Dear Students
Its great to analyse a profound literary work. I hope you might have done that from your undergraduate studies. Here lets make an attempt to explore the possible avenues of Literary analysis.
References are not restricted to any particular book. Make use of study material available in the internet. Make an attempt to study how literature presents the life experiences of others in a way that educates us, empowers us and refines us.
In our syllabus we have the books which are considered as classics in their particular genre. try to understand the the greatness of language employed by Charles Dickens in his Bleak House, his art of characterization and social satire.
Joseph Conrad's criticism of colonial rule and criticism against him by Chinua Achbe are thought provoking.
Virginia Wolf's narrative technique and her feminist theme offer a lot to discuss.
So I want all of you to write a short review of the parts of these novels which are prescribed.
You may write about
1. Theme
2. Characterization
3.Language
4.Narrative Technique
5. Point of View
6. Atmosphere
7.Setting
For example To the light house has some feminist elements in its theme, Heart of darkness has a unique technique, the setting of Bleak House is as any Dickens Novel, London.
try to make use of comments offered by eminent critics.
You may make use of the following links if needed.
1. On Heart of darkness
2. review of Heart of Darkness
3. Presentation of To the Light house
4. Notes for Heart of Darkness
5. Summary of Bleak House
6. Significance of Fog in Bleak House
7. Presentation To The Lighthouse
The above are all video links. Further You may use these articles
1.To the light house
2. Fog in Bleak House
3. Analysis of Heart of Darkness
Dear students these are only suggestive reading you may find better source somewhere else too. It is expected that you will submit your analysis before 10.02.2015. what is expected is a 300 word write up. Your analysis to be given here as comments.
Its great to analyse a profound literary work. I hope you might have done that from your undergraduate studies. Here lets make an attempt to explore the possible avenues of Literary analysis.
References are not restricted to any particular book. Make use of study material available in the internet. Make an attempt to study how literature presents the life experiences of others in a way that educates us, empowers us and refines us.
In our syllabus we have the books which are considered as classics in their particular genre. try to understand the the greatness of language employed by Charles Dickens in his Bleak House, his art of characterization and social satire.
Joseph Conrad's criticism of colonial rule and criticism against him by Chinua Achbe are thought provoking.
Virginia Wolf's narrative technique and her feminist theme offer a lot to discuss.
So I want all of you to write a short review of the parts of these novels which are prescribed.
You may write about
1. Theme
2. Characterization
3.Language
4.Narrative Technique
5. Point of View
6. Atmosphere
7.Setting
For example To the light house has some feminist elements in its theme, Heart of darkness has a unique technique, the setting of Bleak House is as any Dickens Novel, London.
try to make use of comments offered by eminent critics.
You may make use of the following links if needed.
1. On Heart of darkness
2. review of Heart of Darkness
3. Presentation of To the Light house
4. Notes for Heart of Darkness
5. Summary of Bleak House
6. Significance of Fog in Bleak House
7. Presentation To The Lighthouse
The above are all video links. Further You may use these articles
1.To the light house
2. Fog in Bleak House
3. Analysis of Heart of Darkness
Dear students these are only suggestive reading you may find better source somewhere else too. It is expected that you will submit your analysis before 10.02.2015. what is expected is a 300 word write up. Your analysis to be given here as comments.
Critical Analysing of Heart of Darkness
ReplyDeleteTheme: European colonization and exploitation of Africa, Hypocrisy of Imperialism, Absurdity of evil, Deceit, Brutality, Uncertainty, Hollowness of Civilisation, darkness in human soul, the wilderness, how darkness changes a person, psychological degeneration, the Metaphoric opp. Of the Congo and the Thames, black people and white people, good and evil, purity and corruption.
Characterization:
Major characters
Marlow: He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic back, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards resembled an idol, He is a protagonist, main narrator of the story, a traditional hero, tough, highly capable, independent thinker, prone to temptation, long term memory.
Mr.Kurtz: he is a first-class agent, young, gentlemanly, a bit reserved, with a forked little beard and a hooked nose, he is chief of the inner station, he is a prodigy, he is an emissary of pity and science and progress, a very important one in the true ivory-country, He is an evil genius but not an imperialist, malevolent, ego manic, lawless, a man of great intellect, when his time in Africa he is transformed from a man of moral principles to a monster.
Minor characters:
General Manager: The Head of the Company’s Central station on the river, he is untalented and unexceptional.
The Russian trader: A wanderer and trader, he believes Kurtz is a great man beyond any conventional morality.
The Brick maker: the general manager’s most trusted agent, a sly, lazy and power-hungry fellow.
Marlow’s aunt: a well connected and an idealistic woman.
Language in Heart of Darkness: the language in heart of darkness at once more sophisticated and ambiguous, the phrases he uses resound and act as a kind of motif throughout the text. This is a genuinely poetic use of language, not in the sense of poetic evocation, but in the sense that language is made to draw attention to it.
Narrative technique: it is written as a frame story i.e. story within a story. It is narrated by Marlow, first person narrator and also an unknown narrator.
Settings: took in the forest, the creek, the mud, the river-seemed to beckon with a dishonouring flourish before the sunlit face Heart of darkness is set on a boat, the Nellie on the entirely Thames river and , mysterious, and darkness.
Atmosphere: he uses mood and atmosphere to help a portrait called, the journey into the soul. It is to find one’s self. It pervades the mood or spirit.
Point of view: The different levels of narration, from the anonymous frame narrator, the first person narration of the protagonist Marlowe, and the limited periods of other first person narrations from the minor characters, at different times add to and contradict the alternative narrations. Through this continual contrast, readers are manipulated and forced to question their own attitudes towards colonisation.
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