Robinson Crusoe

I have given task by my teacher to answer some question on novel and movie Robinson Crusoe here I give link of that task.
http://poojabajadeja.blogspot.in/2017/08/worksheet.html

Introduction

Robinson crusoe is 18th century novel by daniel defoe. It was published in 1719. It is an adventure story of character Robinsn crusoe. The real life adventure of Alexander selkirk who was a scottish privatees and royal navy officer who spent more than four years as a casteway after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the south pacific ocean. This real life adventure formed the basis of daniel defoe's novel Robinson crusoe.

1) Colonial discourse in Robinson crusoe

This novel is full of slavery system or colonialism which is very dark side of history and we never want it to heppen again but in this novel we can see it clearly.
According to wikipedia "Colonialism occurs when a country or a nation, or territories outside of its border(boundaries of the country) by turning those other lands, regions or territories in to a colony, usually it is a more powerful, richer country that takes control of a smaller, less powerful region or territory.

In this novel the first event of slavery or colonisation we can see when crusoe is travelling moorish pirates atteck on ship and enslaved crusoe and others after some period of time crusoe and one boy named xury escaped from the trap of moorish pirates and picked up by portugese captain, though crusoe feel the slavery then even he sold that boy named xury to make himself free. In Brazil he started his business and again he go for buy slaves and there is shipwrecked and he landed on humanless island and starting feel himself as king of that island. He is all alone there and in aloofness all we want is someone with we can talk normaly and on that humanless island he saved one boy who is prey of cannibals and make him slave rather then friend, the first thing he do is naming that boy as Friday which shows his power as master and he called Friday "my man Friday". After coming back home again he once again go to visit that humanless island and he used the word "my land". From all this elements we can clearly see the colonial discourse in this novel.

2) How colonialism works in our life? (In contemporary time/ of our surrounding, give examples)

It is true that now we are free and we love our feeling of freedom but are you seriously free or stil ruled by britishers? I say that we are stil ruled by western countries. How? Let me show you. Can you do one thing for me... Imagine a very beautiful or handsome person front of you and you are talking with him or her and praising his or her beauty....
What is in your imagination? Let me guess a very handsome or beautiful person who has white skin. Am I right? Well I can say yes because most of us think that beauty means white we can not think beauty in black. This is what shows that we are stil colonised. We are living in india and as dilip sir says that our god Krishna is black our godess Kali Ma is black we worship black, black is accept in our society and this is what our culture then even most of people craving for whiteness. Why? You are not able to see your self beautiful in real or natural skin color that you got. This is the reasons all buys fairness creams. This is the effect of colonisation which is not physicaly now but it is mentaly. Our mind is ruled by western ideas. This is how colonialism works in our life.

3) Do you think that movie is different than original novel? Write about some changes done in the movie.

Yes, movie is different than novel in many ways..
• The movie is only focused on one voyage while in novel before landing on humanless island Crusoe also does voyage to London and Brazil.
• In movie Crusoe has Dog as pet while in original novel Crusoe has Perrot and Goat as pet.
• In movie Friday is not slave while in novel we can see the totle submission of Friday.
• In movie Friday has his own voice when Crusoe shows the power of gun Friday did not afraid and he also show his power with wood while in novel when Crusoe shows power of gun Friday starts worshiping gun and Crusoe.
• In movie when Crusoe talks about religion Friday also talk about his God and riligion and did not accept Christianity as superior then his riligion while in novel Friday starts belive that his religion is inferior and starts beliveing in Christianity.
• In movie the relation between Crusoe and Friday is of friends while in novel Crusoe is master and Friday is slave.
• In movie Crusoe needs Friday that is the reason Crusoe goes to say sorry to Friday while in novel Friday needs Crusoe he apologise.
• In movie there is one image of Crusoe's wife while in novel there is no discription of love for his wife.

This all the way where movie is quite different then the original novel.

4) Do you think, movie is describing anti-colonial elements? Can you describe reason?

Yes movie is describing anti-colonial elements like there is no master-slave relationship. From the very first meeting of Cruso and Friday, Crusoe request to become friends they both are friends not master and slave. In novel Friday is totally submited to Crusoe but in movie Friday has his own voise he argues and he questions also. In movie Crusoe never think himself as king of that humanless island and he also feel bad about slavery system when Friday talk about it and he also cries a lot on the death of Friday which shows his feelings for Friday. The reason can be the change of time that movie is showing anti-colonial elements. The original novel is written in 1719 while the movie is in 1997 and changing of time is reason that movie shows anti-colonial elements.

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Review of the play-yugpurush mahatma na mahatma

As the famous lines says that there is always a woman behind a successful man but at that day we see one play which shows us one man behind a successful man that is the reason why this play has name like YUGPURUSH - mahatma na mahatma. This play is written by Uttam gada and directed by Rajesh joshi. This play is also performed in many other languages and in 265 days this play complete 767 shows.

This play told us about the person who is inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi and the name of that person is Shrimad Rajchandraji. This play shows the journey of Gandhiji from Mohandas to Mahatma and about the life of Rajchandraji. The whole play shows the greatness and selflessness of Rajchamdraji. He has ability to do many works at a time with atmost clearity. He also has record of doing 100 works at the same time which is called SHATAVDHAN.

He has very powerfull memory.he also has self realisation at the age of seven. The play shows that Rajchandraji knows many languages when play ends me and my friend Reena have a few words with jigar bundeliya who plays a role of Rajchandraji and i asked him that "Rajchandraji was never go out of india and he never learned all this languages so how he knows all this languages" and he answerd me that he knows all languages because he has self realisation. Now this is not digested for me I am not satisfied with his answer and I still had a doubt.

The thoughts of Rajchandraji is very inspirational and spiritual one of his thought which touch my heart is "questions are stairs of knowledge". He is greate philosopher. He plays very important role in life of Gandhiji. They use flashback tool very effectively we have two personality of one person on stage one is Mohandas and other is Mahatma. Mohandas has that attitude of his knowledge and degree of lawyer while on the other hand Mahatma shows as very calm and selfless person. In one scene Kasturba who is wife of Gandhiji is also on stage and through her character we can understand the minds of women of that age who belives to follow her husband word by word.

The whole play is spiritual, music is also according to play. The use of shadow is very well. Lighting is also very appealing. The work of backstage is very appriciated. The play is worth watching.

Here is promo video of the play yugpurush.

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Hierarchy in "Gulliver's Travells"

Social hierarchy in "Gulliver's Travels"

                Gulliver's travels is written by jonathan swift.it is prose satire on human nature and political situation jonathan swift by putting gulliver in dofferent place and society, he satirised deeply the human nature.

Let's first see the definition of hierarchy.....

1) A graded or ranked series.

2) The classification of a group of people according to ability or to economic, social or professional standing.

                      Here we only focus on social hierarchy that gulliver wants to reach. It is not only about earning more money if he want only that he can be robber that is easy way then to go on voyages but with money he also want reputation or respect in society thatis the reason why gulliver decides to go on voyages.

                      He also says that his father has small estate that shows that gulliver belongs to middle class family he also not able to attend university he just complete his collage in emanuel college while in 18th century england was a place in which education was a key to certain position in society. He says that he want positin i society and for that he want money and this is the reason he decides to go on voyages.

                      In his first voyage to lilliput, when he arrives in lilliput he was a prisnor but because of his size, he is usefull to the king he also starts learning lilliputian language to converse with them and also starts taking parts in their social customs like rope dance or stick dance. He want some special place in lilliputian society and king himself given him a title after he won the war and his possition become higher then the treasurer filmnap and he make him to leave the lilliput. He also want his reputation stainless he argues on false rumours of gulliver's afair with higher rank lilliputian lady. So in this first voyage he achieve social hierarchy by won the war against blefusku.

                       After returning from lilliput he has some money and also good house that shows he is moving towards upper class from middle class. Hs son is going to school now and his daughter is on needlework. After stay at home for some time he again ready for new voyage and he also says that he does voyage for improving his future. Here we can see that he only does voyages for making money he has no intention to get knowledge about new world or land.

                      On his second voyage he reach to brobdingnag. At here he is like jester. The situation is reversed when he is in lilliput he has power but in this land of giant he is like unnoticable for them. Here again he starts learning new language to communicate with queen. This is his first step to live in palace rather then with farmer. He also feel great when he make farmer's daughter in palace as his caretaker he feels that it is better to live in palace as servent rather then in small house. He feel power and possition when he hasmany servents around him to take care of him. In this voyage also he managed to reach social hierarchy as he works for farmer and then by his language he make his place in royal palace.

                      He returns england more by accident than by choise. When he reaches home one servent open door for him now they have one servent also this again shows that he kee trying to make his level up in society.

                     In third voyage to laputa where he met people who is same as his size but they all are busy in finding or thinking on some stupid questions and they don't notice that gulliver can learn language very quick and they don't value gulliver's knowledge and skills. So here he fails to reach social hierarchy. Soon he leave that place and then at lagado where he also can't find place for him in their grand academy. He returns home and stay for five months with his wife and children happily.

                   In his fourth and last voyage he reaches to the land of houyhnhnmns who are rational horses and there is yahoos also who are describe as savage humans. Again here gulliver try to learn language and start understanding common rules of houyhnhnmns society. Here he also try to convince houyhnhnmns that he is not yahoo and he use cloths to hide his body which is look like yahoo. This is also his attempt to achieve social hierarchy as he afraid to be in lowest possition of houyhnhnmns society.

                   At last he says that he is rational yahoo and told houyhnhnmns about his country houyhnhnmns don't understand the concept of cloths. In this society of horse gulliver also observe the real nature of humans and now he starts hating the human society now he don't want to make his possiton up in society he also want to live with this horses but they don't allow now gulliver returns home and now he don't care about his social status and he now live away from humans and starts live and talk with horses.

                  So, here we can conclude that he starts his journey or voyage with the intention of being up in society but he ends his journey with living away from society.

ABOUT MY SELF

Hello, I am Dharaba Rayjada. I live in Bhavnagar, city of Gujarat, India. I have recently completed my Masters in English literature. After joining Masters, I have developed interest in writing. I am looking forward to give my best in field of writing. I have many dreams and to fulfill them I am willing to work hard. I am a self motivated person. I want to end this blog with the lines of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost...

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Hate

Hate is very big word though
I use it as my feeling show

I hate someone at my highest peak
As everyone hates on face buzzing bee

You can kill the bee, but not human
My hate is so high i want to kill human

Look at my tolerance, how brave i am
Through lots of suffering now here i am

Oh no, its not physical suffer its about mind
Ah my anger, i want to crush & hit they kill my kind

Yes i can forgive all your crime
The condition is get out of my life.