Ajit Kaliya

Deconstruction can be defined as reading texts, films, posters or anything and to find the thing which is hidden, and see the things in new way. It is like revise everything in totally different way than earlier.  It finds binaries and questions them. It is about reading text so deeply and by using the words question the work. Not only for the sake of finding faults, but what really words differs the meaning and gives another meaning of something that is deconstruction I think. I found Leo Tolstoy's short story 'How much land does a man need?' very interesting to deconstruct. By first reading we find it moral story which gives lesson that greed is bad. But beyond that there are many things which can be found problematic. The opening of the story suggests many things. Elder sister and younger sister debate about country life Vs city life, but ultimately city life wins because Pahom who is peasant, feels that indeed they are not happy in this situation. At the time devil ...

Here I am attempting to analyse 1997 Italian movie 'Life Is Beautiful' with structuralist approach. The plot of the movie, we can clearly separate in two parts. First half is Romantic comedy and other half is sad comedy and situation of world war two. This structure can be found in many books and movies. Romance comedies like 'As you like it' 'Comedy of errors' and like company of heroes, The diary of Anne Frank, The pianist and hundreds of other movies deals with situations of second world war. The sign meaning of the movie is that one Jewish father's sacrifice for his son. But the signified meaning is the situation of Jewish families during second world war and Hitler's brutality. Though there is no presence of Hitler. It gives picture of brutal idea of killing Jewish people in gas chamber. Narrator of the film is a man who was a boy in film and tells the story when he is young. Order of the narration is simple. Story starts with hero, he meets a gi...

'Hamlet' can be considered as the most most famous play of William Shakespeare. It is a revenge play which leads to tragic end. But it is not merely revenge tragedy. It is not the plot that made it universal play but the symbols he used, soliloquies, humanism and philosophical questions, life and death, these things makes it universal. Summary: The play takes place in Denmark. When play opens two guards sees a ghost at night walking on the ramparts of Elsinore castle. Then again it is watched by Horatio, who was friend of Hamlet. The ghost was looking like recently died King Hamlet. After his death his brother Claudius becomes king and marries Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet was in deep melancholy because of all this, mostly because his mother's over hasty marriage. Horatio and watchmen meets Hamlet and tells about the ghost. When they came to see the ghost it speaks with Hamlet and says that it is indeed his father's spirit. The ghost describes truth that he wa...

Tom Jones, full title as 'The history of Tom Jones, a foundling' is a picaresque novel by Henry Fielding, which is devided in 18 books. Mr. Allworthy, who lives in Somersetshire with his unmarried sister Bridget Allworthy, arrives home from a trip to London and finds child in is bed. Allworthy searches for the parents. Jenny Jones, maid of the house confesses that she is the mother of the child but denies to tell the name of the father. But her tutor, Mr. Partridge suspected and considered him guilty. Allworthy sends Jenny away from the county, and Partridge also leaves. Allworthy decides to raise the boy and gives him name Tom Jones. Now Bridget Allworthy marries Captain Blifil, a visitor at Allworthy's estate, and gives birth to a son named Blifil. Captain Blifil was jealous of Tom Jones, because he wanted to inherit all of Allworthy's property. But he dies. Now welve years passes. Blifil and Tom Jones grew up together. Tom was treated badly by tutors Square and T...

Ode to psyche is a poem by John Keats. In it he addresses psyche (Female goddess and wife of cupid) like he is talking with her face to face. In first stanza Keats describes his vision or dream in which he finds psyche and her lover Eros (another name of cupid) laying in grass beneath whispering leaves. He says that psyche is soul and Eros is body and they together are laying in the heart of nature. Poet tells that he knew the winged boy but asks who the girl is? And he answers himself that she was psyche. In second and third stanza Keats describes psyche as the youngest and most beautiful of all the Olympian gods and goddesses. He says psyche has no worshippers, no temples, no altars, no choir to sing for her, because she arrived very late. But poet says that he will become her summer, music and oracle. He will build temple on a place where no one has been ever come and he will become priest of that temple. The place surrounded by thought that resemble the beauty of nature and imag...

Ode on a Grecian urn is a poem by John Keats, written in may 1819. It has five stanzas, containing ten lines each. When poem starts poet imagines himself standing before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is in deep thoughts that the pictures on the urn have frozen in time. Poet imagines urn as bride of quietness. Means urn is silent and for it time has stopped. He also describes the urn as a historian that can tell a story. Poet sees fingers on the side of the urn and asks what legend they depict and from where they come? Poet looks at a picture of group of gods or man pursuing a group of women. Poet wonders and questions comes in his mind like what their story could be? Why this struggle to escape? Why this wild ecstasy? Why this mad pursuit? etc. In second stanza poet looks at another picture on the urn. A young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover beneath trees. Poet days that piper's unheard melodies are sweeter than heard melodies. Because they are unaffected ...

'Autumn' is an ode in three stanzas by John Keats. In this poem the poet addresses autumn as it is a human. In first stanza, he tells that autumn and the sun are like best friends conspires how to make fruits grow and how to ripen crops before the harvest. In the process of ripening seeds will drop and spring flowers will grow and whole process starting over again. Poet tells about the bees that think summer can last forever as they buzz around the flowers. But the poet knows better. In second stanza poet describes the period after the harvest when he portrays autumn a female goddess who hangs out around the granary where harvested grains are kept. Hard work was done and autumn can take a nap in fields, walk across little stream or can watch the making of cider (One kind of alcoholic drink made from apple) In third stanza poet says that the music of spring has gone but autumn has its own music. This music includes image of clouds and harvested fields at sunset, gnats flying...