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Post view task: The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter... Hello readers,                       This blog is a part of post viewing task of the play "the Birthday Party" written by Harold Pinter in 1957 and directed by William Friedkin, a 1968 film in which our Professor Dr.Dilip Barad sir gave us task to interpret the movie. Here is the blog link of the given task  click here Post-Viewing Tasks:-  1]   Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie? ∆ After watching this movie we see that the character of Lulu appear in the movie only two times. These two scenes of lulu omitted from the movie because two woman characters ( Lulu & Meg ) as contrast to man characters in the play. And character of Lulu is very slight in the play. Harold Pinter also shows that man characters are aggressive towards female in the play. And in this play we show that all powers are in the h...

Reflective blog: Teaching of Prof. Balaji Ranganathan... On  14 to 16 September, 2018; We have attended three days guest lectures by Prof. Balaji Ranganathan Sir at our Department of English about Postcolonial study. In these three days, he has covered all four units:- i) Black Skin White Mask ii) Orientalism by Edward Said iii) A Tempest iv) Imaginary Homeland Balaji Sir get disappointment from all of us.. because he had expectation from all the students that we might reading original texts but in reality not even a single student raise thier hand about reading the original text... That time we felt shame because Sir is coming from far away for teaching to us. But what can we do in this  semester system??? we don't have enough time to read original text. Sir forced that we have to read original  text first, not read the  summary for further study. But it's not possible to read all original books...  # On the v...

Thinking Activity: Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett... *Hello readers, On 27th September 2018 we had a movie screening of "Waiting For Godot". It's written by Samuel Beckett. We have a task to watch the movie and write what we understand from the movie. Here is the link of  blogtask.. Click Here, The movie "Waiting for Godot" is directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg,in 2001. In this movie, Barry McGovern and Johnny Murphy played the role of Vladimir and Estragon, where as Lucky and Pozzo were performed by Alan Standford and Stephan Brennan, respectively. #Task:- 1] What connection do you see in the setting("A country road. A tree. Evening.) of the play and these paintings... ∆ The setting of the play 'Waiting for Godot' was inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's paintings. The setting of the play and painting is similar. The title of this painting is 'longing', here longing means deep desire for something. Waiting is co...

On the 19 to 22  September, Dr. Dilip Barad Sir organized guest lecture by Dr. Jay Mehta at our Department of English MKBU for 4 days.But, Dr. Jay Mehta is not a guest, he is also a shining star of our English Department MKBU. Jay Sir, said He was a still learner..His style of teaching just amazing, it catches the attention of every student of the class. Here, I want to share my experience of learning under Dr.Jay Maheta.. Basically his subject was Edger Allen’s Short story, which is totally different from Poetic. But, he teach us Poe with use of  poetup language by given various examples of poems.  "The theories we believe, we call them facts and the facts we disbelieve, we call them theories." I remember Jay Sir said,I assured you all that you will never feel bored in my class, and he proves his words, because of his teaching style,his teaching style is unique and finally we have not get bored in his class. # About Edger Allen Poe:- Edgar Po...

#DR. SHASHI THAROOR:- He is An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a second-term Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has previously served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. During his nearly three-decade long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan's leadership of the organisation. *Let's see Shashi Tharoor's view on postcolonialism... **Once upon a time when, Britishers ruled over India for so many years. After a lots of struggle we get independence. There were thousands debates going on still now on colonial and post colonial idea....

Interpretation Challenge: Breath: The Shortest Play by Samuel Beckett... ###Breath - a Play........ Breath is a play written by Samuel Beckett in the 1969. It considered as a smallest play ever written. It is only about 30 second play. It also considered as experimental play. This play can be interpretated many ways. The play consider as absurd play. Here I tried to interpretate play. ###Script of the Play:- CURTAIN Up___ 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds. 3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. CURTAIN Down___ This script of play also consider as a script of life. The time of play 30 secon...

Here i am sharing my views, which i like most during watching the videos on Existentialism. This 10 videos are available from the blog task link. Here is the blog task link... ###Existentialism ... It is a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. In the existentialism Individual is the center rather than God. It was founded by soren Kierkguard , Nietzsche. # Video 1 : What is Existentialism? ***The  first video is about what is Existentialism?  Existentialism is all about Freedom, Individuality and Passion. Kierkguard , Nietzsche , Dostoyevsky,  Kafka, Shestov, Hesse, Heidegger, Sartre and Beavvoir were Existentialist philosophers. Their views different from each other but, the thing which gathering them that they have basic belief of Individuality. For all of them Individually is important. Albert Camus ...