The Dark Room is one of the most eminent novels of R.K Narayan written in 1938 which shadows the plight of the women in the male- dominated society. The women who is predestined as the second sex or an incomplete man from time immemorial has devotedly adhered to the male hegemonic order. In ancient times, women were kept under the strict holds of the man and were only believed to have a role in sustaining the ethnicities of the family.
Narayan has represented two extreme women characters, Savitri and Shanta Bai co-existing simultaneously in his novel. The former is the conventional housewife of Ramani (the protagonist of the novel) while the latter is quite modern with her approach and is in quest for freedom, and who also turns out to be
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Ramani is very dominating, harsh, conceited and a callous husband to a great extent who rules everybody in the house according to his whims and fancies while on the other side of the spectrum, his wife Savitri is patient, compromising, beautiful and devoted. Despite of the fact that Savitri has been married to Ramani for fifteen years, she exercises little or almost no control in the house. Her role is confined to just accepting and respecting the decisions made by her husband, no matter whether she likes it or not. Everybody’s mood in the house depends upon his mood be it happy or unhappy, silent or noisy. His behaviour is quite unpredictable due to which Savitri, kids and servants are always in disgust. As every Indian woman, Savitri is beautiful, traditional and very much dedicated to her husband. However, she didn’t receive the same love she gave. Ramani never reciprocated her feelings. Married for more than fifteen years Savitri received nothing but only Ramani’s tantrums. It seems she has adjusted and moulded her life in and around him. Not only Savitri, but kids and the servants, too have accustomed to the quirks, moods and desires of Ramani. Savitri was used to the habits of Ramani, for instance, his unnecessary ways of finding faults or criticising one thing or the other be it clothes, children or food, “Brinjals, cucumber, radish and greens, all the twelve months in the year and all the thirty days in the month. I don’t know when I shall have a little decent food to eat. I slave all day in the office for this mouthful.” (Narayan, 1956: 3). He’d bring guests home without any prior information and would want them to be treated with utmost respect and care, his behaviour being unpredictable he’d treat everybody at home aggressively, without any reason. Disturbed by his master’s unnecessary taunting and criticism the cook, Ranga commented: “I don’t
Both deliberately gender oriented; it is to be resolved how far they follow the
“In that instant I feel the thinness of his arms.” Rodriguez states this about his father and the current state that he is in. This is the first encounter and time Rodriguez and his father exchanged words that night. The reader can infer that his father is still upset about him being fluent in English. Rodriguez also notices the state his father is in and that he is getting old and that his mother looks very sad.
In both dystopian novels they prove their points on how their society is different in relationship but the same in the concept of equality. Both are different by relationship but the same in equality and each society discovers the way of individualism. In our future everyone should believe individualism will be applied to our daily lives and the government will remove
On December 21, 2012, Los Angeles Times published “Let There Be Dark” adapted from Paul Bogard. In this article, Paul persuades his audience that darkness should be preserved by using evidence, reasoning and persuasive elements. Paul uses the natural environment as evidence to persuade his readers that darkness should be preserved. For example, Bogard states in paragraph 4 “The rest of the world depends on darkness as well, including nocturnal and crepuscular species of birds, insects, mammals, fish and reptiles.” This is convincing evidence because he explains the importance of darkness in the everyday lives of many different species in the world and the absence of this darkness would lead to an unstable ecosystem.
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Although differences are somewhat obvious, subtle similarities exist. Undeniably, the common themes that these two works share are the following: first is making a stand for self-identity and individuality. As seen in the two works, search in self-identity in a male-dominated society was in need, where the woman, being a main protagonist in both literatures is downgraded to specific and limiting roles like nurturers, servants, and followers. These protagonist women, Tita and Vianne both go through the same struggle, trying to be determined as who they are in a world that continuously ignores or undermines their needs, wants, and wishes.
Gitta Sereny's book "Into That Darkness" illustrated a disturbing perspective into the life of Franz Stangl, a former police officer of Schloss Hartheim which was part of the Nazi's Tiergartenstrasse 4 (T4 program) of murdering individuals with disabilities, he was also a former SS commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka camps. Stangl was held accountable for the deaths of thousands of Jewish people and other minorities during the Holocaust, with this, Sereny sought to understand how a seemingly average and intelligent individual such as Stangl could take part in participating in genocide. Stangl attempts to resolve his cognitive dissonance through the rationalization of his actions, manipulating his memory of events through selective attention,
In the short story “That Room” by Tobias Wolff the room and what happens in it represents the realization the narrator has about how he has no control of his life. He wants a better life than the one he is living right now. He thrives for greatness in his life but he can only create that greatness in his mind. “I felt the actuality of a life I knew nothing about yet somehow contrived to want myself: a real life in a real world” (Wolff 269). The narrator in this story can’t really do anything about the life his living at the moment, he only wishes to do so.
After viewing Moonlight, which was personally my favorite film of the year, I choose to analyze the scene when Blue takes Chiron to the ocean and teaches him to swim (17:20-19:30). This scene first drew my attention because of Blue’s character. The dynamic of a crack dealer with a heart-of-gold has this duality about it where my heart tells me to love him as a person, but my head tells me that this person is Chiron’s mother’s dealer, and I should despise him for it. Yet, when I watch this scene I can’t help but think of how much I love Blue as a character. He is able to fill in for the role of a father figure, and teach Chiron about life.
They are both representations of male patriarchy who’s downfall are qualities associated with women of the time: they rely on emotion, and think they are superior to their female counterpart but meanwhile are proved otherwise by their inability to reason, while only focusing on vanity and academic
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Although, they have similarity, the two stories has major differences also. First, both author differs the way they introduce and develop their lead characters to the reader. Second, they also differ in perspective from which their stories are being told. Third, they differs on the choice of settings and how it impact to the stories.
Starry Night and The Scream are two completely different types of artwork made by two different artists. Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch being those artists surely makes these pieces of art highly valuable and treasured. Starry Night was made by Van Gogh very late into his career and The Scream was made by Edvard Munch in his mid-career. Even though these two pieces of artwork are made by different people during different times of their career, these paintings look and have very similar aspects. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and The Scream by Edvard Munch both have similar formal elements including color, line, form, light, shape, texture, composition, etc. to depict a deeper meaning of the artists emotions of depression and loneliness.
The narrator holds a strong belief that Ramani is being controlled by the widow and acting in ways she wants him to. The widow is described
The first one is a housewife who is obsessed with the steam on a tablecloth; the next is another housewife whose main concerns in life are due to her