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Comparison between frankenstein and robot film from amisojitra

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Child labour in victorian time and present time by Ami Sojitra from amisojitra

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Use of Archetype in Indian And Western literature by Ami Sojitra from amisojitra

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Cultural study of to his coy mistress by Ami Sojitra from amisojitra

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Victorian Era as era of Darkness?

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TOPIC: VICTORIAN ERA: THE ERA OF DARKNESS?

SUBJECT: VICTORIAN LITERATURE

NAME: AMI G. SOITRA

ROLL NO: 30

COLLEGE: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVANAGAR UNIVERSITY

SEMESTER: 2

EMAIL: amisojitra23@gmail.com

INTRODCTION:

                   Victorian literature, and it's good to keep in mind that all literary periods, or movements, are really just a scholarly construct to help readers understand and classify literature from different time periods or that have been written in different styles. So, it's not like Charles Dickens got together with George Eliot and Robert Browning and went, 'Hey, we're Victorian writers, so our work better have a strong sense of right and wrong.' That's not how it worked.

                    Characteristics of Victorian literature are likely similar because the artists were inspired both by the art that came before them and the events occurring during the time that they were working. So, something can seem Victorian, but not have been written in the Victorian era, or something written in the Victorian era might not actually seem Victorian. For example, Charlotte and Emily Bronte wrote Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights In what would be considered the Victorian era, but those novels have much more qualities of the Romantic period.

Major Events of the Victorian Era:

          Victorian literature is just literature written during the reign of Queen Victoria in Great Britain. My favorite British comedian, Eddie Izzard, refers to Queen Victoria as 'one of England's more frumpy queens.' You can take a look at her picture and decide for yourself. So, Queen Victoria reigned from 1837-1901. Currently her reign is the longest of any British monarch - 63 years and 7 months - but it looks like our girl, Queen Elizabeth II, is well-poised to steal that record.

Some major events that took place during the Victoria era include:

 Huge growth in population

 Improvements in technology

 Changing world views

 Poor condition of the working class

Now let’s discuss about them in detail

   Huge growth in population

• A huge growth in population. During Victoria's reign, the population of England more than doubled, from 14 million to 32 million.

   Improvements in technology

• There were also some significant improvements in technology. The Victorian era slightly overlaps with Britain's Industrial Revolution, which saw big changes to the way that people lived, worked, and traveled. These improvements in technology offered a lot of opportunities for the people in England but also represented a major upheaval in regards to how people lived their lives and interacted with the world. Those of us who were alive before the Internet should be able to relate. I mean, the Internet has made a lot of things easier, but it's also brought a lot of issues about personal privacy, how we communicate, and the potential for terrible things, like identity theft.

 Changing world views

• Another characteristic of the Victorian era are changing world views. In addition to the major developments in technology, there were emerging scientific beliefs, like Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and those things were changing how people in England thought about themselves and how they interacted with the world around them. Most notably, a lot of people were distancing themselves from the church.

 Poor conditions for the working class

• And finally, there were poor conditions for the working class. The Industrial Revolution led to the distance between the haves and have-nots growing at a really high rate, and a lot of people (especially artists, like writers) felt obligated to speak out against what they believed to be societal injustices, which if you've followed any of the 'We are the 99%' movement, it might sound familiar to things that are happening right now.

There are main two important things happens during Victorian time.

Ø Industrialization

Ø New Education

Let’s discuss them in detail.

INDUSTRIALIZATION:

The Industrial Revolution — the changes in the making of goods that resulted from substituting machines for hand labor — began with a set of inventions for spinning and weaving developed in England in the eighteenth century. At first this new machinery was operated by workers in their homes, but in the 1780s the introduction of the steam engine to drive the machines led manufacturers to install them in large buildings called at first mills and later factories. Mill towns quickly grew in central and northern England; the population of the city of Manchester, for example, increased by ten times in the years between 1760 and 1830.

                    By the beginning of the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution had created profound economic and social changes. Hundreds of thousands of workers had migrated to industrial towns, where they made up a new kind of working class. Wages were extremely low, hours very long — fourteen a day, or even more. Employers often preferred to hire women and children, who worked for even less than men. Families lived in horribly crowded, unsanitary housing. Moved by the terrible suffering resulting from a severe economic depression in the early 1840s, writers and men in government drew increasingly urgent attention to the condition of the working class. In her poem The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning portrays the suffering of children in mines and factories. In The Condition of the Working Class, Friedrich Engels describes the conclusions he drew during the twenty months he spent observing industrial conditions in Manchester. His 1845 book prepared the ground for his work with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto (1848), which asserts that revolution is the necessary response to the inequity of industrial capitalist society. Elizabeth Gaskell, wife of a Manchester minister, was inspired to begin her writing career with the novel Mary Barton (1848) in order to portray the suffering of the working class. In Hard Times (1854), Charles Dickens created the fictional city of Coketown to depict the harshness of existence in the industrial towns of central and northern England. During the 1830s and 1840s a number of commissions introduced testimony about the conditions in mines and factories that led to the beginning of government regulation and inspection, particularly of the working conditions of women and children.

NEW EDUCATION:

Victorian Prose:

Arguably the most well-known Victorian writer was Charles Dickens. He wrote a lot of novels about the struggles of the poor and the battle between right and wrong. His characters were really vivid but not terribly nuanced, so it's pretty obvious from the get-go who's good, who's bad, who can be reformed, and who can't.

         Dickens' novels usually end with every character getting the kind of ending they deserve. So, the good people get happy endings, and the bad people get sad endings, and there really aren't that many loose ends left at the end of the novel.

        Emily Bronte’s (see Bronte, family) single novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), is a unique masterpiece propelled by a vision of elemental passions but controlled by an uncompromising artist

The fine novels of Emily's sister Charlotte Bronte, especially Jane Eyre (1847) and Valletta (1853), are more rooted in convention, but daring in their own ways. The novels of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) appeared during the 1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition and moral fervor, Eliot was concerned with ethical conflicts and social problems. George Meredith produced comic novels noted for their psychological perception. Another novelist of the late 19th century was the prolific Anthony Trollope, famous for sequences of related novels that explore social, ecclesiastical, and political life in England.

Poetry:

       The preeminent poet of the Victorian age was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Although romantic in subject matter, his poetry was tempered by personal melancholy; in its mixture of social certitude and religious doubt it reflected the age. The poetry of Robert Browning and his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was immensely popular, though Elizabeth's was more venerated during their lifetimes. Browning is best remembered for his superb dramatic monologues. RudyardKipling, the poet of the empire triumphant, captured the quality of the life of the soldiers of British expansion. Some fine religious poetry was produced by Francis Thompson, Christina Rossetti, and Lionel Johnson.

                 In the middle of the 19th century the so-called Pre-Raphaelites, led by the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, sought to revive what they judged to be the simple, natural values and techniques of medieval life and art. Their quest for a rich symbolic art led them away, however, from the mainstream. William Morris—designer, inventor, printer, poet, and social philosopher—was the most versatile of the group, which included the poets Christina Rossetti and Coventry Patmore.

           Algernon Charles Swinburne began as a Pre-Raphaelite but soon developed his own classically influenced, sometimes florid style. A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy, Victorian figures who lived on into the 20th cent., share a pessimistic view in their poetry, but Housman's well-constructed verse is rather more superficial. The great innovator among the late Victorian poets was the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. The concentration and originality of his imagery, as well as his jolting meter ("sprung rhythm"), had a profound effect on 20th-century poetry.

During the 1890s the most conspicuous figures on the English literary scene were the decadents. The principal figures in the group were Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and, first among them in both notoriety and talent, Oscar Wilde. The Decadents' disgust with bourgeois complacency led them to extremes of behavior and expression. However limited their accomplishments, they pointed out the hypocrisies in Victorian values and institutions. The sparkling, witty comedies of Oscar Wilde and the comic operettas of W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan were perhaps the brightest achievements of 19th-century British drama.

Thus, Victorian era was not an era of darkness but there

Is also something beyond the darkness.

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My Assignment on Marketing of Chetan Bhagat and Durjoy Datta

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SUBJECT: CULTURAL STUDIES

TOPIC: CULTURAL STUDY OF DURJOY DATTA AND CHETAN BHAGAT

NAME: AMI G. SOJITRA

ROLL NO: 30

COLLEGE: DEPARTMET OF ENGLISH, MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI   BHAVANAGAR UNIVERSITY

SEMESTER: 2

EMAIL: amisojitra23@gmail.com

Durjoy Datta

 Durjoy Datta was born on 7 February 1987 (age 29) in Gujarat and bought up at Delhi, India. He used to write with the Pen name of Deb and Sidharth Oberoi. His occupation is to be Novelist, Screenwriter. He has studied at Delhi College of Engineering, Management Development Institute. He writes about Young-adult fiction, Romance, Thriller.

His notable works are as below:

Ø Of Course I Love You..!

Ø Till the Last Breath

Ø If It's Not Forever

Ø Hold My Hand

Ø When Only Love Remains

Ø Sadda Haq - My Life, My choice

Ø World's Best Boyfriend

Ø Our Impossible Love

 

         He served at NIIT Ltd. Siemens AG, and American Express until he co-founded the publishing house Grapevine India in June 2011. In 2009, he was recognized as the young achiever by The Times of India. He was also chosen as one of the two young achievers in the field of Media and Communications by Whistling Woods International in 2011. His debut show Sadda Haq - My Life, My Choice won the Youth Show - fiction category at Zee Gold Awards in 2014 and at Indian Telly Awards in 2014 and 2015.

Works

Of Course I Love You..!...Till I Find Someone Better (co-author Maanvi Ahuja) (2008)

Now That You're Rich! Lets Fall in Love! (co-author Maanvi Ahuja) (2009)

SHE BROKE UP I DIDN'T!...I Just Kissed Someone Else! (2010)

Ohh Yes, I'm Single..! And So is My Girlfriend! (co-author Neeti Rustagi) (2010)

The Backbenchers series (contributor) (first book of the series was published in 2011)

You Were My Crush!...till you said you love me! (co-author Orvana Ghai) (2011)

If It's Not Forever...It's Not Love (co-author Nikita Singh) (2012)

Till The Last Breath... (2012)

Someone Like You (co-author Nikita Singh) (2013)

Hold My Hand (2013)

When Only Love Remains (2014)

World's w̷o̷r̷s̷t̷ Best Boyfriend (2015)

Our Impossible Love (2016)

Short stories

The English Teacher (2012)

Shades of Love (contributor) (2012)

Television shows

Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera (co-writer Sumrit Shahi) (2012 - 2015)

Sadda Haq - My Life, My Choice (co-writer Sumrit Shahi) (2013–present)

Million Dollar Girl - From Banaras to Paris (co-writer Sumrit Shahi) (2014 - 2015)

Chetan Bhagat

 Chetan Bhagat was born on 22 April 1974 (age 41). He get education at Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi(IIT Delhi) (B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad(IIM A) (MBA). He used to write about Fiction, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Non-fiction  etc.

His notable works are as below:

Ø Five Point Someone

Ø One Night @ the Call Center

Ø Half Girlfriend

Ø The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Ø 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Ø Revolution 2020

A noted public intellectual, Bhagat also writes for columns about the youth, career development and current affairs for The Times of India (in English) and Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi).He worked in Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong as an Investment Banker for nearly a decade, and wrote Five Point Someone while still in Hong Kong, before moving to Mumbai to focus full-time on his writing career.

Career:

Bhagat has his columns in The Times of India and Hindustan Times.He was a judge on the Voice of India Star Anchor Hunt. Chetan Bhagat also hosts 7 RCR on ABP news, which began airing 11 January 2014. The show features a series of biographies of India's prime ministerial candidates.

He was also the judge of the dance reality show Nach Baliye.

HIS WORKS

Ø Five Point Someone (2004)

Ø One Night @ the Call Center (2005)

Ø The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008)

Ø 2 States (2009)

Ø Revolution 2020 (2011)

Ø What Young India Wants (2012)

Ø Half Girlfriend (2014)

Ø Making India Awesome (2015)

Ø Awards and recognition

Ø Society Young Achiever' award in 2004

Ø Publisher's Recognition award in 2005

Ø Bhagat in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People 2010

Ø Film fare Award for Best Screenplay 2014- Kai Po Che

Ø CNN-IBN Award in the field of Entertainment for the year 2014

       Among his other activities, Bhagat is known to deliver speeches at programs organized by corporate, educational institutes, newspapers and media houses like Dainik Bhaskar, The Times of India and at other conferences apart from writing columns for the same.

MARKET OF CHETAN BHAGAT AND DURJOY DATTA:

 Durjoy Datta and Chetan Bhagat both are young writers of Indian English literature. Even we find that both of them become very popular in this present time. Even we can say that both them have made india read the English novel. The common things between them use very simple English that become easy for everyone to understand. Both of them are not student of literature but they have studied in Engineering branch though they are writing novels and also have fame as a good writers.

Ø LOW PRICE:

 When we go to take any books of both of them we find that it is available in very low price because they know that most of people used to avoid read the books which are costly. Their every books are below 200/- so that a common people can also afford that.

Ø THEIR EDUCATION AND OCCUPATION:

When we look about their education we find that both of them are student of engineering in which they have to work with machines and Mathematics. To write a book is very difficult for them but here both of the writers have broken the image of that particular image of engineer and student of arts.

Ø VOICE OF YOUNG INDIA:

Chetan Bhagat and Durjoy Datta both of them are young writers and in their novels we find that both of them write about young India. The main characters of the novels are young and also the ongoing problems of youth. They describe the sugar solution of the problems. They describe various perspective of the human relationship.

Ø BASED ON VARIOUS THEMES:

Both of them are not only writing s simple love story that a boy meet a girl and then both of them fall in love than they have to face problems and finally some of them become successful while some of them fail. Chetan Bhagat writes on vision on 2020 and also the life of well framed IIT and IIM. Durjoy was a student of engineering but in his book “Till The Last Breath” we find his deep knowledge of medical and hospital as well as disease.

Ø MARKETING:

Both of the writers know that how to do marketing of their books. Sometimes we see that many of us have ordered the books which still not released. They used to share about their upcoming books. They use such a social media like Face book, Twitter, Bloggers etc.

Ø LENGTH OF NARRATIVE:

In this time people don’t have much time to read the longer narrative or even to ponder deeply on the single thought. Here we find that both of them write a story like a novella which we can read at one seat ad also very easy to remember. Sometimes it may happen that the long narrative become a kind of boring to read and read can’t complete it.

Ø LANGUAGE:

While we read novels of both of them we find that it is very easy for us to understand. We don’t require dictionary at every page but we can understand it most of the time. Even we find that it is written in youth friendly style and also I conversational.

Ø THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE:

To be a great or a successful writer one is always careful about the target audience and their zeitgeist. Their target audience are getting admission in to IIT/IIMs, Call center, Job, Entrepreneurship, Marriage, education system as enterprise, Air hostess, singer, Medical, Hostel life, friendship etc.

        Thus here we find that both of them are very famous writers of the modern time I India. Even most of us have read both of them because now days they become writer of the bestselling books. Not only one but both of them have written many books and all of them become very popular. Chetan Bhagat and Durjoy Datta both are not only writers of the bestselling books but they are also connected with many other activities which shows that to be writer of bestselling book is not enough but one also have to be very enthusiastic to show the talent at any platform.

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