Academic writing workshop/Essay type answers

Academic writing workshop/Essay type answers,Organised by Dilip sir,Department of English,Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji university,Bhavnagar.

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it is said..

learning is the process of entire life that never ends!

Readers can refer to this newspaper scrap for better understanding of this session!

Scrap of newspaper

Heenaba Zala(ma'am):

Analyzed answer books, showed us through visualizer in projector that how the style of presenting answer differs from student to student and where we need to improve and where we should make some precautions, while writing our answers.

Vaidehi Hariyani(ma'am):

Presented presentation on common errors. She assigned us first to identify some grammatical mistakes, then she advised us to untangle ourselves from some silly errors, committed in answer book while writing, through her presentation.

Ndoricimpa Clement(sir):

Also worked on common errors, how to utilize connectors in our writing and gave us suggestions on how we can write "essay quality answer" in our answer paper( that is to first write background, followed by its positioning and then endeavour for body structure of essay writing and finally to conclude the conclusion).

Dilip Barad(sir):

I must say without him there wasn't any possibility of having such a fruitful session!

He assigned us to self-evaluate ourselves on rubric(that was something challenging to be done) concerning our answer book on (literary criticism/western poetics-1). Then he showed us how urkund is working for  our assignments and how it is counting plagiarism, what is its method and how due to a least error, the percentage of plagiarism is getting fluctuated.

Then also after Heena ma'am's session, he reinstated some synonyms on "introduction word" and gave reference of "thesaurus" as asked by one of my seniors.

All over the experience was cherishable but it happens many a times that though we had many things in life but always something makes us realize that still how much we need improvement and perhaps that is the curiousity of learning that makes one realize!

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Samiya

Indian writing in English : Henry Derozio : Fakeer of Jungheera: Sati pratha

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If anyone wants to refer to sati pratha, from where it has originated, what are its historical facts along with the records, and adapted films on this pratha.

Must have a glimpse of this presentation!

Paper no 4 (fakeer of jungheera) 

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Literary criticism/western poetics:John Dryden:Just&Lively image:its implication.

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Please have a look on this presentation, if you want to know about 'just & lively image' as introduced by "Dryden" and how I had tried my best to apply it in 'glyphosate theory'.

Paper no 3(just & lively image) 

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Neo-classical era : Elegancy/sophistication:food:clothing:mannerisms:shelter.

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Please have a look on my presentation, if you want to know about 'the elegancy of people' during "Eighteenth century". If you like you can give your respective comments.

Neo-classical era : Elegance/sophistication of society

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Samiya

Renaissance in India : Kanthapura/ramayana

Renaissance in india : Kanthapura/Ramayana

Samiya y kagdi
Roll no: 32
SEM: 1
Paper no: 4(Indian writing in English)
Assignment topic: study of kanthapura (in context with Ramayana)
Submitted to: S. B. Gardi, Department of English, Dilip Barad (sir), Mkbu Bhavnagar University.

Abstract

 As we are always curious about what was India prior the advent of “Mahatma Gandhiji" (the father of our nation) and how it transformed after the quit India movement or whether it has transformed or not. If it has transformed then at what extreme. These many questions arise in our minds. But here you would get your each question’s answers, which I am going to illustrate by comparing kanthapura (Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s) with Ramayana. Here we would see how Gandhiji is idealised in Vishnu’s avtaar, Britishers represented in Ravana's form, Sita as (Bharatta/India), Moorthy/Vishnu (the main character as Gandhiji).
Keywords
 Mythical characters, Mahatma Gandhi, Kanthapura (Raja Ram Mohan Roy), Quit India movement.

Introduction

Raja Ram Mohan Roy born in (1772-1833) has tried to frame Kanthapura in Indian context interwoven with mythological characters. Though prevented by his father not to mingle with Indians, he at last when returning from abroad in 1792, with the help of his mother, as she was greatly influenced by “vedantic literature” guided him properly and as a result he learnt Bengali, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit languages.
 Here primarily concerning Bengali language and myth of the India, he has tried to reflect myth in his novel called ‘Kanthapura’.

Kanthapura vs. Ramayana

As we have seen in Kanthapura how Achakka is represented as the narrator of the novel, while in Ramayana “valmiki” is presented as a relator.
In this novel Moorthy is represented in Vishnu’s figure from Ramayana. After sita’s abduction however he has struggled to rescue sita from Ravana, Moorthy is grappling to rescue his “Bharatta/Sita” from Britishers.
Moving further we have also seen that how moorthy has emotional attachment with all his religious festivals, for which he collects money from quarter to quarter from village to village. How all People whether they belong to weaver, potter, pariah or sudra and though being Brahmin he treats everyone equally and as Gandhiji has framed a new india where all should be equal, there shouldn’t any hierarchy and all people equally contribute in healing and curing India and the tools which he was using was non-violence and he was utilizing this specific skill in such a way that the oppressor was getting slain by his sole speech. He didn’t further need to say anything. Which not similarly, but with same trauma Rama might have passed through, throughout his journey to rescue Sita.
Furthermore the writer has also put forward the concept of spinning wheel, khaddar, cotton etc.

“Words were working as an action”.

In “Ramachar’s katha” a story has been prescribed. Where ‘Brahma is lying upon the serpent and Valmiki is coming to visit him and he is welcomed by Brahma.
Seems as imagination is given liveliness. Those who were static in ages, of whom we only know in the form of stories, have become reality.
Then the kathakaar compares “Bharatta” with Sita/India…

{Complaining along with plead}

He says…As o God/Brahma {by addressing him} at first you were very protective in such a way that…
From North side you have protected your “beloved daughter” with Himalaya; from South “she” is tutelaged with seven surging seas. Seas like Ganges for meditation, Godavari for living, pure Cauvery for drinking also you blessed your beloved with diamonds and gold and very civilized kings like “Asoka”(who loved his enemies and never tried to kill animals) and many like as Vikramaditya, Dharmaraya, Chandragupta and Akbar noblers!

You were working as a radiating light but now suddenly what has happened to you!

• Do we have committed any mistake?
• Aren’t we having that much worth that can earn your heart?
• At times you were saying we are your like my children, then what happened?
• Mother can’t see her children in worries and stress, then why you have muted yourself?
• Don’t our emotions matter to you?
• Neither saying anything nor reacting towards it.

He further says due to your ignorance it is happening with us that Britishers are coming across from the seas and oceans and they might trample our wisdom and spit on our virtue (related with spirituality). See how we are poor that women are dying without milk and men from ignorance and it is continued to happen, we perhaps wouldn’t have survival on the Earth and in coming time it might happen that we would be surrendering ourselves accordingly.

Here Sita’s purity/chastity is compared with Ravana’s cruelty/ugliness. While god is becoming medium of gaining help to rescue “Bharatta”.


Then God is replying that “I’m sending incarnation of my formed God who will help you to save India from Bruiser’s clutches. Gradually it happens and there we have Moorthy while in Ramayana we have Vishnu that resembles Gandhiji.


Hence we learnt how the writer has tried his best to lift human beings at God level and God to its contradictory. Where a pregnant meaning seems to reveal its own truth that by doing this Raja Rao Mohan Roy had merged public with God. Perhaps he wants to remove the difference and while in literal way he wants to bridge it.



Work citations
D. Barad, (2013), https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2013/01/ma-english-study-material-reading.html  Material: sem-1,2:Indian writing in English : pdf (kanthapura)

Paper no:3:literary criticism

Literary criticism/western poetics

A warm welcome to all

Samiya y kagdi

samiyakagdi313@gmail.com 

samiyakagdi313.blogspot.com

Roll No : 32

Semester : 1(1st year)

Assignment topic : Detailed analysis of “Aristotle's poetics".

Submitted to : S. B. Gardi, department of English{Dilip Barad(Sir)}, MKBU university.

Detailed analysis on “Aristotle's poetics:

Abstract: To see how Aristotle's point of views on poetics, sharply contrasting with Plato. How systematically he has tried to integrate our day to day life with imagination & realism and how the exact depicted image needs to be modified according to the the represented scene and how minutely he has observed to develop a poetry, tragedy and epic to its directing phycology, and if it is misdirected how it will loose its charm and mar the interest of the readers.

Keywords : Aristotle vs. Plato, poetics, imagination(aestheticism), realism(moralism), modification, observing power, psycology.

Introduction: Aristotle's poetics was produced in (4th century). Where he has put forward nature of poetry:poetic inspiration:nature of poetry. With the help of art's various forms, he had acquainted the readers with some terms, by which one can identify the forms. Moreover he has also describe “the nature&function of tragedy" and how it is integrated with catharsis, which also has various types of feelings&emotions.

Aristotle consents with his master(plato) that the poet is an imitator of creative art. He says imitation is based on three things.

• Things as they are/were.

• Things as thought/said to be.

• Things as they ought to be.

He has compared this innate tendency of imitation with child that for them it is a pleasurable process. Similarly it is seen in poet, when he/she tries to generate a new poetry, with help of any object.

Imagination is connected with innocence, can be said “a premature state of the poet".

Then he denies on Plato's saying that imitation is twice removed from reality. In its defense he tries to compare history with poetry and he says “poetry and history don't differ from its medium but the difference is ‘the history says “what has happened” while the poetry says “what is ought to happen”. That is the ideal state and it has philosophically and universally influence than history.

Concerning its function, Plato says it makes people emotional/too sentimental and weaker. While he says in his defense that it gives “a cathartic effect" to people's emotions and feelings and so it helps people to rinse out from that particular trauma. He also says that “it doesn’t divorce people from morality, as its duty is to serve pleasure to people, it is similarly abided to provide moral lessons(to which Plato is denying).

To identify the various forms of art like tragedy, comedy and epic. Object should be its imitation (life of great or mean people is imitated) and which becomes responsible for creating any work of art. He says for epic character should be belonging to heroic scale(tragedy & epic)while for mean people it is shallow and superficial(comedy). Besides it also requires modification when comes in the hand of the creator.

Concerning medium any art can be represented either in images/words. Tragedy presented in words had denotative connotative, verse and music. While picture differs of forms and colours.

Coming to manner it differs from its mode of manner of representation, either in narration or in action.

Brief introduction to the nature & function of tragedy:

He first gives the definition of tragedy. That comprises ‘imitation of action' which is complete, serious and of certain magnitude, further he elaborated three aforementioned aspects in detail.

It is also embellished with each kind of artistic ornament(can be seen in figure of speech, meter/rhyme). While tragedy & epic has the essential difference that can be seen in respects of action not in narrative.

Coming to its function, through effecting pity & fear catharsis happens. Which should be moderated&tempered(other words for catharsis) and in its equilibrium it provides aesthetic delight that is combined with pity&fear and named as tragic feeling and tragic delight.

Hence we can literally see that how consequently he has put every problem with its appropriate solution. Perhaps considering Plato he would have gone astray of his path as he thought narrowly of each and every aspects of tragedy while here Aristotle by being denying also gives a light touch to his perspective and tried his best to develop those things in positive sense.

To study in detail you can refer to the below mentioned link :

D. Barad, (4th january, 2013), https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2013/01/ma-english-study-material-reading.html,1 sem-1:paper name : literary criticism & western poetics-1:Aristotle's poetics: questions & answers(translated by S.H. Butcher & Ingram Bywater) range of pages : 1-16.

Renaissance period : Hamlet soliloquy

Renaissance period : Hamlet soliloquy.

lets have a journey of internal thoughts along with Hamlet!

Samiya y kagdi

samiyakagdi313@gmail.com

samiyakagdi313.blogspot.com

Roll No : 32

Semester : 1(1st year)

Assignment topic : Detailed analysis of Hamlet’s soliloquies.

Submitted to: S. B. Gardi, department of English {Dilip Barad (Sir)}, MKBU University.

Abstract

Soliloquies are something that is related with internal emotions and feelings, chanting in aloud that can take place usually when person is alone. As here we are concern with Hamlet we would see how he is chanting his ongoing mental procedure, especially when in melancholy, enantiodromia kind of state etc.

Keywords 

Soliloquy, Hamlet, internal emotions, Melancholy, enantiodromia.

Introduction

As we know “William Shakespeare” belongs to ‘Elizabethan Era’ from (1550-1620) and as he was unconcerned about the “three unities” introduced by “Aristotle” his plays were said to be unsystematically produced and hamlet belongs to one of them.

Hamlet  soliloquy

In this soliloquy we would see how frustrated by his life, he is willing to sacrifice it but restraint himself because according to “Christianity it is sin”.

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt 

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,! 

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God"! 

Moving forward to the other lines, it shows ‘Hamlet’s melancholic state’ and something like superficial as what he is feeling he- cannot show to people, he has to adjust him according to people’s requirement/wishes.

“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, 

Seem to me all the uses of this world! 

Fie on't! Ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, 

that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature”.

To describe melancholic state we have some synonyms like stale/flat/unprofitable that he personally feels for himself. Then it can be presumed that he satirically here tries to portray “Gertrude” and his father’s treatment towards her that “how he was caring and loving by nature that he even won’t allow heavenly wind- to touch her but unfortunately everything seems to be in vain and see how at last his mother "a woman" may be expected of doing something like this.

And he describes…”women as frailty”.

“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 

with most miraculous organ. I'll have these players 

Play something like the murder of my father 

Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; 

I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, 

I know my course. The spirit that I have seen 

May be the devil: and the devil hath power 

To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps- 

Out of my weakness and my melancholy, 

As he is very potent with such spirits”.

Analyzing this para. As Hamlet has heard from devil (in his father’s form) that his father is being murder and it is his sacred duty to avenge his murder. But he thought perhaps “what he is seeing in front of him in his father’s form is devil and he has such power that he can pleasantly transform himself. So let me check on my own...

Then he plans “a mouse trap” to caught Claudius..

 Red-handed, he says, “he will observe him and if he incase finds him guilty, he knows what he has to do (I know my course) for that he has used “belching” word. Which means ‘coming out terrible flame’ but here it may be ‘to see his guilt that appears on his face’ that whether he is burning with that bite of conscience.

"Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds 

More relative than this: the play’s the thing

wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king”.

Then he is described by the writer in the state of dilemma. Where he ponders on how he should act? Here his moral and philosophical aspect is seen also psychological enantiodromia aspect of whether to act promptly or to endure what is happening and what has happened till now.

So he says…

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: 

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 

The slings and arrows of outrageous- fortune, 

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, -

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; 

No more; and by a sleep to say we end”.

Nobler = morality.

Endurance =philosophical aspect.

Enantiodromia = dilemma (to be or not to be).

Prompt action = considered as psychologically weak.

“O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; 

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't

A brother's murder. Pray can I not, 

Though inclination be as sharp as will”.

Aforementioned soliloquy is spoken by “Claudius”. After the completion of (mouse-trap) play, he inclined (come to realization) his guilt (my offence is rank it smells to heaven) and fears if it would be known to everyone what will happen? Perhaps he would be made to sacrifice his usurped throne and his beloved wife. For whom he has killed his brother.

At this particular time it happens that Hamlet passes through the prayer room strongly willing to kill him but as it is in Christianity (vocal system of accepting prayer) he postpones to, and later on destiny leads him to avenge his father’s murder, during the duel going on between the two “Hamlet & Laertes” which is actually pre – planned by Claudius.

But as it is said..

“One who digs pit for another, himself  is destined to fall first(as it is nature’s law)”.

The same happens in Claudius’s case he had poisoned sword and made poisonous drink for Hamlet but God saves him. Instead of blessing him with human’s conspiring death, he is blissed with warrior-like death.

Hence we learnt how in chronological order (Shakespeare) has constructed his play, concerning soliloquies mostly spoken by Hamlet and how then a role into soliloquy is taken by Claudius and which helps to give a complete form to a part of the play.

Work citations
D. Barad,(4th Friday, January, 2013)https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2013/01/ma-english-study-material-reading.html: M.A.(with English)sem-1,2: the renaissance period:Hamlet:Hamlet's soliloquies.

Neo classical era : women characteristics

Neo-classical era : women characterics(Tom Jones)

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Please have a look on my assignment, and bestow your respective views😍🤝👏

Assignment topic : various characteristics of women regarding(neo-classical era:Tom Jones)

Abstract 

Neo-Classical era, known as the age of superficiality, gaiety and frivolty, due to charles II's  influence as he was belonging to France wanting to disperse his own culture in England. As women are very much sensitive and vulnerable that they may easily succumbed or surrender to anything, coming in their way. With those traits we are going to work regarding Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, the father of the novel.

Keywords 

Neo-classical era, Charles II, France, women, sensitive/vulnerable, traits, Tom-Jones(Henry Fielding)

Introduction

Henry Fielding is known as the father of the English modern novel and also for introducing 'picaresque novel'. In his novel he has tried to highlight many traits of women and did his best in maintaining their hierarchical traits.

Character analysis 

As I'm here to analyse vivid characteristics of women, we must first do that.

To give a proper contrasting effect first we must go with "Lady Bellaston".

Lady Bellaston, a rich widow who is called (mrs.) though she isn't married but old, is entitled with this prefix.

As she is influenced with wealth, she has utilized it in wrong way, she is always after trapping men and she has many relations with many men.

When knew Sophia loves Tom and because of Sophia Tom has denied his realtionship with her, she schemingly tries to provoke lord Fellamar to rape Sophia, but he didn't get succeed.

All these aspects of Lady Bellaston shows her stubbornness, possessiveness, an enviousness advantageousness and selfishness.

Moly Seagrim, a poor woman. To satiate her desires indulge herself with many love affairs. which we can conclude by examining in a scene.

Moly is pregnant and when her mother knows, instead of objecting or asking her about the child and child's father, she worries about food. As another member is going to include in their family, they even can't properly survive how the new invitee will.

It seems as to satiate her desires, she selected the easy path, where on and often humiliation is there, but it all depends on one's psyche if she wants to consider it. Otherwise it is for temporary and human's mind psyche is very strong. what she thinks she can do. if this latter thing she has applied possitively in her life then perhaps the situation of present for her, should have been fruitful and healthy for which she would have proud.

Jenny Jones, who later becomes Mrs. waters.

Jenny Jones, who is living in somerset village, in Squire allworthy's house.

Morally and philosophically Henry Fielding has presented very strong character in the form of Jenny Jones. who by being with mr. Partridge who himself is teacher, educate herself. As it is such time where girl education was underrecognition, all people of the village were jealous of her and they utilize their jealousy, when Jenny Jones alleged of having child and abandoned it on allworthy's bed as she doesn't want to get on with her duty.

She is out with the help of money, that Squire Allworthy has provided her. But gradually what happens, as she proceeds further though Henry Fielding hasn't shown that period clearly, reader's views in this respect remains in vain, but imagining she must be in many difficulties and if literally seen a woman can't survive alone as she requires many things. Among which the prime thing is "tutelage". If she is blessed with only one thing, the rest things she can
 achieve.

In this case as she also has affair with Tom Jones and others, seems as to retain herself, she must be doing all these things. Otherwise perhaps she wouldn't have survived. The title of her very name suggets its fluidity and she becomes "Mrs. Waters".

Sophia Western, a very strongly influenced character, with morality, philosophy and wisdom and that lasts forever with her and this is what that differentiates her from Jenny Jones. We can presume that perhaps in absence of Sophia Western, Jenny Jones would be writer's second choice of making her heroine of his novel.

Hence we have seen how Henry Fielding has tried to make aware people of how a woman can be, how she  has many hues, positive, negative, derogatory, invisible. If unaware of such things it is such a poison which would destroy one's life.

work citations

D. Barad,(4th friday, January,2013), https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2013/01/ma-english-study-material-reading.html:sem-1,2:the neo-classical literature:Tom Jones:women characteristics.

Elizabethan era/Renaissance period : John Milton : paradise lost : Eve : Derogatory traits with reference to all women.

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Please have a look on my all below mentioned "powerpoint presentation links" and give your respective comments.

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