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Shitala Saatam- Religion VS Science

Shitla satam religious Vs science,Religious Vs Science

Shitala also called Sitala , is a folk deity,worshiped by many faiths in the Indian subcontinent, notably in North India, West Bengal, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. shitala satam is big festival for the Indian people. On that day people don't make food on that Day in house. They don't kook on that Day. Before the shitala satam '  રાંધણ છઠ્ઠ' on that day the women make food for two days. And second day people eat that food.

            Religious Vs Science

Shitala is disease in that disease the small pox on the body.  But in the ancient time shitala is big disease. In the shitala many people died. For this disease people take a prayer and eat cold food on Taylor day of shitla Satan.  It is covered in religious point. When the people see the small pox they said
" Mataji Nikdya che". On that day people go To the temple and do a worship of goddess "shitala". And they call,
"vaho tadho krva  gayata shitala ma no ".

After the  development of science the disease of shitla is normal thing. After searching the  vaccinations of shitala. The disease of shitala in rarely case we see a  disease shitala. No connection between the cold food and the disease of shitla but people still believe in that.

       Inoculation Vs Vaccination

Inoculation known as Tika. The inoculation, vaccination, and immunization are often used synonymously to refer to artificial induction of immunity against various infectious diseases. In English medicine, inoculation referred only to the practice of variolation until the very early 1800s. In India tika is big thing. People don't say they go for the vaccination they always say they go for the tika or the rasi. In Gujarat people say" rasi apava gayata".

At Calcutta in mid 18th centaury, the yearly death rate from smallpox was, on an average, 12,000 per million.In 1798, Edward Jenner discovered that the cowpox inoculation-vaccination protected a person against the smallpox.On April 23, 1805, after a visual demonstration of the effect of vaccination, 26 Brahmin inoculators declaring their full faith in the power of vaccination to prevent smallpox signed a statement.

Rang Mohan : Youth Festival 2019, MKBU

Rang Mohan: Youth Festival, 2019

This year youth festival known as "RANGMOHAN YOUTH FESTIVAL". Youth festival function celebrate by the 'Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavngar University'. This year the Youth Festival celebrates four days on 25th September to 28th September.


On the 25th September in the evening by the university's stustudents a big kalaytra embark by them. In that the we see the message of 'સ્વછતા  અભિયાન '. Many of the students became Gandhiji.  The kalayatra reflect the culture.


There are the many events in youth festival. Like western group song,  drama,  western solo, skit, mono acting, installation, folk song, skit, mime, Rangoli competition, quiz competition and many others event. From our the department students take part in western group song, skit, folk song, installation, the spot painting and in many other. The performance of skit by my classmates it was very well. The theme is different from the all other. The theme was 'LGBT'. Very well performed by them also a western group song performed truthful.

Pre - Thinking task about Poe's Short story

Q.  Recollect a moment of your life when you were at the height of ferocity (anger) on someone with/without some specific reason. What did you feel like speaking to or doing with that person?

When the people tell me a wrong thing. They try to hide the things and pretend They all OK. That time my anger on height. Without the fault they stop talking with me and try to pretend they don't do all this thing. That time I feel that I said them to if they don't want to talk I don't pressurized for the talk.

Q. Have you ever felt tremendous drive to hit or murder someone? When? Why? How? Elucidate.

When I listen about the rape case that time I felt to murder them. That thing feel a sshame on the society. Because the rape case is the big stigma on the society.

Q. Have you ever felt like committing suicide? Was it just a passing thought or you were serious? What propelled you to think so? Describe your experience (although momentary) of suicidal tendency

When in second year of B.A. I fail in one paper for the 6 marks. That time I feel very bed and for some time I am in depression.
But I never feel about the suicide.

Q.Write about the scariest of your dreams. Have you ever cried or screamed by a bizarre and horrible nightmare? Elaborate.

I saw many snakes in the dream and I scared and I wake up suddenly. Many time I saw the horrible nightmare.  Once I saw in dream in accident I died in that. It was horrible dream for ME.

Transcendentalism and anti transcendentalism in Scarlett letter

Scarlett letter

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in America. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work today.
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Transcendentalism

"A system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyse the reasoning process which governs the nature of experience".
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In Scarlett letter we see transcendentalism in chacharacter of pearl, Hester, Dimmesdale. Hawthorne portrait transcendentalism in character of the Hester. Hester lives figuratively and literally on the outskirts of the Puritan community with Pearl, the daughter Hester conceived during her affair. They believed that social institutions, from schools to hospitals to churches, warped the human soul and spirit. Hester and Pearl live as social outcasts who can't attend Church services, and Pearl is not accepted into the Puritan school. They both are the alone they  can't live freely in the society.

Anti-transcendentalism

Anti-Transcendentalism was an opposition movement to the Transcendentalist. The Transcendentalist were writers who supported the beauty of Nature, the kindness of Humans and a distrust in government.
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 Anti-Transcendentalism was an opposition movement to the Transcendentalist. The Transcendentalist were writers who supported the beauty of Nature, the kindness of Humans and a distrust in government. We see the character of Hester and pearl they live their life with the full of problems and they suffer throughout the novel. 

Thinking Activity on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot"

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir(Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other character. Waiting for Godot is Beckett’s translation of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot and is subtitled “a tragicomedy in two acts”. The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The premiere directed by Roger Blin was on 5 January 1953 at the Theatre de Babylone Paris.

#About Author 

Samuel Beckett, in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, (born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland—died December 22, 1989, Paris, France), author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot).Samuel Beckett was born in a suburb of Dublin. Like his fellow Irish writers George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats, he came from a Protestant, Anglo-Irish background. At the age of 14 he went to the Portora Royal School, in what became Northern Ireland, a school that catered to the Anglo-Irish middle classes.
From 1923 to 1927, he studied Romance languages at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his bachelor’s degree. After a brief spell of teaching in Belfast, he became a reader in English at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1928. There he met the self-exiled Irish writer James Joyce, the author of the controversial and seminally modern novel Ulysses, and joined his circle. Contrary to often-repeated reports, however, he never served as Joyce’s secretary. He returned to Ireland in 1930 to take up a post as lecturer in French at Trinity College, but after only four terms he resigned, in December 1931, and embarked upon a period of restless travel in London, France, Germany, and Italy. In 1937 Beckett decided to settle in Paris. (This period of Beckett’s life is vividly depicted in letters he wrote between 1929 and 1940, a wide-ranging selection of which were first published in 2009.)

1.What connection do you seen in the setting (“A country road A tree Evening.”) of the play and these paintings?

After see this image I connect in the movie Waiting for Godot’s one seen in  that seen Vladimir and Estragon stand like this. In image the word Longing means hungry, desire and the craving. It was connect with the Waiting. Longing means one kind of waiting. 

2. The tree is the only important ‘thing’ in the setting. What is the importance of tree in both acts? Why does Beckett grow a few leaves in Act II on the barren tree- The tree has four or five leaves-?

Tree is symbol of good and bed thing. If tree is full of leaves its look good and we like to see that but tree has not a single leave we don’t like that and its look like barren. In first act the tree is barren and in second act tree has four and five leaves. And its symbol for Vladimir and Estragon to God is come one day. In the play nature is important part.

3. In both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would  you like to interpret this ‘coming of night and moon’ when actually they are waiting for Godot?

Coming of night and moon it was symbol of end of the day and coming the night.  In both act coming of night and moon it was symbol of a new hope. A second day  God is coming defiantly. But it the waiting for  god is one kind of the west the time because god never come. And moon and night come everyday .

4. The director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the  contours of debris in the setting of the play?

suDebris is west thing which never useful in another work. Like debris in this play the  Vladimir and Estragon west their time in waiting for god. God never came but they both west their time like debris. The whole play near the debris. In that debris we see the iron plate and still. We also can say that the debris was there because that that time was the influence of second world war -2.  the waiting for godot is also like a debris.  Nothing difference between debris and west time for waiting for godot.

5. The play begins with the dialogue “ Nothing to be done”. How does the theme of ‘nothingness’ recurs in the play?

The dialogue reflect the existentialism and nothingness. It also give a one idea of the play it was nothingness. And after read play and watch movie we can say that in both thing don’t see a useful thing. Waiting for Godot this thing it was west of the time. Also reflect the existentialism because the Godot never come and never see. So its reflect existentialism.

6. Do you agree: “The play (Waiting For Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As a saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: ‘No matter what – atom bombs, hydrogen bombs anything –life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can’t kill life.” (E.G Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?

Yes, I agree with the play was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. In this play the positive thing is hope. They both don’t  loss their hope. When  coming  night and moon but they don’t loss their hope and another day they waiting for Godot. Also I agree with E.G. Marshal. ‘ You can kill yourself, but you can’t kill life’ it’s right because the life is long.  No one kill  the life.

7. How are the props like hat and boots used in the play? What is symbolical significance of these props?

Hat and boots are interesting symbol of the play. Hat is protect the head and boots protect to the leg. Boots also represent the power of authority. We see the Estragon trying to take of his boots. He fed up with the boots in first act. In second act when he wear the boots after that he happy with boots. Because in second he wear his boots and in first act he wear small shoes.

8. Do you think that the obedience of lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic ? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip  in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness in unbelievable?

Yes, obedience of lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic. Because his master Pozzo is blind and he done his all work by Lucky. Lucky run away from the work but he don’t do because he has some compulsion. Many time we face this thing we don’t do some work  but we have to do some work because of pressure,  need. Many time we do work like Lucky.

9. who according to you is Godot? God? An object of desire ? Death ? Gol? Success? Or.....

According to me Godot is An object of desire and Success. Desire is object to meet god. Because when we have any desire and that full fill that time we see desire as a god. We think that God full fill our desire. And also success is also a god. Because every body think that we get success because of the god. God blessed us and we get success in our work.

10. “ The subject of the play is not Godot but ‘Waiting’” (Esslin, A search for the self). Do you agree ? how can you justify your answer?

Yes, I agree with the Esslin’s A search for the self. Throughout the life we have  hope or desire but for that thing get we have passion or hope. In this play we see the subject is Godot but it not right subject and the theme is Waiting. They both are waiting for the Godot we  see  them to waiting.    

The Birthday party by Harold pinter

  

This blog is a part of post  viewing task of the play, “ Birthday Party” written by  ‘Harold Pinter’ in 1957 . It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays.

#About Author

Harold Pinter, (born Oct. 10, 1930, London, Eng.—died Dec. 24, 2008, London), English playwright, who achieved international renown as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists. His plays are noted for their use of understatement, small talk, reticence—and even silence—to convey the substance of a character’s thought, which often lies several layers beneath, and contradicts, his speech. In 2005 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in London’s East End in a working-class area. He studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1948 but left after two terms to join a repertory company as a professional actor. Pinter toured Ireland and England with various acting companies, appearing under the name David Baron in provincial repertory theatres until 1959. After 1956 he began to write for the stage. The Room (first produced 1957) and The Dumb Waiter (first produced 1959), his first two plays, are one-act dramas that established the mood of comic menace that was to figure largely in his later works. His first full-length play, The Birthday Party (first produced 1958; filmed 1968), puzzled the London audiences and lasted only a week, but later it was televised and revived successfully on the stage

1.     Why are two scene of Lulu omitted from the movie?

Lulu’s two scene omitted from the movie because probably director doesn’t want to show brutality into his film. The birthday party is comedy of means and theatre of absured.

2.     Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?

 Yes, the movie successful in giving us the effect of menace. While reading the text at some effect but not much like the movie. The visual effect is essay to remember and understand. Visual thing is more understand batter than reading text. Visual effect is feel and affect batter than the reading text.  

3.     Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text.

Yes, throughout the movie we feel the effect of lurking danger. While watching movie when door knocking  and when sound of tear newspaper in pieces that time feel danger and lurking.  While reading the text the when door knocking  that time feel same.

4.     What do you read in ‘Newspaper’ in the movie? Petey is reading the newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by petey in the last scene.

Newspaper is symbol of ‘authority’. We see in the movie petey is reading a newspaper. Newspaper also helps to hidden the face. When meg ask abour the news petey replied rudely. It shows the power position of the relationship.

5.     Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man’s Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of a room like a cage(trap) when Stanley is playing it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera?

Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind man’s buff. Camera’s position is the top of the room and camera only focused on the Stanley and camera moves like Stanley in the cage(trap).

6.     “Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles.” (Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: excerpts from the 2005 Noble Lecture).  Does this happen in the movie?

7.     How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics (like Pintersque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?

Yes viewing movie help in better understanding of the play. Some points we better understand then the reading. Like knocking the door when we read this point we just read can’t feel but when see that thing we feel that sound and feel to be afraid. And the sound of tearing newspaper. Its