Kali

In the film, Ponthan Mada, TV Chandran used metonymy to visualize the shared experience of alienation between characters along with the associated class differences existing among them. The scene, where Mada is stuck in front of car, and the follow up shot from the inside of a fast moving car metonymically signifies as someone anachronous to the present century and of a lower status. The repeated scene, where Mada communicates with Sheema Thampuran by climbing on the palm tree metonymically…

The post-Independence, postcolonial narratives work out the constructs of the nation and analyze its text The dis¬courses or narratives written then and later address the issues of the 'new' nation-mapping of territorial spaces, the re¬grouping of communities, peoples, cultures, languages into a homogenous identity of being Indian and belonging to India. Within this text of national identity runs the sub-text of centrality and marginality. The schemes of the nation include or exclude people,…

Under Akam poetry comes what is supposed to be the most internal, personal and directly incommunicable human experience, and that is love and all its emotional phases. All that does not come under this internal and interior experience is classed as Puram. While love poetry is Akam, all the other poetry, elgiac, panegyric and heroic is Puram. In Puram poetry, the study of Nature is mainly objective and consists in similies and metaphors,whereas in Akam poetry Nature is background and sympathetic…

Sexy By Jhumpa Lahiri Usually when I’m looking for something new to read I go off of titles, I don’t read the reviews, I don’t read the blurb on the back, if the title catches my eye then I will more than likely pick it up and see what goes from there. So one day during my LIT 224 class I was going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace…

Abby Kalis Mrs. Menden English 11 06 March 2024 The Death of a Survivor Six million Jewish lives were taken during the Holocaust according to an article written by the National Wall Museum. 245,000 Holocaust survivors remain alive today. Having so few still alive means that their survivor stories become substantially more important. Oftentimes the only things about the Holocaust that are revealed are the tragic events, but how these events changed people is equally as important. Elie Wiesel’s…

Bharathi Mukherjee is an erudite, Indian born American writer whose literary career started as early as 1970. Calcutta born, She migrated to the US to do her M.F.A in Creative Writing, in 1963. She is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkely. She is married to Clark Blaise , an American writer. She is an ardent admirer of the writings of Malamud and V.S.Naipaul. Shashi Deshpande, Jumpha Lahiri, Anita Desai and Shoba De are some of her contemporary writers. Bharathi…

The novel, Untouchable is realistic portrayal of society. It deals with Anand's personal experiences. During his childhood, he had played with the children of the scavengers attached to the regiment in which his father, Lalchand was employed. By showing the miserable condition, physical, economic exploitation and social inequality of the outcastes, Anand has presented the real problem of society. He has condemned injustice and exploitation. He delineates a definite grasp of the psychology of…

are shown in the play to suggest the supremacy of the alienation concept over man. Devadatta and Kapila represent the modern man who suffers from self-alienation and it agrees with what Norman O.Brown says in this aspect. The intervention of Goddess Kali and Her power become quite weak since the transposition of their heads and bodies fails to liberate Devadatta and Kapila from their incompletion. The case of Padmini is different as she is more sensual than…

The Dinner Party and Second Wave Feminism The 1960’s and 70’s was a period defined by change. During the civil rights movement, the American population became increasingly aware of the struggles of minority groups. This newfound awareness paved the way for second wave feminism. The objective of second wave feminism was the liberation of women, with respect to reproductive rights and sexuality among other things, and the primary means of expression of these ideals were through protest,…

Girish Karnad’s use of Transfiguration as a literary device in Hayavadana and Nagamandala provides the reader with numerous prospects to explore human consciousness from various perspectives. The theme of identity crisis is revealed through transfiguration. Through his imaginative skills, Karnad introduces transfiguration of characters in his plays to entertain his audience. The objective of this study is to highlight the fulfilment of desires of the characters- Padmini in Hyavadana and Rani in…