Write a note on Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, and Claudius

Write a note on Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, and  Claudius

Hamlet is the story of Denmark’s prince. Hamlet: A revenge play, tragedy. A play concerned with son’s revenge for the murder of his father. Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, the title is character and the protagonist.

Important characters in Hamlet:

·     Hamlet: is the main character he is hero of the play

·     Claudius: present king of Denmark

·     Gertrude: queen of Denmark

·     Polonius: Claudius’s chief counselor and father of Ophelia and Laertes

·     Laertes: son of Polonius

·     Ophelia: daughter of Polonius she is heroine of the play, she deeply love with Hamlet

·     The ghost: in the play appears in Hamlet’s father

·     Horatio: good friend of Hamlet

·     Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: both are childhood friends and school mates of Hamlet

·     Fortinbras: king of Norway

·     Ronaldo: is a spy Polonius send to him reason is spying of his son

·     Now we deeply understand some major character

Ophelia:  Ophelia was a mysterious character she was Polonius’s daughter, a young beautiful woman.

Ophelia a sweet and innocent girl who obeys her father and her brother Laertes. She has been love with Hamlet.

She has the potential to become a tragic heroine she never really played a big role in the book, but yet she seemed really important.

            Ophelia is an independent young woman, she has an older brother Laertes, who doesn’t seem to treat her best or look at her like. She is independent but still he protective her.

              Ophelia acts like a young lady who is in love she is very mature.

We witness Hamlet’s evaluation or de-evaluation into a man convinced that all women are whores; Ophelia herself is not as important as her reprentation of dual nature of woman in the play. Her biggest fall was how trusting she was, thinking that she would be able to tell if someone lying to her.

A big scene that happened that she wasn’t in that almost definitely had effect on her where Hamlet kills her father. After that time her character changes.

She is no involved with matter of state, She is incapable of defending herself. She is mad.

Ophelia has good reason to unaware of the harsh realities of life. She was found a pond, it didn’t look like a murder but successful suicide.

Polonius: He is a courtier and father of Ophelia and Laertes Polonius is a man, confidents of his Knowledge proud of his eloquence  and declining into deotage.

Such a man is positive and confident because he knows that his mind was once strong and knows not that it is become weak, while he depends upon his memory.

His injunction to Laertes and Ophelia are clear and terse.

Polonius is the complacement, wisearre, infatuate in opinion, precipitate in action and usually wrong.

He is not wholly or obviously a fool nor extremely ridiculous at all.

He can occupy his high place with dignity enough.

He obeys claudius’s order. He could be more economical with his words.

Gertrude: She is a very important character in the play. Gertrude is a very sexual being it is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her.

She marries her dead husband’s brother, King Claudius. She is central figure in the play. Many critic believes that Gertrude had been the lover of Claudius even before Hamlet’s father had died.

We can say about Gertrude tnat she is “self-sacrificing mother”. She was not a bad hearted woman but she had a short animal nature. She was genuinely attached her son. She loves her son and does not betray him, she gives her husband a false account of Polonius’s death, and silence about the appearance of Ghost.

Hamlet’s most famous comment about Gertrude : “Frailty thy name is woman!”

Gertrude inadvertently drinks poison and dies. Her last words show affection towards her son. She does not confess to any sins before she dies. She dies at the cost of her son Hamlet.

Claudius:  The present king of Denmark. Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist. We can day that he is villain of the play.

Hamlet’s major antagonist is a shrewd, lustful, conniving king who contrasts sharply with the other male character in the play.

He succeeds the throne by murdering his brother and marrying his sister-in-low.

He is devious and manipulative. His all thoughts are dirty. He is so evil, he really didn’t want to marry Gertrude, but the kingdom needed him. Claudius is wrong by moral standards.

Claudius was a ‘politician’ a man  who lived by dropping poison into other people’s ears. Somehow he repent his brother’s murder. He prays a God.

In act-3 scene-3 Claudius’s words like this;

“ Oh my offence it semeels to heaven….it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t A brothers murder, Forgive me my foul murder!” It shows his repent his bad deeds are not gave him a sleep.

At the end of the play objection has been made to Hamlet’s forcing to liquor on the king Claudius….

Death of Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, Claudius are shown in the play..

Tom Jones as a Rebellious young man

Tom Jones as a Rebellious  Young man

Henry Fielding was born in 1707. He began his career not as a novelist but a play-Wright.

Novel Tom Jones: here in the novel narrator is not a character. The novel is a comedy. Theme of the novel is a love and irony. The story moves around the life of Tom Jones.

Title of the novel: The history of Tom Jones. Tom is a protagonist, he is a common man. Some important points are related to the novel. a) false imprisonment

b) forced marriage c) circumstantial evidence

d) honesty V/S dishonesty.

The novel is full of dramatic irony.

Tom Jones as a rebellious young man:  Tom’s action consistently  indicate impulsive nature of youth and stam from crape diem philosophy.

The novel starts with Tom. Tom is very mischievous he is good human being by heart his brother Calles him “ bastered ” for others perspective he is not good human being. He grows up to be brave and young man. His true love is Sophia Western.

Tom express his personal approach to ‘doing justice’. Structure of the novel is ‘irony of form’. We can say that destiny plays vital role in Tom’s life.

Novel is combination of comedy and moral judgments.  He is madly love with Sophia , he can spontaneously go to bed with Molly Seagrime, Mrs. Waters, or Lady Bellaston.

Tom lives quite wildly he has thrown away all manners of sophisticated people, yet he is full of emotions.

His first fight with Blifil. We can say that his affairs come to the form of ‘Rebel’. He is rebellious for society. Because society doesn’t show his emotions and goodness. The novel has very deliberate purpose to teach moral lessons with example of Tom’s character.

Tom continually brings about his own troubles simply because his preoccupation with the present does not allow him to see the relationship between past, present, and future.

His words like this: “why do I blame fortune? I am myself the cause of all my misery.. all mischief’s which have fallen me…….”  

Tom makes us laugh at our own weakness.

Tom regains the proper balance between rationality and animal appetite a similar restoration of order occurs in society. The novel has very deliberated to teach moral lessons. One more important thing is that, we are witnessing a change in Tom’s character.

Raja Rao's narrative style

Raja Rao’s narrative style

Biography: Raja Rao born in an ancient respected Brahmin family on 1908. He graduated  in English and History. Kanthapura is Raja Rao’s first novel. Raja Rao is trying to justice ‘Indianness’ in the novel. Raja Rao used english in a creative way, he rejected western style of writing.

Raja Rao’s narrative style: Main point is his ordinary style of story telling.

·     In his narrative style we are shown appropriateness he brings out the difference in the language used by educated, uneducated, young and old.

·     In Kanthapura Achakka uses a language that is typical old women. Kanthapura is a ‘documentization’ of philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, the tents of Hinduism, spirit of Nationalism, and the Recognition of common people in India.

·     His style of narration is puranic.

·     Raja Rao follows the oral tradition of story telling without any break.

·     Raja Rao has used recollection of past to the action in present.

·     The novel starts like this; Our village- I don’t think you have ever heard about it- Kanthapura its name and it is in the provenance of kara…

·     Novel written in three  stands political background, religious background, & social background.

·     Novel has multiple structure, it is a dramatic tale told by old woman. Rao focus cast also here four quarter Brahmin, Pariah, Potter, and Sudra.

·     Raja Rao focus on a small things here in this novel he is taking about Transformation.

·     The people here were mostly poor, illiterate and backward. People were extremely religious minded.

·     Juxstapositionand in dreams and reality.

·     Recollection of the past and present.

·     In Kanthapura Rao has translated the native similes, metaphors, idioms, and phrases that are used in a Vernacular language.

·     In Kanthapura Rao uses many numerous instance like Harikatha, Sankra-jayanti, Payasana, Rohini etc..

·     Structure of the novel is strate forword.

·     Raja Rao uses various other devices like, repetition, additional modification in sentences. We can say that Kanthapura is a recreation of myth.

·     Raja Rao tries to historical figure with real situation, he also focus on Indian village life related with old tradition superstition, religious matter.

·     Village reflects simplicity.

·     The small village shows that how the nation was and is touched by Ghandian ideas. We say that Moorthy’s character reflect passion for action, he turned into a Gandhi man.

·     Raja Rao compares ‘Myth’ and ‘Meaning’.

·     Myth represents our tradition. Myths are the description of  historical events in an idealized manner.

·     End of the novel is very tragic.

·     In political background there is a Brutality of the British is shown in the novel.

·     Raja Rao is trying to create National identity.

·      He says that “ episode follows episode and when our breath stops we move another thought. This is still the ordinary style of our story-telling. I have tried to follow it myself in this story.”

·     Kanthapura is the narration of nationhood, Ghandian ideas, Transformation, Political and Social movement, Religious matter, History etc..

·     M. K. Naik: Raja Rao has presented a creative vision which posses an astonishing origination and distinction perhaps if all the Indian writers of fiction in english.

·     Kanthapura is symbolic of new life emerging out of the dead one. Raja Rao talk about transformation like this Kanthapura to Kashipura.

·     In the novel people try to understand the meaning of ‘Swaraj’ ‘Independence’.

·     Raja Rao beautifully describes a picture of village, a river, a hill and temple with the presiding deity of the village complete picture.

·     He also describes villager’s faith, believes for Kenchamma. In introduction of the novel Rao uses the words like this; “There may be smallpox or influence around you but you make a vow to goddess, the next morning you wake up and you find fever has left you”.

·     Raja Rao gave all the answer in this novel. He compare two different movement first Ghandian and second Myth or Historical. Story belief in caste orthodoxy people not ready to accept the changes.

·     The main point reflect here that is; The variety of complexity of village life.

Characterization: Raja Rao beautifully describes all the characters in the novel. Old women Rangamma, Achakka- narrates whole story. Moorthy- Gandhi man passion for action though he is Brahmin boy he began to mix freely with the pariah.

Ratna- young widow she is a good helping hand of Moorthy. Bade khan- is a typical police officer in the service of the British government.

·     The entire novel bristiles with action and all that action is centered round Moorthy. All characters are simple and life like.

·     There are clear discrimination between Brahmin, Sudra, Pariaha and Potters there are still mutual bonding between the villagers, they live happily with equal social and economical bonding.

·     Raja Rao use the collection Myth in his narration.

Conclusion: Kanthapura is not an allegory because here comparison between Gandhi-British rule and Rama-Ravana. Situation is not elaborate and complete. It is only a convenient comparison.

It is explained through fable or an episode an the Ramayana or Mahabharata or the Gita etc..the end like this all the villagers leave Kanthapura to settle n Kashipura.

Writer use religious metaphor to explain the subtitles of the freedom fighting movement.

Kanthapura is the best example of Raja Rao’s  narration..