The Postmaster

The Post Master

       

      “The Postmaster”, a story by Rabindranath Tagore, the Postmaster is from the huge city of Calcutta and feels out of place in such a distant rural village. The post office seems to contain only two rooms: the office itself, and the postmaster’s living quarters.

                                          

     This is a touching story of a city-bread young man working as a Postmaster, in a remote village to earn his bread and butter. Rabindranath’s finely crafted poetic narrative brings out the haunting home-sickness of the educated young man at a place where he finds no suitable Companion as well as the mellow natural greenery and serenity that encompasses him here, on the other hand, the despair and agony of Ratan, the young orphan girl who foolishly identified her kind master as her elder brother as he took a personal interest in her, has also been worded very artistically in this moving story.

       

         The Postmaster did partly to pass his long leisure which hung heavy in his hand and partly not to be distracted by the memories of his near and dear ones who were in Calcutta. When the moment of parting finally came, and when the Postmaster, having felt a bit of compassion for the servant-girl, offered her recommendations and money, Ratan was rendered heart-broken. We find best relationship between Postmaster and Ratan, in the story. Having believed that she was going to find genuine love and a home sooner or later, the offer of money burned the very core of her being. Bursting into tears, she ran away refusing all the help.

       

      The Postmaster despite his not so little feelings for Ratan realized with a heavy heart that no lasting relationship was possible with her. Finally, as his boat begins sailing swiftly and the village of Ulapur  recedes further in the distance, he tries to find comfort in the thought that “There are so many separations and deaths” in the world.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

My Review of the novel ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’. This novel is written by Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy’s original work bore the title The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge, the story of a Man of Character. It is a long story full of incident and colour relating to his favourite Wessex. In this novel we can find the story of Michael Henchard.

One day Michael Henchard decided to sells his wife Susan and child to a passing sailor. When he was recover from drunk at that time he realise and he regrets his actions,gives up alcohol for twenty one years, and tries to locate them but can’t find them. He proceeds to the town of Casterbridge where he works very hard to rise up to be mayor of the town. But when his ‘widowed’ wife Susan returns with his grown-up daughter, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Jane, he is compelled to do the right thing and marry her. Intertwined with all this is his new assistant, Donald Farfrae, a man Elizabeth-Jane has taken a shine to. 

In this Novel we find that, Henchard is a complex character, but one the reader understands. Donald Farfrae is not the focus of the book. As for the female characters, Elizabeth-Jane is something of an insipid paragon of virtue. Susan and Lucetta are distinctly unmemorable but the array of incidental characters are fascinating enough.

Thus, we can say that Hardy’s representation of Henchard as a man struggling to master guilt, jealousy and the desire for revenge throughout the book is a powerful one. So, here my humble request to all friends please read this novel.

Ode On Solitude

Ode on Solitude

-       Alexander Pope

                       

                      Introduction:

Alexander Pope was great poet in the classical age. He was born at London in 1668. He wrote many thing like, the Essay on Criticism, the Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Ode on Solitude etc.

                       Summary:

In this Ode Alexander Pope describe life of native people. The happy man whose wish and care connected with a few paternal areas bound and his breathe content his native air and his own ground. He passes his whole life in his native place.

In Second Stanza, Poet says that native people’s attire, bread and milk get by herd, flocks and fields. He takes shade in summer and fire in winter by trees. His whole life connected with rural thing.

In Third Stanza, Poet says that the native people have much blest who not find how his hours, days and years are passes. His body is always healthy and his mind is full of peace. His all days are quite. He passes his life very softly and very freely, no tension live in his mind.

In Fourth Stanza, Poet says that native people take sound sleep at night, he sleep freely not sleep with tension. He study very easily and get wet recreation and his meditation in innocence. In whole stanza poet says native man live freely his all work he do with the innocence.

In Last Stanza Poet says that, let live him unseen, unknown means no any man know him and he die unlamented no man know about him and no any one tell where he lie, this is the desire of poet in this Ode.

Hayavadana

Hayavadana

            My review of the novel ‘Hayavadana’. Hayavadan is a play written by play write, actor and director Girish Karnad which drew thematic influences from Thomas Mann’s 1940 novella ‘The Transposed Heads.’ Karnad has skillfully adapted the thematic plot to the Indian legends, the Kathasaritsagara. In the play of Hayavadana we find some major characters as like, Kapila, Devadatta and Padmini.

        In Hayavadana play we can find two plots. The first level, which forms the ‘exterior’ plot, is that of Hayavadana’s story. Hayavadana, a man with a horse’s head, is trying to seek ‘completeness’ by fully emerging as a man. Hayavadana thereby becomes symbolic of a fragmented identity, which is very relevant today. Karnad explores existentialism by intensifying the motif of incompleteness by a broken task and a cracked belly-whichever way you look at him he is the embodiment of imperfection of in completion.

           On the second level, which is the primary plot, is that of two friends, Kapila and Devadatta, who dreams despondently of Padmini. Karnad also depicts the caste restrictions that one has and how one is confined to the so-called ‘caste occupations.’ Devadatta is a learned Brahmin, writing poetry and is physically unfit, whereas Kapila, a Kshatriya, is a wrestler and is physically stonger. Although Kapila is attracted to Padmini when he meets her, he nonetheless arranges the marriage between Devdatta and Padmini. The plot eventually thickens to when Padmini starts to 'Fall' for Kapila merely for the physical strength that she finds laking in her husband, Devadatta. In the play Hayavadana we are treated to a fascinating love triangle love replete with a melange of romance, insecurity, jealousy, sacrifice, opportunism and deception. When Devadatta and Kapila's heards are transposed to each other's body.

           This couses the identity comflict to became more immense for both. as kapila  retreats to the forest unable to confront the problem logically. The  importance that one places body over the mind his explicitly expressed by Devadatta , who now  has Kapila's body "I'd alwasy thought one had to use one's brain while wrestling or fancing. but this body does not wait for thoughts, it acts."
           
             In the play Hayavadana we can see that Padmini imphasizes the physicality of the body. Eventually she finds herself in intense euphoria when she combines the had of Devadatta and the body of Kapila there by according  herself  a high degree of sexual freedom. the play is an interesting read , with humour interjected at the appropriate places to lighten the mood as when Kali wakes up from a long sleep. Hayavadana is able  to engage the reader  through  out the play and is an easy read .

Sonnet. - 116. True Love

Sonnet. - 116. 

True Love

-        William Shakespeare

 Introduction:

William Shakespeare was a great scholar of the Elizabethan era. He wrote three types of drama and sonnet. He wrote 154 sonnets in his life. They were published together in 1609. Sir Walter said that his sonnets are “Cave of Mysteries”. He divided his sonnets into three stanzas of four lines each followed by a concluding couplet.

 Summary:

In this sonnet Shakespeare says about True Love. In the First stanza, four lines he says that if our love of true mind so never comes impediments or struggle in true love. Many alterations come yet love not change that is true love. If remover try to remove it but it can’t remove because it bends with the remover.

In Second stanza, four lines poet says that True Love is fixed mark forever, it never change like, Pole-Star. The Pole-Star rises fixed place in the sky which guide for sailor as same as true love guide for us. Many tempests come in the way of lover but if that true love so, it never shaken by tempests. We can’t know worth of love because it’s worth unknown, nevertheless it is valuable.

In Third stanza, four lines poet says that, time makes fool all things but love not become fool by time. Our body comes under the compass of time as same grass comes under the sickle’s compass but love never comes under anything. Love is not lives only brief hours and weeks but it lives forever.

In the end of two lines Shakespeare says that if this be error and upon him proved. So, he would never write anything otherwise he would believe that no man ever true love.