Thinking Activity- "A Tale of A Tub".

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Here is Hinaba Sarvaiya blog, this blog is the part of my Classroom activity that given by our prof. Vaidehi mam. I am deal with the Symbols of "A Tale of a Tub" by Jonathan Swift. Let discuss it..

Jonathan Swift:-

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political, pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of st Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

Swift is remembered for his works:-

-A Tale of a Tub (1704),

-An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity(1712),

-Gulliver's Travels (1726),

-A Modest Proposal (1729).

 

His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

Explain the Symbols of A Tale of a Tub.

1). The Father's Will:-

The Father's Will represents the Bible, which Swift regards as Christianity 's fundamental instruction manual. In three brothers examplify this kind of Christianity. All three brothers start of faithfully following the will, but they are gradually corrupted by outside influences. Three brother started think what happen now and how to became a rich through will. There, the brothers realise that they will have to get creative if they want to give the appearance of following their father's wished while actually ignoring them. Finally, the Peter declare that their father's will allows them shoulder knots. Peter delves into the fits of delusion. He is a elder brother. He worked on several projects such as building a continent and inventing a new type of pickle.finally this way he become a rich. Another side two brother Martine and Jack removed from the actual will. Both are try to intervene, but he does not listen to them. The consequence of following thiss interpretive tradition is that both the Peter and the congregant Martin and Jack grow further and further removed from the actual will.

Peter (the catholic Church) is not cast in a good light in a tale of a Tub. That's not to say, however, that Swift viewed all reforms as equally salutary. Martin (moderate Protestantism) and Jack (Dissent) successfully obtain their copy of the will, which gives them the all important ability to read it for themselves and judge how well they are following. Swift implies, to the Bible is a good think, but a person can still go overboard in relying on scripture.

2). The Three Coats:-

The three brother Peter, Martin, and Jack represented the three branches. A tale of a Tub , this story about a three brothers. His father given three coats to each brothers. Here, the three coats are the central symbol of a Tale of tub.

The story begun that the father given the three coats his three brothers. Peter is elder brother and Martin and Jack is a another brother. His father gives the coats and promises that sons they coats are not sole, they will last for a lifetime if cared for his property. He earns them against altering the coats in anyway. These coats represent the practices of Christianity as originally revealed and commanded by God and as stipulated in the Bible. Peter want shoulder knot to his coat, and do a good job of stocking to the rules laid down by the will. In another side two brother try to some change on will but we does not listen to any message through this coats. Peter became a wealthy person because he understand the hidden message what his father say through this coat and other brother Martin and Jack live a poverty. Here Swift, satire through characters. He compares madness with greatness.

Finally jack has fallen completely into delusion and he finds evidence about more acts to take in his life but the will was solely about coats but he not like to music and colours. It time Peter and Jack often teams up and against the Martin, when Peter fall into the trouble jack abandons him. The reverse baldo happen, here the visa versa situation happen and three are some alone.

3)  The Tub:-

The tub represent the diversion that sailors would throw out so that whales would not overturn their ship.here, Swift suggest that the whale is representing of Hobbes leviathan, which  tosses and plays with all other schemes of religion and government. In those case, the steady ship of government and those in power are throwing out a diversion, but the whale keeps coming. Although A Tale of Tub within the text would seem to be a diversion, it is designed as a commentary on the state of religion and government in England.

4). Three brother are representing three branching of Christianity:-

 

A Tale of  a Tub comprises the tale itself, an allegory is f the reformation in the story of brothers Peter, Martin and Jake as they attempt to make their way in the world. Echa brother represents one of the primary branches of Christianity in the west.

# Peter stands in for the Roman catholic church.

# Jack represents the various dissenting protestant churches such as Baptists, Anabaptists ect. 

# the third is Martine represent the via media of the church of England.

Conclusion:-

 The story the coats here is religious practice given by their father, represented God, and they have his will representing the bible to guide them. The will says that the brother are some changes to their coats they do nearly nothing but alter their coats from the start.

Metaphysical Poets

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This is  blog very interesting blog because this is flipped learning task given by our prof. Dilip Barad Sir.

I learn this unite from six videos presented by the Dr. R.K Mandaliya sir. Sir deals with feature of metaphysical poetry and metaphysical poets. I am enjoying a very much for this poems  with full of expression in  poetic style. He given  so many examples with facial expressions and attached movies with use of effective references in this poems.

Let's discuss about the features of the Metaphysical Poetry with a simple way.

The General features:-

A group of poets emerged in the second half of the 16th century whose Poetry's Identified as the metaphysical poetry. It was coined by the Samuel Johnson. He also used by the criticise the metaphysical poetry. His intention not given the title but the term is very popular by the metaphysical poetry. Johnson used this term while writing about the life of Abraham Cowley in his biographical work with ''The live of the Eminent English poets''.

The Metaphysical Poets like that; Jone Donne, George Hebert, Richard Crashaw and Andrew Marwell's.

- Their were written poetry of the different Styles. because of  this time people are board to write and read  a same style again and again. Jone Donne and his fellowers to try a write a different way of Poetry's and attracted to more readers.

Their were written poetry  a conscious attempt and fully aware of the fact and their will be writing poetry much different from.

Matthew Arnold sat that;

" All tradition is a passing of the time".

 So the metaphysical poets tried to be intellectual in the writing of their poetry because that Due to new learning and reformation of the elizabethan age.

Dr. Johnson has passed one remarkable  comment stating that the poetry of the metaphysical poets stood at trials of the ear and fingers. It means a poetry is no musical and rhythms. In order to express either love or their faith in Christianity they brought their images from a different fields just like biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, geometry,geography and even political science. It means subjects take the real and different images. These gave a unique identity to their poetry. The frist example is of the jone Donne made use of a biological image, "The Flea" for the expression of love in his poem. And another example like; "The Pully" by George Hebert made use of an image from the field of machanical.

This are the basic features of the Metaphysical Poetry presented by the jone Donne and his followers.

Let's discuss about the one by one poems express by the R.K Mandaliya sir.

"Death Be Not Proud"by jone Donne:-

The first poem sir described by "Death Be no Proud" is a well-known holly sonnet by jone Donne. This sonnet is addressed by the poet death its. The poet challenge abouth the death u no be proud be stronger than the peoples. The poet has presented altogether at a different picture of the death in the present sonnet.

The sonnet opens with the poet's instraction to death that there is no need for death to be proud of anything.

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not soe".

The poet believed that the death is neither mighty nor dengerous.if the poet given chance to draw the picture of death, that time poet would draw a picture of mem who enjoyed sleep and rest time. The poet's give one example to nullified fear of death. even the best of human being have gone with death the soonest and not nervous and don't be panic. The soonest we can give the examples of the Keats, kalpana chawla, vivekananda ect..left this world very soon.

According to the poet death is a slave of four elements like that, fate, chance, king and distress men. And live though, places are poison, war and sickness other wise death be a wick. Death given the sleep but that time motherly affection causes very slowly and gently.

This is a how the end of the poem jone Donne tries to convince all that there will be no fear of the death because nobody will be afraid of the death.

"The flea" is anothers poem written by Donne. the poet uses a biological image of "The Flea" in order to express his love for his beloved. The flea is small insect and use of metaphor the express his love for beloved. The flea sucked his and his beloved blood and mixtures of flea body. Through the poet say his beloved  has not shame, not loss of honour. She dislike has happened through the flea.after his beloved killing that insect, it would be the death of three lives at a time.poet say that the mingle their blood in flea. Flea became a way of the express his love with his beloved. This is a very nice poem.

"The Sun Rising":-

"The Sun Rising" by jone Donne ia an ideal example of the the use of the metaphysical imge to deal with theme of love John Donne.

"Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou this,.              Through windows, and throngh curtains, call on us?"

The Sun given to energy through brightness. Destroyed the darkness and create a brightness in whole world but now this poem poet described the spend time with his beloved and disturb about the rising sun. Lovers advices the rising sun to go and show it power on let school children, workers, employees of King and courtiers of the kings they will reguled their life, as per the movement of the sun.these unique of the time, hour nothing but rags of the time for lovers. the lover compared the brightest eye with sun. The lovers believed that eyes of beloved have enough shine to blind the sun.he suggested the rising sun to take a round of the earth and come to next morning not be disturb now. Give to order to sun not a right time u come here. 

 In the present poem attempt jone Donne is to a universal think. The Nobel emotion of the love if love is thre in life, all happiness is there and all happiness is fltied  if there is no love.

"To His Coy Mistress":-

"Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime".

"To His Coy Mistress" is a poem with metaphysical conceit and it's proves Andrew Marwell's a real follower of the school of jone Donne. Marwell has made here use of an image from the field of agriculture for the express of love. The present poem deals with the theme of love.

The poem is addressed by a lover to his beloved she is very coy-shame and lover tries to convince her that since they do not have enough time. Lover knowns that they have neither enough time nor space to express love. It is a limited time and lover expressive his love ten long years but not enough time hundred years he would spend to describe each brest and three thousand years to prised.  He believed has beloved to forget shame. Lover know that the time have passing not stop that. They will mingle with dust and live in there grave. No doubt the grave is a private and peaceful place but once they go never be able to express love.  Lover telling his beloved to spend this flower of youth. it is a quality time.

"The Collar"

"The Collar" poem by George Hebert. The title of the collection of 'The Temple'. He wrote his poem to scarce Christianity and "The Collar" is and example of it. 

" I struck the board, and cried, No more;"

The Firstly  started poem with full of sadness of the speaker life. The poem sound like a monologue as the sinner speakers on behalf of his heart an also on behalf of his desire to live life freely. The word "Collar" stands for a yoke. The speaker will go to the abroad and live a free life. He express his feeling and asking the question with what will spend life with a sigh and pine. He will not live a freely and fulfilled own desire. The speaker say that he live freely and enjoying his life. Poet use of many metaphors like road, wind, wine, corm, no flowers, no garlands grass.The speaker not spend his life of hearvest but thorn. The speaker lost everything but he finally spend with pleasure. Now get ready and recover all thy sigh-blown age with a double pleasures and leave his cold dispute. Forget about his loss of time and now he enjoyed his life is a different way and starting with new life.

All poem are very enjoyable and given much more pleasure. This is my understanding to poem with express way.

Thank you.

Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden.

 Here is my blog this blog is the part of my Classroom activity that given by our prof. Dilip Barad sir.

#While reading the original poem, what were the aspect of the poem which attracted or charmed or surprised.

Temptation scene:

Absalom, the illegitimate child of King David was prompted by Achitophrel, the earl of Shaftesbury to fight for the throne and take over the throne from king David, Absalom's father. With studied flattery and art, Achitophrel begins a long temptation speech to seduce Absalom to this rebellious cause.

This temptation scene even resemble Paradise lost by John Milton in some respect. Both employ a grate deal of flattery. While in Paradise lost, Satan persuades Beelzebub and other arch-angels to stand up for the rightful cause, here Achitophrel who is allegorically Anthony Ashley Cooper tempts the gullible Absalom to take over the throne from his fathe, so that king David does not give the throne to king James, who is king David's brother and thereby an obvious heir to the throne. He exaggerates the qualities of Absalom:

"The young-Mens Vision, and the old men's Dream! Thee, Saviour, Thee, the Nation's vows confus".

He compares Absalom with God. Achitophel makes Absalom blind for power. Achitophel does so because he was bereft of the lord chancellor ship position once by king David and so it was Achitophel's way of ruling through the illegitimate child of King David, who is Absalom's list for power and disobedience towards his father brings his fall. His innocence is lost because of achitophel who urges Absalom to;

"Commit a pleasing rape upon the Crown".

# List down the 'vices' which are supposed tobe 'Corrected' through this 'satire'.

“the true end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction,” and “Absalom and Achitophel” is an attempt to that end. Through the use of satire and allegory in “Absalom and Achitophel,” Dryden ultimately argues that the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Crisis were devious ploys to divert the rightful order of succession and prevent James II from ascending the throne.

Through the deceit of Achitophel, a politician who sows dissention among the Jews, Dryden allegorizes the Popish Plot and implies the fabricated plot is merely an attempt to breed strife between David and the government, or, figuratively, between Parliament and Charles II of England. In Israel, metaphorically England, the “Good Old Cause revive[s] a plot” to “raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.” The “Good Old Cause” is a reference to the Puritan Rebellions of the English Civil War (1642–1651), which pitted King Charles I, who was supported by the Catholics, against Parliament, which was supported by the Puritans, a form of Protestantism. The war was a victory for Parliament; Charles I was executed and the Commonwealth of England was created. The monarchy was restored in 1660, and Charles II ascended the throne. With this reference, Dryden implies that the Popish Plot is little more than a revival of the Good Old Cause and an attempt to dethrone a king. In the poem, rumor begins to spread that King David’s life is “Endangered by a brother and wife. / Thus in a pageant show, a plot is made, / And peace itself is war in masquerade.”

Titus Oates, a priest of the Church of England and the mastermind of the Popish Plot, accused Charles’s brother James and Charles’s wife, Queen Catherine, of involvement in the plot against Charles. Dryden suggests that Oates’s claims are nonsense—the plot is a “pageant show,” a charade—and such claims amount to a “war in masquerade,” as the desired outcome, to remove a man who is destined to be king out of royal succession, is similar to that of the English Civil War.

Ultimately, the plot fails “for want of common sense,” but it has a “deep and dangerous consequence.” The Popish Plot, Dryden implies, was destined to fail because it completely lacked wisdom. However, the paranoia and anti-Catholic sentiments the plot churned up led directly to the Exclusion Crisis, which again pitted Parliament against the king. Members of Parliament pushed for James to be removed from royal succession, and Charles adamantly supported his brother.

#Who Favoured king David(Charles II) and those who were against him.

Favoured King:-

Absalom(Monmouth)

Saul(Richard)

Barzillai(James Butler)

Barzillai's Eldest Son( Thomas Butler)

Jothan(George Savile)

Amiel( Edward Seymour)

Zadox( William Sancroft).

Against the king:

Achitophel (Shaftesbury)

Zimri(George Villiers)

Shimei(Slinasby Bethel)

Corah(Titus Oates)

Jonas(Sir William Jones)

The Pharaoh(Louis XIV)

#What sort of general impression of those sort of literature do you get when your read it.

Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark political satire by Dryden. Dryden marks his satire with a concentrated and convincing poetic style. His satiric verse is majestic, what Pope calls:"The long majestic mirch and energy divine". Critic have unanimously remarked on Dryden's capacity to transform the trivial into the poetical; personal envy into the fury pf imaginative creation. Dryden shows himself a master both of the Horatian and  the Juvenalian styles of Satire.

Dryden called Absalom and Achitophel 'a poem' and not a satire, implying thereby that it had elements other than purely satirical. one cannot, for instance, ignore the obvious epic or heroic touches in it. 

All the same, the poem originated in the political situation of England at the time and one cannot fail to note that several political personalities are satirized in it. Published  in November 1681, the theme was suggested by the king to Dryden. At this time, the question of succession to king Charles had assumed great importance. The Earl of Shaftesbury had been thrown into prison to face a charge of high treason. There were two contenders for the succession. Firstly, Charles brother James, Duke of York, a known Roman Catholic, the second contender was Charles illegitimate son, the protestant Duke of Monmouth. The Whigs supported Monmouth while the Tories supported the cause of James in order to ensure stability in the country. There was great public unrest on account of the uncertainty of succession. King Charles II saw to it that the exclusion bill brought before parliament, to exclude the succession of his brother James, could not be pushed through. The earl of Shaftesbury, a highly ambitious man, sought to capitalise on this unrest. He also urged Monmouth to rebel against his father. The king, though find of his illegitimate son, did not support his succession because that would have been against law. The Earl of Shaftesbury was arrested on a charge of high treason and lost popular support.

Words-1079.

SR: Post Truth

 This blog reflects my understanding of the word 'Post truth' and my views on the word with appropriate illustration.

It was named word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary where it is defined as;

"Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".

Synonyms:

Alleged, Doubtful, Allegedly, Unfounded, Supposed.

Post Truth refers to distinct historical, social, and political relations and forms especially associated with 21th century communication technologies and cultural practices.

Post Truth is not a novel concept. All who have read George Orwell's 1984 can readily imagine a world where a powerful ministry of the truth commands allegiance to contradictory statements such as 'freedom is slavery'. The belief that truth exists can also wither when, 20th century philosopher Hannah Arendt explained, those in power repeat lies so frequently as to overwhelm the public's capacity to know what is true or false.

Examples of Post-Truth:

- Demonatisation in India.    (2016).

- Britan left the European   union (2016).

- 45th triumph of Donald Trump.

The prominent examples suggest that Post Truth is a top down phenomenon coming from politicians eager to maintain power by deceiving the public. However, today's post-truth as the reaction to COVID-19 vividly illustrates, also comes from the bottom up. It is not just that desperate people grasp at rumours, such as the claim that blowing a hair dryer up one's nose can relieve COVID-19 symptoms; it is also that the current environment fosters the sense tha individuals need give no more credence to information grounded in the best available scientific evidence than to whatever seems useful or feels right. Even worse is the perception that there is no objective 'truth' and so no need to search for it or to test claims against it. Rather, truth feels fleeting; claims are more or less persuasive based not on the accumulation of rigorous science or the credibility and expertise of the speaker but on the celebrity, political party, or intuition of speaker and listener.

I would like to share another example like that in Prime minister Narendra Modi's speech at a rally at latur in Maharashtra on April 9, dragging the Indian Army once again into the BJP's campaign for votes, certainly exploited the people's trust. Modi said "I want to ask the first- time voter, can your vote be dedicated to those soldiers who conducted the air strike on Balakot in Pakistan? Can your frist vote be dedicated to those soldiers who were killed in Pulwama attack?"

Modi's latur speech heralds the advent of post Truth politics in our country. Nobel laureate Harold Pinter once said that majority of politicians are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power.

Some images here that..

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