Frankenstein; or the modern Prometheus.

      Hello, here i write a blog as a part of thinking activity on novel "Frankenstein". And discussed various questions related to the movie "Frankenstein".

Frankenstein; or the modern Prometheus, is one of the most famous novel by Mary Shelley. The novel have a beautiful storyline and interesting themes, and first published in 1818 . The novel tells the story of gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein. Who succeeds in giving life to a being of his own creation. However, this is not the perfect specimen, he imagine that it will be, but rather a hideous and mankind in general. and at the last part the monster seeking its Revenge through murder and terror.

1] Why victor was not able to accept his dream experiment and it's result?

  The story of Frankenstein is a story of a life of creature as well as his creator victor Frankenstein. The story is about a creature's transformation into the monster. Victor has a strong desire to understand the world. at the University Excel at chemistry and other science, and soon developing secret technique to impart life to non - living matter. and he made creature, tall about 8 feet in height, proportionally large, despite victor's selecting in features to be beautiful, upon animation. the creature is instead hideous, with watery white eyes and yellow skin. Fat Barely conceals the muscles and blood vessels underneath.

      So because of his hideous look, victor ran away after seeing the creature and being so afraid of his look.  creature's creator, or we can say father of creature, himself rejects him. Victor think that society never accept such ugly figure and so that he also started hating him. He afraid that society never pardon him for creating such moster and so he thought that it is better that no one never came to know that creature is creation of Victor. So this is the reason that victor does not able to accept his creation.

    Here let me share some videos from movie Frankenstein.

2] can appearance over power reality?

    

    Here in movie Frankenstein, we can able to see that appearance over powered reality. In reality, the monster is so innocent like a child, but he has a lots of scarce and stitching marks on his face and body and that's why he hated by Society. He was beaten by people, living alone in jungle, even he did good enough with the Delecy family and still they treat him so badly. even when he go to Victor, Victor also rejected him. and consider him as a monster.just because of his hideous look she was suffering this all kind of harassment. This thing make us think that how marry Shelley's society and our society are have several kind of similarities. Where society used to judge people by his look. That if person is beautiful and have no skills still, he is good. And if person has good skills but ugly in appearance than his skills have no meaning. He will surely hate by society. This thing shows that how reality over power reality.

3] What made creature a monster?

  In the movie, we saw that how the process of transformation creature to Monster begins .creature is most innocent like a child but he still ignored by all. He relates his first day of life, living alone in the wildness. people were afraid of and hated him due to his appearance and hideous look. which led him to fear and hide due to his appearance.people used to considered him as a monster and beats him and through stones on him and harass him. So at the end he decided that if society and all think him as a monster, then now he will be a monster. Thought of society and behaviour of society towards creature, force creature to transforming into Monster. and then he sword revenge against all humans. He travelled to Geneva using details from victor's journal, murdered William, and framed Justin for the crime.  And continue doing evils. He asked victor to create female partner for him or he kill victor's beloved Elisabeth.

"You can creat a partner for me, or I will be there with you, on your wedding night."

    Here we are able to see that he is seeking for the love from someone but no one able to accept him with his hideous look so we can able to justify that due to lack of Love and companion he turns into the monster.

4] Why society has rejected Victors idea of experiment and then the result of experiment?

  

    If we notice, according to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Society placed greater importance on outer beauty radher than inner beauty, and for one to be social accepted, outer beauty must prevail over inner beauty. For example, victor is very handsome and somewhere this is the reason why he could not accept creature with such hideous look. "Frankenstein" is set in 18th century, where society's acceptance was based on first impression of one's physical beauty. The women in the novel gained social acceptance based on their looks. Like Elizabeth, Justin and other all women are portrayed as beautiful ladies. Also men in novel are attracted to the women, based on physical appearance and rarely consider their personality. Like Caroline, victor and all. Through out the novel only creature. We find ugly and hedious. And also a disguised, alone, in novel so we can able to say that somewhere that is the reason that why society rejected Victors idea of experiment and the result,(The Creature)of experiment. Appearance play vital role in the movie as well as in suffering of creature.

5] Villain in Frankenstein.

      We have lots of characters in the novel. And even if we analyse the novel, we can easily find that this novel do not have one perticular protagonist., similarly do not have any one antagonist. This we can easily understand by analysing transformation of creature to monster.  Creature is at one point, we found villain, cause he was doing murders and violence. But if go deep, we found that he did this all things, because he don't get love and companion, which he pine. Victor created the creature, but left him without giving him true knowledge about the world and knowledge that how to deal with society, what kind of behaviour he needs to survive. So that's how, the victor is villain at another point. But society also we found as a villain because creature's monstrous form is result of society's ignorance, disguise, and misbehavior. villains are also changes along with the various parts of Novel.

   After analysing the whole novel, we found it so intresting and well structured. And the novel keep the attention of audience thoroughly. Here i am also sharing some of the part which based on novel, "Frankenstein".

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References :-

1) Wikipedia

2) encyclopedia

3) Britannica 

Frankenstein movie review

Hello my name is Himanshi Parmar. today I want to write an interesting blog about movie screening in our English department we all were very excited for the movie. Name of the movie is "Frankenstein, the modern Prometheus". The movie is a part of our syllabus.

   we all semester one students sit together and close the window then ma'am started playing movie on projector, but the problem of eco sound running through out so, it was created some trouble and we were not able to listen dialogues properly some times, but still the movie is so much interesting.

   The movie has a lot of interesting characters, dialogues, scenes, settings and even a mysterious, horrible sound additions. Which make it more delightful. Some of the scene also make a us fear such like first entry of creature ( Birth of Monster) scene of justin's death, when Monster kill Elizabeth, and at last when Elizabeth brunt her self.

Settings :-

   Setting of the movie is also very well done.just like novel "Frankenstein". creators of movie choosen such places, which were dark, foggy, and in some of the part of movie, there is Jungle too. The Jungle with giant trees, which encumber sunlight, to be found much darkness there. also the shooting of the scene if northern -ice land is done beautifully, some other settings like, big bungalow type house of Victor Frankenstein, lab of the victor, crowded Streets are also portraits beautifully.

Dialogues :-

  

Also movie, "Frankenstein" dealing with many of the interesting dialogues. Most of the dialogues taken from novel. but the style of reciting it, is mesmerised us. Conversational dialogues between Victor Frankenstein and creature is more interesting, and effective. Some of the long monologue kind of dialogues are also included. sometimes monster's dialogue, is in solitude, portrayed cruel society, and the mentality of the society, that only the beautiful is good. if the person is good inside but not outside then no one can accept his goodness.

Characters :- 

  

Characters are similar of novel but sometimes we found that not as strong as novel is. Women characters are few, mainly we found that male characters are in the limelight throughout the novel. and women characters come as a supporter of male characters. Somewhere we find that the character of Elizabeth is more stronger than other women of the novel. But still weaker than male characters like Victor, creature,  Henry and others. This thing show the male dominated society.

  Scenes :- 

   Scenes wise if we analyse the movie we found that it has lots of beautiful, interesting scenes. Also scenes are horrible too. But the sequence of interesting scene, aren't break throughout the film. The film is full of horror, tragedy, and also little beat of love elements are also included there. Each scene of the novel, symbolise something. For example, when creature disguised and beaten by people we found a society, who believed that outer beauty is more important than inner one. Also scene of Justin's death, Birth of creature, Victor's illness, murder of Elizabeth, Death of Victor's mother, scene of University, Walter and Scene of Northern Iceland, Death part of victor and creature, Scene when Elizabeth burnt herself and house, etc.. All are the most intresting scenes among the movie, which we enjoyed a lot.

 But when we compared movie with original novel compared Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, then we found lots of characters make lots of twists to make the movie more interesting and for more entertainment. In the novel, at last creature goes away from the world and decide that he never get back in the society, where in movie creature burnt himself along with the dead body of victor. Also in novel when once Elizabeth died, she could not get back alive, where in movie victor again make  her alive by his science, and experiment, and also the scene in which Elizabeth burnt herself along with house, is not mentioned into the novel.several other changes are also there but still movie gives us a perfect overview of the novel. 

   We all were enjoyed a lot, and understand so many things. The day of movie screening is memorable for we all. Here i am sharing the trailer of movie Frankenstein.

Ajanta Caves

Preface :-

The Ajanta caves, are a Buddhist caves, complex in state of Maharashtra, India. This are the sequence of 29 caves. This all caves are made up by cutting 30 rocks, dating from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE.

Khodidas parmar art gallery :- 

Art gallery is also called as a art museum. The concept art museum is used to display art in various city. Where art lovers comes together to see various art, like sculptures, paintings or other. Similarly in Bhavnagar. we have khodidas parmar Art gallery. Where at 26/9/2021, sunday. Amul parmar, a one of the major figure of bhavena, used to organized painting exhibition. Where he put many of the famous paintings of ajanta caves. Which were painted by some of the famous painters. The group of painters drawn in same manner and in such particular method of paintings, are called "gharana".

   I am personally not visited to the art gallery, but the painting pictures mesmerised me and lead me to search more about the Ajanta caves and it's paintings. So here i put some information about Ajanta caves and the art of it.

Ajanta : the Attraction for tourist :-

    Ajanta is one of the major tourist attraction of Maharashtra, it is about 6 kilometers (37 miles) from the city Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. 104 kilometers from the city of aurangabad. Ajanta is 100 kilometers from the Ellora caves, which contain Hindu, Jain and Buddhist caves. The ajanta style is also found in the Ellora caves and other sites, such as the Elephanta caves, Aurangabad caves, Shivleni Caves and the cave temples of Karnataka.

UNESCO World heritage sight :-

    The caves of ajanta set into the Aurangabad district and since 1983 have been a world heritage sight. Thousands of people used to came and visited the sight. The ajanta caves include paintings and rock cut sculptures, which described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian Art. Particularly expressive paintings that presents emotions through the gestures, pose and form.

Structure of the caves :-

     The caves cut into the mountain, form a horseshoe shape around the wangorah River. They are an example of one of Indian's unique artist traditions known as rock cut temple. Ajanta consist of thirty caves, each dedicated to the life of Buddha.The caves are mainly famous as a masterpiece of Buddhist religious art. Into the 75 Meter, the big worshipping halls are located which are reflects the different Buddhist Traditions. The caves are presents the paintings depicting the past lives, pictorial tales from Aryasura's Jalakamala, Big sculpture of Shiva, and rock cut sculptures of Buddhist deities. Even a rock cut sculptures of hindu god and goddesses.

Paintings of Ajanta :-

The ajanta paintings are very much unique and famous. There are various material paint used in Ajanta caves. The paintings are lasting so many years. Were created from 200 BC to 650 AD. The process begun with rough stone surface being coated with thick coating of a past made from clay, cow - dung, Animal hair, vegitable fiber, the next, a finer layer of smooth white lime was applied. Before this was dry, the artists quickly traced the pictures using red cinnabar, which they then filled in with an slightly rubbery layer of terre - verte. They also use natural colors, made out from various leaf and flowers, around the area. 

  Red ochre, yellow ochre, Brown ochre, lamp black, white, and lapis were the main colours, which were used which were imported from Northern India, Central Asia and Persia. All the walls and pilasters are covered by overlapping figures, brought to life with bright and contrasting colour by the artists.

 Who try to destroyed Ajanta caves? :- 

 

  In 1682, A muslim ruler Aurangzeb hired 1000 workers for three year only to destroy this temple completely. But is it a rumour or reality is still debated.

Conclusion :- 

     Ajanta caves and it's unique paintings are still world famous, and many of the well - known poet draw such kind of paintings which are located into the Ajanta caves. And spread our old bequeath to all around the world. Ajanta is most important part of world heritage, and it is very important to preserve it well.

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Christopher Marlowe

           Christopher Marlowe

        

Born :- 26 February 1564

Died :- 30 may 1593

Occupation :- playwright - poet

Era :- Elizabethan

Notable works :-

(1) Hero and Leander

(2) Tamburlaine the Great

(3) Edward the second

(4) The tragical history of Doctor Faustus.

(5) Dido, The Queen of carthage

Movement :- English Renaissance.

Preface:- 

   Christopher marlowe born in 26 February 1564 and died at 30 may 1593. he was also known as kit marlowe. He was the most prominent figure of the English Renaissance. He was well known poet, playwright and also a translator. But mostly people considered him as a most well known playwright. some Scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare. Marlowe was the first to achieve a critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. He is one of the most suggestive figure of the English Renaissance, and he was the greatest from Shakespeare's predecessors.

His Life :-

    He was born in 26 February 1564 and baptised at Saint. George's Church Canterbury. He was the second of nine childrens of his father shoemaker john Marlowe and mother Katherine.he was two month older than William Shakespeare. he was attending the king's School Canterbury on scholarship and two years later corpus Christi college, Cambridge. and there he also received his bachelor of arts degree in 1584. But during this three years Marlowe began to absent himself from the college for weeks on end. And it is not so common at that time. so this kind of action of Marlowe earned the ire of the college administration.

    Also the rumours getting spread that marlowe planned to defect to the Catholic seminary of rheims France. So when administration denied to give him degree, at that time the privy Council conveyed them that marlowe had been in government service all along so give him degree. this evidence suggests that he had been serving England as a Spy rheims.

    In the following six years, before his early death, Marlowe continued to achieve success through such works as, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and the Massacre at Paris. The last part of marlowe's life was violent and contains some supicious conincidence. A year before his death Marlowe appeared so threatening. he was staying at the Walsingham's country house in sacadbury at the time he was killed. the circumstances of Marlowe's death provide much more for speculation on May 30, 1593.

   When Marlowe was only 29, he was feasting in a rented private room in a deptFord house, with a group of four men. he quarrelled with a Ingram friser, who killed him on the spot by stabbing him above the right eye. and still friser pardoned shortly after this. David riggs points out that the queen herself had ordered for Marlowe's death, four day before. but it is still debated that what is the reality.

   But the young poet died before his thirties, was a man, who studied to take Holy orders, who likely served his country in espionage and still died violently.

    His life is also like a interesting story of his works. if we looked into his work, we found that somehow his work in which he took liberty and freedom of writing even in sensitive subject, is responsible for his violent death. let me here considere some of his well-known works.

His works :-

     Marlowe was a poet and playwright at the fore front of the 16th century dramatic Renaissance. While Christopher Marlowe's literary career lasted less than six years, and his life only 29 years. still his achievements, and especially the play, "The tragicall history of doctor Faustus", ensured his lasting legency.

Marlowe as a playwright :-

    As he mainly known as a playwright, we discuss here about some of his plays his. first play is, "dido, queen of cathage". but was not published until 1594. his second play was the two-part "Tamburlaine the great", published in 1590. it is considered as a beginning of the elizabethan theatre, and was the last of Marlowe's play to be published before his ultimately death, according to chronology, the order of his play are thus.

1 ] The jew of malta 

2] Doctor Faustus 

 3] Edward the second 

 4] The massacre at Paris 

    Here we discusses his most famous play Dr Faustus, is in detail.

Dr. Faustus :-

Here i am sharing a link of animated movie of the play, "Tragicall history of doctor Faustus".

    Marlowe's most famous play is, "Tragicall history of Dr. Faustus". But as is the case with most of his plays, it has survived only in corrupt form, and when Marlowe actually wrote, it has been a topic of debate. The play doctor Faustus, was first performed around 1588, and were first published in 1604. This first virson is usually called as a A - text. And the revised addition which appeared in 1616 and 1631 is called as B - text.

Summary :-

   The play doctor Foustus, is based on the German faustbuch and acknowledged as the first dramatized version of the Faustus Legend. The play is about a scholar named dr. Faustus, who is crazy for knowledge, and use his whole technology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and the four science of the time, into the study of magic. And because of that the man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. While versions of story began appearing as a early as the fourth century. Marlowe deviates significantly by having his hand. unable to repent and have his contract annulled at the end of the play. He is warned to do so throughout by yet another marlowe variation of the retelling a good angel but Faustus ignores the Angel's advice continually.

   The concept of Marlowe, creating good Angel and bad angel, to show inner confusion about to do or not to do, is a unique way of portraying such things.

   in the end, Faustus finally seems to repent for his deeds, but it is either too late or just simply irrelevant, as Mephistopheles collects his soul. and it is clear that Faustus exists to hell with him. So this how like most of his plays, the protagonist got a tragic death.

Analysis :- 

 

     More than any other play, Marlowe's doctor Faustus have a strong, good power of language. And wide  imaginary concept. The setting of play is also very intresting and well structured by including various elements.

1 ] Chorus :-

   

    If we analyse the play and it's setting, we found the technique of the chorus, which was adapted from the traditions of classic Greek Drama. Throughout the play, chorus functionally works. Chorus stands out side the play and comments upon various parts if the drama. The chorus directly speaks to the audience and tell them basic background history of Faustus and explains that the play is to concern his downfall. The work of chorus in drama is to express author's view and to remind the audience of the proper moral to be learned from the play itself. And the opening speech of thw chorus also take as a prologue. So this how the chorus is one of the most important part of that drama.

2] Dr. Faustus and Icarus :-

  Doctor Faustus was compared to the greek myth of Icarus, a boy whose father Daedalus gave him wings made out of feathers and beeswax. Icarus did not heed his father's warning and flew too close to the sun. Which causing his wings to melt and sending him plunging to his death. In similar way the chorus tells us that, doctor Faustus will "Mount above his reach" and suffer the consequences. 

3] Subject :-

    Instead of a subject dealing with love or war, this play will present the history of a scholar. Normally at the time when people mainly liked Holly dramas, related to religion. The dr. Faustus of Marlowe was the new experience of that era. Traditionally, tragedies had dealt with such grand subjects as the history of kings, great wars, or powerful love affairs. But marlowe introduced different subject matter to audience and it widely accepted by all. He introduced a downfall of a Normal man, instead of king, Prince, god, superiors, angels or anyone eles.

    So this how he creat something new by the play dr. Faustus and still it is performed and accepted also widely by audience, and people still praised it after a so many years also.  Also the play has very less characters but all were portraits so effectively.characters like servants of dr. Faustus and all, marlowe add a test of humour in play, along with tragedy. Also Monologue of Faustus, make the play much intresting. 

Conclusion :-

   Thus to conclude we can able to consider Marlowe as a most prominent figure among the Renaissance. but for his mysterious settings, plot against the stage rules and story about against Christianity and the law of Bible lead his early death, and he murdered in the age of 29. but from Renaissance to present time, people love his plays, many of his plays still performes in various theaters, such like most famous Globe Theatre of America, and others.

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References :-

1] https://youtu.be/PcTRZOWjbMU

2] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Marlowe

3] https://www.gradesaver.com/author/christopher-marlowe

4] https://literariness.org/2020/07/29/analysis-of-christopher-marlowes-doctor-faustus/

5] https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doctorfaustus/summary/

Anita desai

Born :- 24 june 1937

Period :- 1963- present

Occupation :- writer, proffesors

Genre :- Fiction

Nationality :- Indian

Biography :-

      Anita mazumdar is an Indian Novelist and the proffesor of Humanities at the Massachusetts institute of technology.anita was born in mussoorie, India, and spent her childhood in Delhi.Her parents had met in Germany when her father was studying there, and they moved back to his home of India in the 1029s.her mother was German and father was Indian so she grew up speaking German, Bengali, Hindi and urdu. She only learned English when she went to a mission school.

         In 1958,Anita Desai married ashwin Desai. And they had four children. One of her daughter named kiran desai won the man booker prize in 2006.

Works of Anita Desai :-

Anita desai published her first short story at the age of 20.her first novel was "cry, the peacock"(1963).

She also wrote other many famous novels like:

1.voices in the city(1965)

2.Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1971)

3.Where shall we Go this summer? (1975)

4. Fire on the mountain(1971)

5.clear Light of day (1980)

6.In custody (1984)

      She has written books for children, numerous short stories that have been collected into anthologies, and essays.

Awards :-

      Desai has received many awardes, including,

1. The Royal society of literature winifred Holtby prize (1978)

2.The sahitya akademi of indian award (1979)

3.The Guardian award of children's fiction(1982)

4.the national academy of letters award.

5. Three nomination for Booker prize.

     Even she taught in Cambridge, Oxford, smith, Mount Holyoke, and MIT. She is also a member of the Royal society of literature and the American academy of Arts and Letters.

 Her family currently live in the United states.

 

Here i put some of her famous quotes :-

:- Whenever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

:- They never looked at anyone eles, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an inhuman way, so intense. Divine, i felt. Or insane.

:- The wheel turns and turns and turns : it never stops and stands still.

:- i aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

:- Greenness hangs,Drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of julu.

 

              Thus to conclude we can able to consider that Anita Desai is great novelist and most attractive and intelligent figure of 20th century amongst all ohers. She is known for her novel and she can able to write in Hindi, English, Germany, Bengali etc. She is A beautiful woman with extraordinary knowledge.