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Harry Potter: Think and Write

Here my response to given task: 1)        Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter : How do the character portrayal of Harmione and other female characters support feminist discourse? Feminism is a range of political movement ideologies whats more social developements that share a common goal: will define estabalish,furthermore accomplish equivalent political,economic,cultural,personal furthermore social right for women.Harmoine is smart,beautiful girl and she has the ability to eveluate practically of the privileged insights that nobody else could.And she is able to figure out also her knowledge and brain save and her friends all around these arrangement different times. Harmoine is very perfect example.when looking these feminist standard in the books .she is mostly criticized about her characters something like her weakness as a character.   2).   Speculative literature and Harry Po...

Theme: Da Vinci Code

Theme: The False Conflict between Faith and Knowledge                Dan Brown refuses to accept the idea that faith in God is rooted in ignorance of the truth. The ignorance that the Church has sometimes advocated is embodied in the character of Bishop Aringarosa, who does not think the Church should be involved in scientific investigation. According to The Da Vinci Code , the Church has also enforced ignorance about the existence of the descendents of Jesus.            Although at one point in the novel Langdon says that perhaps the secrets of the Grail should be preserved in order to allow people to keep their faith, he also thinks that people who truly believe in God will be able to accept the idea that the Bible is full of metaphors, not literal transcripts of the truth. People’s faith, in other words, can withstand the truth.  Th...

The Birthday Party ;Themes and symbols

Theme and Symbols: 1) Abuserdity: The term "absurd" was originally used by Albert Camus in his 1942 essay “Myth of Sisyphus,” wherein he described the human condition as “meaningless and absurd.” Albert Camus “Myth of Sisyphus”.  The absurd in these plays takes the form of man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning ,and or man as a puppet controlled by invisible outsider. In almost every character we find a kind of disappointment and complain from life. Meg keeps on running meaningless conversations like “how is cornflakes ?” or “didn’t you enjoy your breakfast ?”etc. It is perhaps to fill the emptiness within her. 2)Violence and cruelty  : In the birthday party full of violence, both physical and emotion ,overall suggesting that violence is fact of life. Stanley is cruel and violent towards but, much more afraid against other man. Much of the violence in the play concern women.Stanley not only intimidates Meg verbally,but he also prepare to assault Lulu...

Poem Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka

 Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka           In the summary of Telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka, the poet talks about two people on the phone and the story goes on to narrate how the African man is looking for a house and the land lady has proposed a considerable price for the same. The poem strikes a positive note as the man gets to know that his privacy won’t be hampered as the landlady doesn’t stay on the premises. The African man is happy to know that and just before he makes up his mind to consider the offer, he drops in to mention that he is black. On the other end of the line, there was nothing but silence which the African man takes it to be an impolite gesture of refusal.               However, the silence is soon broken as the landlady starts to speak again asking him to expla...

Poem: The Mystic Drum by Gabriel Okara

The Mystic Drum:                     The Mystic Drum is Okara’s love lyric. The Mystic Drum evinces a tripartite ritual pattern of imitation from innocence through intimacy to experience. By comparison to the way of zone as manifested in the experience of Zen master, Chin Yuan Wei-Asian this pattern resolves itself into an emotional and epistemic logical journey from conventional knowledge through more intimate knowledge to learn of experience empowers the lover to understand that beneath the surface attractiveness of what we know very well may lie an abyss of the unknown and unknowable belching darkness.                   But experience teaches us at this stage of substantial knowledge not to expose ourselves to the dangers of being beholden to this unknown and unknowable reality by keeping our passions under strict control...

Poem: Were I To Choose by Gabriel Okara

Were I to Choose   “When Adam broke the stone             and red streams reged down to           gather in the womb,           an angel calmed the storm”, “And I, the breath mewed             in Cain, unbliniking gaze                 at the world without                              from the brink of an age”.             Gabriel is immersed in folk tradition and ballad influences of tradition and culture are found in his poem. His poems are regional as well as universal. His poems are sometimes lyr...

Poem:Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara

  About Poet:      Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara (born April 21, 1921 in Bumodi, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet and novelist who may be pronounced as highly original and uninfluenced by other poets. He has been extremely successful in apprehending the moods, sights and sounds of Africa. His poems show great sensitivity, perceptive judgements and a tremendous energy. Okara also shows a concern on the topic of what happens when the ancient culture of Africa is faced with modern western culture.   About Poem:   The poem “Once Upon A Time” written by Gabriel Okara illustrates the changes a father has seen in him throughout his life which have been influenced by the way society has changed.              In the first stanza, at the start of the poem Okara writes “they used to laugh with their hearts and… eyes; but now they only laugh with their teeth while their ice-blo...