Evocation

Bharati Mukherjee explores many facets of feminine consciousness and immigrant experience in her fictions. She has dealt with the ambivalence of their psychic and spatial identity and the trauma of dislocations at multiple levels. The impact of patriarchy on the Indian society varies from the one in the West and therefore Mukherjee has tried to evolve her own stream of feminism grounded in the truth of compulsory displacement that they recurrently undergo. Indian expatriate writers do not write…

Gender is a social and cultural conception of being male or female. The presentation of gender in art often depicts the divide between the social and sexual identification of being masculine and feminine. The roles of males and females have been contested throughout history and has been prominent subject of experimentation in the arts. Although contemporary artworks play a crucial role in advancing the equality of women in society, artworks, especially that of Gustav Klimt, in the past have…

Performance Analysis: A Christmas Carol As society develops and people get busier, the meaning of Christmas is shifted to the point that it becomes just a holiday, a day to have fun, losing its original meaning. Not only on Christmas day, have the perspectives of some people become negative that they lost the passion of life. Instead of enjoying life, people tend to pursue materialistic or work achievements as their lifetime goal to fulfil self-value. The Belvoir production, A Christmas Carol,…

George Harrison was an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is most famously known for being the lead guitarist in the Beatles. Known as the "Quiet One" in the band, he wrote some of their most popular songs such as “Here Comes The Sun,” “Something,” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” After his success with the Beatles, he went on to have a long and successful solo career. Through Harrison 's interest in Eastern culture, he introduced the Western World to Indian mysticism, philosophy,…

Thus, his job is the “cataract” that disables him from truly living, and keeps him from establishing relationships with those around him and wholly expressing his creativity. Gabriel Conroy experiences similar feelings of disillusionment in James Joyce’s The Dead. Gabriel lives in a “cloud” of misperceptions, and constantly suffers from obsessive misinterpretations of how others perceive him. As a result, Gabriel possesses a close-minded and defensive attitude, which affects his ability to…

A fine art, as suggested by the name is the purest form of art. It’s an expression of oneself presented in term of aesthetics and design principles. It can refer to anything made by someone considered an artist, yet the definition of an artist has evolved over time and varies based on context. In Ancient Greece, the term for art was "techne," though that word did not peg art in the modern sense and was instead applied to human activities, especially handicrafts and technical work. The most…

The period after the Second World War witnessed a struggle of women’s rights. Although women were very appreciated during the war, the return of the patriarchal society rejected the idea of women working. Such contempt for women is expressed in Plath’s poem, ‘The Applicant’. The poem may first appear humorous but its underlining context of the objectification of women turns it bitter. This is evident in the title. The word “Applicant”, itself is dehumanising, is associated with jobs, employers…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

Abstract: The Indian born writer Bharathi Mukherjee is one of the most widely known immigrant writers of America. When she got married with Clark Blaise a Creative Writer in Canada in 1960. There onwards she became a Canadian citizen. Her seven years stay in Canada made feel like an ‘alienated outsider’ and an unwanted ‘visible minority’. The racial discrimination meted out to the expatriates in Canada which made her to leave that country. So she came to the U.S.A in 1980 to become a permanent…

William Egginton has given a comprehensive analysis of film in which he argues that “this thematic convergence is not new, but is rather the logical extension of a narrative trope whose history predates the invention of film and, in fact, reaches back to the invention of theater in the 16th century”. William states that what film has brought into the picture at the end of this century is the possibility that the circle will become complete, that the represented reality will cross the threshold…