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Thinking activity according to this link - https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2013/09/worksheet-film-screening-harold-pinters.html “The Birthday party” play is written by Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter was English playwright, known for his so-called Comedies of Menace. In the 2005 he was awarded the Nobel prize in literature. The Birthday Party is a 1968 film directed by William Friedkin, and starring Robert Shaw,based on the 1957 play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. 1) Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie? Lulu’s two scenes can’t omitted from the movie may be Director shown only good thing, and in the movie Lulu's character portrait as differ from novel. And may be he didn’t want to focus on female characters in the movie otherwise he was less focus on female characters  justification like Meg and Lulu because this character show only few minutes and Meg and Lulu haven’t individuals identity. In the film we can see Meg most of in the kitchen and Lulu sho...

 Thinking activity according to this link https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/worksheet-screening-movie-waiting-for.html Waiting for Godot play is written by Samuel Backett. Tragic comic play Absurd Theatre of the play  Characters - Vladimir, Estrogen, Pozzo, Lucky, a little Boy (messages) 1)       What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings? They inspired Beckett for the 'Setting' of his play - 'Waiting for Godot'.The 'longing' may be 'waiting' but then there is no further comparison possible. The 'waiting' for Beckett is in the indifference and uncaring universe. It means doesn’t matter for universe, you are doing anything but nature doesn’t change. If we feel sadness so we say nothingness in life but universe never change according our emotions. This is fact of the universe longing and waiting are only human emotions not for universe. 2)       Th...

Thinking activity according to this link - https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2016/09/existentialism-video-resources.html?m=1 Video - 1. What is Existentialism? In this video information about Existentialism and how their thoughts different from each other like Je Suis Philosophical thinker but he is not considered as the first thinker when Kierkegaard consider as first Existentialist. Furthermore thinker like Nietzsche, Dostoyesky, Kafka, Heidegger, Shestove, Hesse and Sartre companion Beauvoir. All given different view, they view basic on individuality with passion and freedom. Existentialist ask questions against what are the belief of the people and how it effect in person life. For example people believing God it like suicide. Existentialist broken God image we haven’t proof of God exist , it is nothing and meaningless thought to believing none exist thing. Video- 2, 3 The myth of Sisyphus:- The Absurd Reasoning- In this video Albert Camus view ‘There is but one...

 August : Patriotism and Religious fervour Thinking activity according to this link - https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2017/03/bigshorts-for-india-of-tomorrow.html https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2019/08/shitala-saatam-religion-vs-science.html https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2019/01/country-vs-nation-state-bhagwat-rawat.html August Patriotism and Religious fervour August month is most of we called it religious month as Indian we know we are most notable country for lost of celebration country. During this month specially Gujarati celebrate lost of religious festivals like Rakshabandhan, Nagpanchami, Shitala Satham, Janmashtami, Id Mubarak etc. But it is my illusion because other states also celebrates this kind of days. Religious VS Science In the real sense people free from religious beliefs because still people believe to celebrate shitala sath doing worship to Shitalamata to believing she will save from chickenpox and smallpox but scientist vaccination helpfu...

Interpretation Challenge play Breath by Samuel Beckett  Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both English and French. Thinking activity according to this link https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/interpretation-challenge-breath.html 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 This is thirty-two seconds one play. But here video created various way. My review on the video of the play- 1) Brea...

Thinking Activities according to this link https://jaynmehta.blogspot.com/ On 16th August to 19th August we have guest lecture for Edger Allan Poe short story explain by Dr.Jay Mehtasir. This are the five short story:- 1) The Fall of House 2) The Purloined Letter 3) The Gold Bug 4) The Tell Tale Heart 5) The Cask of Amontillado 01) Make a comparative study of 'The Tell-tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat'. ‘The Tell tale Heart’ is kind of self conference story while also self conference story. Both story narrative style is different because we can not decide who is ‘The Tell tale Heart' story narrator. In this story, the narrator is ‘I' so how can we decided who is narrate he or she. This is a story of a servant killed his Ower because of his ower queer eye. While 'The Black cat' story related to one person killed the cat because of his ego hurt then he killed his wife also. Both story crime reason one hatred eye. One is person eye...

Reflective blog – Teaching of Professor Balaji Ranganathan (Date- 19-21 August 2019) We have guest lectures for Postcolonial studies by Balaji Ranganathan. This session is fruitful for us. And I would like to special thanks to our professor Dilip Barad who introduced most of the units before the guest lectures. Balaji sir had also well explained this hard paper teaching us easy way. We have post-colonial studies paper. In this paper such interesting units – 1) Black skin white mask 2) Imaginary Homelands 3) Orientalism 4) A Tempest In the first lecture Balajisir introduced post-colonial studies then sir said main ideas of first unit Black skin white mask by Frantz Fanon. This unit divided in seven chapters – 1) The Negro and language 2) The woman of colour and white man 3) The man of colour and white woman 4) The So-called dependency complex of the colonized 5) The lived experience of the black man 6) The Black man and psychology 7) ...