Failure of an artist in the well beloved
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
2 likes•269 views
The novel is about an artist who tries to understand and portray three important women in his life through his art but fails to properly judge himself. He aims to depict these three women but is ultimately unsuccessful as an artist and in life. The artist cannot accurately capture these women or avoid failing in his own life.
Report
Share
Report
Share
Recommended
Introduction to salvia plath, themes
Sylvia Plath was an American poet who struggled with mental illness throughout her life and eventually committed suicide in 1963 at age 30. She is famous for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, which depicts a woman's descent into madness, and for her confessional poetry addressing themes of depression, father figures, and birth. Plath won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously and is considered an important figure in feminist literature for her unflinching depictions of psychological torment and patriarchal oppression.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her family fled Russia after the Bolshevik revolution confiscated her father's pharmacy. Rand studied history at the University of Petrograd before emigrating from Russia in 1926. She developed her philosophy of Objectivism, which emphasized individualism and reason. Her major novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged explored these themes of individualism against collectivism. Rand believed in traditional gender roles and was critical of feminism and homosexuality. She died in 1982 in New York City.
Leisure activities
The document discusses a person's leisure activities and character. It describes that the person enjoys listening to music, reading books, and collecting postcards from various cities they have visited. Their dream is to travel to the United States and Australia. They consider themselves to be the type of person who fills their mind with fresh ideas. They conclude by saying tastes differ for leisure activities and what is important is that one enjoys how they spend their free time.
FEMALE NOVELIST OF VICTORIAN AGE
Jane Austen was considered the greatest novelist of her period, raising the genre to new heights with each of her six masterful novels focused on the lives and trivial activities of the upper middle class. The Bronte sisters, Charlotte and Emily, introduced more passionate and elemental themes to their works, with Emily's only novel Wuthering Heights described as a poem containing troubled, romantic elements. George Eliot was the most philosophical Victorian novelist, writing serious novels aimed at discussing moral issues rather than entertainment.
Literary terms for poetry
The document defines and provides examples of various literary devices and forms of poetry including:
- Simile - a comparison using "like" or "as"
- Metaphor - a direct comparison without using "like" or "as"
- Personification - giving human qualities to non-human things
- Symbol - something that represents something beyond itself
- Mood - the feeling conveyed through images and sounds
- Tone - the author's attitude toward the subject and audience
- Theme - the author's central message or insight about life
The American Literature
This document summarizes characteristics of Robert Frost's poetry. It discusses that Frost was an American poet who was initially published in England before being published in America. He is renowned for his realistic depictions of rural life. Some key characteristics of Frost's poetry discussed are clarity and simplicity in style, realism, his balanced philosophy of life, dramatic quality, metaphysical elements, and lyrical quality through traditional techniques like meter and rhyme. His poems like "Stopping by Woods" and "The Road Not Taken" employ these lyrical techniques.
Sylvia plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. Some of her most famous works include the poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" as well as her only novel, The Bell Jar, which was published under a pseudonym and dealt with her own experiences with mental illness. Plath married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, but they divorced in 1963 after he had an affair with another woman. Plath took her own life shortly after by putting her head in a gas oven, leaving her two young children. Her death and troubled relationship with Hughes have been topics of discussion and controversy among literary scholars.
Sylvia plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. Some of her most famous works include the poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" as well as her only novel, The Bell Jar, which was published under a pseudonym and dealt with her own experiences with mental illness. Plath married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, but they divorced in 1963 after he had an affair with another woman. Plath took her own life shortly after by putting her head in a gas oven, leaving her two young children. Her death and troubled relationship with Hughes have been topics of discussion and controversy among literary scholars.
Recommended
Introduction to salvia plath, themes
Sylvia Plath was an American poet who struggled with mental illness throughout her life and eventually committed suicide in 1963 at age 30. She is famous for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, which depicts a woman's descent into madness, and for her confessional poetry addressing themes of depression, father figures, and birth. Plath won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously and is considered an important figure in feminist literature for her unflinching depictions of psychological torment and patriarchal oppression.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her family fled Russia after the Bolshevik revolution confiscated her father's pharmacy. Rand studied history at the University of Petrograd before emigrating from Russia in 1926. She developed her philosophy of Objectivism, which emphasized individualism and reason. Her major novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged explored these themes of individualism against collectivism. Rand believed in traditional gender roles and was critical of feminism and homosexuality. She died in 1982 in New York City.
Leisure activities
The document discusses a person's leisure activities and character. It describes that the person enjoys listening to music, reading books, and collecting postcards from various cities they have visited. Their dream is to travel to the United States and Australia. They consider themselves to be the type of person who fills their mind with fresh ideas. They conclude by saying tastes differ for leisure activities and what is important is that one enjoys how they spend their free time.
FEMALE NOVELIST OF VICTORIAN AGE
Jane Austen was considered the greatest novelist of her period, raising the genre to new heights with each of her six masterful novels focused on the lives and trivial activities of the upper middle class. The Bronte sisters, Charlotte and Emily, introduced more passionate and elemental themes to their works, with Emily's only novel Wuthering Heights described as a poem containing troubled, romantic elements. George Eliot was the most philosophical Victorian novelist, writing serious novels aimed at discussing moral issues rather than entertainment.
Literary terms for poetry
The document defines and provides examples of various literary devices and forms of poetry including:
- Simile - a comparison using "like" or "as"
- Metaphor - a direct comparison without using "like" or "as"
- Personification - giving human qualities to non-human things
- Symbol - something that represents something beyond itself
- Mood - the feeling conveyed through images and sounds
- Tone - the author's attitude toward the subject and audience
- Theme - the author's central message or insight about life
The American Literature
This document summarizes characteristics of Robert Frost's poetry. It discusses that Frost was an American poet who was initially published in England before being published in America. He is renowned for his realistic depictions of rural life. Some key characteristics of Frost's poetry discussed are clarity and simplicity in style, realism, his balanced philosophy of life, dramatic quality, metaphysical elements, and lyrical quality through traditional techniques like meter and rhyme. His poems like "Stopping by Woods" and "The Road Not Taken" employ these lyrical techniques.
Sylvia plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. Some of her most famous works include the poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" as well as her only novel, The Bell Jar, which was published under a pseudonym and dealt with her own experiences with mental illness. Plath married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, but they divorced in 1963 after he had an affair with another woman. Plath took her own life shortly after by putting her head in a gas oven, leaving her two young children. Her death and troubled relationship with Hughes have been topics of discussion and controversy among literary scholars.
Sylvia plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. Some of her most famous works include the poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" as well as her only novel, The Bell Jar, which was published under a pseudonym and dealt with her own experiences with mental illness. Plath married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, but they divorced in 1963 after he had an affair with another woman. Plath took her own life shortly after by putting her head in a gas oven, leaving her two young children. Her death and troubled relationship with Hughes have been topics of discussion and controversy among literary scholars.
Leaving india.202
The document is a paper by Joshi Toral about leaving India. In 3 sentences:
Joshi Toral wrote a paper for her university course discussing why she left India, noting social and psychological reasons including feeling inferior and differences in culture, traditions, and values between India and North America around areas like cleanliness, myths, history, use of plastic, views of family, differences between science and religion, and views of objects versus humans. She concludes that living between the two cultures has created a hybrid identity, as she denies parts of Indian history, family, and tradition that are deeply ingrained due to her cultural heritage and upbringing.
One night @ the call center as a self help book
The document discusses the book "One Night @ The Call Center" as a self-help book. It provides quotes from the book about overcoming failure and living up to one's full potential and capabilities. God tells the characters that to be truly successful, one must experience failure and have the courage to take risks to achieve success.
Death , not be proud
This poem is addressed to Death and argues that Death should not be proud of its power. It asserts that Death is not as mighty as some claim and those who die simply pass to eternal rest and sleep. The poem also notes that Death is a slave to fate and chance, as well as kings and desperate men. It concludes by stating that after a short sleep, one will wake eternally and Death itself will eventually die.
Ode to a nightin gale.201
The document discusses the interconnection between concepts like pain and joy, feeling and numbness, life and death. It references how the artist expresses themselves through their art like a bird's song, and how the music of nature represents the ideal. The bird is used as a symbol representing the continuity of nature and the continuing presence of joy in life despite hungry generations.
Psychological analysis of character of gulliver
This document contains identifying information for a student named Joshi Toral who is in the 2nd semester of their 3rd year, studying English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. They are submitting a paper on optimism and pessimism to the Department of English.
Language Discours
The document discusses language, discourse, meaning, and representation. It argues that our experiences and communication systems, including the arts, are part of our social organization. A society's meanings and values reflect its economic and political systems, and meanings are never fixed, but rather arrived at through processes of negotiation and exchange. Culture studies examines how representations function in a particular society, and the association of names or things with gender is culture-specific.
Problems and strategies (2)
This document discusses translation studies and contains information about:
1) Challenges in the translation process such as changes made to the text, illegible text, inconsistent terminology, errors, incomplete text, and missing references.
2) Cultural and linguistic issues that must be considered like dialects, abbreviations, jargon, idioms, slang, punctuation differences, and high context cultural references.
3) Quotes about the importance of translation in introducing other cultures and languages to forms of art and humanity, and that translation requires a creative person with a keen sense of both cultures to use translation strategies judiciously.
Flubaroo
This document discusses various aspects of language skills and testing, including:
1. It addresses content validity, concurrent validity, stability, reliability, and sources of errors in examinations.
2. Several questions are provided relating to Gujarat, including its desert, Jyotirling location, and brand ambassador.
3. Additional questions cover topics like the beaches of Kutch, why Somnath was rebuilt, Gir Forest lions, and the unusual relationship between lions and humans in one area.
Feminist criticism.203
Feminist criticism analyzes literature and culture from a feminist perspective. It addresses issues related to women across different cultures and societies. In the 19th century, critics like George Eliot and Margaret Fuller contributed pioneering work in this field. Feminist criticism has since evolved into cutting-edge theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies done by authors of the three waves of feminism. A key idea is that traditional gender roles, as theorized by Sigmund Freud, associate women with passivity and men with activity.
Conflict between tradition and modernity in the swamp dweller
Joshi Toral.B wrote a paper on African Literature for their course at M.K.B. University. The paper examined the conflict between tradition and modernity in African societies, where tradition refers to cultural practices passed down through generations and modernity involves adopting Western capitalist and secular values. It discussed how some African writers portrayed this conflict between holding onto cultural traditions and embracing new modern ideas.
Role of womeninkanthapura
This document summarizes and analyzes the roles and portrayals of women characters in the novel "Kanthapura" by Raja Rao. It discusses several main female characters including Rangamma, Ratna, Achakka, and Narsamma. It notes that Ratna was influenced by modern ideas and did not see womanhood as inferior. It also discusses how many women like Achakka responded to Gandhi's call for independence conveyed by Moorthy. Additionally, it contrasts the malicious character of Venkamma with how the women of Kanthapura are portrayed more fully as "Shakti" or power, rising during pivotal moments. The document ends by comparing elements of the novel to the Ram
Attenborough's Gandhi
Gandhi is viewed as a god-like figure in India for leading the independence movement through non-violence. Some, like Nathuram Godse, blamed Gandhi for India's partition. While crowds turned against Gandhi, the film depicts him as the hardest of leaders and shows Jawaharlal Nehru as his follower, rather than an equal leader. It focuses on Gandhi's role in guiding India to independence through non-violent means.
Scholar's Life
The scholar's life is one of constant learning and questioning as they read books and texts. Literary scholarship has become highly organized and professionalized over the centuries to now include areas like writing theory, art, and science. While the scope has expanded, scholars still take pleasure in researching, lifelong learning, traveling, and companionship with other scholars.
Character Sketch Of Santiago.Old man and sea
Santiago is an old fisherman who struggles to catch a large marlin fish after many days at sea. Though physically exhausted, he continues dreaming of success through hard work and skill rather than relying on luck. The novella explores the contrast of youth and age through Santiago's relationship with Manolin and memory of his own youth, as well as the role of judgment versus destiny in achieving one's goals. In the end, hard work proves more influential than fate in determining success.
Speaking as a skill
This document discusses speaking skills for English language teaching, including grammar and vocabulary use of tenses, functions such as answering questions and asking for clarification, body language like using expressions and smiling, and interaction skills like correcting oneself and taking part in conversations. The document is about developing speaking abilities and was written by Joshitoral, a first semester student in the English department.
Cheater sketch of Lily Briscoe to the light house
Lily Briscoe is the devoted artist character in Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Light House". The summary explores Lily's character and her differences from Mrs. Ramsay, as well as her moments of vision and how Woolf uses stream of consciousness technique through Lily's internal monologues. It concludes that Woolf successfully conveys her message through characters like Lily Briscoe, who act as mirrors reflecting the themes of the novel.
More Related Content
Viewers also liked
Leaving india.202
The document is a paper by Joshi Toral about leaving India. In 3 sentences:
Joshi Toral wrote a paper for her university course discussing why she left India, noting social and psychological reasons including feeling inferior and differences in culture, traditions, and values between India and North America around areas like cleanliness, myths, history, use of plastic, views of family, differences between science and religion, and views of objects versus humans. She concludes that living between the two cultures has created a hybrid identity, as she denies parts of Indian history, family, and tradition that are deeply ingrained due to her cultural heritage and upbringing.
One night @ the call center as a self help book
The document discusses the book "One Night @ The Call Center" as a self-help book. It provides quotes from the book about overcoming failure and living up to one's full potential and capabilities. God tells the characters that to be truly successful, one must experience failure and have the courage to take risks to achieve success.
Death , not be proud
This poem is addressed to Death and argues that Death should not be proud of its power. It asserts that Death is not as mighty as some claim and those who die simply pass to eternal rest and sleep. The poem also notes that Death is a slave to fate and chance, as well as kings and desperate men. It concludes by stating that after a short sleep, one will wake eternally and Death itself will eventually die.
Ode to a nightin gale.201
The document discusses the interconnection between concepts like pain and joy, feeling and numbness, life and death. It references how the artist expresses themselves through their art like a bird's song, and how the music of nature represents the ideal. The bird is used as a symbol representing the continuity of nature and the continuing presence of joy in life despite hungry generations.
Psychological analysis of character of gulliver
This document contains identifying information for a student named Joshi Toral who is in the 2nd semester of their 3rd year, studying English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. They are submitting a paper on optimism and pessimism to the Department of English.
Language Discours
The document discusses language, discourse, meaning, and representation. It argues that our experiences and communication systems, including the arts, are part of our social organization. A society's meanings and values reflect its economic and political systems, and meanings are never fixed, but rather arrived at through processes of negotiation and exchange. Culture studies examines how representations function in a particular society, and the association of names or things with gender is culture-specific.
Problems and strategies (2)
This document discusses translation studies and contains information about:
1) Challenges in the translation process such as changes made to the text, illegible text, inconsistent terminology, errors, incomplete text, and missing references.
2) Cultural and linguistic issues that must be considered like dialects, abbreviations, jargon, idioms, slang, punctuation differences, and high context cultural references.
3) Quotes about the importance of translation in introducing other cultures and languages to forms of art and humanity, and that translation requires a creative person with a keen sense of both cultures to use translation strategies judiciously.
Flubaroo
This document discusses various aspects of language skills and testing, including:
1. It addresses content validity, concurrent validity, stability, reliability, and sources of errors in examinations.
2. Several questions are provided relating to Gujarat, including its desert, Jyotirling location, and brand ambassador.
3. Additional questions cover topics like the beaches of Kutch, why Somnath was rebuilt, Gir Forest lions, and the unusual relationship between lions and humans in one area.
Feminist criticism.203
Feminist criticism analyzes literature and culture from a feminist perspective. It addresses issues related to women across different cultures and societies. In the 19th century, critics like George Eliot and Margaret Fuller contributed pioneering work in this field. Feminist criticism has since evolved into cutting-edge theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies done by authors of the three waves of feminism. A key idea is that traditional gender roles, as theorized by Sigmund Freud, associate women with passivity and men with activity.
Conflict between tradition and modernity in the swamp dweller
Joshi Toral.B wrote a paper on African Literature for their course at M.K.B. University. The paper examined the conflict between tradition and modernity in African societies, where tradition refers to cultural practices passed down through generations and modernity involves adopting Western capitalist and secular values. It discussed how some African writers portrayed this conflict between holding onto cultural traditions and embracing new modern ideas.
Role of womeninkanthapura
This document summarizes and analyzes the roles and portrayals of women characters in the novel "Kanthapura" by Raja Rao. It discusses several main female characters including Rangamma, Ratna, Achakka, and Narsamma. It notes that Ratna was influenced by modern ideas and did not see womanhood as inferior. It also discusses how many women like Achakka responded to Gandhi's call for independence conveyed by Moorthy. Additionally, it contrasts the malicious character of Venkamma with how the women of Kanthapura are portrayed more fully as "Shakti" or power, rising during pivotal moments. The document ends by comparing elements of the novel to the Ram
Attenborough's Gandhi
Gandhi is viewed as a god-like figure in India for leading the independence movement through non-violence. Some, like Nathuram Godse, blamed Gandhi for India's partition. While crowds turned against Gandhi, the film depicts him as the hardest of leaders and shows Jawaharlal Nehru as his follower, rather than an equal leader. It focuses on Gandhi's role in guiding India to independence through non-violent means.
Scholar's Life
The scholar's life is one of constant learning and questioning as they read books and texts. Literary scholarship has become highly organized and professionalized over the centuries to now include areas like writing theory, art, and science. While the scope has expanded, scholars still take pleasure in researching, lifelong learning, traveling, and companionship with other scholars.
Character Sketch Of Santiago.Old man and sea
Santiago is an old fisherman who struggles to catch a large marlin fish after many days at sea. Though physically exhausted, he continues dreaming of success through hard work and skill rather than relying on luck. The novella explores the contrast of youth and age through Santiago's relationship with Manolin and memory of his own youth, as well as the role of judgment versus destiny in achieving one's goals. In the end, hard work proves more influential than fate in determining success.
Speaking as a skill
This document discusses speaking skills for English language teaching, including grammar and vocabulary use of tenses, functions such as answering questions and asking for clarification, body language like using expressions and smiling, and interaction skills like correcting oneself and taking part in conversations. The document is about developing speaking abilities and was written by Joshitoral, a first semester student in the English department.
Cheater sketch of Lily Briscoe to the light house
Lily Briscoe is the devoted artist character in Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Light House". The summary explores Lily's character and her differences from Mrs. Ramsay, as well as her moments of vision and how Woolf uses stream of consciousness technique through Lily's internal monologues. It concludes that Woolf successfully conveys her message through characters like Lily Briscoe, who act as mirrors reflecting the themes of the novel.
Viewers also liked (18)
Conflict between tradition and modernity in the swamp dweller
Conflict between tradition and modernity in the swamp dweller
Failure of an artist in the well beloved
- 3. Failure of an artist
- 4. • The novel is about an individual’s ‘life' The well-beloved. He tries to judge the three women in his life but fails to judge his own self • He wants to give shape to this three women but as an artist fails in life.