The document summarizes Bharathi Mukerjee's short story "A Wife's Story" about a woman named Panna and her experience with multiculturalism. Panna moves to America from India with her traditional, dominant husband. Through her exposure to American culture, Panna begins to transform and see herself differently than her husband and the culture he represents. By the end, Panna sees herself as a new, independent woman and realizes the cultural and gender-based alienation she experienced. The story examines the struggles immigrant women face and adapting to new cultures.
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Shashi Deshpande is a famous Indian novelist who has won many awards for her magnificent writings.She is one of the most notable authors in Indian writing in English. Her famous novels are -The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980), if I Die Today (1982), Roots and Shadows (1983), Come Up and Be Dead (1983), That Long Silence (1988), The Binding Vine (1992), and A Matter of Time (1996). Her novel “Roots and Shadows” has won a prize for the best Indian novel of 1982-83. She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990 for her novel That Long Silence. She has also won ‘Padma Shri’ (2009) for the novel ‘That Long Silence’. Her leading ladies are married women and they are the true reflection of Indian women. Seeking for identity and self-liberation have become the most important themes of the contemporary novel. ‘That Long Silence’ (1988) is an expression of the Agony of housewives. The Story revolves around ‘Jaya’ an educated young woman lives with her husband Mohan and two children Rahul and Rati. Jaya is a sufferer of gender differentiation and patriarchy. After wedding she becomes speechless in order to be a good cultural wife. The novel questions the tradition-bound Indian society that treats women unkindly. My aim is to highlight how women are divided between traditional values of the society and her individuality. The essay analyses how the patriarchal domination and gender differentiation exist within the family.
Function of Criticism by T.S Eliot, Why Criticism in Literature?, Four Parts of the essay “Function of Criticism”, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I Part: Eliot’s views on critic and critical work of art, II Part: John Middleton Murry’s Essay and Eliot’s Contradiction, III Part: Eliot’s criticism of Murry and function of criticism, IV Part: Relation of Criticism with creative work of art
Shashi deshpandes' That Long Silence PPT By Rashmi VajpayeeRashmi Vajpayee
Abstract:
Shashi Deshpande is a famous Indian novelist who has won many awards for her magnificent writings.She is one of the most notable authors in Indian writing in English. Her famous novels are -The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980), if I Die Today (1982), Roots and Shadows (1983), Come Up and Be Dead (1983), That Long Silence (1988), The Binding Vine (1992), and A Matter of Time (1996). Her novel “Roots and Shadows” has won a prize for the best Indian novel of 1982-83. She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990 for her novel That Long Silence. She has also won ‘Padma Shri’ (2009) for the novel ‘That Long Silence’. Her leading ladies are married women and they are the true reflection of Indian women. Seeking for identity and self-liberation have become the most important themes of the contemporary novel. ‘That Long Silence’ (1988) is an expression of the Agony of housewives. The Story revolves around ‘Jaya’ an educated young woman lives with her husband Mohan and two children Rahul and Rati. Jaya is a sufferer of gender differentiation and patriarchy. After wedding she becomes speechless in order to be a good cultural wife. The novel questions the tradition-bound Indian society that treats women unkindly. My aim is to highlight how women are divided between traditional values of the society and her individuality. The essay analyses how the patriarchal domination and gender differentiation exist within the family.
The Rape of the Lock was written by Pope to chide gently the Fermor family when Lord Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair on a certain fateful day and such dire consequences followed. Pope started something that culminated into a piece of literature that has remained to this day a leading example of the mock epic satire.
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Presentation on I.A. Richard's essay "The Two Uses of Language" This is a supplementary study material. Students and teachers are requested to go through the genuine and original text for better understanding of the concept. The presentation is not the whole creation of the author but it is based on the various references and critical resources.
Function and nature of poetry on the basis of preface to lyrical balladsladsRikapBaidya
the function and nature of poetry described by William Wordsworth in Preface to Lyrical Ballads can be known by it. Hope it will help you to know it better.
This presentation has everything one needs to know about the book "Em and The Big Hoom" by Jerry Pinto. Please do not copy paste as it has already been through turn it in and your presentation or report will be shown as plagiarized.
The Rape of the Lock was written by Pope to chide gently the Fermor family when Lord Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair on a certain fateful day and such dire consequences followed. Pope started something that culminated into a piece of literature that has remained to this day a leading example of the mock epic satire.
This presentation is about T.S Eliot best poem "Waste Land".This poem Divided into main 5 parts and here this all five parts discussed by me in my presentation.
Presentation on I.A. Richard's essay "The Two Uses of Language" This is a supplementary study material. Students and teachers are requested to go through the genuine and original text for better understanding of the concept. The presentation is not the whole creation of the author but it is based on the various references and critical resources.
Function and nature of poetry on the basis of preface to lyrical balladsladsRikapBaidya
the function and nature of poetry described by William Wordsworth in Preface to Lyrical Ballads can be known by it. Hope it will help you to know it better.
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An Overview on the Diasporic Lives of Tara, Dimple and Jyotiinventionjournals
Impact and predicament of immigration are the most usual theme of Diaspora writings. Bharati
Mukherjee’s interest is to depict the present social reality of the Asian immigrant's life in contemporary
America. Being an Indian immigrant writer, she could successfully portrait the influence and consequences of
immigration in the lives of her Indian immigrant women protagonists Tara, Dimple and Jyoti respectively in the
novels The Tiger’s Daughter, Wife and Jasmine. Immigration, rendered Tara as a perplex personality, Dimple
became the murderer of her husband and commited suicide, and on the contrary, Jyoti who went to America to
fulfil her late busband’s wish and to become ‘sati’, ultimately adjusted herself into the American society
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Many of the stories we read were about expectations, traditional roles, and values; that is what all of these stories hold in common. Traditional roles and values are an inherited, established or customary patterns of thought, action or behavior (as a religious practice or social custom) www.webster.com . In each of these stories what is expected plays a role in their actions and thoughts.
The Culinary Lesson tells us about a woman who did as society expected, she married. Although she was educated, upon her marriage she states that “she wandered lost in classrooms, in streets, in offices, in cafes; wasting my time in skills that I now need to forget in order to acquire others.” (pg 43) Everything she learned was no longer important because she had to play the traditional role of the housewife. Miraculously, she was to know how to cook, clean and entertain because she walked down the aisle in a white gown and said yes. She talks about lovemaking and how even that was tradition.” Face up I bore not only my own weight but his as well on top of mine. The classical posture for lovemaking. The classical moan. Myths, myths.” (pg 44) She is only a newlywed but is now imagining her future and what she has given up. She will have to “keep the house impeccable, the clothing clean, the rhythm of mealtime infallible. But I’m not paid a salary, have no day off, can’t switch employers.” She realizes that her life will never be what it was before. Her husband will see and treat her differently; she is now “his property.” As she continues to imagine her future she wonders what it would be with a different role, “For my next film I would like a different part” (pg 48) Although this story refers to a piece of meat and the transformation it takes from being frozen to thawed, cooked, burned and maybe destroyed, she is picturing her own life that way. She has lost her identity, her name is not even her own. She realizes “The meat hasn’t disappeared. It has merely suffered a series of metamorphoses” and compares this to her life. She knows at this point that then decision is hers as to how her life will be. She can play the role expected of her or decide her own future.
In Park Cinema we see again how women are viewed to have expected behavior. The admirer in this story has very clear-cut ideas on how the actress should behave. This deranged man claims to be devoted to her, devoted to an image as he sees it. He does not seem to understand that this is only theater; he believes all he is seeing on the screen. He writes about a scene where he watched her “swoon in the arms of that abominable suitor who dragged you to the final extremes of human degradation.” (p171) He imagines her feelings towards him but claims “It is I who is judging you, and do me the favor of taking greater responsibility for your actions, and therefore before you sign a contract or accept a co-star. Do consider ...
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ENGLISH COMPOSITION I
Essay 2
The following essay is based on the poetry selections from the textbook or the short story,“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver.
Please choose one of the following topics.
Complete a 2-3 page (500-750 word) essay on your chosen topic. This essay is due Week 12, of the semester. The essay should be typed, double-spaced using 12 point font. You should use Times New Roman or Courier font.
Do not use “I” in the paper.
NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Topics (CHOOSE ONLY ONE)
You can choose to write about Fences or about “Cathedral.”
Poetry Selections
1. Choose one of the poems we read. What is the main idea of this poem? (Remember, the main idea is the theme.) Why is the theme important to the poem and to society as a whole?
2. Compare and contrast two of the poems. What makes these two poems similar and different? Why are these two poems considered to be important? What can we learn from them?
“Cathedral”
1. How does the narrator of “Cathedral” change throughout the story? What does this narrator learn?
2. What does this story tell us about transformation? What does the story tell us about the way in which we see others in society?
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Cathedral
By Raymond Carver (1981)
This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to
spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s
relatives in Connecticut. He called my wife from his in-law’s. Arrangements
were made. He would come by train, a five-hour trip, and my wife would
meet him at the station. She hadn’t seen him since she worked for him one
summer in Seattle ten years ago. But she and the blind man had kept in
touch. They made tapes and mailed them back and forth. I wasn’t
enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind
bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the
blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-
eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.
That summer in Seattle she had needed a job. She didn’t have any
money. The man she was going to marry at the end of the summer was in
officers’ training school. He didn’t have any money, either. But she was in
love with the guy, and he was in love with her, etc. She’d seen something in
the paper: HELP WANTED—Reading to Blind Man, and a telephone
number. She phoned and went over, was hired on the spot. She worked with
this blind man all summer. She read stuff to him, case studies, reports, that
sort of thing..
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1. Multi-RacialisminBharathiMukerjee’s
“Awifestory”
B.Vijayalakshmi & D.Sonia,
Department of the English,
Bon Secours College for Women,
Thanjavur.
ABSTRACT:
The main theme of Mukherjee’s short,”A Wife’s Story” is
the Multi-Racialism of the main character is Panna. “A Wife’s story is
published in Bharathi Mukherjee’s The Middleman and other stories
(1988). Bharathi Mukerjee’s A Wife’s Story scrutinizes a multiplicity
of tribulations that occur in ordinary Women’s life. It shows the
quandary of bodily and psychologically beleaguered women and
ultimately the story ventures to specify the connotation of being a
modern woman in order to surmount the obstruction in her life. Panna
envisions herself as new women at the end of the story. The story is
interwoven with the sense of irony at what immigrants must undergo
to effect a cultural transformation.
Bharathi Mukerjee’s was born in July 27, 1940 on Calcutta,
west Bengal, India. She was an Indian American writer and professor
emeriti in the Department of English at the University of California,
Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story
collections, as well as works of nonfiction. She won the awards for
short stories on “The Middleman and other stories (1988) is “National
Book Critics circle award”. She was died on January 28, 2017 .Some
famous work such as,
The tiger’s daughter(1971)
2. Wife(1975)
Jasmine(1989)
Darkness(1985)
The middleman and other stories (1988)
Etc......................
KEY WORDS:-
Bharathi Mukerjee’s A Wife’s Story, Cultural change,
Phallocentric.
A wife’s story is a popular story of Bharathi Mukerjee.The story
deals with the life of a wife-her sense of self as a woman, as spouse
and how she is transformed by the culture she inhabits. Mukerjee not
only indicate the psyche of an immigrant but also presents how a new
culture creates both cultural and sex alienation. In fact, it is a story of
an East Indian woman transforming into an American.
Panna gradually perceives differences between her old and new
cultures that are in some ways freeing and expanding and in other
ways, Jarring & Unnerving. For example, she is able to hug Imre in
the middle of the street, an informal, spontaneous show of affection
that she could not demonstrate toward her husband in India, where
cultural restraints do not allow such personal displays. In India, Panna
was not even allowed to call her husband by his first name.
The story focuses on another immigrant who represents in her
unique way to the problem of adapting to another culture. Each
immigrant undergoes the acculturation process, but it not only is
different for each person, but also reflects the relatively of cultural
values. In the United States, charity is a model with high ambitions,
but in India, she would just be a “flat chested old maid “.
3. Panna Shifts back and forth between seeing the United States
from the tourist’s point of view -her husband’s ravenous shopping
sprees. She views herself as already alienated and different from her
husband and the culture and country he represents .They tour
Manhattan and take the ferry to dingy snack bar at the base of a
scaffold, and therefore forlorn statue of liberty. Her husband is
disappointed by the disparity between American’s image and its
reality; he thinks New York in no better than Bombay.
Panna understand her husband to certain extent .Just by listening
to his voice over the phone she can already figure out how he looks
while he is telling her about the bombing at his workplace. She says,”
I know how my husband’s eyes look this minute, how the eye rim sag
and the yellow corneas shine and bulge with pain “. She also knows
that he will be fine, “Tomorrow he will come out of it. Soon he will
be eating again. He will sleep like a baby”. This is a kind of ability
and understanding you develop with your spouse after living together
for some time. Some of the women are unable to know the mood of
their spouse just by talking to him on the phone; she can easily
“Predict” his response and reaction too.
Panna also knows that her husband likes her to dress up in
traditional Indian costume, so she deliberately changes out of her
cotton pants and shirts and puts on a saree (sari) when she goes to the
airport to meet him. She even puts on a whole set of jewellery; the
marriage necklace, gold drop earnings and heavy gold bangles;
accessories she does not wear often in Manhattan due to safety
reason, as clearly stated in the sentence.”In this borough of vice and
greed, who knows when, or whom, desire will overwhelm”. Some of
the wives know their husbands, preferences too. He does not like
them wearing long skirts and long- Sleeved shirts because he thinks a
woman a looks old in that kind of attire. He also does not like her
wearing high heels because she would be taller than him if she does
so.
4. Panna husband is traditional and male dominant. She still does
not call her first name. He get jealous whenever other men talk to her.
In fact, every action of Panna at the tour irritates him. He wants her to
go back to Indian with him ignoring the fact that she has not
completed her study. He says, “I’ve come to take you back.” I have
seen how men watch you”. When Panna tells him that she cannot go
back, he throws the food trays into the garbage demonstrating his
male chauvinistic behaviour. He demands her to be obedient. He
remains as a traditional husband, but she has changed much. The new
culture has changed her. In fact, she views herself different from her
husband as well as the culture and country he represents.
To conclude “A Wife Story” touches the heart of the readers
and they can really empathy with Panna and understand how she feels
in her relationship with her husband. Panna’s exposure to a new
culture transforms her, which changes her feelings toward her
husband. She thinks the play insults her culture and also insults her as
a woman. She is so offended that she decides to write to Mamet to
protest his depiction of East Indians.
Work cited:
Bharathi Mukerjee’s 1988. The Middleman and other stories.
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