The Namesake.

          The Namesake

                            Jhampa Lahiri
                               

 

Introduction:-

                This magnificent novel is written by Jhampa Lahiri.This title of “The Namesake” is very suggestive regard to the main character Gogol Ganguli whose good name is Nikhil and he swing between both names he does not between two cultures American and Indian. He is sandwiched between his dual identities and still has not specific one. The Journey of Gogol starts with  this name and at the middle of this journey he finds many obstacle in his path the struggle for the changing the name suggest his struggle for the identity and that is why the title is very apt and meaningful.

Significance of the Title:-

                 The novel is starts with the Ashima’s grandmother is give two name one for the girl and one name of the boy but unfortunately  they did not receive the letter from her. at the time Ashima give the birth of the baby boy name was Gogol Ganguli. Ashima take admission of the Gogol in the school where his classmate is doing fun of his name .he starts hating his name of the gogol.He ask his parents to change his name. He finally changes his name to Nikhil but it talks time to ‘ Feel’ LIKE Nikhil whomever he meets  anyone he introduce himself as a Nikhil for example his girlfriends name is KIM, Ruth,Maxine,Maushomi,  he introduced himself as a Nikhil front of her.

                 No doubt, Ashima and Ashoke also face the problems of the identity in America as they are also called Americanized Indians. Here we see that clash between Two Culture .The Asoka and Ashima belong to the Indian Culture and His children like Gogol and Sonia belongs to American Culture. So here we can see that the conflict between Two Generation.Inthis novel we see the generation gap of the characters. in the middle of the novel Gogol spent some day in the Maxine’s house. Ashima want that Gogol wife come from the Indian Bengali Culture. she emphasis his Bengali Tradition and Bengali Culture.

             The Gogol realizes the importance of his name of Gogol when he read the Nikholai Gogol. He face many problem in his life but he come out from the situation and he saved his own life. Ashoke believes that his life saved the Nikholai Gogol. This side no looking of the Gogol but the Gogol see the opposite side of the life. The Ashima is going to the Library because his husband has very much love of the reading of the books. So she preserve his reading of the book.

                    The Ashoke death after they less the attachment between the Ashima and Gogol and Sonia.

Conclusion:-

              At the Rise ceremony of Gogol he does not choose any thing that’s why he cannot settle throughout of his life and another interpretation given that his classmate said that you should being sufferers like Nikholai Gogol and at the end you spent lonely life .

  

“The Bluest Eyes”.

                     “The Bluest Eyes”

                                       Tony Morrison

                                  

                   Tony Morrison is the African American Writer. She first women to win the noble prize. She wrote the novel of “The Bluest Eyes” in 1970 and she applying feminism in this novel. Her purpose to behind the novel that the society was not having Humanity and The theme of the novel is color discrimination.

                               The novel starts with the story of “Dick and Jane”. The story narrated by two narrator of Claudia and another is Omniscient narrator. The narrator uses different techniques to in the novel. He uses various seasons in autumn, winter, springs and summer though he explains the whole novel. He uses of flashback Technique the novel. The main theme of the novel is color discrimination.

                                         The novel represents the past and present situation. This novel applied the

                 Catharsis- Pity and Fear

                Hamarisia – Error of Judgment is innocent.

                  Pecola is central character of the novel .She faces many problems in her life. .she has craving of the beauty but she never ever react. She represent different group of the society. The black people critically suppressed by the white people.

                           Whiteness is the Beauty.

                Pecola has assumption of getting blue eyes. Pecola is not getting love by of her mother because she is black. Claudia has to suffer because she not gives the attention of her family. So she is having the beauty and whiteness.

                      Garland character is doing the Straight hair .She is wants to feet and fix in the society. This character is having the whiteness so she get love, respect from the society. The character of Claudia is very angry of the society and she is bold and very brave in nature .We think that why she give more attention to her doll because she is not getting love from her own parents. She cannot understand the rule of the society. She preserves the society and she give whiteness and she survive in the society.

                “Love is not any better than lover”

                Frieda having the white because marine pearl said that ‘you are ugly and I am White’.

                     The character of Pecola has also suffered throughout in her life. She is not getting love from her parents’ .Every man also hate her. The societies not give respect to her. The society is not give attention to the character of Pecola. Here we can say that how whiteness affects life of the people.

Waiting for Godot.

                   Waiting for Godot

                                        Samuel Beckett.

Here my Review regarding the Movie ‘Waiting for Godot”.

1) This Painting presenting clear cut image the play of ‘ Waiting for Godot’. We See in the play that there are three setting like “ The Country Road, A Tree and Evening”. In this paining we see that one painting is suggest that the sun has rising it means they have Hope that god will come and the another Painting is suggest that the sun  has setting it means that they know that The ultimately truth of the life is the ‘Death’ and they known that our journey somewhere end and “our Aatma merge to Parramatta “. They are waiting for death. We can see on one side there is a barren tree because they both are immature in his nature and on the other side a grown tree (full of green leaves) ,its connected with his  spiritual satisfaction.
2)     In the  act 1 the Tree has barren so its connected with Hopelessness and nothingness of his life and in act 2  The Tree become grown tree its suggest that both of them understand the ultimate truth of the life is ‘’ DEATH’’. So both of them get spiritual satisfaction of his nature.
3)     Here i interpret that
                 The Moon – Life ( hope)
                 The Night ­­- Death
      In both Acts, Evening falls into night and moon rises  so its clearly show that they  have hope that godot will come and godot fulfills our desire  but at  the end both of them understand that the ultimate truth of life is death and we all are waiting for death.
4)    The director feels the setting with some debris with appropriateness.  Through the debris director wants to shows the fragmentation of life and nothingness of life. the debris gives some positive sign that one day our body will  turned out from the ashes. so the director  gives sign of death and immortality of the things.
5)    At the begging of the play the Estragon said that “Nothing to be done”. it means that they are constantly repeating same thing and they are waste our time to wait for godot and its uselessness.
6)     Yes, I agree that the play waiting for godot is positive play and its gives deep philosophical thinking about hope – home – salvation and at the end they understand that concept of death.
7)    The two props like hat and boot has play significance role in the play .at the begging of the play we see that Vladimir wearing  hat ,its gives sign of his intellectuality( mind) and Estragon is trying to take of his boots,so its connected his physical strength( body).
8)       Yes, it is true that the lucky blindly follow the order of his master. we see that   he carries a heavy bags ,folding stool, a picnic basket and a greatcoat and he gives the rope of his sedative  and blind master, so here we see the a postcolonial mindset that he able to  escape of those place  but he given the whip of his master it means that the slave do not wants to change of his mentality, here we apply the master-slave mentality in this play  that the master become more master and slave become more slave . here i give the example of the play like ‘’ The hairy ape”. here i  interpret that
    Pozzo- materiality                                                                                   
     Lucky- Spirituality
9)    According to me, Godot  is meant to suggest the intervention of supernatural agency or whatever he stands for a mythical human being  whose arrival is expected to change the situation and its save our life and fulfills our wish. Both of them waiting for god may be they want to free from some pain like physical pain( Vladimir)and mental pain( Estragon).
10)                       The subject of the play is not Godot but waiting”. I do agree with the point of Martin Esslin. The act of waiting is essential and characteristic aspect of the human condition. we always wait for something so here the godot is simply present the objectives of our waiting  for an event, a things, a person and may be death.
11)    During watching this play we also discussed on this things .Yes play can better be read than viewed because reading is the best way to understand the things. reading of things that comes with lots of idea , it is also increasing the thinking ability of reader.
12)    At the time When the Estragon and Vladimir are playing game with their hat they both of are puts hats to each other heads so they both of them doing stupid thing because they are passing their time because both of them waiting for godot and This sequence is my favorite of the play.
Episode of Master - slave is carefully crafted one. Both Lucky and Pozzo come in both the acts. Pozzo beats Lucky, treats him roughly, calls him 'pig'. Vladimir is challenging through questions where as Estragon on the other side makes fun, creates laughter on the stage. the long speech of Lucky is also wonderful. Even the boy comes, is confusing that whether it is the same boy or not. The dialogues between Vladimir and boy are short. boy mostly replies in Yes or No. and sometimes don’t give any answer. and Estragon remains busy in eating & sleeping is also meaningful.
 Even the boy comes, is confusing that whether it is the same boy or not. the dialogues between Vladimir and boy are short. boy mostly replies in Yes or No. and sometimes don’t give any answer. and Estragon remains busy in eating & sleeping is also meaningful.
13) Yes, I feel the effect of existential crisis or meaninglessness of human existence in the irrational and indifference Universe during screening of the movie. Here the Existentialism is emphasis   the notions of  anguish, freedom,emotion ,individuality and passion of human life. in the middle of the act 2 we read the dialogues  between Estragone and Vladimir like
          Estragon: ­­- Let’s go.
          Vladimir: -   We can’t
          Estragon:- Why not?
          Vladimir   :-  We’re waiting for Godot.
In these dialogues we see that they doing meaningless work and the outcome of his work is nothing and they repeating same thing. We see that time has passes but they are constantly waiting for godot.
14)                       Both of them decided that we are  hang ourselves but Vladimir said that godot will come tomorrow so we will hang ourselves tomorrow. the man commit suicide it means that he doing something wrong in his life and he wants to free from the all suffering that why he commit suicide. According to Christianity the living of life is most agenda of the Christianity and “The commit suicide is an individual act”. Here we give the example of Ophelia in the play Hamlet. in the play we see that the priest refuses to do the burial ceremony of the Ophelia because she commit suicide so according  to Christianity the commit suicide is a sin.
15)                       we read politically the play, Vladimir - Russia; Estragon - France; Pozzo - Italy and Lucky – England then Godot can be considered as Germany  because  its connected with somehow war or may be with Hitler.
16)                       We see master and slave mentality  in this play .the slave Lucky has also know that his master is bind but he follow all the order of his master. so he able to leave that place but he did not do such thing .so we said that  the slave has don’t  change our mentality. So  we cannot clearly point out the connection of Ireland and England for the play.
17)                    
 Act- 1
BOY: - What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?
VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw us. (Pause.) You did see us, didn't you?
Act – 2
BOY: What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?
VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw me and that . . (he hesitates) . . . that you saw me. (Pause. Vladimir advances, the Boy recoils. Vladimir halts, the Boy halts. With sudden violence.) You're sure you saw me; you won't come and tell me tomorrow that you never saw me!

 This change in conversation from “Us” to “Me” suggests two things first is Vladimir has become self-centered and another is being individual and leaving ego behind as psychologically Vladimir suggests id and Estragon suggests ego.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

2)  The Reluctant Fundamentalist:-


                 The Second movie is The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) by Mira Nair. She  is an Indian filmmaker and actress based in New York.She made films based on novels.
                                  

                                                 

                She also made one movie named The Namesake. This movie The Namesake is based on one novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri under the same title The Namesake (2004). This film is released in 2006. This film is also very good and she given appropriate justice to this film also.

                 If we talk about The Reluctant Fundamentalist this film is similar to the movie called  New York (film) released in 2009. In New York movie hero's motif is to take revenge and here in this movie we can say that hero's motif is good to forgive everyone.
                          The movie is ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. The name itself suggests the conflict. The story is about Changez khan who is coming from the elite Pakistani family. He goes to America for degree. He has a dream, an American dream to be a successful businessman. When he was about to it the 9/11 attack happened. After that incident everybody’s point of view towards Changez Khan changed. Even his colleges looked at him differently. His physical appearance gives a kind of threat upon the people around him. Here we can apply post colonialism that how the youngsters coming from the third world countries are not given the same chance in the first world countries, and how quickly they changes their point of view towards an innocent person. Throughout the movie Changez Khan was thinking that “America gives equal chance to everybody and this is the country of freedom” but at the end he changes his point of view. This line itself suggests the colonizer’s power. Changez Khan is a talented young man and that is why he gets many offers from many parties but he kept himself aloof and so at the end he gets nothing.