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- 1. Topic: Thematic concernin Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Name: Rasila Jambucha Semester: 4 Paper: 13 The New Literatures Roll no: 22 Year: 2013-2015 Submitted to: Smt. S.B.Gardi, Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University.
- 3. love Sacrifice Perseverance power Choice Death Goodvs. Evil Minor Theme
- 4. The Difficulty ofloving the Dead • Doubts Harry feels -Dumbledore really loved him? ( when he learns Dumbledore had a mother and sister buried in the same place as Harry’s parents)
- 5. Importance of secondchance • Once Snape was a death eaters - earlier = working for Voldemort - but then, helping Dumbledore in his mission (when he knows, Voldemort kills Lily) • Ron character - earlier = help Harry - then, when things get too tough he give up because of some misunderstanding or jealousy. i.e. wearing locate horcrux - then he realizes his mistake and come back again
- 6. Keeping faith withthe Dead • Believing in Dumbledore’s quest after he is dead is not easy for Harry • Snape: loyal follower of Dumbledore but also he was loyal to Lily Potter - keeping faith with the women he loved after her death
- 7. • Dobby thehouse-elf gets himself killed saving Harry and his friend - and dies in Harry’s arms • the process of burying Dobby helps put Harry into a better frame of mind about his mission - then Harry reminds that, he made a promise to his dead friend that he needs to honor
- 8. love • Tom Riddle -grew without the unconditional love and care - in early life because of lack of love = find sociopathic qualities - he also murders his father and grandparents and uses their death to create horcrux
- 9. • Snape lovesLily - Voldemort kills Lily ( if he didn’t kill her, then he still have had a loyal servant and Harry might have been successfully killed long ago) • Harry has friend (they believe in him and his mission) • Voldemort has followers (they have fear that he kill him)
- 10. Death • To createa horcrux is through the murder of another • Voldemort greatest fear: killing others to save his life • James and Lily Potter surrender to death to save their son • Harry face death bravely (when at the end Voldemort invite him to meet in the forest and he look ‘golden snitch’ “ I open at the close” • He realizes that can only be opened as he is facing his death
- 11. • Using Resurrectionstone : - recalls his loved ones temporarily from death - gains courage to face Voldemort and his own death • Dumbledore - ‘'Do not pity the dead Harry, pity the living.”
- 12. Good vs. Evil •Voldemort and Death Eaters represent the “Evil” • Harry and his friend represent the “good” • Snape character (complex)
- 13. Sacrifice • Lily’s sacrificeherself for Harry • Harry give up his life to save the world and others
- 14. choice • After Dumbledore’sdeath he’s lost the guiding light and got chance to make his own decision • If he might take wrong decision, then many people affected by his decision • Voldemort, at the end , is given a chance at redemption but he refuse • Dumbledore - “ It is our choices Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities”.
- 15. perseverance • Harry, Ronand Hermione continuously try and figure out how to destroy Voldemort • All of the intertwining stories that emerges here are about keeping faith and staying true to a mission • Perseverance is the name of the game, and all of our character play it
- 16. power • Voldemort’s thirstfor power takes him on a torturing and murdering spree.
- 17. Work citation http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/potter7/themes .html from thissite I found three major themes http://www.shmoop.com/harry-potter-7- deathly-hallows/themes.html from this site I found other themes