Thinking Activity on plato and aristotle

 

Question :- How far do you agree with Plato’s objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers? Name the texts (novels, plays, poems, movies, TV soaps etc which can be rightfully objected and banned with reference to Plato’s objections)

Ans :- I agree with Plato's objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers. because literature should give a mirror-image of life it should reflect real life incidents in itself. creative writers took itto another level and by freedom of expression and artistic liberty writer started writing the things which is only possible in imaginative world and not real life. Nowadays a TV show PORUS is going on. In which the story of Puru is narrated but there are so many imaginative parts given. Like his life as a tribal people in childhood and then as king and the war between him and Alexander and many such things are not acceptable if we considere the real life story of maharaja Purshottam.

Question :- With reference to the literary texts you have studied during B.A. programme, write brief note on the texts which followed Aristotelian literary tradition (i.e. his concept of tragedy, catharsis, tragic hero with hamartia etc)
  Ans :- With reference to B.A there was a story of morden literature named 'Black cat'. In the story the concept of tragedy is full filled. The unnamed character first deals with catharsis as he losses all of his emotions towards animals whom he loved the most onec. the moment narrator tried to kill the cat but eventually kills his own wife by mistake. This leads us to the conclusion of Hamartia ; The error of his judgement and thus he himself slipped to his downfall.

Question :- With reference to the literary texts you have studies during B.A. programme, write brief note on the texts which did NOT follow Aristotelian literary tradition. (i.e. his concept of tragedy, catharsis, tragic hero with hamartia etc.)
  Ans:- Far From The Madding Crowd is a novel which i think did not follow Aristotelian literary tradition. In the novel there are more then one main characters and also they doesn't belong to any godlike figure or any warrior type human being. where else there are error of judgement by Bathsheba in novel but it doesn't leads her directly to a horrible end ; till the return of Troy novel also don't have any kind of tragic sopt.

Question :- Have you studied any tragedies during B.A. programme? Who was/were the tragic protagonist/s in those tragedies? What was their ‘hamartia’?
  Ans:- Othello is one of one of the tragic protagonist from the tragedy "Othello". the hamartia of othello was he believed what others told him without checking the credibility of the truth and his fate also done a great part in that. In the end when he goes to kill Desdemona ; his hamartia overcomes thus he doesn't listen to his own betterhalf and kills her. Desdemona gets killed without any reason and thus Othello's hamartia is Believing others without checking credibility of truth.

Question :- Did the ‘Plot’ of those tragedies follow necessary rules and regulations proposed by Aristotle? (Like chain of cause and effect, principle of probability and necessity, harmonious arrangement of incidents, complete, certain magnitude, unity of action etc)
5 :- Yes , Othello follows the rules like chain of cause and effect , principal of probability and necessity and unity of actions. when Othello findouts that the Handkerchief of his mother which was given to Desdemona as present is missing and by Desdemona's misfortune she tells him a lie about it this incident follows the rule Chain of cause and effect.

GPSC workshop

        

     At Atal Auditorium MKBU organized A workshop on Civil Service Exam. The best career option through GPSC  and as Student of English Department we attend it with our co-dinatore Vaidehi Hariyani ma’m. The Career and Counseling cell of Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University organized A workshop on Civil Service Exam. The best career option through GPSC

           

      There were two sessions 1^st session was of the opening the latest Atal Auditorium and 2^nd was of speakers on GPSC.

      In the first introductory session there were several speech by various speaker. Education Minister Bhupendrasinh,Chudasma Dr. Girish Vaghani Vice chancellor of University MKBU,and former Vice Chancellor Dr. Zala Sir , Shree K. P. Swami,  they all  gave introductory speech and exposed their gratitude for opening of  new Atal Auditorium in our University.

       In the Second Session is the core part of Workshop. In this we have a four Speaker. One by one they gave their speech The session begins with the great young motivational speaker Charansinh Gohil, who is Nayab Collector. He share one bitter truth that everyone desire for something else and becomes something different. As he put himself in the same situation. He wishes to become doctor but his road diverged to different path. He has studied science and was the first ranker. But later on he decided to leave it and wanted to do something that brings change in society. He has faced so many hurdles in his life but never give up at any

cost.

        Second was Veer a Bhai Sambhal coming from middle class family. he told that social background doesn’t matter, what matter is Commitment and always be ready for uncertainty of future.   He talks about his personal life and how he reach at top level in his life. By being an external student he achieved a first rank in all Bhavnagar in GPSC. He gave some inspirational quote through his real experience.
   

         Third one was Vivek Tank Sir he gave us information about papers and syllabus and how to  prepare it. He through more light on the subjects as well as preparation method. He gave us strategy about how to prepare, and our goal should be fixed for a certain thing.

           Forth and the last speaker was  Pravinsinh. He shared his own experience in his life about giving the exams and failing many times but he never gave up. It made us full with energy.his speech  was also very convincing and it helped us in many ways for looking forward for this kin of exams.

         After this session there was a question answer session and than the program took rest.

      The allover impression was very effective and It was much helpful for student to understand the way of exam and its preparation.

Ben Jonson

                            Ben Jonson

        Ben Jonson was born on 11 June 1572 at Westminster , London. He was A Playwriter , Poet and also Actor. he wrote English poetry and as well as stage comedy. He is known for VOLPONE , The Alchemist and Every Man In His Humor.He was a successor of Shakespeare . He was a Classic writer and well educated man. As an actor he was the protagonist as “Hieronimo” in the play THE SPANISH TRAGEDY .

⤷ EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR(1598)
              In this work he wrote about a man, named Knowell.who is very concerned about for his boys moral development, and attempts to spy on his own son. there was a merchant -"kitely". he suffers from intense jealously. who thinks his wife has an affair with someone else. the act is full of humor and with great building skills by Ben Jonson
⤷ EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOR (1599)
The Drama is in 5 acts, the settings is of London
The act one starts from autumn in 1599, there is a clown character who speaks "Fustian" as a mimicry of John Marston's style.
it has several reference of Shakespeare too in it.
it is a part of "war of the theaters"