Conversation between Mary Shelley & Jane Austen

Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley

∆  Welcome readers ,

        

                     This is our thinking activity task assigned by Vaidehi ma'am . And this task about conversation between Mary Shelley and Jane Austen . Here I perform Mary Shelley and Nirali perform Jane Austen . So I hope you will like it . 

Mary Shelley :-

                       Hello ! Jane . How are you ?

Jane Austen  :-

                  I am very fine. Thanks. How about you ?

Mary Shelley  :- 

                  Pretty good. 

Jane Austen  :-

                          Oh ! Nice.

Mary Shelley  :- 

              Jane, tell me something about your family.

Jane Austen :-

                         Yaa, sure. In my family we are Eight brother and Sisters. My father served as a rector for the rural community. I would like to tell you that I love very much my sister and also very much attached with her. This is all about my family. Tell me What about your family. 

Mary Shelley  :-

                      My father William Godwin is philosopher and political writer. I never really knew my mother who died shortly after my birth. I have Step mother. Her name is Mary Jane Clairmont and also I never got along with my stepmother.

Jane Austen  :-

                   Can I ask you one question? Mary.

Mary Shelley  :-

                     Yes, of course. Why not ?

Jane Austen :-

              Where you got inspiration for writing your works .

Mary Shelley  :-

                       My father had a number of distinguished guests during my childhood, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. While I didn't have a formal education and also I make great use of my father's extensive library. I could often be found reading. Sometimes by my mother grave and I also liked to daydream, escaping from her often challenging home life into my imagination. 

     Where from you got this elegant writing inspiration ?

Jane Austen  :-

                         I got inspiration of writing in my father's library and that of a family friend Warren Hastings. Together these collections amounted to a large and varied library. My father was also tolerant of my sometimes risque experiment in writing and provided me and my sister with expensive paper and other material for their writing and drawing.  

Thinking activity : Arundhati Roy

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" Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered . It was never important enough . Because Worse Things had happened . In the country that she  come from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Thing kept happening".

~Arundhati Roy

           Welcome to my blog . We all know that an author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play . So, here thi is our thinking activity task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. Here I'm put my view on Arundhati Roy .

                    Suzanna Arundhati Roy she was born on November 24, 1961 , Shilling , Meghalaya , India . Arundhati Roy is an Indian author ,  actress and Political activist who was best known for the award winning novel . The God Of Small Things  (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes , often putting herself at odds with Indian legal authorities and the country's middle-class establishment . She drew criticism for her vocal support of Maoist supported Naxalite  insurgency   groups , view to summarized in the volume  Walking With The Comrades  (2011)  while Roy was leading efforts to prevent the construction of the project accused her of attacking them at a project in 2001 .

                   In  1997 Roy published her the novel The God of Small Things to wide acclaim  . The semi-autobiographical work departed from the conventional plots and light prose that have been typical among best sellers. Roy's novel become the biggest selling book by nonexpatriate Indian author and won the 1998 Man Booker prize for fiction . Roy's subsequent literary output largely consisted of politically oriented nonfiction , much of it aimed at addressing the problem of  faced by  her homeland in the age of Global capitalism .

                           

Thinking activity : Frankenstein

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                   Welcome to my blog . This is our thinking activity task on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein v/s Kenneth Branagh's movie Frankenstein .  This Post viewing task given by Hina ma'am . CLICK HERE to view this task .

 

∆ what is the difference between the movie and novel :-

            

               Mary shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 film directed by English director, writer and actor Kenneth branagh ,  adopting Frankenstein : or ,  the modern Prometheus a novel by English author Mary Shelley first published in 1818 .

              Mary shelley is a nailbiny yet the captivating tale of how a man by the name of Victor Frankenstein gives life to an abomination of a monster . Mary Shelley's  book and director Kenneth Branagh's movie we have find many differences and similarity . Both style do this exhilarating strong justice and many of the key elements in the book remain intact .  Here we find there are many difference that set apart Branagh's movie as opposed  to Mary Shelley's book such as Character roles  , how the monster is created  and Elizabeth's interactions with the monster and death .

                      Here we easily find  the first difference is the character role in the movie . Professor Waldman's role . He played a part in the vectors education of giving life to his monster. He displays how how electricity can be used to reanimate dead limb wich sparks an even greater interest in Victor. This science was not in the book but really help the audience to get an understanding of how Victor was learning more toward the interest of creating monster .

               

                 In the novel the monster wants to take revenge with society and also with victor because of society rejects him for his ugly looking but in the movie The monster wants to take revenge with his creator Victor Frankenstein . 

∆ Does the movie help you to understand narrative structure of the novel .

           Yes , the movie help me a lot to understand narrative structure of the novel . Because in the movie we find many similarity .

∆ What do you think about the creation of lady monster in the novel and Elizabeth's look as a monster in the movie ?

                          Mary Shelley had already established Victor Frankenstein as the creator of  monster , the women monster have brought a disruption to the idea that science represent creation of life and new world .  Mary Shelley was afraid to explore the idea of woman in a male domination society . And Frankenstein describe her Character at length : she was docile and good tempered . Although she was lively and animated , her feeling were strong and deep . And her disposition uncommonly affectionate .

Thinking activity : Matthew Arnold

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" In poetry , as a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the law of poetic truth and poetic beauty ".

~ Matthew Arnold

                   Here I would like to put some information about Matthew Arnold's view on characteristics of good poetry and criticism . This thinking activity task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir . Click Here to visit Barad sir's blog .

∆ MATTHEW ARNOLD :-

                           Matthew Arnold ( 1822-1888) was a great English poet and literary critic whose influence continued long after his death . He was first modern critic . He was son of the prominent English headmaster Thomas Arnold an educator known for his influence on school reforms in the 19th century .

# His famous poems :-

(1) The Scholar - Gipsy (1853)
(2) Thyrsis (1865)
(3) Rugby Chapel (1867)

(4)Stanzas From the Grande Chartreuse (1855) 

(5) Sohrab and Rustum (1853)

              Arnolds interest in classical antiquity is also found in his literary criticism. He placed great value on the poetry of classical sources like Homer and he wrote about the need for modern Poets to learn from the old masters.  Modern life, in his view, was too focused on the material world . Return to noble characters and deep and serious epic poetry would serve to instruct the readers to be better, more contemplative people . 

 Literary criticism is ,as Matthew Arnold points out, a "disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate" the best that is known and taught in the world and he strove hard .

           The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of disinterestedness of detachment . Disinterestedness on the part of the critic implies freedom from all prejudice , personal or historical .

∆ the Touchstone  method : The study of poetry :-

                  Matthew Arnold's general principles was the "Touchstone method" which introduced scientific objectivity to critical evaluation by providing comparison and analysis as the two primary tools for judging individual poets .

Research methodology workshop on SEER and Plagiarism

Welcome readers , 

     

                 On 19th November 2019  we have attended  one wonderful research methodology workshop on " SEER and Plagiarism "  at  Department of English, MKB UNIVERSITY . The main motto of the workshop is  how to check authenticity of web resources ? And head of the department Dr.  Dilip Barad sir who introduced the SEER : SOURCE EDUCATION EVOLUTION RUBRIC . 

             So , here I would like to give some brief introduction about this workshop .  The SEER represent the evolution of the critical approach that Turnitin has adopted and used to categorize websites  in analysis of student sources . The Rubric , created by secondary and higher Education instructor is designed to help student evaluate source that they use in their writing. It's intent is to help enhance student mastery of "21st century", information literary skills critical for academic professional  and career success in the digital age .

∆ The Rubric is built on five criteria :

(1) Authority : Is site well regarded , cited and written by expert in the field ?

(2) Educational value : Does the site content help advance educational goals ?

(3) Intent : Is the site a well represent  source of content intended to inform users ?

(4) Originality : Is the site a source of original content and viewpoints ?

(5) Quality : is the site highly vetted with good coverage of the topic area ?