Hello, I am Emisha Ravani. Wiring this blog as a response of questions by Vaidehi madam given as a thinking activity.
According to you, who is the protagonist of the poem Clarissa or Belinda? Why? Give your answers with logical reasons.
What is beauty? Write your views about it.
Ans: firstly, we all used to connect this word to the particular community that is "women".even though we all start interpret this word with the concept of women.and also by that ill-thought we start to judge them in the way we only see the beauty by bodies or physical perspective. Either from the our own eyes or sometimes we used to wear other's spectacles to defence our side.
This idea should be changed. If women start to separate their physical appearance or we can say they stop to wear this definition then it can be changed. Or whole idea can be changed , in term of iquality.
Secondly, beauty is connected to happiness. How wide your vision is! In that frequency you can be happy universally.Universe is a river.Our bodies are mortal waves. They're not the truth.Bodies can be change. you need to be value to this river in order to survive.
Thirdly, beauty is confidence I feel , when a girl can win the miss world competition by the confidence only. Our confidence can make us believe in a way of beautiful.
Fourthly, I can say that there are two kind of sources. One is Internal source and another is External source. If we are believe to be beautiful by internal source, then the entire world can be beautiful to us because of our wide vision.But if we believe in the other direction that is outer flow ( it can be a person or a thing). When we relying upon outer sources then they are not immortal. Rightly we are getting inner peace by those outer sources but might they are not getting or they are not at that stage where we are! Then it can be a magnificent reason for our unhappiness to be beautiful.
Fifthly, at one stage the geometry matters to the beauty. When you see them in joyful conditions they're always beautiful or if you are in a certain state everything looks beautiful that's different.geometric harmony should be there whether it can applying to anything like a human being, animal, machine or things.
Find out a research paper on "The Rape of the Lock". Give the details of the paper and write down in brief what does it say about the poem by Alexander Pope.
Ans:
Here I found a research paper named as " Depiction of Contemporary Life in The Rape of the Lock" By Dr. George Kolanchery, Bayan College, USA.
In this research paper we can get the idea of comparison between the times. Abstractly he covered up 'Age of Pope',' certain section of English society in the eighteenth century','Ethos of aristocratic society'.
Keywords: Alexander Pope, The Rape of Lock, Contemporary life, Fashionable society.
Further we can find in his paper he tries to make us realize the incident in a way. Then he explain how the word 'Rape' refered at that time and in the contemporary time. Then he tells very briefly about the story in a single paragraph only. Like,
Two years earlier, at a very fancy party just outside of London, the young Lord Petre had snuck up behind a young lady, Belle Fermor, and snipped off a lock of her hair (literally seizing it by force) without her consent. That actually happened. Neither Belle nor her parents appreciated this assault on her hairstyle, especially since they had been considering Lord Petre as a potential husband for her. Yeah, that marriage didn't exactly pan out. Instead, the two families fell out hard with each other.
Then he tagged this work as a mirror of the Age. That how society was affected by the people and goes on and on. there further point is, The Frivolities of Womenfolk. It portrayed that typicality of
Fashionable ladies of that time.
The toilet, in fact, is the great business of her life and the right adjustment of her hair, the decoration of her face and the chief employment of her time. Behind all these fascinating descriptions, there is a pervading sense of vanity and emptiness. Pope’s satirical gift is shown at his best when he shows the outward charms and the inward frivolity of fashionable ladies. “Their hearts are toy-shops. They reverse the relative importance of things; the little with them is great and the great little”.
Then he talks about Hollowness of the Gentlemen of the Day.
Lavity was the prominent feature of the women and men of this age. Their manners and behaviour were artificial and effected. The very Hampton Court, the palace of the English Queen was resorted by the ladies and lords to talk about society scandals.
Here thou, great Annal whom three realms Dost sometimes counsel take and obey……..
The serious and the frivolous are mentioned in one breath. The poem reflects the confusion of values as well. Mr. Elwin points out the relative importance of things “the little with them is great and the great little.” They attach as much importance to a China jar as to their honour, as much to religion as to dances and masquerades, as much to their lap-dogs as to husbands.
Here he uses original lines even to prove his point.
In the conclusion, he talks about the fashionable society and upper class people of the age. And also their activities and he says that how age was brilliantly empty.
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Reference: researchgate
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