Monday, March 28, 2022

Thinking Activity on Great Dictator

Thinking Activity on Great Dictator


Hello reader

This blog is response task given by my teacher after study history we are seen movie The Great Dictator and this is blog about frame study and i am trying to connect with over now days great politian. 




In 1938, the world's most famous movie star began to prepare a film about the monster of the 20th century. Charlie Chaplin looked a little like Adolf Hitler, in part because Hitler had chosen the same toothbrush moustache as the Little Tramp. Exploiting that resemblance, Chaplin devised a satire in which the dictator and a Jewish barber from the ghetto would be mistaken for each other. The result, released in 1940, was "The Great Dictator," Chaplin's first talking picture and the highest-grossing of his career, although it would cause him great difficulties and indirectly lead to his long exile from the United States.


Chaplin's film, aimed obviously and scornfully at Hitler himself, could only have been funny, he says in his autobiography, if he had not yet known the full extent of the Nazi evil. As it was, the film's mockery of Hitler got it banned in Spain, Italy and neutral Ireland. But in America and elsewhere, it played with an impact that, today, may be hard to imagine. There had never been any fictional character as universally beloved as the Little Tramp, and although Chaplin was technically not playing the Tramp in "The Great Dictator," he looked just like him, this time not in a comic fable but a political satire.


In 1940, this would have played as very highly charged, because Chaplin was launching his comic persona against Hitler in an attempt, largely successful, to ridicule him as a clown. Audiences reacted strongly to the film's humor; it won five Oscar nominations, for picture, actor, supporting actor (Oakie), screenplay and music (Meredith Willson). But audiences at the time, and ever since, have felt that the film comes to a dead end when the barber, impersonating Hynkel, delivers a monologue of more than three minutes which represents Chaplin's own views. 



Hierarchical system of society makes the communal, Racial, Powered as well as Religious descrimination. Why are some people or communities seen as minority or inferior? There is possibility of some Prejudicial Elements behind that.

So, When studying the first frame of the movie, in which there are two photos one is from back and another one is from front. Now the man who is standing at the first position if Jew Soldier. So, What this frame implies is that When it comes to taking advantage, Jew are at last in raw and When it comes to taking Risk Jew is at first. So, The officers in power orders Jew to check the defected missile on the risk of his life. So, It shows the Hierarchical structures in bureaucratic services of Germany where Jews are subaltern and do not have the right to speak. This is what Antony Gramsci wants to prove by his term 'Subaltern' which is developed by him after observing his hegemonic structure of Bureaucracies.



Now another Image is the Shop of Jew. Now this particular frame demonstrates the Predominant Prejudice towards Jews. If we look at the historical context of why there is too much hatred towards Jews then we come to know that it is not Hitler who only hates Jews, But this kind of treatment towards Jews is from the Middle ages. You can see the below picture which is of 1353 - in which Burning of Jews is portrayed. They are blamed for the spread of The Great Plague in Europe which is also known as Black Death. So, What this Frame explains is that, Tomainia is a country which is depicted in movies. In which if there is any shop of Jew then Authority overpowered that shop and can write that this is the Shop of Jew in a big 'Capital Words.' So, The movie try to condemned the very idea of Anti-Semitism.


In order to gain favors and acceptance, politicians tend to touch the soft corners of public which is children. Such political stunts are still relevant in today's time. Politicians knows the mass psychology and also know how to win people's heart. In order to collect vote majority they follow such practices. The face of Hynkel shows the hypocrisy of politics.

If we can connect this image of now days Dictator Vladimir Putin is best example how he cruel or Dictator on the Ukraine people or nowadays war. 



People in power enjoy the leisure activities and make their schedule as busy as possible so that they can create an impact on the public and make public think that our leader is doing many activities at a time and still has some time to think about us - public.

The dream sequence begins after Garbage's dialogue. Hynkel's hunger for power is highlighted in this frame. He plays with the balloon which is printed as world map. He dreams to be the great dictator of the world.

They play with earth and play with human life as a dictator they make War they think War is peace but War destroy everything. 




 This is the great speech by Charlie in this movie. That  everyone has Right of freedom. Humanity is important than power, here I'm  talking about which  power through one can harm other not do good  things. Here this speech is apply on t all human beings .



Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Thinking Activity on Waiting for Godot

Thinking Activity on the Waiting for Godot


Hello reader this blog is response task given by my teacher Dr. Dilip barad in this blog after seen movie I am trying to give answer. 


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. 


Evening falls into night and Moon rises I would like to Interpret that as a positive or Negative both ways if go into Archetypral reading Night is symbol of Darkness and sad. In this play this is also as sad and boringness waiting for Godot to another day it is also negative and useless if we seen this night interpretion as a positive way night is positive waiting for another day to come Godot.if we seen over daily life night is also symbol of Positive triedness  of whole day we come home sleep and forgel whole day's suffering, pain and disaster. 

2.The Director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the contour of debris in the setting of the play? 


Play setting with some debris this play setting on the after World War 2 I think that's why director uses debris in the play like war hunt everything of people and also after war people lost everything because of bomb and attack, loose of people, shelterless but capitalist or if we interpret as God or followers because of them made war everyone suffer for them but they not care people waiting for Godot or God to make situation different like Indian philosophy wait for 'Kalaki' avtaar. 


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." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?


I agree this play was positive play.In over whole life we wait for over Godot. In this play end with hope to another day to come Godot. If we seen over life goes on in any situation like over nowadays life Ukraine, Russia War kill many people Bomb, shelterless, debris but over life goes on we celebrate over festival we live over life with joy in same world same time also we seen corona virus time many people died most of people lost their employment for some people is vacation and they spending time with family they play games like ludo, cards. I remember one trending song life goes on.. On.. 


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?


Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic he was slave tied with a rope, carry luggage Basket his behaviour is so irritating After his Master Pozzo blind his behavior is same he give the Rope his Master behave like animal after seen Lucky's behaviour I remember one story which I listen in My Childhood little Elephant cub hold with Iron Chain everyday. After become young Elephant hold with thin rope it thinks like this is also iron chain and it was never try to broken it like lucky is Elephant habit of Rope. 


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 dialogues does not give ample time and space to ‘think’? Or is it that the audio-visuals help in better understanding of the play?


Reading and Watching both is better but viewing play as a movie is different experience we visual symbol tree with Leaf,debris,moon Rises description of Lucky and pozzo visual is better to understand but if we going to Justify dialogue read is more appropriate in watching play dialogue going to very fast not fully capture and laugh on that difficult to understand. 


6.Which of the following sequence you liked the most:

o   Vladimir – Estragon killing time in questions and conversations while waiting

o   Pozzo – Lucky episode in both acts

o   Conversation of Vladimir with the boy. 


Vladimir and Estragon killing time in question and conversation while waiting. This sequence I like most specially they are taking of Bible and Gospel Estragon not know anything or some dialogue like 

"Nothing to be done"

"No one comes no one goes it's awful "

"People are bloody ignorant apes"


Every time Estagon forgets why they are here, the answer given by Estragon is More interesting and Reality of life.

There is some cartoon image of Vladimir and Estrogan


Thursday, March 17, 2022

Thinking Activity on Breath

Hello reader this is interesting blog because it is about Meaninglessness and Absurdity this task is given by Dr. Professor Dilip barad i shoot one video on meaningless and interpret on Samuel Beckett Breath Or Waiting for Godot. To know about this task 



Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Dublin, Ireland. His father, William Frank Beckett, worked in the construction business and his mother, Maria Jones Roe, was a nurse. Young Samuel attended Earlsfort House School in Dublin, then at 14, he went to Portora Royal School, the same school attended by Oscar Wilde. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in 1927. Referring to his childhood, Beckett, once remaking, “I had little talent for happiness.” In his youth he would periodically experience severe depression keeping him in bed until mid-day. This experience would later influence his writing.

We studied Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot before we started. We saw the author's biography and the teacher gave us this interesting task. 

The 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


My Interpretation



 We studied Existentialism and Absurdity. This shortest play has wild meaning. In My video I choose Some Makeup products. whole video In black. I tried to Put appropriate sound transitions and effects. In Women's life Makeup and beauty is a big thing. Makeup is needed for women they think like that but if you know Over Existentens no need  of Makeup and Real beauty is know yourself. Inarrage Makeup item is meaningless to Interpret with this play.




Sunday, March 13, 2022

Thinking Activity on Existentialism

Thinking Activity on Existentialism


Hello reader this is blog is response of task on Existentialism given by Dr. Professor Dilip Barad i am trying to give all answer.

This flipped learning task helped a lot but was also very difficult and hard for me but my teacher gave me good instructions regarding this video. This is my understanding. You all readers also watch the whole video and if I am left something important than comment. 


There are Ten video on the Existentiam My teacher give on Flipped learning this flipped

Learning breaks traditional education system homework in class. Classwork at home is an easy way for students. 


Video-1



Philosophical think in an existing beginning  with each thinking subject namely the Individual There are three important Part is Passions, Freedom, Individuality. Believing and not believing in God thoughts of every people but believe in God unlike. Some people are сrаzу on this belief and not only Religion but they making unnecessary belief the absurdity of life or living in despair that you can fully devoted yourself to God and understand this is like sheeple Believing in God is escaping to Reality or Camus Philosophy called suicide this

thought is new for me. This philosophy is also very popular to young people because they know the struggles of nowadays, anxiety,Generation Gap, despair,Rejection and evidence of the existence of God Or Reasoning. 


Video-2



Camus - One truly serious philosophical problems and that is suicide after that I am not thinking suicide is philosophical problem I am think this is mental problem. suicide is an individual Act, if over Life not worth it than we want Suicide.

"silence of heart is work of art" - 

There is one movie reference the movie 'stay' movie sentence- "elegant suicide is the ultimate work of art".


Video-3



Feeling of Absurd the world is irrational and you need a human being for this irrationality if human not in the world no desires or in particular the human. Neglect yourself to absurd and commit physical suicide or you could also deny the absurd life. This all in video taking about absurdity and sucide this is not only new but also it is very real image of human life. when you have question not find answer and you start finding with one of the

Terms of the problems and that's not really answering the problem you need to confront the problem of the absurd 

Total Absence of hope - Despair

A continual Rejection /-Renunciation

Conscious dissatisfaction - Immature unrest

Absurd thing no place for hope. After this video I am thing suicide is  bad and Coward people wants suicide but after knowing this philosophey I am easily understand necessary need to exit of this world.


Video-4



Dadaism is a quest for change Dadaism is all about creation and creativity Dadaism as a way of becoming free of everything. 


Video-5



Existentialism is a gloomy philosophy Believing in God finding a truth that is true for you. Choose your own  meaning to life, don't find it in any religious Book, find your own way to live life, take responsibility for the choice you've made and accept your faults. Some believe Existentialism is a narcissistic philosophy. Being Individual doesn't mean you're a narcissist. 


Video-6



Existentialism and Nihilism both are different. Nihilism is loose of Individuality highest values devaluate themselves this video give clarification Existentialism and Nihilism are seperate and give information about both the movement. 


Video-7



Existentialism arose in 19th century Europe. Soren kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche are often characterized as the founding father of the Movement problem of life, human condition


Why am I here?


What does it mean to be human?


How should I live my life?


this philosophy apply  apply all human being

Finding life problem with own. Divine Perspective Vs. Human perspective Existenti -alists see a benefit to facing up to our morality human existence precedes essence believe in God made the universe the essence of human is not something determined in the course of one's life but rather is determined by God prior our choice make us. The Difference between Nihilism and Existentialism. 


Video-8



I like this video most because I think this is students and all of are good and raise question by the teacher why we always behave like good people. We make our own rules and little boys and girls give the answer. One of them raises the question of not wanting to clean their room but because of rules they clean and that is Existentialism on us. 


Video-9



Existentialism is differ for everyone this movement have two side mind and heart Exientalist are straightforward they are not shame to describe darkside understand life in terms of all that life is takes as me as I am this video also including cherry Picking from Buddhism humanistic Psychology, phenomenology also from other sources christianity, Game Theory, Scientific Cosmology. Existentialism teaches more compassion, suffering is not over the enemy's greatest friend, and is more open to the reality of life. 


Video-10



What is meaning of life we find many way Like Religion, art, social Justice but Existentialist give different thing Aristotle Plato give Essence theory-everything have Essence Your essence gives you a purpose There's No cosmic Justic No Fairness. No order, No rules in this video most important is Sartre's view. 

My interpretation

Existentialism philosophy have large contexts and having great sense there are many question of life.We live over life but never thing

too much about that we born we live everyone have the different structure  of life every little  things in over life we connect with religion and God but Existentialism give another thought of life over life is full of suffering and disaster we have pain in every time but we give excuses to us and other we think about suicide as a negative point but this theory gave idea to us how the suicide as a work of art. 


Existentialism is not negative theory it is beyond to Religion and good God but believe we never see God but believe and blame for over choice even we have lots of surrugle despair, anxiety but we Excuse over life says that I am happy, happiness is everything but We use a mask escape to reality of over life. 


We know After over death what is hell or what is heaven we don't know but to excuse  to escape to sugarcoat overself we are going to

Concept of God Paap and Punya on this I remember one thought of great writer Mirza Galib. 


Saturday, March 12, 2022

Thinking Activity on Archetype Criticism

Thinking Activity on Archetype Criticism

Hello reader this blog is response of question given by Dr. Professor Dilip Barad i am trying to give all answer 




1.What is  Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do ?


"Frye Proposed that the totality of literary works constitute a "self-contained literary universe"


In Literary criticism the team archetype donates recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character types, themes and images which are identifiable in a wide. Variety of works of literature. "


The Job of Archetypal criticism is to identify those Mythic elements that give a work of literature this deeper resonance. By their Universality, Myths seem essential to human culture. However, many modern folks view myths as mere fables, expressing ancient Forms of religion  or primitive  versions of Science. 


According to me Archetypal criticism is criticism of world literature critic Find small to big elements and picking these element and arrange in different box. 


2.what is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of physics to Nahue and criticism to literature?


Frye has given a very unique idea of Archetypal criticism by comparing the human emotions or human characteristics with the cycle of seasons. 


Spring


The spring season represents the comedy. As the genre of comedy is Characterized by the birth of hero. 


Summer


The season of Summer indicates the Romance because Summer is the Culmination of life in the seasonal clender also genre of Romance and marrige. 


Autumn

The Autumn Season signify the genre of Tragedy  because the genre of Tragedy is known for the fall of the protagonist and grief. 


Winter


Winter, the season of irony and Satire also it is also noted for its darkness, dissolution, return of Chaos and the defeat of heroic figures. 


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


Literature is the central division of the Humanities, one side by history and on the Other side by philosophy Here we can say that History and philosophy are twin pillars of literature. History represents what happened in the past. Philosophy is about morality and ethics of life or literature.


4. Briefly explain inductive method with illustration of Shakespeare's Hamlet's graveDigger scene.


Inductive Method is the journey which leads. from specific to general The best example of this method is the grave digging scene from Hamlet, it is a specific scene and from that scene we come to some general conclusion. In that scene there were two gravediggers and they seemed quite in harmony with their work. They are playing question Game, singing song during the time of grave digging. They were also mocking the dead Ophelia and commented on whether she was allowed to be buried or not. Here we can see that No grief to deadly one the one at the grave digger arranged in the raw "the Sculp of human Like all become one day same no one rich no one poor. 


 5.Briefly explain deductive methods with reference to an analogy to music painting, rhythm and Pattern. live. examples of the outcome of deductive methods.


Deductive method is a journey from geneon! to specific Music and rhythm both are the form of art. Music is a form of art which moves in time and Painting is a form of art which moves in space. Rhythm is Narrative form, while pattern is Simultaneous mental grasp of verbal structure and it has meaning and significance.


6. Apply archetypal approach in any Poem with reference to the Indian seasonal griad.


In India there are three main Seasons which are known as winter, summer and Monsoon. According to Hindu Scripture we have six seasons. 


Vasant Ritu: Spring 

Grishma Ritu: Monsoon

Sharad Ritu : Autumn. 

Hemant Ritu: Pre Winter

Shishir Ritu : winter.

Read the song

This song is about the Four seasons and the fifth was the season of Love First पतजड – Autumn. सावन- Monsoon वसंत- Spring and last बहार  not Perfect but I thing they Speak about winter, I don't know this is the song have archetypal reading or not but this song Speak about Indian season and Love and this is my Mother's  Favorite  song i am listen this song many times that's why I am Comparing this song.


 In Indian Season Spring is the season of Love and Romance there are many sanskrit literary work prove that love was starting with Spring Like KALIDAS Shakespeare' of India 'Kumarsambhav' - Love, or Romance of shiv and Parvati Start in spring On the other hand Western (Fayre) theory Summer is the season of romance. 

Friday, March 11, 2022

Thinking Activity on Great Gastby

 Thinking Activity on Great Gatsby movie


The Great Gatsby is a 2013 historical romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, and Elizabeth Debicki. Jay-Z served as executive producer. Filming took place from September to December 2011 in Australia, with a $105 million net production budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his neighbor Nick Carraway (Maguire), who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island.


Directed by : Baz Luhrmann

Screen play by: Baz Luhrmann

                          Craig Pearce

Based on: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott 

                                     Fitzgerald

Produced by: Baz Luhrmann

                      Catherine knapman

                       Douglas wick

                       Lucy Fisher

                       Catherine Martin

Starring

             

Leonardo DiCaprio- Jay Gatsby

Tobey Maguire-Nick Carraway

Carey Mulligan-Daisy Buchanan

Joel Edgerton- Tom Buchanan

Isla Fisher-Myrtle Wilson

Elizabeth Debicki - Jordan Baker


Cinematography- Simon Duggan


Release Date - May 1,2013(New York) 

                          May 3,2013(Australia) 



This film capture Jazz age


What is Jazz age? 


According to Wikipedia 

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz.

The novel and film capture jazz Age From the publication of his 1922 collection, Tales of the Jazz Age, and beyond, F. Scott Fitzgerald has been inextricably linked to jazz. Indeed, Fitzgerald is even widely believed to have coined the term “Jazz Age,” and although the phrase predated Fitzgerald’s book, his usage unquestionably boosted its popularity immensely. The presence of jazz in his other works, perhaps most iconically in his grand novel The Great Gatsby, linked the term even more tightly to his name.  Today, the moniker “Jazz Age” has come to signify, as a kind of evocative shorthand, the 1920s in both academic and pop culture. Because jazz’s lineage—difficult as it is to pin down—was tightly bound up with African-American performance, the music often came to signify black American cultural production, and so, whenever Fitzgerald invoked jazz, he was often, simultaneously, invoking blackness. Yet The Great Gatsby’s usage of jazz is complicated, as Fitzgerald was simultaneously a proponent of the then-new, race-crossing music and a writer prone to resorting to racial stereotypes when black characters appeared—a combination that, unfortunately, was far from uncommon in Fitzgerald’s day.


It is difficult to overstate the pre-eminence of jazz in the early twentieth century in America, appearing as a theme in everything from clubs to cartoons to realist fiction. “For the makers, consumers, and arbiters of culture,” the theater and music scholar David Savran wrote in 2006, “jazz was everything. A weltanschauung, a personal identity, a metaphysics, an epistemology, an ethics, an eros, a mode of sociality—an entire way of being.” It was a musical style that, with its improvised orchestration, complexity, and danceable melodies, seemed to represent, through the fusion of seemingly contrary impulses, so much of the world at the time: the dissonance of Modernism, on the one hand, with jazz’s rejection of straightforward classical music, and, on the other hand, its class-transcending popularity, whereby both rich and poor could, in theory, dance to similar music. 


Film helps to understand Character of Novel. 


If you are literature students you know how the different characters and their complex mind difficult to understand but it is important to understand them so by help of movie we easily understand. 


Leonardo DiCaprio as a Jay Gatsby he was well known Actor his role of Gatsby we easily understand him he was also famous for his Titanic movie poor boy love rich girl. 


Leonardo insight into American people during that crazy decade Boz hibman had the past to dictate how to portray Joy cratsby but Fitzgerald  never knew what was right around the corner of America at the end of the decade 1929 brought upon the great Depression America and most importantantly the America and American people. had Lost everything the

devastating wall street crash had destroyed America and that transition from carefree naivety to hard hitting reality is a Perfect allegory for the character of Jay Gatsby America was Obsessive excessive and dreamless sounds a lot like our great Gastby The aim of the game during the 1920s was to

get rich and then get even richer theat obsessiveness was a poison American People that filled their evetual downfall this is a similar story the gatsby who obsessed over his perfer he could never live with a girl that was always too far away Gastby fell in love with Daisy from the moment he  haid eyes on her and that drug of love  blinded  Gastby into buying a house across the river from hers and throwing extravagant Parties because he believed this was thee best way to see her this Obsessiveness. 


Nick Carraway  character role play by Tobey maguire a famous actor as Spiderman also he have the silent personality in this movie also as the silent Narrator In Many book or article observed as not relayable Narratar also he was alcoholic Narrator. If we try to understand the character of Nick Movie and Novel is different. 



Film helps to understand the symbolic significance of The valley of Aflees The Eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleberg and Green light?


Green Light.


It is a beacon to alert boaters that there is an obstacle there that they meed to avoid.For Gatsby, the light symbolizeds a dream -his dream of obtaining Daisy. The dream is elusive : "tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms Farthes".


The Sacrifices individuals must make to achieve their dreams, and whether the ends justify : the means of Greenlight. 


The Symbolism of green throughout the movel is as variable and contradictory as the many definitions of "green" and the many use of money "new" natural  innocent naive and un corrupted but also rotten Gullible nauseous and sickly. For Gatsby green light is hope for get back Daisy

Valley of Ashes

the Valley of askes is symbolic of its residents social status The valley ashes between West Egg and New York city consists of a long stretch Of deso late land created by the clumping of industrial ashes.

It represents the Moral and social decay that results from the unihibited pursuit of wealth The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and loose their vitality as a result.

If New York City represents all the Mystery and beauty in the world and west Egg represents the people who have gotten rich off the roaring

economy of the Roaring twenties, the valley of Ashes stands for the dismal ruin of the people caught in between. 


The Eyes of Dr. T J. Eckleburg

The abandoned billboard promoting Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's optician services is symbolic of the immorality of 1920s.

Americans abandoned their religious morality in pursuit of personal pleasure. The billboard serves as a reminder of God's watchful eyes. Even George Wilson who believed that God's eyes we're watching down from the billboard, eventually breaks down and commits an immoral act by murdering Jay Gatsby. 

TO Nick they seem to symbolize the haunting waste of the past The eyes can also be linked to Gastby, whose own eyes, once described as "vacant often stare out, blankly keeping "vigil"


To George wilson Dr. Eckleburg's eyes are the eyes of God, which he says see everything. 


How did the film Capture the theme of racism and sexism?


F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, and the movie directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013. These differences are examples of how times have really changed. In 1925, instances of racism and sexism were not uncommon. However, racism and sexism are not really tolerated or accepted in today’s time. To suit the modern audience, instances of racism and sexism were omitted in the production of the movie. Many other differences can be found between the movie and the book. As times change, so do the accepted norms of society. The changes can be found seen in the characters and themes of the story.


He makes several racist and sexist remarks. It is easy to dislike his character. On pages 12-13, Tom says, “Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?”...”The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be---will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” “Its up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” Although Tom is an easy character to hate, it is not apparent that he is the sole villain to the story. He is not necessarily what destroys Gatsby in the end. In the book, it is Tom’s goal to have Wilson lash out at Gatsby. He does not out right tell Wilson that Gatsby is to blame for Myrtle’s death. He instead just tells Wilson the car that kills his wife is yellow. In movies there always has to be a villain. The producers decided to make Tom the villain. Tom practically tells Wilson that Gatsby is to blame for the death of his wife, Myrtle. Although Tom is made out to be the villain, the producers decided to leave out Tom’s racist and sexist remarks. In the apartment party scene, they completely omit Tom’s abusive behavior of hitting Myrtle. 


The roaring twenties, an American era of urban excellence, the rich became richer, the alcoholics became drunker, the war was over and men and women alike were thriving! In the novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is writing about his experiences falling into the hands of filthy wealth, a colorful, dazzlingly loud lifestyle of his neighbor Jay Gatsby and his incredible parties. He soon finds himself caught up in a love story from the past of his cousin Daisy Buchanans and his new neighbor’s affairs, even more so, becomes attached to the hip with Gatsby, devoted to him. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together, (154)’ Nick Carraway shouts some of the last words Gatsby would hear. As times were still racist, sexist, and non-accepting of certain identities, F. Scott Fitzgerald possibly added homosexual tendencies within his novel, with a small book with less than two-hundred pages wrote from the perspective of a character’s past there was no room for random coincidences. With metaphors and thrown in ellipses, it was no mistake what the author intended, with the extra mile that Nick was a respectably honest narrator who put details into some interesting places or added in some events with no other information, as if he didn’t intend to speak of it in the first place. As the narrator, Nick Carraway has an amusing way of describing each character he meets.

Psychoanalytical study of Jay Gatsby

Great Gastby vision of life.  Natural attraction of wealth Power,Beauty,shame,Guilt shame For he is boy from  Small town Norther Farye he talk about he was shame for his lover class in his Parents Farmers Gatsby describe as Self made man start create persona change his name he believe serve in army persona of himself Against Reaction shame


Guit Feeling people feel they done something wrong Broken something moral shame feeling about selfwrong Gatsby shame about lower class upbringing and he does Lewis displays wealth psychologist  says reaction  for motion shame for poor People think about you The Character  of Novel not feel guit for their actions. 


Nick as Narrator


Go Beyound simple Narration how to Portray himself and others to his reades no dout he present himself more Positive sympathetic way possible this is true from the opening Sentence of the Book Nick writes in my younger and more vulnerable year my father gave some advice that I've been turning ove on my mind ever since this line is chock full of carefully chosen Language inteapnded to evoke Pathos and sentimentality,Gatsby This opening persona forms the foundational sea persona of Nick Carryway. 

he's a mid western good boy always try to see The best in people very decent, good Moral carrway from his enduring awkwardness Among the crowds at Gatsby's First Party Nick Wrote about Tom ' Now he was Sturdy strawhaired man of Thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner.Two shinig arrogat leyes had established dominance. over his face and gave him the apperance at always learning aggressively very forward Nick speakva gruff husky tenor added to the impression of Peachousness be conveyed there was a touch of 


paternat content Problematic aspect of Nick's backstory Lerman does address it's treated as little more than a throw away time during a quick dinner montage early in the film after this brief exchange subject is dropped completely that's for Nick and Jordan we'll there are given romantic subplot that end up playing as the fish out of water mid western guy landing the sophisticated New York girl who's out of his league it's not hard to see why Lerman would choose tools over the troubling threat of Nick is supposed to function as an audience surrogate then it's a lot easier to root for a wide-eyed under dog then an Egoitsheal cheater

In Novel NICK's moto keep himself at arm's length from the action and consequences that take place the desired effect is for the great gutsby simple observer Nick perspective as a victim doesn't consistently help up he know about Jay and Daisy relationship.Tom asked him to see my wife he denied another was the accident victim  narrative vichimized by difficult and shocking situation. 


I am seen full movie if I am left anything and you know about that please comment below. 








Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Thinking Activity on Auden poem

Thinking Activity on W. H. Auden poem


Hello reader this blog is response blog on W. H. Auden. Poem given by Dr. Dilip Barad. 



English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. Auden grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit. His first book, Poems, was published in 1930 with the help of T.S. Eliot. Just before World War II broke out, Auden emigrated to the United States where he met the poet Chester Kallman, who became his lifelong lover. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety. Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context. While the teachings of Marx and Freud weighed heavily in his early work, they later gave way to religious and spiritual influences. Some critics have called Auden an anti-Romantic—a poet of analytical clarity who sought for order, for universal patterns of human existence. Auden’s poetry is considered versatile and inventive, ranging from the tersely epigrammatic to book-length verse, and incorporating a vast range of scientific knowledge. Throughout his career, he collaborated with Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, and also frequently joined with Chester Kallman to create libretti for musical works by Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Today he is considered one of the most skilled and creative mid-20th century poets who regularly wrote in traditional rhyme and meter.


Auden's poems seems to be written in our time like Russian and Ukraine war and pandemic situation. 


There no more information about this point but as a reader I can find one article on Washington Post this is small information about that. 


Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine parallels Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in ways that aren’t small. A dictator’s claim to Lebensraum started with Sudetenland and Austria and then went cancerously to Poland. From there, we know what happened.


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W.H. Auden could not have foreseen the extent of the horror to come when he wrote “September 1, 1939” in the days following the Nazi invasion. Who knew then that Hitler’s move would lead to the deaths of over 75 million people, genocidal concentration camps and the ruin of Europe in the ensuing six years? Still, Auden’s poem brings the reader into one man’s fear as he freezes that fateful moment, and in the compressed, telescopic language that only poetry can create, the poet’s feeling that the world is spinning into disaster becomes the reader’s own.


“September 1, 1939,” opens with the news that Hitler has invaded Poland. 


I sit in one of the dives


On Fifty-second street


Uncertain and afraid


As the clever hopes expire


Of a low dishonest decade


Waves of anger and fear


Circulate over the bright


And darkened lands of the earth,


Obsessing our private lives:


The unmentionable odour of death


Offends the September night.


The poem does what powerful poems can do: It fuses eloquent language with arresting images in clipped, rhythmic phrases. Auden’s terse lines are in iambic trimeter and handled with a deftness that makes for the memorable phrases that get stuck in the ear, always a passage to the brain. It’s no surprise that this poem has been quoted so much over the years. Published in the New Republic six weeks after it was written, it has been anthologized frequently and cited by writers, scholars and readers, including President Lyndon B. Johnson during his 1964 campaign. It’s one of those poems that has entered the popular imagination — rare for poems in our time. It came to prominence again after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and was read on NPR. When I watched Russian tanks on TV entering Ukraine and heard sound of explosion. 


Although it opens with deep personal emotion, “September 1, 1939,” moves to the political realm in three-beat lines that turn on a dime to capture the megalomania of the dictator. Hitler, Putin. Fill in the blank: “What huge imago made/A psychopathic god.”


The language and rhythmic torque call forth the history of an idea: “Exiled Thucydides knew/All that a speech can say/About Democracy/And what dictators do.”


Amid the news of violence and portent of disaster, Auden watches the quotidian world go on: “Faces along the bar/Cling to their average day:/The lights must never go out,/The music must always play.” And, when the day comes “From the conservative dark/Into the ethical life/The dense commuters come,/Repeating their morning vows;/“I will be true to the wife,/I’ll concentrate more on my work.”


Auden captures the unbearable contradiction between the necessity of going on as usual while being tugged by the urgency of catastrophe elsewhere. The tension is not unlike what many Americans and people around the world feel as Putin unleashes violence on Ukraine.


As a good ironist, the poet acknowledges his limitations — perhaps the limitations of all art — when he confesses “All I have is a voice/To undo the folded lie.” But the poem does have the power to connect us to the moral urgency of a historical moment. Auden’s lines make readers feel part of the bigger whole, a collective sense of the species, even as things seem to be sliding out of control.


Auden found the last line of the penultimate stanza didactic and so redacted it in his later revision, but it remains the most famous line of the poem, a kind of secular spiritual epigram: “We must love one another or die.”


The final stanza is an appeal to resistance and the power of human community:


Defenceless under the night


Our world in stupor lies;


Yet, dotted everywhere,


Ironic points of light


Flash out wherever the Just


Exchange their messages:


May I, composed like them


Of Eros and of dust,


Beleaguered by the same


Negation and despair,


Show an affirming flame.


In these past few days, the Ukrainians’ resistance to Putin’s megalomaniacal and criminal acts of aggression has made urgent a question Auden’s poem implicitly asks: Who are we and what are our responsibilities to our fellow humans in times of violence and war? The final image also poses a question: What is an “affirming flame”? If poems, like all literary forms, are what Kenneth Burke called “equipment for living,” then “September 1, 1939,” challenges all of us to find a way to be an affirming flame in the face of the “unmentionable odour of death” that offends our February night.


W. B. Yeats memory the poem written by him The Second Coming is also describe War view. And poem Second Coming also discuss as pandemic view click 

As over contemporary time pandemic situation many people are died but people of now days they not make it serious topic as a war as a literature student i am seen many literary works describe war not easily find Spanish  Flu in literature I think in future their are many work related Russian and Ukraine war rarely find Corona related work. 


There is another point given by my teacher


Theme of the Lack of Acceptance of Homosexuality in Society.


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Morgan Walker: A Hidden Message: Auden’s Personal Protest in Time of War

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W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” can be interpreted as having two messages regarding society. On the surface, the poem comments on how the dishonesty and manipulation of government can lead to war. The author uses this primary interpretation as a vessel to mask and deliver his underlying critique of homophobia. In order to create duality in interpretation of the poem, Auden uses codified language to conceal the underlying theme of the lack of acceptance of homosexuality in society. The poem creates metaphors, such as a contrast of light and dark and uses implications through historical figures and government to show the offense done to homosexuals. The two interpretations of the poem are able to coexist without impeding or contradicting one another. By setting up a historical scenario and then commenting on societal errors, Auden is able to effectively shift tones without harshly criticizing the audience on social injustices.


Wystan Hugh Auden was born in England in 1907 and had two older brothers. Auden’s family moved around the country for various reasons, typically because of his father’s work. The first extremely significant event in Auden’s life that shows a major connection with his future profession in poetry was when Wystan was eight years old, he was sent to St. Edmund’s boarding school. While attending school he received what would be considered a traditional education given to English boys of upper classes. His level of studies and high education lead to receiving a scholarship to Oxford in which we was going to study in the natural sciences. While at the University, his tutor,  Nevill Coghill was extremely sympathetic to Auden’s youthful curiosity and helped to guide Auden into an English literature major (Farnan 34). These events set up the beginning of Auden’s future in poetry.


While at Oxford, Auden seemed to have feelings for fellow undergraduate men and these feelings had gone unexpressed. While at college, he tried to develop heterosexual traits through such things as psychoanalysis and celibacy (Bucknell 1). After graduating from college and Auden sought out to expand his education and gain freedom. He found this freedom in Berlin when he lived in the middle-class suburb of Nikolassee. While in Berlin, Auden began to experiment with his new found freedom through sexual activity (Farnan 36). In Berlin, Auden indulged himself in the relationships that he had been denied in college. He wrote to friends back home about male brothels and men who were available for money in the bars and around the neighborhood (Bucknell 1). Auden’s new life in Berlin began a process of self-examination that allowed him to understand his sexual nature. He later moved back to England, but frequently visited Berlin because he missed the lifestyle. After one of the visits in July 1930, Auden wrote six love poems in German that were inspired by the love affairs that he had in Berlin and the kind of man that he longed for. The poems are very direct and had a tone of melancholy, disillusioned, even cynical love and express such ideas as selfish love, and that it is short and sometimes brutish (Bucknell 1). They were written in such a fashion and in a foreign language because Auden never expected them to be published. He felt that by writing them in a foreign language, it allowed him to disguise certain aspects in case others tried to read it, which freed him to speak more openly on the difficult theme of love (Bucknell 2). Auden even kept track of many of his feelings and experiences in a journal that he kept in which he stated such things as how his guilt about his homosexuality drove him to search for new lovers (Faran 38).


The fact that Auden met and fell in love with Kallman in 1939, the same year that he wrote “September 1, 1939,” gives some inkling that the subject matter of the poem could have deep seeded roots in Auden’s personal feelings about love particularly coupled with fact that some of Auden’s previous poems have been suggested as having dual interpretations. In the article “’But Who Would Get It?’: Auden and the Codes of Poetry and Desire,” Richard Bozorth examines a passage from “The Temple,” in which a character Stephen cries out “Destroy this temple.” Bozorth argues that the line would mean very little to readers who are unaware that “the temple” is Spender’s image for the eroticized male body. Bozorth believes that “the line divides readers by way of privileged knowledge” (Bozorth 712). Bozorth goes on to give another example from the same work in which he argues that the lines are nor only cryptic but encrypted and contain code-names that are most likely only known to inside readership in which only those close to Auden would understand the references. Bozorth believes that the codes that Auden creates quite often “invoke insider knowledge about homosexuality (Bozorth 712). In another one of  Auden’s poems, “As I walked out one evening,” the lines “You shall love your crooked neighbour/With your crooked heart” comment on the unfaithfulness of all lovers. However, Bozorth suggests that because “crookedness” is one of Auden’s favorite tropes for homosexuality, it is very likely that Auden is declaring the transience of gay love (Bozorth 712). Auden finds ways to create duality in his work so that he can bring a deep meaning to multiple groups of people. Since Auden has a personal connection with the homosexual community it would make sense that he is creating a second meaning behind his work that speaks to homosexuals. By creating a second meaning to his work, homosexuals are able to connect with his poetry and understand it on a deeper Read more in this article

Monday, March 7, 2022

Thinking Activity on Transcendentalism

Thinking Activity on Transcendentalism


Hello reader this is my related to Transcendentalism my teacher gave me two question related this movement and i am trying to give my answer. 


Que. 1) Transcendentalists talks about Individual’s relation with Nature. What is Nature for you? Share your views.


According to me Nature is Not artificial this the Nature. Nature is like never judge anyone not give any opinion to others. I am like this and this good for me then forgot anyone and their opinion doesn't matter for me like if you on forest you seen one tree and their branches are different from other you tell the tree no! you have to maintain this type of branch they never turn like this you tell river no you branch shouldn't go this way they never listen you not behave like your way they only follow their way and likes and this is Nature. 



Que. 2)Transcendentalism is an American Philosophy that influenced American Literature at length. Can you find any Indian/Regional literature or Philosophy came up with such similar thought?


America’s earliest mysticism was strongly influenced by Hindu thought


“CRIME AND PUNISHMENT GROW OUT of the one stem,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay, Compensation. “Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed, for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”


Compensation was Emerson’s in­ter­pretation of the Hindu law of karma. Long before his fellow countrymen even knew Hinduism existed, he was studying and absorbing the wisdom of the Vedas and their Upanishads, The Laws of Manu, The Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Today Emerson is honored as one of America’s most influential and original thinkers. Yet few realize how extensively his work was suffused with Oriental philosophy—especially Hinduism. Long before Swami Vivekananda’s famed sojourn to North America, Emerson was subtly weaving Hindu thought into the fabric of his scholarly writing as if it were his own. In the minds of the Western intelligentsia, he ploughed fertile fields of inspiration 50 years before Indian swamis traveled West to seed them.


Transcendentalism was a literary movement founded in 1836 by Emerson and a handful of other adventuresome American thinkers. It featured at least three authors of world stature: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.


Combining Romanticism with reform, Transcendentalism celebrated the spiritual potential of man by encouraging nonconformity so that, through a sense of individuality, man might be released from mass conditioning enough to intuitively experience God’s all-pervading oneness by personal efforts of unbiased and open-minded introspection. Transcendentalism emphasized the individual rather than the masses, intuition rather than reason, the forces of nature rather than the powers of man. This was radical thinking in those days, and it did not bring them immediate popularity. Yet, such outspoken abandon of accepted norms freed the authors to study the literature, religion, philosophy and culture of exotic lands far beyond their shores. Perhaps as a result of Emerson’s influence, they all eventually became fascinated by the ancient texts of Hinduism. 


An irrefutable mystical bent coupled with an interest in Oriental literature may have been the only qualities the early American Transcendentalists had in common. History paints a vivid picture of disparity and dissimilarity between Emerson, Thor­eau and Whitman. Yet, this very dissonance was fuel in the fire of the cause for which they had formed in the first place. Emerson remained the ring leader—staid and serene. He entered into disputes only with intellectuals on intellectual issues. He was a far more comprehensive thinker than his comrades, but less given to “putting the concepts into practice,” which was the forte of Thoreau and Whitman.


Emerson’s infatuation with the East enticed him away from an early career in the Christian ministry into a mystic search that his creative writing only partially appeased, even though it decidedly altered the course of Western thought for more than a hundred years to come.


In an essay entitled Emerson as Seen from India, written shortly after his death, Pratap Hunder Mozoomdar, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj declared: “Brahmanism is an acquirement, a state of being rather than a creed. In whomsoever the eternal Brahma breathed his unquenchable fire, he was the Brahman. And in that sense Emerson was the best of Brahmans. He shines upon India serene as the evening star. He seems to some of us to have been a geographical mistake.”


Another author and scholar, Herambachandra Maitra, suggests that the Massachusetts mystic gave Hindus assurance and faith: “Emerson appeals to the Oriental mind. He translates into the language of modern culture what was uttered by the sages of ancient India in the loftiest strains. He breathes a new life into our old faith, and he assures its stability and progress by incorporating with it truths revealed or brought into prominence by the wider intellectual and ethical outlook of the modern spirit.”


Not only is Emerson acknowledged by modern-day scholars East and West as one of the world’s greatest writers, he is also considered to be a primary influence in the development of North America’s open-mindedness toward religious tolerance, psychic interests and ethical concerns. Emerson is the most quoted American in the modern media, and his works have been translated into dozens of languages abroad. Even those who never heard of him venerate the American ideals he helped to forge, including personal achievement, character development and moral living. According to one critic, Emerson continues to be “the least limited, the most permanently suggestive” of American literary artists.


Many Hindu religious leaders came to respect the work of Emerson. Swami Paramananda of the Ramakrishna Order, for instance, frequently quoted Emerson in his lectures and even wrote a book entitled Emerson and Vedanta.


Today it’s easy to find translations of Oriental writings. When Emerson was alive, however, things were different. Such translations were few and imperfect. International communication and travel were poor. It was rare to even hear of Hindu writings and rarer still to access them and be able to study them in depth. Emerson was able to gain much from “Hindu missionaries” like Ram Mohan Roy, who traveled to America in the early 1800s, inspired to elucidate Hinduism for the West.


“When Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom could be thought of,” Emerson joyfully proclaimed. “It is only within this century (the 1800s) that England and America discovered that their nursery tales were old German and Scandinavian stories; and now it appears that they came from India, and are therefore the property of all the nations.”


Emerson often presented Hindu principles in their original purity. Sometimes he would quote the scriptures directly. Through all of the elegance of his refined prose, there ever remained in his work an unpretentious commitment to the wisdom of the words rather than the crafting of them, as if the core of his motivation was more about leaving behind diaries of personal practice and discovery than legacies of literary greatness. Even his finished works read like ongoing revelations “to be continued.”


“Always pay!” he exclaimed, heralding the truths of karma and dharma. “First or last you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt.”


“Thou canst not gather what thou dost not sow; as thou dost plant the trees, so will it grow. Whatever the act a man commits, of that the recompense must be received in corresponding body.”


Emerson more than echoed ancient wisdom. It was his pleasure and a good portion of his genius to be able to penetrate and expand upon the timeless truths. In this sense, his works were shared meditations.


“Every act rewards itself—or, in other words, integrates itself—in a twofold manner,” he asserted. “First, in the thing, or in real nature and, secondly, in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul. The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding. It is inseparable from the thing, but it often spreads over a long time and so does not become distinct until after many years. The specific stripes may follow late after the offense, but they follow because they ­accompany it.”


Most Famous and important Indian Philosopher 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Long Days journey into One Night

Thinking Activity on Long days journey into One Night


Hello reader, there is a blog in response to my teacher on the Long Day's journey into One Night. I am giving the details of the novel theme of Addiction. 


By 1912, responsible physicians had stopped the indiscriminate use of morphine as a pain killer and treatment for depression. New laws required pharmacists to dispense it only by authorized prescription, ending its unrestricted use. However, for many Americans like Mary Tyrone, the damage had already been done. Morphine and laudanum, another opium derivative, had left thousands addicted, and many faced the social stigma and disgrace that drug addiction finally involved.


The excessive use of alcohol was more widely tolerated, at least in men. The saloon was an established American institution by the end of the nineteenth century. It served as a working man’s social club where males could imbibe, discuss the day’s events, and wager on cards and billiards. Some of the saloons were also haunts for prostitutes, while others were outright bordellos; most, like their English pub counterparts, did not admit ladies.


Many saloon patrons, like Jamie Tyrone, were problem drinkers and gamblers, prone to violence, sexual promiscuity, or insolvency. Their excesses fueled the temperance reform movement, led and supported by a growing legion of women who wanted to protect families from “demon rum” and improve the nation’s moral character and health. The movement would finally win a legal victory in 1919 with the passage and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment. But the victory proved hollow. The ban on alcohol gave rise to illegal bootlegging, bathtub gin, and the infamous speakeasy, a Jazz Age substitute for the old saloon. Unlike the saloon, the speakeasies were patronized by men and the new generation of liberated “flappers,” setting the model for the bars and nightclubs that went into legal operation when prohibition ended.


The plot of Long Day’s Journey into Night focuses on a dysfunctional family trying to come to grips with its ambivalent emotions in the face of serious familial problems, including drug addiction, moral degradation, deep-rooted fear and guilt, and life-threatening illness.

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In Long Day's Journey Into Night, the Tyrone family's past and present have been so dire that normal coping mechanisms (family love, togetherness, etc.) can't keep up. So what do they turn to for relief? Alcohol and drugs. These forms of retreat might numb the pain, but they also bring their own problems – Mary's constant zoning out and Jamie's inability to hold down a job, to name two examples. There's also a vicious cycle involved in all of this: Mary takes drugs and the Tyrone men drink to escape, but they also feel bad about doing so, leading them to snipe at one another even more maliciously.


Mary's morphine addiction is balanced by the men's alcoholism. Although the morphine is perhaps a more destructive drug, alcohol does its fair share of damage to the Tyrone men. It is Tyrone's great vice, and it has contributed to Mary's unhappiness. Drunkenness has been Jamie's response to life, and it is part of why he has failed so miserably. And Edmund's alcohol use has probably contributed to ruining his health.


The Tyrones don't just drink any alcohol; they drink bonded bourbon. Bonded means the bourbon is really good (aged four years and distilled by one brewer for a season at a distillery) and, thus, more expensive. This is some seriously high quality bourbon, and it's another hint – along with all those real estate deals – that James is willing to spend extra money, so long as he is the primary beneficiary. It's also a social class symbol – poor people don't drink bonded bourbon.


Bourbon is also an important choice because bourbon is basically the American alcohol. This stuff is classic Americana, a whiskey made from corn and named after the county in Kentucky where it was invented.


So here's our question: why Jim Beam instead of Jameson's? Let's not forget that James is all about Irish patriotism, yet he doesn't drink Irish whiskey. While there may be a significant difference in flavor between bourbon and Irish whiskey, Ireland obviously has its own illustrious history of whiskey brewing. We don't want to push this too hard, because there may be issues of price and availability, but with all of his posturing about his roots and his defense of all things Irish, it's surprising that James only ever drinks the American stuff.

This is short video I am act or speak one dialogue by Tyrone this is also given by my teacher. 


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