Fear No More

Introduction

Most of works in literature are written about three major subject : Love, Life and death. "Fear No More' is a fine philosophical poem by Shakespeare. He was master of poetry as well as dramatic art. He is considered as one of the greatest dramatist of the world. In the present poem, he discusses the theme of death. Let's discuss the poem in detail.

Title of the poem

There are some writer who do not care much for the title of there works, but some writers give appropriate title to their works. The title of this well known song is very suggestive 'Fear No More'. It suggests that the dead should not fear anything. The title is an imperative sentence. It is suitable to the poem.

Theme of the poem

  This poem is developed on two or three general themes : First , Time is the most powerful force and everyone has to obey it.  Second theme is superiority of death over life. Death is surrender before it. And third theme is Problems of life, As Thomas Hardy remarks : 

"Life is a chain of problems, death is the solution of every problem."

Phonological Level

'Fear No More' is a melodious song. Here we find the best words arranged in the  best order. This is fine use of alliteration  to create musicality.  

ex.  golden.........girls

       fear.............frown

       care...........cousins

cosign...........come

The poem follows A-B, A-B, C-C rhyme scheme. But in the last stanza the scheme is A-A, A-A, B-B.

     

       

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Introduction

Victorian Age is the age of of novels. This age has produced many outstanding novelists. R.J. Stevenson is a different type of novelist of the same age. His novels are based on various theme. He explores outer world and adventures in his interesting novel     'Treasure Island" while this novel "The Strange  Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" reflects inner world of human being. Other Victorian novelists highlight social problems etc.. of nineteen century English society while R.J. Stevenson discuss about double personality of the same name in the present novel.


Character Sketch of Dr. Henry Jekyll


The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a result of Stevenson's dream that gave him ideas for some scene. He put his ideas and visions into a more coherent from and this novel was written. The novel proved to be a great success within a few months of its publication 40,000 copies were solt. The novel has come to be synonyms with the struggle between good and the novel also introduces strange characters like doctor Jekyll, Adwared  Hyde , Dr. Lanyon  etc. But at present we are concerned with Dr. Jekyll's character only.

Physical appearance


Dr. Jekyll is a middle aged gentleman. He has a large ,smooth faced well manners. He looks a kind hearted person. People all over the city respect him.

As a Scientist


Dr. Jekyll is very intelligent and hard working. He has his own laboratory and he is interested in new experiments. On the base of his studies of science and philosophy. Every man has good and bad within himself to enjoy the pleasures of crime. Dr. Jekyll invents a medicine which changes his from size and face. After taking the chemical he becomes Edward Hyde. Edward Hyde is a complete evil personality. Dr. Lanyon does not like Dr. Jekyll's such unscientific experiment. Dr. Lanyon loses his life because of Jekyll's such experiments on the drugs. 

A Respectable doctor

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a kind hearted doctor. People respect him as a serious and hardworking scientist. But because of such hire social status, doctor Jekyll can not enjoy a free life. He is  a reputed doctor and he has to live accordingly . Therefor he invents a drug  to divided  his personality into two. He began to live one kind of life in public as doctor Jekyll and another in private as Mr. Hyde.

   
His Surrender


Dr. Jekyll succeed to cheat the people in the begging. He is respected by the people as doctor. But on the other hand he enjoys criminal activities as Mr. Hyde. Only some drug convert him into Mr. Hyde who can do anything and Dr. Jekyll enjoys crime but also remains a gentle person. However with the passing of time. Hyde overcome poor doctor. Evil side of Mr. Jekyll become more powerful. At later stage,  Doctor Jekyll changes into Hyde without taking the drugs. This creates a dangerous situation because Hyde is a murderer and people and police are working for him. Dr. Jekyll can not control the situation and ultimately decides to commits suicide. At the end of the novel. He is found dead. He confess everything in his last latter to Mr. Utterson. 

   
Conclusion



Dr. Henry Jekyll has really a strange personality. He is student of science as well as philosophy. He events a kind of rare drug to change his personality. His character gives moral lesson that if you encourage the evil side of your personality you will become Mr. Hyde. R.J. Stevenson has really created this strange and interesting human being.

Thinking Activity : Plague - Epidemic Literature

Hello Readers !

Welcome to my blog. Now I'm sharing with you my opinion about the novel Plague written by Albert Camus and running situation of Covid19 Corona virus. Click here for know more about this task. 

The COVID19 epidemic is going to affect all walks of our lives. Our creative and critical abilities will forever be governed by corona virus pandemic. It is going to open those areas in creating writing and critical reading of literature which were rather not thought as we were in amnesia of pandemic. We may see seminars and conferences on 'Literature and Epidemics'.

Albert Camus's 'The Plague' is one literature text which was the most talked about globally in recent times. As a student of literature we shall know about this novel and what happens in history. There are many quation  in my mind that , how this desis is  happens ? What is reason  behind it? What can people do in this situation? 

There is old sentence : "History repeats". I came to know about this novel during the days of pandemic Covid-19 if you change the 'Plague' with "Covide 19" Corona virus it's seems you are reading tweets. This book is alive today and word describes it:" masterpiece".

આલ્બર્ટ કામુ ની નવલકથા " ધ પ્લેગ" નુ ગુજરાતી ટ્રાનસલેશન પરેશ વ્યાસે ગુજરાતી સમાચાર પત્રમાં ખુબ સરસ રીતે આલેખ્યુ છે. જેમા તે શરુઆતમા જ કહે છે કે, જ્યારે જ્યારે મહામારી શરુ થાય છે ત્યારે ત્યારે એના એંધાણ જરૂર આપે છે.પણ આપણે શાહમૃગ છીએ. કોઈ પણ સ્થિતિ વિશે ગંભીરતાથી વિચારતા નથી. શરૂ શરૂ મા મોઢુ સંતાડી દેવું આપણી તાસીર બની જાય છે. આવશે પણ આપણા સુધી નહિ આવે. અને પડશે એવી દેવાશે એ વિચારસરણીથી આપણી દેવાય જાય છે. 

History many time repeats its aware us but people ignore it then this situation is grown and became a dangerous disease.

The Plague - Albert Camus

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace. The novel is believed to be based on the cholera epidemic that killed a large proportion of Oran's population in 1849 following French colonization, but the novel is set in the 1940s. Oran and its surroundings were struck by disease several times before Camus published his novel. According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but all later outbreaks, in 1921 (185 cases), 1931 (76 cases), and 1944 (95 cases), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

1. Humanity - human self-centeredness VS human sacrifice


This  is very interesting question about humanity. During this very dangerous disease Corona virus  what can people do?. We can see that many people like doctors, scientist, police, sweepers and many other people  fight against dangerous disease day to night for save humans life. In the novel of The Plague,  Albert Camus said that there are many people sacrifice their lives for fight against Plague for save humans lives like doctor Bernard Rieux who sacrificed their lives for save Human from this disease. But other hand we can see that doctor Barnard many times told government about this diseases but government doesn't take it seriously they told that,  થોભો અને રાહ જુઓ. But doctor Barnard knows that this is not simple disease but lack of awareness of government it's spread uncontrollably animals to man.


Stupidity of people during COVID 19 Corona Virus.

We can see in this picture  that many peoples like doctors, police, sweeper and many other fight against Corona Virus for save human's life. But other hand we can see that because of stupidity of people's situation became very critical. 

Corona Virus Plate clapping campaign amid public curfew viral on social meadia, question arose. Amidst the growing havoc of the Corona virus, where the enthusiasm was seen on March 22 for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal of the public curfew. In fact appeal of janata Curfew was  due to people doing social distancing at home and increasing the enthusiasm of people to deal with global epidemic like Corona. But some people took to the street in Delhi, Indore, Ahmadabad and other parts of the country and made fun of camping by taking the crowd, they have also became a character of laughter.  We can see here stupidity of peoples and situation  become very critical.


2.  Science VS Religion -the question of God and religion in times of epidemic and calormities. 

This is very interesting debate running ever never end. In this pandemic situation this debate became very serious. We can see that how people connect this situation with religion. In the novel The Plague we can see the debate between religoun vs science, debate between Priest and Dr.Bernard Rieux.  In his novel Camus said that A catholic priest called Panel ohh he gives a sermon to the city in the cathedral  of the main squar and seeks to explain The Plague as God's punishment for depravity. But can whoes here doctor who loathes this approach the plague is not a punishment for anything deserved that would be to imagine that the universe was moral or had some sort of design to it but doctor vo watched a young innocent child die in his hospital and he knows better suffering entirely randomly distributed it makes no sense it . It is no ethical force it is simply absurd. 

Power politics - Fascist forces of 1940s vs Surveillance society of 2020s.




Power and politics its happens everywhere. In the novel The Plague Albert Camus said that Dr. Bernard comes to know about this disease and he many times awakes government but government doesn't take it serious. They say that   થોભો અને રાહ જુઓ. why they give this kind of answer? anything politics behind it? Dr. many times told that this disease but they doesn't take it serious and situation became uncontrolled. Disease spread uncontrollably animals to humans.


Now the days the dangerous virus Corona spread uncontrollably in the world. 

 Citation

“कोरोना वायरस: जनता कर्फ्यू के बीच थाली-ताली मुहिम सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल, उठे सवाल.” Corona Virus Covid 19 Plate Clapping Campaign Public Curfew Viral on Social Media with Questions, 23 Mar. 2020, www.navodayatimes.in/news/khabre/corona-virus-covid-19-plate-clapping-campaign-public-curfew-viral-on-social-media-with-questions/140336/.



“The Plague.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 May 2020, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague.