Reviews on The Sense of an Ending

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The Sense of an Ending:

The sense of an Ending is a celebrated novel by Julian Barnes as The Sense of an Ending is a short novel, but one that packs in a lot. I say that about the novel Frank Kermode quotes that “The stories we tell about ourselves serve as consolatory structure, falsifying origins and ends to grant order and meaning to the which has none” so the title of this book is taken from the Frank Kermode’s book ‘Studies in the theory of fiction’ and it has no ending and no beginning in other words. The title also highlights multiple interpretations as I say that we understand the end of this novel according to our sense so it has no ending. The aim of the book ‘Studies in the theory of fiction’ is making sense of an ending refers to the way in which his characters, relations end messily.

 So I can say that about  the title deals with the entire book as the book opens; Tony is spending a good deal of his time thinking about his relationship with his school friend Adrian Finn, who committed suicide as a young man. Tony is Pooterishly content with his life and mediocrity, which he contrasts with Finn's burning and forensic intelligence. Even as a schoolboy, Finn demonstrated a precocious understanding of philosophy and history. He said that "he hates the way the English have of not being serious about being serious" – words quoted twice in the novel. This is a Barnesian theme too, lying behind much of his work, fiction and nonfiction, even when it is at its most playful.

Reviews on The Da Vinci Code

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The Da Vinci Code:

Here I am giving my opinion about the novel The Da Vinci Code which was written by Dan Brown as we all know that it is a novel which raises many questions in our mind related to religion and Christianity but in this novel Dan Brown also depicts the idea of conspiracy theory that explains an event as being the resultof a plot by a covert group or organization; a belief that a particular unexplained event was caused by such a group. And suspense thriller which is also meant as a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie. While there is a difference in the beginning of novel and movie here in the novel there is a depiction of affair between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene and also proves that Jesus had a affair with her. Dan Brown portrays the idea of Christianity in which he also throws some light on this novel that it has anti-Christian idea.

Reviews on One Night at the Center

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One Night at the call center:

I have given my reviews on One Night at the Call Center at the beginning of my review I want to say that Chetan Bhagat is a person who knows how to do marketing and that’s why he makes use of the themes which can affect to the young or the middle class people as his novel is about 6 call centre employees – Shyam, Priyanka, Esha, Vroom, Radhika & military uncle. Turns out that this book has twist through the literal Deus ex Machina; a plot device where a complicated problem is abruptly solved by an unexpected intervention of a new character. The new character in this story is none other than God. The preface includes a train journey by Chetan Bhagat from IIT Kanpur to Delhi where he meets a beautiful girl who narrates him this story provided he makes the story, his second book.
The novel One Night at the Call Center then starts with the Shyam, as first person – who tells the readers about his misfortunes as a call center employees. Turns out that each one of his colleagues had their own distresses to share. As it said every head has its own head ache, Shyam also shares the woes of the other 5. The 6 of them had their own American names, as the callers from the US could pronounce their Indian names. They had to deal with all kind of meaningless calls , regarding every silly problem that could occur after purchasing a product and they had answer all of their callers patiently .So here we can also remark that the globalization can be seen in this book one Night at the Call Center. After that I want to say that this book can be as self-help book as well as can be also as popular literature as it is read by mass and so I want to say that One Night at the Call Center has an effect of globalization.

Reviews on The Birthday Party

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The Birthday Party:

As per my reading I give my reviews about The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party is a full-length play which was written by Harold Pinter, who wrote this masterpiece as it highlights The Comedy of Menace, which is coined by Irving Wardle, who borrowed it from the subtitle of Campton’s play ‘The lunatic view: A comedy of menace’ and theatre of absurd by martin Esslin.It includes such features as the fluidity and ambiguity of time, place and identity and the disintegration of the language.so we can say that The Birthday Party present deeply political play about the individuals imperative need for resistance.
 Apparently, The Birthday party is a conventional play set in a boarding house run by Meg and Petey where Stanley Webber, a musician, is the sole occupant. Stanley, a shabby looking man in his late 30's is hinted to have a sexual relation with her landlady Meg.
 In spite of a traditional three act division, a simple plot, the play opens up to absurdity when the reader seeks reason behind the actions and is not provided for. This is exactly where the play becomes both menacing and disturbing leaving readers and audience delving into the possibilities of interpretations that may transpire. Pinter had once said
"I think we communicate only too well in our silence, in what is unsaid”.
 For Pinter language that people use in life is an attempt to cover up or evade the truth. The Birthday Party is a dramatization of this horror, of never being able to come clean from the smoke screen of words, the horror of continual evasion, of desperate attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves, the  horror when communication becomes too alarming. Language in Pinter's plays is a deception.

Reviews on Waiting for Godot

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Waiting for Godot:


Existentialism is a 20th century movement primarily, literary theological and philosophical which deals with the meaninglessness of life. So in waiting for Godot the meaninglessness or nothingness can be noticed. Therefore, we can here say that the idea of existentialism is very much present in the play. 

Here, in waiting for Godot nothingness or theme of meaninglessness can be found as one of the characters in this play tells that ‘nothing to be done’. Moreover we can also say that this is absurd play and the central theme is also meaningless of human existence. Further we can say that Vladimir and Estragon this both characters are waiting for Godot, but Godot never comes. In addition to in the second act to arise a hope in this two characters Beckett has put a few leaves on the tree. So, this leaves is optimized so Vladimir and Estragon are keep waiting for Godot and they are hoping that Godot will come on next day. So the idea of meaninglessness of human life is highlighted. 

Reviews on To The Lighthouse

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To The Lighthouse:


 Steam of Consciousness deals with the continuous unedited flow of conscious experience through the mind, which is a technique which was originated by William James and then James Joyce, used this technique after that Virginia Woolf popularized this by using this technique in the novel “To the Lighthouse”. She used this Technique of Consciousness and in which the complication of human relationship, and also class conflicts and all this things can be found. With the help of this technique she wants to show about people’s mind sets and their mentality and behaviour as well and various stages of mind such as conscious, unconscious and subconscious. Narrative technique and Stream of consciousness both can be observed so it helps Virginia Woolf to put her ideas in an effective manner. 
2 Yes I am totally agree with the point that this novel “To the Lighthouse” is a tribute to Mrs Ramsay and critique also because At the beginning of “To the Lighthouse”, Mrs Ramsay's daughters are presented as sporting with "infidel ideas and the character of Mrs Ramsay is round character that’s why we can say that This novel is a critique of Mrs Ramsay and Virginia Woolf also dedicates or rather tributes this novel to this character as one may find out the struggles of Mrs Ramsay in this novel and Lily has long been regarded as a secondary character and Virginia Woolf is present in the character of Lily Briscoe so this novel can be regarded as a critique of Mrs Ramsay.Mrs Ramsay has been shown as an ordinary  house wife and Woolf herself was against of that ideas therefore we can say that it is more critique than tribute.

3 Lighthouse stands for Mrs Ramsay because she is harbour for her family member and very much spiritual guidance. She takes care of her family members and her husband. She manages ego of her husband and if we talk about considering symbolically through presentation we can say that symbol of Mrs Ramsay as we read in the novel she always indicates as an emotional guide for other characters.so we say that she is a central character in the novel.one thing that here we cannot forget that between husband and wife writer creates some distance between them and also their children. Here we can take one example of Mr Ramsay and his son James. If we talk about writer and her biographical context, we can say that writer’s character is more presented in Lily Briscoe’s characters.
4 In the novel we find two myths, Oedipus and Pagan myth. Oedipus myth deals with the character of James who was a youngest son of the Ramsays’. He also loves his mother deeply and feels a murderous antipathy towards his father. So he was suffering from the Oedipus complex in this novel through James character. We say that in the novel father and son are symbolically parched. Phallic symbol represents feminine Mrs Ramsay.

5 As far as my knowledge is concerned this novel can be called as a Kunstlerroman novel. It means artist’s novel. This type of novel it also shows us to artist’s growth. In the beginning of the novel we see that Lily starts to paint her painting but she leaves her painting and after some years passes she starts to give her final ending of her painting. So here we can say that during her time when she left her painting she was also thinking about her painting and that time she also got some new thing and various ideas come from her mind about her painting which she wanted to complete.

6 Here in the novel we can say that the beginning of this novel is not proper at the beginning we come to know the quarrel between Mr and Mrs Ramsay.There is complexity of human relationship between these both characters. But at the end we can say the improvement of the relation between James and Mr Ramsay.At the end of this novel is open ended and also ends with Lily’s painting and there is no clear vision of Lily about Ramsay in the painting and at last this family reaches to the lighthouse.

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Result of my Online quizzes

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