brother of Antoinette)

Amelie (maid)

Bertha (husband renamed Antoinette)

Grace poole (caretaker)

Mr. Rochester 

Mr. Richard mason (Step father of Antoinette)

Christophine (Nurse)

Sandi Cosway

Aunt Cora 

Alexander Cosway

Madewoman attic - : Annette and Antoinette 

Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, a “prequel” to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, tells the story of Antoinette Cosway, a young woman, from a “Creole” family of declining fortune, who’s made to marry Mr. Rochester, taken to England, renamed Bertha, and, on being driven insane, locked in Rochester’s mansion attic. A mere gothic archetype in Jane Eyre, a dangerous madwoman with no voice of her own, the Antoinette Cosway of Wide Sargasso Sea is intelligent, sensual, and perceptive. Her narration reveals what Jane Eyre arguably obscures: racial violence, colonial exploitation, and the patriarchal power relations that, over the course of her disastrous marriage, drive Antoinette to insanity. What can Rhys’s rewriting of a classic teach us: about Empire, race, and slavery—and about Jane Eyre and the legacy of classic European literature itself?


In this course, we will read Rhys’s novel, a landmark of feminist and postcolonial fiction, as an entry to thinking about larger questions surrounding the colonial history of the West Indies, literary intertexuality, canon-building, and the novel as a genre. How does Rhys’s rewriting both draw on and challenge Jane Eyre and its cultural legacy? What part does horror play in postcolonial intertextuality and critique? As we read, we’ll explore important questions of racialization, subalternity, and the representation of “third-world” women, in both Wide Sargasso Sea and classic Western fiction. And, we will ask: How does Rhys’s novel help us rethink feminist critique and the paradigmatic “mad woman in the attic”? How do “decolonizing fictions” challenge racialized identities and Eurocentric structures of subjectivity and the linearity of time? How might we re-read Jane Eyre—critically and recuperatively—in light of Antoinette’s narrative and testimoni.

They spread false stories about the family, jeer at them for their poverty, kill the only horse the Cosways own, and ultimately burn the house down. Christophine, a black servant from Martinique (equally isolated for that reason) is the only person to stay devoted to the family, the only consolation Antoinette has. She is also the only person who doesn’t trust the Englishman brought from England – he is willing to marry Antoinette because he is essentially a fortune-hunter.

But even he is more subtly drawn than Bronte’s ‘manly man’ Rochester. He finds everything bewildering: the landscape, manners, customs... The situation becomes even more complicated when letters arrive from someone who calls himself Daniel Cosway to say that the Englishman had been fooled into marrying Antoinette. There was madness in the family, and no one would tell him the truth... The results are predictable. He refuses to have anything to do with Antoinette, sleeps with one of the servants. In the end, he decides to take Antoinette to England, where he incarcerates her in an attic...





Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Cultural studies: power, media, Truly educated

1) your understanding of power in cultural studies.

What is "Power"? 
 Power plays a vital role in the study of culture. Without power the study of culture is incomplete, and power is connected to the extensive use of media. There are six main sources of civic power:-

1)Physical forces :  Physical force and a capacity for violence control of the means of force whether in the police or a militia, is power at its most primal.

2) Wealth : money creates the ability to buy results and to buy almost any other kind of power.

3) State action : this is the use of law and bureaucracy to compel people to do or not do certain things. for example: In a democracy, we the people, theoretically, give government its power through elections.
 Dictatorship, state power emerges from the threat of force, not the consent of the governed.

4) Social norms : The fourth type of power is social norms  or what other people think is okey. norms don't have the centralized machinery of government. they operate in a softer way, peer to peer. They can certainly make people change behavior and even change laws. Think about how norms around marriage equality today are evolving.

5) Ideas : An idea, individual liberties, say, or racial equality can generate boundless amounts of power if it motivates enough people to change their thinking and actions.

6) Numbers : Number a lot of people, A vocal mass of people creates power by expressing collective intensity of interest and by asserting legitimacy. think of the Arab Spring or the rise of the tea party crowds count.

👉There are three laws of Power:-

1) Power is never static : It's always either accumulating or decaying in a civic arena. so if you aren't taking action, you're being acted upon.

2) Power is like water: It flows like a current through everyday life. Politics is the work of harnessing that flow in a direction you prefer. Policymaking is an effort to freeze and perpetuate a particular flow of power. Policy is power frozen.

3) Power compounds :Power begets more power, and so does powerlessness. The only thing that keeps law number three from leading to a situation where only one person had all the power is how we apply laws one and two.

Mass Media

1.Media Ownership : The endgame of all mass media orgs is profit. “It is in their interest to push for whatever guarantees that profit.”

2. Advertising :

3. Media Elite:

4. Flack: “When the story is inconvenient for the powers that be, you’ll see the flack machine in action: discrediting sources, trashing stories, and diverting the conversation.”

5. The Common Enemy :“To manufacture consent, you need an enemy, a target: Communism, terrorists, immigrants… a boogeyman to fear helps corral public opinion.”

Truly educated people 

The Mechanics of Writing

  what is Mechanics of Writing ?  The mechanics of writing refer to the technical aspects of writing, such as spelling, punctuation, grammar...