Introduction:
An interesting thing about literature is same work can give different meaning, different emotions as per reader's choice. Harry Potter is such an example. Children find it adventurous magical story, Some may call it fantasy and say it has nothing to do with reality while some will find serious issues of real life clearly presented in the novel. The task below is part of that process of digging deep from what is on surface.
Here first is film worksheet where questions are given. We supposed to find web sources for it, finding key arguments and then give examples and explanation of how that those things can be found in the film. Then three topics are described with some details and pictures and in the end self evaluation is done.
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arguments
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Illustrations
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Feminist
reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter: How do the character
portrayal of Harmione and other female characters support feminist discourse?
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Character of Hermoine
2. Position of male characters
3. Position of female characters
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1. Hermoine is intelligent character who
helps Harry in any situation but only Harry become famous. She becomes matter
of ego for Ron and Harry.
2. Antagonist and protagonist are male and
all high positions are occupied by males. Headmaster is Dumbledore; Head of
ministry of magic is Fudge.
3. Women characters are under control of
males. McGonagall Umbridge, Bellatrix and Mrs. Weasly.
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2.
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Discourse on
the purity of Blood and Harry Potter: How do the novels play with the thesis
of pure blood (Master Race) giving an anti-thesis by belonging protagonists
to half-blood / Mud-blood? What sort of synthesis is sought in this discourse
in Harry Potter series?
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1. Fictional races
2. Pure blood’s behavior with mudbloods.
3. House elves and slavery.
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1. Rowling created fictional races, pure
blood, half blood and mudblood. It is parallel with real life. Pure blood
believe them superior and other unworthy.
2. Draco Malfoy and his father often insult
Hermoine.
3. Salazar Slytherin believed that mudbloods
should not teach magic though they have power and makes chamber of secrets to
kill them.
4. There are house elves also who servants
are and they are treated very badly.
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3.
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Confronting
reality by reading fantasy: How does reading Harry Potter make us confront
the reality of our everyday existence?
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1. Harry potter as fantasy.
2. What makes it truthful?
3. Does it help to understand reality?
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1. Harry potter is a fantasy novel where the
world, humans and creatures are created who does not exist.
2. But it is truthful to life because the
characters have universal emotions. Love, friendship, ear, jealousy, and all.
These emotions make it real.
3. It gives a message that even if you know
the magic life does not become easy. One has to face the problem and find
solutions.
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4.
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Self-Help
culture and Harry Potter: How does it stand by an argument that Self-Help
Culture serves
as a tool of social control: it sooths political unrest . . . one blames
oneself for not getting better off is society and remains in one's own
pursuit of self-invention, blaming oneself for the failure rather than the
systems?
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1. Self learning
2. Self help
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1. Hermoine learns by reading the books. To
get more knowledge one must know self learning.
2. Harry and his friends do the things
themselves. They find the chamber of secret, save philosopher’s stone, and in
the end find and destroy all hoarcruxes.
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The discourse
of Power and Politics in Harry Potter: How does Ministry of Magic control the
resistance? How do they prosecute the ‘Other’?
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1. Political institutes
2. Its interruption in school.
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1. There is ministry of magic who control
everything. They make rules, catch criminals, and send them to Azkaban. It
has authority and nobody can go against them.
2. Hogwarts have to do what ministry of
magic say. They appointed Umbridge to the post of Hogwarts high inquisitor to
control school from inside.
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Children’s
Literature and Harry Potter: How far does J K Rowling transcends the
canonical confines of children’s literature and claims the heights of ‘real’
literature?
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1. Characteristics of children’s literature
2. How it is children’s literature?
3. How it is not children’s literature?
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1. Children’s literature is straightforward,
contain childhood events, fantasy, reliable friends, extremes of good and
bad, moral lessons etc.
2. The first three parts can be called
children’s literature. It introduces magical world, new creatures, Harry has
reliable friends, and nobody dies and gives moral lessons also.
3. As story moves it becomes darker and
complicated. Lot many deaths happen and no joyful event happen.
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7.
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Speculative
literature and Harry Potter: What is speculative literature? How far Harry
Potter qualifies for the same? Does J K Rowling transcends the confines of
speculative literature and claim the heights of ‘real’ literature?
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1. What is speculative literature?
2. Harry potter as speculative literature.
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1. Speculative literature has supernatural
elements. It is combination of science fiction, fantasy, superhero, horror
and supernatural fiction.
2. Harry Potter is fantasy which has horror,
mystery, and supernatural elements.
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The theme of
Choice and Chance: How does Harry Potter discusses the antithetical concepts
of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’?
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1. What is more important choice or chance?
2. What does play more important role in
Harry’s life?
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1. In life choices and chances both are
important. Harry makes choices but he also gets help whenever needed.
2. Both choices and chances have same
importance in Harry’s life. By chance he is lived. In dark jungle one centaur
saves him, In chamber of secret he gets help from phoniex, He finds
Gryffindor sword when they needed it to destroy hoarcrux. But their choices
also help them. Sorting hat puts Harry in Gryffindor because he wanted, Harry
and Voldemort shares same powers but the difference is one chooses to become
evil and one chooses to become good. Dumbuldore tells that it is our choices
who define us than our abilities.
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The theme of
Love and Death: How does Harry Potter make use of age old theme of Love of
the dead as well as living as protecting armour? How does Harry Potter deal
with the concept of Death as something inevitable?
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1. Love as most important theme of the novel
2. Theme of death
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1. Love is main theme of the novel. Harry
lives only because of love. Quirrel can’t touch him because Harry had
protection of his mother’s love. Harry is loved by his friends while
Voldemort doesn’t know what love is. Harry says to Ron and Hermoine that
Voldemort has not what we have that is love and friendship.
2. From beginning to end death and dead
people’s memory plays important role. Harry’s parents are killed. Harry has
urged to live with them. As novel proceed more and more people dies. Cedric
dies, Black dies. One of the twin brothers dies, more important characters
like Snape and Dumbuldore also dies and in the end Voldemort dies.
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Moral and
Philosophical reading of Harry Potter: How does the concept of ‘evil breeds
evil’ unfold in Harry Potter? What is the significance of Harry being one of
the Horcruxes?
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Moral lessons and philosophical talk
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In many talks moral lessons and
philosophical ideas can be found especially in Dumbuldore’s talk. In the end
of many books Dumbuldore give Harry some kind of moral lessons like about
love, choices, friendship.
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1. Discourse on the purity of Blood and Harry Potter: How do the novels
play with the thesis of pure blood (Master Race) giving an anti-thesis by
belonging protagonists to half-blood / Mud-blood? What sort of synthesis is
sought in this discourse in Harry Potter series?
Harry Potter is a fiction. Many believe it a
children's literature but J.K. Rowling has included realistic feelings and
problems in it. She created fictional races like real world. In Harry Potter
there are four races. There are pure blood, half blood and mudblood. The
families whose ancestors are all magicians are known as pure blood. If one of
the parents knows magic and other don't, that child is known as half blood. If
person belongs to non magical family that person is called mudblood. In magical
world non magical people are known as muggles and for some of them they are
inferior. Some magical families hate mudblood and believe that they should
never be allowed to learn magic. In novel Malfoy family hates and insult
mudbloods. Hermione experiences this insult several times. Salazar Slytherin
made a chamber of secrets to kill mudblood students at Hogwarts. So, there are
politics of races in Harry Potter and it plays important role in the novel.
2. The theme of Choice and Chance: How does Harry Potter discusses the
antithetical concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’?
Some people believe that in life luck is all
while some believe that our choices decide our future. Harry Potter novel says
that in life chances and our choices both are important. First, it was only
chance that Harry lived. When he needed help, help is always there. He gets
invisibility cloak when needed. In chamber of secrets phoniex comes to help
harry. There are fortune portion also. When Harry can't find way the fortune
potion works. But choices have given same importance. Sorting hat puts Harry in
Gryffindor because he wanted. Harry doubts that sorting hat may have put him in
wrong house but in answer Dumbledore tells him that it is not our abilities
that make us, it is our abilities who define us. Serious Black also says same
thing. There are good and bad inside us but what path we choose determine us.
In the final part, King cross station chapter when Harry meet Dumbledore
Dumbledore says Harry that it's your choice to return or not. So both choice
and chance are important in life.
3. The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter: How does Ministry
of Magic control the resistance? How do they prosecute the ‘Other’?
There are politics, court, and their influence
also introduced. In chamber of secrets Malfoy says that Daily Prophet don't
print about attacks because Dumbledore must have settle it down. This happen in
our world also. Powerful institutions and persons can control media also and
right news never known to people. There is ministry of magic who control
everything. They make laws and punish them who break them. Ministry of magic
interrupt schools also. They appointed Umbridge to the post of Hogwarts high
inquisitor to control Hogwarts from inside. When Harry told Voldemort has
returned ministry of magic don't believe it and tries to stop students from
learning magic. So, politics is present in the novel and it affects school
affairs.
Works Cited
Bhungani, Chintavan. The theme of love and death
and theme of choice and chance in Harry Potter. 3 April 2017. 10 February
2018
<https://www.slideshare.net/bhunganichintan/harry-potter-theme-of-love-and-death-choice-and-chance>.
Johnson, Brandon. Fate
and free will in Harry Potter. 10 February 2018
<https://freebooksummary.com/fate-and-free-will-in-harry-potter-76962/>.
Lamoreux, Kathryn. Race
and Blood Purity in the Harry Potter Series. 5 June 2012. 10 2 2018
<https://hubpages.com/literature/Race-in-the-Harry-Potter-Series>.
Love, Samantha. The
Politics of Harry Potter: Corrupt Law and Totalitarian Government. 2014
May 23. 10 2 2018
<https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/harry-potter-law.html>.
Moller, Carin.
"Mudbloods, Half-bloods and Pure-bloods." 10 2 2018
<http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=4285141&fileOId=4285142>.
Prasida, P.
"Racism in harry potter series." December 2013. Trans stellar.
10 February 2018
<http://www.tjprc.org/publishpapers/--1382950859-4.%20Racism%20in%20harry.full.pdf>.
Rubric for evaluation:
Overall visual appeal
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2
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Navigation and flow
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2
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Mechanical aspects
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1
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Motivational effectiveness of
introduction
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2
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Cognitive effectiveness of the
introduction
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2
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Connection of task to standards
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2
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Cognitive level of the task
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3
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Clarity of process
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4
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Scaffolding of process
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6
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Richness of process
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2
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Relevance & quantity of resources
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2
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Quality of resources
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2
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Clarity of evaluation criteria
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3
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Total
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33
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