Ajit Kaliya

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...

'Nightingale is a famous ode of young English romantic poet John Keats. Ode is a poem that speaks to a person or thing or celebrates a special event. Keats sees and listens one Nightingale singing when he was sad. He was in state of numbness and drowsiness. Because he had taken drug few moments ago. He tells he is not in this state because Nightingale was happy and he was not but it was joyfull sadness by sharing happiness. Keats wants that draught of wine which can take him out of himself and allow him to join with that Nightingale. He thinks that the wine will put him in a state in which he will forget all pains of life. This reflects how Keats would be in melancholy. Further he says about pains of life. Young dies, old suffers. Life brings only sorrows and sufferings. Now Keats says wine is not needed to escape from reality. His imagination can also do it. He realises this and lifted up above the trees and can see the moon and stars but in real there was only little light. He...

'Oliver Twist' is second novel of Charles Dickens published in 1838. It is story of one orphan boy's journey. It's another name is Parish boy's progress. Oliver was born in a workhouse at unknown town. His mother dies after giving birth to him. Oliver sent to orphanage where he treated badly. At age of nine he sent to the workhouse and again treated very badly and starved. Hungry unhappy boys decided to draw straws to choose who will ask for more food and Oliver selected. He asks Mr Bumble for more food. Furiously Bumble gets rid of him and send him to the undertaker named Mr. Sowerberry. Oliver runs away from there. In his journey towards London he meets another boy named Jack Dawkins, an artful dodger. He says Oliver that he will come with him to a place where a gentleman will give him food and place. Dodger takes Oliver to an apartment where he meets Fagin who was not actually gentleman but was criminal. Oliver learns that Fagin's all boys are pickpockets a...