ThAct : Waiting for Godot

 Film Screening Waiting for Godot 

This blog is response of thinking active given by professor Dr Dilip Barad sir I discuss about some question regarding this film screening 

About the film 

Only one attempts to capture waiting for Godot on film deserve mention in 2001 an Irish TV movie came out as part of a project titled Beckett on film Director Michel Lindsay Hogg managed to prove that the play is indeed flammable . The key to his success at doing so was by focusing on directing the actor marinating the one simple set and using minimal cinemato graphy with waiting for Godot it's a case of less is more still watching on stage is preferred as Lindsay Hogg does tend to overuse close ups in this version Barry Megovern plays Vladimir and Johnny Murphy is Estragon. 

About the Play

Waiting for Godot is a modern play written by Samuel Beckett. It was written or we can call it was first performed on 5th January 1953 this play has modern art in it as per critics. It is one of the most discussed and debated plays by critics and scholars. The story is very simple Vladimir and Estragon two tramps are waiting for someone called Godot but Godot never comes who or what is  Godot ? Why is he not coming ? Why are both tramps waiting for Godot? What will happen if Godot comes ? Since how long Estragon and Vladimir are waiting ? These and many other similar kinds of questions remain unanswered.

1) In both Acts evening falls into night and moon rises . How would you like to interpret this coming of night and moon when actually they are waiting for Godot?  

As per natures cycle it's changing and  evening falls into night and moon rises but nobody can stop it and change it as we want we can just wait as Vladimir and Estragon whatever happens in human life we can't change the situation they are waiting with hope. 

2 ) The director feels the settings with some debris can you read any meaning in the contour of debris in the setting of the Play? 

It was like life and debris showing the situation after the second world war. Everything was destroyed and the land was Barren so it's creating a gloomy situation it may not permanent but we have to work not just wait and this work also like waiting but it is better.

3)  Do you agree the play ( waiting for Godot ) we agreed was a positive Play not negative not pessimistic . As I saw it with my blood and skin and eyes the philosophy is no matter what atom bombs hydrogen bombs anything life goes on. You can kill yourself but you can't kill life? ( Source : E G Marshal said so he played Vladimir in orginal Broadway production 1950s) .

Yes I agree the play is positive Play not negative not pessimistic because Vladimir hope didn't broke for waiting Godot and universes never change for anyone it's routine continue happens without difference but sometimes we killed ourselves for something even we can't kill life for example sometimes our hope or desire may be not fulfilled but we can't kill our self and If we can able to have that much courage to killed our self so it like to run away from situation. 

4) Do you think that the obedience of lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind he obediently hands the whip in his hand . Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable ? 

As per class discussion some people like to be servant whole life we have taken one example of god's servant yes the obedience of lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic. We are tie by rigid and with a religious hidden rope that is not actually physically but mentally and we don't want to do free ourselves from them like lucky.

5) Do you think that plays like this can better be read than viewed as it requires a lot of thinking on the part of readers while viewing the torrent of dialogue does not giveample time and space to think? Or is it that the Audio - visuals help in better understanding of the Play? 

I think sometimes reading is helpful to be active visual various image in our mind while viewing play during we can understand various tone and contest of dialogue how some of repeatedly sentence speak as difference level and we can understand better than reading like one dialogue speak by both characters in different tone - 

Know if it hurts! 

Nothing to be done

6) which of the following sequence you liked the most : 

1 Vladimir - Estragon killing time in question and conversation while waiting 

2 Pozzo lucky episode in both Acts 

3 conversation of Vladimir with the boy the message of mr Godot.

I like Vladimir and Estragon between sequence because thier each dialogue give depth means for example

VLADIMIR : ( stopping ) True ( He lbuttons his fly ) never neglect the little things of  life 

ESTRAGON : what do you always wait till the last moment 

VLADIMIR 

( Musingly) the Last moment ......( He meditate hope deferred maketh the something sick who said that ? 

ThAct 1984

1 ) What is a dystopian Fiction ?  Is 1984 a dystopian Fiction? 

Dystopian Fiction

George orwellis 1984 is a defining example of dystopian Fiction in that is envision a future where society is in decline to talitarianism has created vast inquities and innate weakness of human nature keep the character in a state of conflict and unhappiness unlike utopian novels which hold hope for the perfectibility of man and the possible of a just society dystopian novels like 1984 imply that the human race will only get worse if man's lust for power and. Capacity for cruelty go uncorrected. 

In 1984 characters live in fear of wars government surveillance and political oppression of free speech . The London of the novel is dirty and crumbling with food shortages exploding bombs and miserable citizens . The government is an all powerful force of oppression and control and crushes the character identities and dreams this distopian vision of the future written thirty five years before the  year the novel is set suggests that man's inherent nature is corrupt and repressive Orwell wrote the book in the  aftermath of World war ii and the rise of fascism in Germany and the Soviet union and paints a pessimistic picture a society s ability to avoid further global disasters.

Dystopian Fiction usually works backward from the present to find an explanation for the fictional societies decline and thus to provide a commentary on the readers society or a warning of how the future could turn out in 1984 as Winston works to acquire objects from the past find spaces without telescreens or microphone in them and recover memories of the time before the pary Orwell provides the reader with glimpses of how Winstons society came to be . We learn about a nuclear war a revolution mass famines and a period of consolidation of power by the party. 

Dystopian novels explore the effects of oppression and totalitarianisms on the individual psyche as well as how the individual function in a repressive society Winstons trouble retrieving and trusting his memories illustrates the way the party has corrupted his emotinal life as well as his daily existence asking the readers to question the nature of memory and individual consciousness by suggesting that Winston is initially complacent because he can't remember whether or not life was better and he was happier before the revolution the book examines the importance of memory in creating a sense of self. 

2 ) What according to you is the central theme of this novel ? 

1) The  Dangers of Totalitarianisms 

1984 is a  political novel written with the  purpose of warning readers in the west of the Dangers of Totalitarianisms government . Having witness firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarianisms government is spian and Russia would go in order to sustain and increase thier power . Orwell designed 1984 to sound the alarm in western nations still unsure about how to approach the rise of communism . In 1949 the cold war had not yet escalated many American intellectual supported communism and the state of diplomacy between democratic and communist nations was highly ambiguous.

2) Psychological Manipulation 

The party barrages it's subject with psychological stimuli designed overwhelm the minds capacity for independence thought the giant telescreens in every citizens room blasts a constant stream of propaganda designed to make the failure and shortcomings of the party appear to be trimphant successes. The telescreens also monitor behavior everywhere they go citizens are continuously reminded especially by mens to the omnipresent singns reading Big Brother is Wathing You that the authorities are scrutinizing them.

3) physical Control 

In addition to manipulating their minds the pary also controls the bodies of its subject . The party constanty watches for any sign of disloyalty to the point that as Winston observer even a ting focial twitch could lead to an arrest . A person own nervous system become his greatist members to undergo mass morning exercise called the physical Jerks ans then to work long grueling days at government agencies keeping people in a general  State of exhaustion . Ayone who does manage to defy the party is punished and reeducated through systematic and brutal torture. 

4 ) Control of Information and History 

The party control Earth source of information managing and  rewriting the centen of all newspaper and historical for its own ends. The party does not allow individual to keep records of their past such as photographs or documents as a result memories become fuzzy and  unreliase and citizens become willing to believe whatever the party tells them.

5 )  Technology  

By means of telescreens and hidden microphone across the city the party is able to monitor . It's members almost all of the time additionally the party employs complicated mechanism to exert large scale control on economic production and sources of information and fearsome machinery to inflict torture upon those it seems enemies 1984 reveals that technology which is generally  perceived as working towards Moral good can also facilitates the most diabolical evil 

6) Language as mind Control

One of. Orwell most important messages in 1984 is that language is of central importance to human thought because it. Structure and limits the idea that  individuals are capable of formulating and expressing If Control of language were centralised in a political agency Orwell proposes such an agency could possibly alter the very structure of language to make it impossible to even conceive of disobedient or rebellious thought because there would be no words with which to think them.

7 ) Loyalty 

In 1984 the party seeks to ensure that the only kind of loyalty possible is loyalty to the party . The reader sees examples or virtually every kind of Loyalty from the most fundamentals to the most trivial being destroyed by the party . Neighbor's and coworkers inform one another and mr Parsons own child reports him to the thought police.

8) Resistance and Revolution 

In 1984 Winston explore increasing risky and significant acts of resistance against the party in book one chapter vii Winston observer that rebellion meant a look in the eyes an inflection of the voice at the most an occasional whispered word Winstons builds up these minor rebellions by commuting  personal acts of disobedience such as keeping a journal and buying a decorative paperweight.

9)  Independence  and Identify 

While the party primary tool for manipulating the populace is the control of history they also control independence and identity for example the basic traits of establishing one's identity are unavailable to Winston and the other citizens of Oceania Winston does not know how old he is . He does not know whether he is married or not he does not know whether his mother is alive or dead.

3) what do you understanding by the term Orwellian? 

Orwellian is an adjective describing a situation Idea or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society it donotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda surveillance disinformation denoila of truth and  manipulation of the past including the unperson a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory practiced by modern repressive government often this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels particularly nineteen eighteen four but political double speak is criticized throughout his work such as in politics and English language.

The new york time has said the term is the most widely used adjective derived from the name of a modern writer 

4) write in brief about Newspeak and refer to Orwell and Pointers essays 

Orwell was interested in linguistics questions and pertaining to the function and change of language this can be seen in his essay politics and English language as well as in the appendise to nineteen eighty four as in politics and English language the perceived decline and decadence of the english language is a central theme in nineteen eighty four and Newspeak  in the essay Orwell criticises standerd English with its perceived dying metaphor pretentious diction and high flown rhetoric which he would later satirise in the meaningless words of doublespeak the product of unclear reasoning . The conclusion thematically reiterates linguistics decline . I said earlier that the decadence of our language is probably curable . Those who deny this may argue that language merely reflect existing social conditions and that we cannot influence it's development by any direct tinkering with words or construction. 

When the general atmosphere is bad language must suffer. I should expect to find this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify that the German Russian and Italian language have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years as a result of dictatorship . But if thought corrupts language can also corrupt thought

Movie screening - Vita and Virginia

 Orlando 

Orlando a biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 11 October 1928 . Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville west Woolf lover and close friend it is arguably one of her most popular novels Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. 

1) How far do you feel that Orlando is influence by Vita and Virginia's love affair ? Does it talk only about that or do you find anything else too?

That relationship is the subject of a new film Vita and Virginia which includes lines lifted straight from literary duo's love letters starring Elizabeth Debicki as Woolf and Gemma Arterton as Sackville west the film from director changa button is set against the backdrop of bohemian high society in 1920s London with a lost of characters based on real life people here's the true' story behind Vita and Virginia Woolf and Sackville west passionate relationship and the great literary work it inspired. Born in London in 1883 Adeline Virginia Stephen ot ginia as she was affectionately known had a love for arts and literature running through her family the glamorous writer Vira Sackville west was 10 years young than Woolf and came from an aristocratic family Sackville west married diplomat Harold Nicholson in 1913 who would like his wife also come to have same sex affair outside of their marriage. 

Their relationship was very passionate and very sexual even though initially their sexual relationship was down played and. Even ignored however in 1921 some lawmakers voted to criminalize sexual arts of gross indecency Virginia deeply loved Vita and she was so happy to recognise in Vita that Vita Loved and celebrated women.orlando is not the first piece of fiction about a sex change ovids metamorphoses is a playful and serious treatise on the shift ability of humans turn into trees or animals or the gods embody themselves as humans to pursue thier love interest in the Arabian nights there are both gender switching plots and cross dressing.

2) Who do you think is confused about thier identity Vita or Virginia ? Explain with illustrations .

Virginia Woolf

Born in loncon in 1882 Adeline Virginia Stephen or ginia as she was affectionately known had a love for arts and literature running through her family her sister Vanessa was an artist and when they reached adulthood the two sister became the heart of an influential intellectual cricle known as the Bloomsbury  group a collective of radical artists writer and thinker during the early 20th century. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf a politically active left wing  writer and university friend of her brother while Virginia Woolf earlier novels which included night and day 

Vita Sackville

The glamorous writer Vita Sackville west was 10 years young than Woolf and came from an aristocratic family Sackville west married diplomat Harold Nicholson in 1913 who would like his wife also come to have same sex affair outside of their marriage. In 1917 Sackville west caused Scandal in high society when she eloped with her lover violate trefusis to Europe the pair spent two years on and off running away together and being brought back to England by disgruntled family members.

They came from pretty different places says Victoria l Smita professor of English at Texas State University that might have provided some of the attractive to Virginia for Vita certainly Virginia's genius .

3 ) What is  society's thought about women and identify ? Do you agree with them ? If yes then why ? If no then why ?

The global role of women caretaker conscience farmers Educators and enter preneure throughout history the Central role of women in society has ensured the stability progress and long term developed of nations and. Women self report more often their initiative in preserving child health and. Nutrition.

Most important role of women

Women Play very Vita role in human progress and have a significant place in the society they are not at all interior to men . They are  capable of sharing all the responsibilities of life the main responsibility of a women is to preserve the human race.

Women in our society

Being a woman means being able to be powerful and assertive get kind at the same time. It means being compassionate and vulnerable towards those we love in our lives without feeling weak for our goals even in the face of the adversity we may encounter along the way.

How has a woman role in society

Women are now getting power even in rural area. In Many countries now woman are the head of the state . Education has made women independent and they are no longer dependent ni men to lead their lives.

4) what are your views on gender identity? Will you like to give any message to society? 

Gender identity

Gender enters into all our social relations when people interact their views of themselves including their identity and their rights and possibilities comes up against the way they are received by other people and the way that others behave towards them however it often. Appear that gender in its truest sense is absent from our social relations because perceive gender tends to be internalised so deeply that it appears noramal amd. Natural. In some ways the reasoning behind this can be expressed easily each of us is a person with our own subjectivity and experience so everyone is personally involved in discussion of gender .

5) write a note on a the direction of the movie . which symbols and space caught your attention while watching the movie? 

Vita and Virginia wastes the talents of four people it's two women that play them. It is a deeply frustrating movie a film that not only can't find the right tone from scenes to scene but feels disjointed in individual movment too. At a certain point I stared to wonder if the disjointed nature of Vita and Virginia was designed purposefully to replicate the structure and themes of Woolf s Orlando but decided I was giving a messy movie too much credit. 

Long Day's Journey into Night

Edmund O Neill 

Was born. 1883 and died 1885 was an American playwright and nobel laureate in literature . His poetically tittled plays were among the first to introduce into the US . The tragedy long Day's Journey into Night is often numsersed on the short list of the finest US plays in the 20th century 

 Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written  by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in posthumously in 1956.

Theme of addiction long Day's Journey into Night

The plot of long days Journey into Night focuses On a dysfunctional family trying to come to grips with its ambivalent emotion in the face of serious familia problem including drug addiction moral degradation deep rooted fear and guilt and life threatening illnesse

1) Alienation and loneliness

The Tyrone family is fragmented and each of its memrers so some degree is alienated from the rest the most obvious estrangement exists between Tyrone and Jamie both of whom allow their bitterness to overwhelm whatever residual love and respect they have for. Each other.

2) Deception 

Deception masks are worn early in the play in an effort to evade unpleasant truths. The other members of the family try to keep Mary from knowing that Edmund is seriously ill and Maryo obviously attempts to deceive herself with the comforting belief that Edmund in only Suffering from a summer cold Mary also attempts to hide her relapst into drug use with pathetic excuses that simply deepen the family's disappointment.  

3) God and Religion 

For Tyron a troubling problem is his sons rejection of their catholic faith a foundation stone in their shanty Irish heritage . His complaint about their rejection of religion occasion Jamie's scoffing observation that Tyron himself is a  truant catholic which Tyron must admit he insists though that he still Believes in God which his sons do not.

4) Guilt and Innocence 

Mary's illusory drug induced escape into her youth is partly a flight from guilt into a restored innocence and rediscovered faith . In their own ways the other Tyrone s try to unburden themselves of Guilt and shame either though expiation.

5) Loyalty 

The loyalty of the three Tyrone men towards Mary has eroded because she has repeatedly dashed thier hopes for her recovery but their anger hurt and disappointment are an emotional index of thier love for her.

6) Memory  and  Reminiscence 

Mary is not the only one with regrets about the past Tyrone is Haunted by his impoverished childhood and his father abandonment and eventual suicide.

7 ) Moral Corruption

Implicit in the respones to Mary's drug addiction is the belief that addiction was an indication of a weak moral will. Public disclosure of her behaviour seems to be more threatening to the family than Jamie's disgraceful drinking gambling and whoring.

8) Search for  self 

The principal searcher in long Day's Journey into Night is Edmund O Neill s alter ego . Both Mary and. Tyrone escause convent days and Tyrone to a time in his eareer resisted trading his talent for wealth . 

9 ) Wealth and Poverty

Throughout long Day's Journey into Tyrone confirms the justice of Jamie's sneering attacks on him as a mister old gaspard as Jamie's calls him is obsessed with the cost of things and is always looking for the cheapest alternative.

Auden's Poems

1) Auden's poems seems to be written in our times for 2022 justify this in context of pendamic and Russia Ukraine war 

Vladimir Putin invasion of Ukraine Parallels Adolf  Hitler's invasion of Poland in ways that aren't small. A dictators claim to lebensraum started with sudete land and Austria and then went cancerously to Poland .from there we know what happened 

Increasing hostilities with Ukraine and the west is advantageous to Russia given the tattered relationship between the USA and it's European alies the domestic support for such an endeavour and Putin need for a popularity boost ahead of the 2024 Russia presidential election . But how do the current state of affairs and what thay are prepared to do in order to protect their national sovereignty?

When the Soviet Union broke up in the early 1990 Ukraine a former Soviet republic had the third largest atomic arsenal in the world anticipating a friendly relationship with Moscow moving forward Kyiv gave it's considered nuclear stockpile back to Russia in exchange for security guarantees that protected it from a potential Russia attack . At the time Ukrainians had little to fear from Russia especially given the fact that in a 1991 referendums more than 83 per cent of Donna's residents and 54 per cent of Donbas residents voted to have Ukraine secede from the USSR . Ever Russian speaking Ukrainians independence and following years of military and economic deline  during the cold war  Russia seemed to be a toothless power on the international stage.

In order to create duality in interpretation of the poem ( September 1 1939) Auden uses codified language to conceal the underlying theme of the lack of acceptance of homosexuality in society . Do you agree with this observation?

W H Auden's September 1 1939 is a poem about war and the futility of war . The title refers to the date that Germany crossed the border to invade Poland an act of aggression that escalated in the following days to draw many countries alled with one side or the other into the fighting quickly leading to the start of the second world war.

Author Biography 

Wystan Hugh Auden was born on February 21 1907 in the industrial town of York England where he grew up his father was a physician and his mother was nurse and from them he received an interest in engineering and science that with his natural intelligence enabled him to go to Oxford University on a scholarship .

Summary

 I m sitting in one of the cheap dive bars on 52rd street in New York City feeling uncertain and afraid as my hopes of a better time fade in the face of this decades true' nature degraded and untruthful . Rushes of anger and fear are  sweeping across countries all around the world and consuming the inner though of every day people 

History and scholarship can help explain the origins of this horrors to the 15th century with Martin Lather the leader of the Protestant reformation which has right up entire culture. Others people sitting at the bar would rather hold on tight to the normality of their everyday lives for the lights to stag on the music to keep playing as though nothing wrong. 

Helplessly ignorant most of our world sits in a valnerable daze evar so all around pinpricks of unexpected hope shine wherever those committed to justice connect with one another oh May I though I am just another and dust mad stricken by the same cynicism and worry do the same and support the hope with my own voice.

Northrop Frye : The Archetype Criticism

Question and Answers 

1 ) What is Archetypal Criticism ? What does the Archetypal critic do ?

Archetypal Criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative symbols images and character types in literary work....

Archetypal Criticisms originare rooted in two other physhoanalysis each contributed to literary Criticisms .. James G Frazer whose the golden bough identified elemental patterns of myth and ritual . Another critic Carl G Juny who applied the term . Archetypal to what he called primordial images. He also maintained the collective unconscious of the human race and are expressed in myths religion dreams and private fantasies as well as in work of literature ....

2) what is Frye trying provel by giving an analogy of physics to nature and criticism to literature ?

Northrop Frye compares both the things physics to nature and critism to literature physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature physics is a systematic study of nature . In the study of physics it's not only about nature but similarly criticism is the study of literature. We can't study literature because it is a by product and we can only criticize or study it to learn it .

3) share your views of Criticism as an organized body of knowledge mention relation of literature with history and philosophy deductive.

As per my view Archetypal Criticisms is based on philosophy and history of people literature includes history as well as philosophy to convey it's meaning so it's displays e events and ideas we know that literature is center in division of humanities and in framework to history and philosophy . So literature used knowledge of past by use of idea and create literature. 

4) Briefly explain inductile method with illustration of Shakespeare's. Hamlets Grave Diggers scene.

Inductive Method is based on observation like seeing is believing Hamlets Grave Digging scene is the best example of inductive Method . It's demonstrated the philosophy of life the philosophy of life and death revealed by Grave Diggers that all humans are mortal so everyone should die at once...

5) Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music painting ,rhythm  and pattern give example of the outcome of deductive method.

Deductive method means general to particular when we talk about the arts like music or painting music has rhythm and painting have Patten. We may not understand music at ones but we may understand painting at once . Literature seem to be remediate between music and painting. 

6) Refer to the Indian seasonal grid ( below) if you can please read small Gujrati or Hindi or English poem from the Archetypal approach and apply Indian seasonal grid in the interpretation. 

As per Indian seasonal grid we have six seasons they are..

• Vasant Ritu or Spring 
• Grishma Ritu or Summer
• Varsha Ritu or Monsoon 
• Sharad Ritu or Autumn
• Hemant Ritu or pre- winter
• Shishir / Shita Ritu or winter.
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Hear portrait the autumn is over and coming of spring there is atmosphere is very nice it is instrument of India seasonal grid season... 

Bob Dylan and Robert Frost

Bob Dylan 

American singer song writer author and visual artist. Major figure in popular  culture for more than 50 years. Some became anthem for the civil rights and antiwar movement . His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political social philosophical and literary influence defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.

1) write down the message you want to give from your lyrics.

The message of Blowin in the wind the lyrics and the monotonous inflection of Bob Dylan voice all create a somber feeling in me that makes me think . He is discussing war and the aspects of it people ignore because it is too disturbing and they do not want to deal honest answer to the question he is asking because no one can be the ultimate Judge therefore the answer are blowing in the wind I did not realised that the song was about war until the second verse when he sang yes n how many years can some people exist before they re allowed to be free? This explicates the first verse as well. Dylan mean that the man  are soldiers and the white dove represent peace . His solemn voice seems to be sad and fed up with war. Killing and hurt Dylan wants to know when people will start recognising that these actions add to the problem instead of cure it . However no one knows when enough will be enough and this destruction of society will cease.

The most striking lyrics that drive home Dylan message are the last ones how me many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry? Yes n how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died ? These lines evoke emotion in me that let me know I heard and left what Dylan probably wished to convey with his song . 

2) which poem / song of  Robert Frost is relatable with your video why ? 

The Road Not Taken is a narrative poem by Robert Frost first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly and later published as the first poem in the collection mountain Interval it's Central theme is the divergence of paths both literally and figuratively although its interpretation is noted for being complex and potentially divergent. The first 1915 publication differs from the 1916 republication in Mountain Interval . In line 13 marked is replaced by kept and a dash replaces a comma in line 18.