Blog on Da Vinci code

What is suspense thriller?
It feels suspense,surprise,exitement. This type of novel gives shocked to us and we think some kind of thoughts but the reality comes to us give some surprised. This novel is best example of suspense thriller.

1)Brown states on his web site this his books are not anti Christian though he is on a constant spiritual journey himself, and says that his book The Da Vinci code is simply an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate and suggest that the book may be used as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith?
Ans.
The larger part of narrative is Anti Christian because at very beginning of the novel it questions that relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The character of Sophie neveu is portrayed as anti Christian. She consider as blood line of Jesus but she don't believe that . Antagonist of the novel believe that there is not like any divine force. The church and priest  are portrayed as corrupt so novel  is based on anti Christian.

2)"Although it is obvious that much of what Brown presented in his novel as absolutely true and accurate is neither of those,some of that material is of course essential to the intrigue, and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has retained the novel's  core,the Grail related material the sacred feminine ,Mary Magdalene's marriage, the priory of sion,certain aspects of Leonardo's art, and so on How far do you agree with this.
Ans.
Lucy is right on her place that in the film. Akiva Goldsman has retained the novel's core, Mary Magdalene's marriage and her relationship with Jesus,priory of Sion and use of Davinci's art. In the film and novel all this things used for make this story more interesting. It also helping build the thriller. So everything shown in the film is not true. It used to only make film interesting.

3)If you have studied 'Genesis'(The Bible)The paradise lost(John Milton) and The Da Vinci code (Dan Brown) which of the narrative is seems to be truthful? Whose narrative is convincing to the contemporary young mind?
Ans.
I think paradise lost is more convincing to the contemporary young mind because in this human is at the center . Women questions against the God so it shows naturally. Women 's wishes never finished. She wants to free to work. In the novel Da Vinci code character of Teabing wants to free all human to blindly follow the religion it harm to mankind. So this narrative also more convincing to Yong mind. We must not follow blindly religion if it harm to other people.

4) What harm has been done to Hu MN Amity by the biblical narration or that of Milton's in the paradise lost? What sort of damage does narrative like the Da Vinci code do to humanity?
Ans.
In the Da Vinci code novel religion is at the center. And to name of religion and church is harmful to people. Silas blindly followed the church and killed to people. And after he punished himself. On the name of religion priest trying to find Holy Grail and wanted to destroy it. He want do this for saving religion . Which is harmful to humanity. In the similar way in the Genesis God punished Adam and Eve . In this way no voice against God. Eve wants to live freely so it nature in human being. In this novel religion is harmful to human being. People are killed to each other to name of God and religion. It gives message to mankind to free of all this.

5)When we do traditional reading of the novel The Da Vinci code, Robert Langdon,professor of Religious symbology, Harvard university emerges protagonist and sir Leigh Teabing,a British Historian as Antagonist who will claim the position of protagonist if we do atheist reading of the novel.
Ans.
Leigh Teabing consider as protagonist if we do the atheist reading of the novel. He is the true protagonist of novel. Because he thinks about Humanity not religion. Humanity is more important rather than religion. He wants to free people from the Christian religion. Because he thinks that religion not make people free. So he wants to make free all mankind. People blindly follow religion and they killed to mankind to name of religion. For him humanity is more important rather than religion.

6) Have you come across any similar book/movie, which tries to deconstruct accepted notions about Hindu religion on culture and by dismantling it,attempts to reconstruct another possible interpretation of truth?
Ans. I think Gadar ek prem katha film based on religion. Tara Singh a Sikh who falls in love with a Muslim girl. The story begins with Sikhs and Hindus being attacked by Muslim in Pakistan when trying to migrate to the India by train from Punjab Sikhs and Hindus react by killing muslims. So Hindu Muslim fight to each other and name of religion girl's family not except the boy and name of religion people killed many human being. Like Silas killed many people to name of Christianity.

Paper 3 sem 1

Topic   Dryden's comparative criticism of Shakespeare,Ben Johnson,Beaumont and Fletcher in 'An essay of Dramatic poesy'
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Dryden's comparative criticism of Shakespeare,Benjohnson,Beaumont and Fletcher in 'An essay of Dramatic poesy'

Introduction

John Dryden
                              John Dryden felt strongly about the relation of the poet to traditiona and the creative process and his best heroic play Aureng zebe has a prologue which denounces the use of rhyme.John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet,literary Critic,translator and play-wright who was made poet laureate in 1668.
                   He is seen as dominating the Literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him"Glorious John."
 Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near The apron in Northamptonshire,where his maternal grandfather was Rector of all saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and his wife Mary Pickering paternal grandson of sir Erasmus Dryden 1st Baronet and wife Frances Wilkes,puritan landowning gentry who supported the puritan cause and parliament.He was a second cousin once removed of John's than swift.As a boy Dryden lived in the village of Titchmarch,Northamptonshire.Dryden's poems,translations and criticism are best.

An essay on Dramatic prose.
                    Dryden is Neoclassical poet.Dryden comes after the Elizabethan age.Elizabethan age was having its free flow of imagination and romances and all that and it was by reaction that  the next  generation of poets writing satires drama inverse in the ancient sense poetry,because Aristotle uses poetry in the sencense of literature but mostly in verse because that was a convention.So these Neo classical poets were trying to get back to some different sorts of inspiration as other than that of Elizabethans.In doing so they were getting two extreme position.Some of them were becoming consenservative imitators rather blind imitators of Horace,Aristotle etc.Some of them were looking to French inspiration,the Neo classical way doing all these things.As a poet Dryden realized that he needed a kind of sanitized tested kind of way.Which justifies as against the Elizabethan's practice,justifies his current age and himself.He felt that here is a scope as a practitioner of that particular genre called drama and as an educated literate person,he needed to kind of recollect and formally kind of prepare a critical position.So dramatic poesy' means poetic art for drama.
A just and lively image of human nature representing it's prassions and humours and the changes of fortune to which it is subject for the delight and instructions of mankind.

Dryden's contribution

1)Progress and modernity.

                  Dryden has keep faith on progress and modernity.He objects to the pettiness to the Roman comic plot.He finds that Roman play lacks in moral instruction in wit,in warmth of love scene.But at the sometime he admires their plot and regularity of structure.He finds fault in ancient writers but considered them to be the best teacher of the modern.He advocate s classical restraint in Diction.
2) Comparative criticism.
                          Dryden's comparative criticism theory is proved revolutionary,before Dryden,most of the classist had been conduct to  compare modern literature with Greek and Latin because they were regarded as a perfect model for all time.According to him the critic who accused Shakespeare for his liberalization in using the no passion to delve deep in understanding of Shakespearean style.According to him they might not have noticed that
                  "Art is Dynamic not a static force."
His originality and Liberalism.
                  Dryden was genius and it is well expressed in his criticism.He influenced by Aristotle and Cicero but he disregards them if they are fantastic.He gives more important to delight then to instruction in his criticism.He says that,
                      'Dr light is the chief,it not the end of poesy'.

John Fletcher(1579-1625)

He was an English poet and play-wright,although he wrote many works alone and with several different dramatists he is best known for his collaborative with fellow play-wright Francis Beaumont.
                      The hero of Fletcher play were preoccupied with the theme of love or honor or sometime both together.Fletcher's particular technical abilities served him well in handing plot of comic intrigue and his delight.

William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
                               Dryden remarks on Shakespeare.He ceases to be a classicist and goes over to the other romantics.Dryden considers him as a"comprehensive soul".In this essay on Dramatic poesy' he says that Shakespeare he was the man who of all moderns,and perhaps Ancient poets.All the image of nature was still present to him and he drew them not laboriously but luckily when he describes any thing we can see and feel it.
Ben Johnson
                Ben Johnson was both a creative and Critical writer.He was an English play-wright and poet best known for his satiric comedy 'Everyman in his humour'.Dryden believes that he was most learned and judicious writer which any theater ever had.He was a most sever judge of himself as well as other.

Dryden
Ancient plays

Modern plays
                                                     Debate
                                                                                               play-wright,critic,poet.
Character
Eugenics,moderns,crites,ancients,lisideius,french drama,neander,english drama

Francis Beaumont(1584-1616)
          Beaumont retired in 1614 These collaboration had helpd to establish both men in the ranks of the best dramatists.Dryden's comment on Beaumont and Fletcher.
          Beaumont and Fletcher's collaborative efforts are characterized by ingenious plots,diversified characters and realistic dialoges.
       Comedies witty and sophisticated foreshadow the licentious comedies of the restoration.
        Limitated the conversation of gentlemen much setter whose debaucheries,quickness of wit can never be painted by others
         Their comedies were,delightful and parties were serious.
Popular works
The mild 's Tragedy 1610
A king and no king 1611
The coxcomb 1612
The captain 1613
 

Cultural studies

Introduction
Kalyani mam give us fruit of knowledge about cultural studies it is very useful to us.
First mam said about different culture about different people.Every people has different culture.Like we eat dal,roti,sabji ,rice in our daily rutin but in South they eat idling,dal in their rutin so every people have different culture so we are different to our clothes,religion,language,food habit from other people.Everyone mind,thoughts are different.So according to their all this things people are divided into their culture.
Mam says that How culture relates to the larger society? Political dynamics of mass media and everyday cultural practices and how culture transforms individual experience,social realities and power relations draws on social theory philosophy,history , linguistics,media and so on that's is my understanding during this session and I learn how it will be different for person.
•Cultural studies is also about political significant. Different types of culture have every human being.
•Culture studies about your experience in different countries.
Mam aso share her experience in different countries.we ware sari so it is our culture but other country like Punjab Womens ware salvar -camize so it is their culture .We travel other country we faced different culture.
There is two type of culture upper class people culture and lower class people culture . So culture studies about us.

The white Tiger

What does writer by saying that something are better said in English language?
Ans.
Because if we are saying in English it is not more harmful to people because they can't understand some things in English so their sentiment not broken in English . And we feel normal some satire saying in English. So it better to say in English.

1)How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The white Tiger?
Ans.
In the novel Arvind Adiga represent darker side of India. In the novel corruption can be found. In the novel talking about corrupt nature of entrepreneur's drivers. How they can earn little extra cash by sell the patrol,repair the car from corrupt mechanics,sell the whisky bottles, turn master's car into a freelance taxi. Also thieves selling the car parts of foreigners. The novel represent Indian education system. In the novel shows darker and corrupt side of education system. School teachers are stolen lunch money, Teachers do nothing in the class,sales uniform of students,it shows the darker side of India. In the novel shows on the life of poor people's suffering and struggle. Balram protagonist came from poverty.

2)Do you believe that Balram's story the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?
Ans
Yes I believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'. It is realistic novel. The character like balram can be found in real world who do many wrong things to earn money. The novel ends with poetic justice by punishing Balram. In real world poetic justice not happened every time. The novel shows the reality of life.

3)List of the questions asked in the film slumdog millionaire.
1)Who was the star in the 1973 hit film xanzeer
A) Shahrukha Khan
B) Salman Khan
C)Amitabh Vachan
D)Ranbir Kapoor
Anc. C

A picture of three lions is seen in the national emblem of India. What is written underneath it?
A) The truth alone triumphs
B) Lies alone triumphs
C) Fashion alone triumphs
D)Money alone triumphs
Ans.A

3)In depiction of God Rama,he is famously holding what in his right hand?
A) A bow and arrow
B) A sward
C)A child
D)A flower
Ans.A

4)The song 'Darshan Do Ghanshyam' was written by which famous Indian poet?
A) Surdas
B)Tulsidas
C)Mira Bai
D)Kabir
Ans.A

5)On the American one Hundred dollar bill, there is portrait of which American statesman?
A) George Washington
B) Franklin Roosevelt
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Abraham Lincoln
Ans.c

6) Who invented the revolver?
A)Samuel colt
B) Bruce Browning
C) Dan Wesson
D)James Revolver
Ans.A

7) Cambridge circus is in which UK city?
A) Oxford
B)Leeds
C) Cambridge
D) London
Ans.D

8)Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?
A)Sachin Tendulkar
B) Ricky printing
C)Michael slater
D) Jack Hobbs
Ans.D
All these questions and their answers are connected with life of Jamal. He observed the things and remember it

Narrative structure
The novel an the film has almost similar structure. Both the works starts with flashback techniques.

Indian ness
Train.
Train is also shows the Indian ness in the work. In the film highly used train. It also symbol of poverty and crowd. In the novel also discrimination of train can be seen.
Corruption
Corruption can found in both in the novel talking about corrupt nature of entrepreneur's drivers. How they can earn little extra cash by sell the patrol,repair car from corrupt mechanism.

Comparison with texture film and novel.
The novel and film based on darker side of India. The texture of the film and novel little differs from each other. In the novel the protagonist himself corrupt person. It himself consider as the darker side of  India. In the novel  shown darker side of India.

Waiting for the Barbarian

Introduction
About the Author
John Maxwell Coetzee south African writer who is a novelist,essayist,translator and recipient of the nobel prize in literature 2003. He focuses on power. The second work is waiting for Barbarians. The novel was published 1980. He was born in cape Town South Africa.

About the novel
The title of the novel is borrowed from c.p.cavafy's poem with the same title 'waiting for the Barbarian' This text gives the most prominent voice to the post colonial literature.In the novel we can find unnamed empire .
The novel raises the question of conflict between civilization and Barbarians.So there is question that who is civilized  the empire or who are barbarians?
We can seen power position in the novel.

About characters
The Magistrate
There is unnamed Magistrate in the novel.He has also physical relation with blind girl.He was also part of the empire. But empire also tortured him.

Colonel Joll
He was the Antagonist of the novel.He was very cruel person of the empire. He ware sunglasses in novel. He plays the role of classical villain.He torture the native people. They tries to know who are the barbarian.

The nomad girl.
The nomad girl is one of joll's  torture victims who gets left behind after her father is killed in joll's torture chamber.Her legs were broken and her eyes were burned with molten rods. Her body is covered in scars.

Summary
-The novel's protagonist the Magistrate Joll and his third Bureau believe that the barbarians are planning a coordinated attack on the frontier regions.
-Joll sets out on an expedition in search of barbarians. He comes back with a group of Fisher people and nomads joll's prisoners are tortured. Joll tortured all native uncivilized people and tries to know that who was barbarians but native people didn't know the truth so Empire and specially Joll tortured the people in different way. Empire left this people one was blind women Magistrate takes her in to his room. He helping her by washing her feet,he washes her entire body,oil her . He has also some sexual relation with that girl.
-She finally tells him how the tortures burred out her eyes and use a two pronged fork on her body and killed her father. The Magistrate decides to take her back to her people. Through the journey he fall in love the girl. She says doesn't want to go back to the place.
- Empire beat the Magistrate in front of the crowd.
-The Magistrate remains with a few townspeople and only three soldiers. They hunker down and wait for winter. They wait for the barbarians to attack. The first snow begins to fall.
- So now tortured people by empire they are unable to live peacefull life because their scratchs remain on their body so they can't live normal life.

Central theme
Violence
Coetzee represent both type of violence physical as well as mental. Waiting for the barbarians marks a discernable Chang in Coetzee's treatment of violence in the sense that unlike in dusk lands.

Power
We can see the themes like power in this novel. Empire ruled on the uncivilized people and killed and tortured that people.

Torture
Torture was used on the barbarians and also on the Magistrate . Colonel Joll tortured the people. So he was Antagonist of the novel. Blind women,magistrate and other native people tortured by Joll.

Comparison with other text.
Waiting for the barbarians with waiting for the Godot
In this novel waiting for the barbarians the empire tries to start fears in native people that barbarians are come and they attached on this native people. And this people are always waiting for barbarians but they never come because they don't know Who are the real barbarians. In the waiting for the Godot Vladimir and Estrogen always waiting for the Godot but Godot was never come. So main theme Existentialism is seen in both text.

Thinking activity on Northrop Frye

What is Archetypal Criticism ? What does the Archetypal  Critic do?

 Ans :
      Archetypal means "Original form". It refers to universal symbols,  theme , character, images. It repeated throughout literature. It is a term in which Frye 's archetypal criticism strictly categorise works based on their genres which determine how on archetype is to be interpreted in a text .
      Archetypal Critic would suggest that all human experience is connected through literature and this experience is expressed again and again by using the same pattern throughout time and space. There are some universal truths that we can learn by reading .

2)What is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature ' and ' Criticism to Literature'.

Ans : 
     In this Frye compare the both Physics to Nature and Criticism to Literature. The Physics is deep study of Nature but it called physics not Nature  though it is based on the Nature only but it called physics.In the same manner In the literature we are not learn the literature but we learn to understand literature,  how to read and how to criticise literature so we are not Learn literature but criticise literature. So it is the criticism of literature. So Literature is equall to Nature and Physics is equall to Criticism.

3) Share your views of criticism as an organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

Ans :
   Criticism is as an organised body of knowledge. So it is progressive way of Literature. But Literature never organised it should free from it for the progress of Literature. It definitely deeply connected with the History and Philosophy both are important pillars  of Literature. The History connected with the myths and Philosophy connected with Morality and ethics. History stands for events and Philosophy is stands for idea.

Mcq

1)who is the blood line of Jesus in the novel?
Ans.
-Robert
-Sophie
-silas
-Teabing

2) Sauniere was murdered by whom?
-Silas
-Teabing
-Robert
-Bezu face

3) Teabing was known as teacher
True
False

4)At the end of the novel Teabing was died?
True
False
5)Who was good hearted,intelligent,trust worthy person in the novel?
-Teabing
-silas
-Robert
-Bezu face
6)When the novel published?
2003
2006
2008
2010
7)Who was main leader of priory Sion?
Silas
Robert
Bishop
Sauniere

8) which group belongs to Bishop?
-priory of Sion
-opps day
_Jesus life line
9)Who was real teacher?
-Silas
-TEABING
-Bishop
-Bank manager
10)What is the use of cryptex in early age?
_To keep money safe
_To keep weapon
_To keep liquid
-To send secret message
11)How Robert and Sophie escape from the bank?
By car
By truck
By train
By run
12)What is the secret word to open the cryptex?
-moon
-star
-sun
-Apple
13)Whom meet Sophie in the Scotland?
-Her father
-Her mother
-Her grandmother
-Her grand father
14)The member of priory of Sion duties to protect the Holy Grail
-True
-Falsue
15)Who was American Symbologist?
-Robert
-Sophie
-Sauniere
-Teabing
16)Who make painting of Monalisa?
-Robert
-Leonardo da Vinci
-victor
-Frank Lloyd wright
17) What message written in the key?
-Name of city
-Name of museum
-Bank 's address
-person name
18) The group of oppsday follows the Bible?
True
False