Thinking Activity : Hamlet movie screening

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            Welcome to my blog . This is my thinking activity task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir .  Click here to view about the task .

   

       
            Hamlet  is a  1996 film adaptation of  William Shakespeare's play  Hamlet . And this movie adapted and directed by Kenneth  Branagh . Who also star as prince Hamlet . Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is only full version of movie no editing and cutting of dilogues . And also Kenneth Branagh used many original dilogues of the book .

 ∆  How faithful is the movie  to the original play ?
  

     

                Yes , In my point of view Kenneth Branagh's film Hamlet is the faithful version of the original play . In this movie we find some of changes . The play originally located in the  11 the century Denmark , and in this movie Kenneth Branagh choose  Victorian era . And in this movie we find that Kenneth Branagh'' Hamlet fully presented with the each dilogues as it is original text . And also Branagh sets internal scenes in a vibrantly colorful setting , featuring a throne room dominated by mirrored doors . The film is the first version of Hamlet , running just over  four hours . And the length of the movie shows the faithfulness of the original play .

∆ After watching the movie your perception about play , Characters or situations changed ?

              According to my interpretation  , while keeping all of Shakespeare's original text  , Kenneth Branagh change the settings of the play from the Renaissance era to the 19 the century . Instead of the stereotypical Shakespearean visual of light and big collars the characters dress  much more modern looking Victorian clothies .  Hamlet for example wear  very simple black coat and trousers for a large part of movie .
           
               And also in the film we find that  the Hamlet is potrayed as too old than the real prince Hamlet in the play who is very young . And Ophelia is also a powerful character .

∆  Do you feel  ' aesthetic ' delight while watching the movie ? If  yes ,  exactly when did it happen ? If  no , can you explain with reason ? 

            Yes , I feel aesthetic delight  while watching the movie . In the movie  the beginning of the movie The Elsinore Castel ,  and also the character of Hamlet is more attractive, his madness , mental struggling , his split personality , his misogyny , and   also ghost . This all give me aesthetic delight .

∆ Do you feel  ' catharsis ' while or after watching movie  ? If yes , exactly when did happen ? If no , can you explain with the reason ? 

               Yes , I feel catharsis in the play  . In the movie when the Hamlet was cone back  Wittenberg to Denmark  , at that time he hears the sudden death of his Father king Hamlet and his mother who marriage with his uncle  .  And also while Ophelia became made after death of his father , in this movie we find that no one who can understand her feelings and situations  . And then at the end she became  committed  suicide . At that time I feel pity for her . And at the end we find Ophelia and Hamlet Both got tregic and terrible end .

∆ Does screening of movie help you in better understanding for the play ? 

           Yes , absolutely the movie screening help me a lot to better understanding for the play .  Through the movie we understand  situations and emotion of Characters  in the batter way through their emotion and dilogues .  And through the movie I understand all the characters better way . 

∆ was there any particular scene or moment in the movie that you will cherish life time ?

                 Yes there are some of certain scenes of the movie cherish me lifetime .  There are  many scenes which are still floating in front of my eyes like ,  ghost of king Hamlet , Hamlet's split personality ,  Ophelia's poetry in madness , grave digging scene , and also Hamlet's death scene . And I would cherish  those dilogues like ,

           "  To be or not to be that is question  " 

              " Madness is great one's should not be passes unnoticed "

∆ If you director , what changes would you like to make in the remaking of the movie on Shakespeare's " Hamlet " ? 


                  Kenneth Branagh's movie is well directed there are  much need to changes .   If I am director , In  the movie I would like to shown  Hamlet as a young prince , and also in the movie we find that the character of Ophelia is  to weak , and poppet of the Hamlet and his father , and no one who care and understand her in the Kenneth Branagh's movie .  I would like to present her role become stronger and powerful and also heroin of the movie .  

 ∆ In the beginning of the movie , camera rolls over the statue of the king Hamlet out side the Elsinore Castel . The movie end with the similar sequence wherein the statue of King Hamlet is  hammered down to the dust  what sort of symbolism do you reading this ?

        
           Through the symbolism creator tries to show the thing which we can not express the word .   The play open with name of Hamlet  on the wall of the castle of Elsinore and at the ends broken  of statue . And the fall down of statue  symbolized  end of everything  , and dynasty of the king  Hamlet . At the end after death nothing remains  ,  like pride , rule all the thing destroyed with the cycle of immortal  time on the  mortal things . 

∆ While studying the play through the movie , which approach  do you find more applicable to be the play ? Why ? Give reason with illustration .

         In the movie we find there are  many approaches applicable like , 
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 The  phychological approach 
 °The philosophical approach 
                    
                   The studying of the play I found the phychological approach  is applicable on the play .  In the play we find that Hamlet was the university scholar  and sharp minded   , and Hamlet is avenges his  father's murder as quickly as practicable  ,  Shakespeare makes  Claudius guilt as well as Hamlet's duty perfectly clear from the outset . And we can see that  he driven by phychological approach . When Claudius  alon while he was praying  at that time great opportunity to kill Claudius but he didn't . At that time he think that if he kill Claudius while prayers time then his soul would go into the heaven and that is Hamlet never want .
         " Play is mainly concerned with the hero's unavailing fight against what can only be called a disorderd mind " 

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Girish Karnad : Controversial Obituaries

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Girish Karnad : Controversial Obituaries

          

          •Born :  May  19 , 1938 , Matheran ,                               Bombay presidency ( now in                            Maharashtra )  India .

        • Died :  June 10 , 2019 , Bengaluru ,                              India .

                   Girish Karnad was part of India's past -  Independence Renaissance . He was great Indian actor , film actor , kannada writer , playwright and a Rhodes scholar . His plays written in kannada , have been translated into English . His play were a mix of myth and history but they always spoke of the reality  and there lay the importance of Girish Karnad , a multi- hyphenate cultural icon who championed the freedom of expression and inclusive idea of India through his life and work . He wrote many great notable works like , 

            • Yayati ( 1961 )

           • Hayavadana ( 1971 )

           •Tughalaq  (1964 )

           •Anjumallige

          •Agni mathu male

          • Hittina Hunja Taledanda etc. 

∆ And also Girish Karnad got many great awards  like , 

              ° Jnanapith award (1998)

              °  Padma Shri (1979)

              ° Padma Bhushan (1992)

             °  kalidas samman (1998)

∆ Girish Karnad was well known for using      history and mithology to tackle many       contemporary and controversial issues .

            Karnad had also criticised Nobel laureate V. s. Naipaul for his controversial view on  Muslim in India . Calling Naipaul an unreliable writer of non- fiction as far as India was concerned Karnad had said , "  He really doesn't pay much attention to the details on the texts of studies " . Following controversy over  Karnataka government's decision to celebrate Tipu jayanti , Karnad had said the  18th century Mysure  ruler would have been celebrated as much as  Maratha king chhatrapati Shivaji , had been a Hindu not Muslim .

         He was a proponent of multi - culturalism and freedom of expression .He was critic of  religiou fundamentalism .He had publicaly condemned the demolition of Babri masjid  in 1992 and later spoke  against the attempt to create  controversy about the Idgan Maidan in Hubli . He had opposed RSS , BJP and other organizations on several occasions .  He opposed Narendra Modi for the prime minister's post in the 2014 parliament elections . He was one of the 200 writers who put out an open latter against hate politics and for  " diverse and equal India "  during the 2019 general elections .

                  With a tube in his nose , he wore  a placared saying , " Me Too Urban Naxal " at the first death anniversary of slain  Journalist   Gauri  Lankesh . Due to his view againsts  Hindutva , his name was on the hit list of a right - wing group which allegedly shot Gauri Lankesh .

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Metaphysical poetry

Metaphysical poet

                    

                

                 The first half of the 17th century , a group of poets amerged  whoes poetry is known as " The metaphysical poetry " . The word  "meta " means  "After " . Thus metaphysics deal with the questions can't be explained by science . It questions the nature of reality in a philosophical way . Metaphysics can cover a broad range of topics from religious to consciousness . 

∆ The definition of metaphysical poetry :

     

                 "Highly intellectualized poetry  marked by bold and ingenious conceits , incongruous imagery , complaxico and stability of thoughts , frequent use of paradox and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression " .

     

                 Literary critic and poet Semuel Jonson first coined the term "metaphysical poetry " in his book  The lives of the Most Eminent English poet ( 1779-1781 ) . In the book  Jonson wrote about a group of 17th century British poets , Richard Crashaw , Andrew Marvell and Henry vaughan . He noted how  the  poets shared many common characterCharac , especially one of wit and elaborate style . 

 ∆ Characteristics of metaphysical poetry  :-

    

 (1) Metaphysical conceits :

        A significant feature of the metaphysical conceits . A concert is a comparison of two dissimilar things , which may have very little in common . E.g. Abraham Cowley in his poem "The Mistress " compares his love for ladies to his habit of traveling in various countries of the world . 

(2) wit :-

          Metaphysical Wit is also a networthy feature of the metaphysical poetry . Metaphysical wit is the expression of one's idea & thoughts , using aptly & technically , the words & various features of speech in such a manner as to provide pleasure to the readers . John Donne is called the "monarch of wit " in the history of metaphysical poetry .

(3) Literary Devices :-

              Metaphysical poetry used metaphor , puns , paradoxes & meter to create drama & tension. In addition metaphysical poetry uses scientific , medical , legal words and phrases to create arguments about the philosophical aspects of life .

(4) conscious attempt :-

              All the metaphysical poets made a conscious attempt to differ in the style of writing poetry from the former poets . They wanted to make their poetry different from the former poets . It was a conscious attempt to part with the existing style of writing poetry and to cultivate a new style . 

   

#" The flea " by John Donne  :

    • Theme : Love , sex , marriage etc.

                  

                          " The flea " is a remarkable example of  John Donne's metaphysical poetry . Donne has taken here help of biological image of flea to deal with the theme of love . It is though this image of the flea an insect that the lover in the present poem expresses his love for a woman and tries to convince her not to  refuse his love for her . 

                   The poem is devided into three stanza in  which at the center is the image of flea . The first stanza of the poem is about the flea , is sucking his blood bnd than her blood . It convey that both would be happier , if she eccepts his proposal . At the end of the poem the lady has already made her nail purples by killing that flea . Now we tries to present his case by applying new logic . That logic is of false fear . The loss of the life of that flea has to teach a lesson to her . And the lesson is that most of our fear false . 

∆" Elegy X : The Dream " :-

          " The  dream " by John Donne can be considered as a poem of the  comparison between life in dream and life in reality . Through this poem the poet  wants to convey that life in reality can never be so much interesting and joyful as life in dream and fentacy .  The express this truth the poet takes help of a lover who is addressing to host beloved that her real presence is not so much pleasant as are the dream and fentacy of her . 

∆ " THE RETREAT BY HENRY VAUGHAN  :

      

     

   • Themes :  (1) Childhood

                         (2) nature

                         (3) God

                         (4) religious etc.

       

               The poem " The Retreat " is written by Henry vaughan . He was a Walsh metaphysical poet , author , translator and physician .

     

                   Vaughan 's "Retreat " is a religious lyrics , a spiritual optimism .  The Retreat based on the belief that exist as  soul in heaven before we are born on  Earth . In the poem Henry Vaughan is bemoaning his sons and wishing that the could go back to a pure state , one where his soul was free from sin .  In the poem , he talks about how before this life , his soul was pure and sinless .

                      

                       In rhyming ' flower ' with 'hour ' Vaughan remains a us that everything has it's moment in the sun and then withers and dies , like a flower . Our childhood is but on hour ; our lives scareely longer yet the couplet that flowers , crowned with ' eternity ' as it is , there is something much faster in the world or rather , world . Before he had grown a bit older and started shining .  Vaughan tells us  , he felt the bright shoots of  " everlastingness " .

• A deep religious poem :-

              Vaughan's first love in his poem The Retreat is God , when he was still a child and has hardly made any progress into worldly existence ,he could have glimpse of God's bright face and whenever he looked back. But as the burden of wordly existence grew upon him , he lost the glimpse of the Divine vision of Childhood . 

         Vaughan concludes "The Retreat " by saying that where as many people prefer to think in term of progress , looking forward to the future , he prefers to look back  to his earlier time when he was in touch with heaven and glimpsed the eternity of the afterlife . 

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View on the pom " Sairandhri" by Vinod Joshi

" Sairandhri " by Vinod Joshi

             

                 • Born : 13 August 1955 , 

                                 Bhoringda , Amreli ,

                                 Gujrat .

               Vinod Joshi is a postmodern Gujrati poet , writer , and critic . And Vinod Josh's poetry is infused with image of rural life  , mainly through the portrayal of faminine sentiments in Gujrati literature .  He wrote so many notable works like , 

• And also he got so many awards like , 

          • Kavishwar Dalpatram Award (2013)

          • Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar (2015)

          • Narsinh Mahta Award (2018)

          • Kalapi Award (2018) etc.

         Here I want to share my view on his poem " Sairandhri " based on character of Draupadi from Mahabharata . 

∆  " Sairandhri " :-

       

            This poem was growing in Australia . "Sairandhri " is published in 2018 .  A metrical poem composed in Prabandha from with seven cantos , 49 chapters and 1800 lines . It is based on  Draupadi , one of the characters of  Hindu Mahabharata and depicts a distinct world of Draupadi's thoughts and feeling as a woman during her exiles , using various meters like chopai and Dohra . Critic Radheshyam Sharma notes the poem for its musicality , figurative language and it's depiction of shringara ( the romantic sentiments ) . In this poem we find that Vinod Joshi used so many sanskrit words . 

∆ Lost  Identity :-

                     

     

            " Sairandhri " is a poem of lost identity .  Acclaimed  for the elegant female sensibility in the sound , rhymes and rhythm of his songs . She find her identity , in such environment of non- indifferent nature and its intinity . Here Joshi seems to be heralding the sense of organic unity and pathos .In the poem we find that Sairandhri  loved  Karna , the son of  Surya (sun)  . And Surya wouldn't leave her in the end . The liminality between  " desire " and "  devotion " has moved into the resonating infinite skies with shifting horizons. 

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WORD OF THE YEAR 2016 : " POST TRUTH "

" Post- Truth "

              

                Oxford Dictionary has declared  " post-truth "  as its 2016 international word of the year .  Reflecting what it called a  " highly - charged "  political 12 months.

∆ The meaning of  " post - truth " :

      •  According to Oxford Dictionary , " Post truth : Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief . 

                  

                                 

              

                  Post Truth is a philosophical and political concept that refers" the disappearance of shared objective standerd for truth " and the "circuitous slippage , between fact or at-facts , knowledge , opinion , belief and truth " . Post truth discourage is often contrasted with the forms taken by scientific methods and inquiry . The first time the term Post truth was used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian - American playwright  Steve Tesich in the nation magazine .

 ∆  Post truth Politics :-

        

              Post truth Politics has been applied on political buzzword to a wide range of political cultures ; one artical in The Economist identified post truth Politics in , the United States , Russia , Turkey , India and the United kingdom . 

• The United State :

             

                    In 2016, the "post -truth" label was especially widely used to describe the presidential compaign of Donald Trump , including by professor Daniel w. Drezner in the  Washington Post , Jonathan Freedland in The Gaurdian , James kirchick in the Los Angeles Times , and several professor of government and history at Harvard . In 2017 , The new York Times , The Washington Post , and others , have pointed out lies or falsehood in Trump's statements after the election . Former president Barack Obama stated that the new media ecosystem " mean everything is true and nothing is true " . Donald Trump is the leading exponent of " post- truth " politics a reliance on assertion that " feel-  true" but  have no basis in fact .

                                  ( Wikipedia )

• India : 

             Amulya  Gopalkrishnan , columnist for the Times of India , identified similarities between the Trump and Brexit campaigns on the one hand , hot button issue in India such as the Ishrat Jahan case and the ongoing case against Teesta setalvad on the other , where accusation of forged evidence and historical revisionism have resulted in an "ideological impasses " . 

                              ( Wikipedia ) 

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