This is my presentation on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in today's India, Paper no. 8 Cultural studies

1. Prepared by Nishtha
Makwana
Roll no. 15
Paper : Cultural studies
Submitted to Smt.
Department of English, MK
Bhavnagar university

2. 2
Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern in
Contemporary
India

3. 3
Indian
Culture

4. What is culture and Cultural studies ?
Our every day life…. What we think, what we
eat and how we live.
According Brantinger Cultural studies...
Cultural studies is not a tightly coherent,
unified movement with a fixed agenda, but a
loosely coherent group of tendencies, issues,
and questions" 4

5. What is marginalization
“Marginalization is process by which a
group or individual is denied access to
important positions and symbols of
economic, religious, or political power
within any society.”
- Oxford University5

6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as
marginalized characters
Rosencrantz and guildenstern are the best
characters to study the concept of power in
Elizabethan age.
Characters are from Shakespeare's
masterpiece Hamlet
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7. Marginalized people in India
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Women
Farmers
Poor
people
Lower
Caste
People

8. Marginalization of Women
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9. Marginalization of Women
- Patriarchal Society
- Have lesser rights than man
- Status of women is inferior to men
- Gender Stereotypes
- Injustice
- Puppet for men
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10. Marginalization of Farmers
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11. - India is the country who largely develops by
its agriculture
- Industrialism
- Exploitation of farmers by landowners
- Injustice for farmers
- Deflationary policies of the governments
have ruined the Indian farmers.
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12. - Powerlessness
- Total 296,438 Indian farmers had
committed suicide since 1995
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13. Marginalization of poor people
- The seven-foot-high wall to hide a slum in
Ahmedabad
- The real culture of India
- Powerless
- Power of politics
- Hit and run case of Salman Khan
- Social injustice
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‘All are equal but
some are more
equal than others’
George Orwell

16. Work Cited:
GuerIn, Wilfred L; Labor, Earle; Morgan, Lee; Reesman, Jeanne
C; Willingham John, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to
Literature. Fifth ed., Oxford University Press, 2005.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. New York, NY :
Signet Classics, [1996]
Oxford university Press . “Marginalization.” International
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law/sociology-and-social-reform/sociology-general-terms-and-
concepts/marginalization. 16

17. Saha, Abhishek. “Was Justice Served? Common Man's Verdict in
Salman Khan Case.” Hindustan Times, 8 May 2015,
https://m.hindustantimes.com/ht-view/was-justice-served-common-
man-s-verdict-in-salman-khan-case/story-
gF4sJZl3DhWPxA5KVZZ0kO.html.
Waldman, Amy (6 June 2004). "Debts and Drought Drive India's
Farmers to Despair". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
Zuberi, Fahad. “Potemkin Effect: 'The Wall' In Ahmedabad To Hide
Poverty From Trump.” Google, Google, 23 Feb. 2020,
www.google.com/amp/s/www.outlookindia.com/website/amp/opinion
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donald-trump-india-visit/347761. 17