The description is, no doubt, powerful and penetrating in its minute details to finger more at the ‘wastage’ of human lives as a consequence of the riot. Human is exclusive with different shades of his emotions tinged with love, sympathy, fellow feeling. Emotion does not obey any strict rules and limitations of blood relation. Hukum Chand, the mighty magistrate calls the unknown dead body as ‘Baba’ (father) as he thinks it to be still alive. Humanism believes in a universal existence of man beyond the limit of biological and geographical borders. Love and compassion can bring man closer. In the Indian concept of humanism, it is expressed in the phrase-‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’, the ‘world is our family’. Hukum Chand becomes devastated at the …show more content…
The writer specially describes an old man and a child who are brutally affected by the partition. The pose of the killed old man floating on the water can remind of Jesus Christ who prayed to God to forgive those very people who wanted to kill him. The dead body of the old man reflects a message of forgiveness for his killers, establishing the kernel of the Indian philosophies that only forgiveness and love can make the wheel of the human civilization move on. Violence can never give one space for victory. Even the dead bodies mock the cruel activities of the human beings through different gestures. The old man’s hair floats like a halo. The word, ‘halo’ implies divine light. The old age and the childhood- both are precious and honoured in Indian culture. Both are weaker sections too. The description of the dead body of the child creates nausea and shame among the readers. The bodies of the women, another weaker section of human society ridicules the ‘devil’ within man. Women are regarded as mother goddess in India and they are never treated as subject to physical pleasure only. The view of the massacre chokes all emotions in Lambardar and other villagers. The whole village look dead although no one has actually died
“She enjoyed all of the concatenated moments of presenting in front of a listening audience” (p.10) While most people are afraid to speak in public, she love it. Humanism seeks the best approach to human life in the world today. They have drugs for treating
“They wept together, for the things they now knew.”(104) The last sentence of the first story in Interpreter of Maladies, reveals the cruelty of the elapsed romance in a marriage. In the two collections, A Temporary Matter and The Third and Final Continent, Jhumpa Lahiri demonstrates that a marriage can be either uplifting or discouraging depends on the mindset held by the couple and the strength of human bonding. Lahiri emphasizes the significance of mindset and human bondings through the ending of the two stories. The endings of the two stories are polar opposite : In A Temporary Matter, Shukumar and Shobha weeps for the termination of their relationship; The Third and Final Continent, by contrast, the protagonist(MIT) enjoys a fairytale-like
Throughout time an individual’s role in which he fits into society has changed. One of the most noticeable changes in an individual’s role in society occurred during the Italian Renaissance during the 14th and 15th centuries with the introduction of Humanism. Humanism gave birth to the concept of individuality a notion which is still alive today. It said that humans mattered and that now mattered, that one should not be part of a whole but rather someone that is unique. Before Humanism people only thought of the after life, of whether they were going to heaven or hell, but with the introduction of Humanism people became more involved in the present, rather then just thinking of what happened after you died. Humanism transformed
In “Hell-Heaven”, the actions of Pranab Chakraborty, a Bengali family friend of the narrator, shapes those around him, including the narrator’s family; as the story progresses, his influence on those around him becomes more profound. The two characters that are affected by Pranab in
23).” The men talk to each other with positivity and friendliness, even though less than an hour ago, they murdered a perfectly capable human being. Instead of mourning the Hindu man’s death, they ironically move on quickly. They act like the hanging was part of their daily chore, instead of a murder. His death is treated as a casual weekday morning, not a loss of a living, breathing, growing
The path, hard-packed from thousands of bare feet that had trod on it for decades, was flanked on both sides by fat, fruit-laden mango trees, the sweet smell of which always seemed to welcome her home.” (Chapter 1, p.2).The narrator speaks on amari who loves enjoying things she never afraid of anything.Amari loves her home and she thinks its so sweet.The narrator wanna show how Amari she is, the way she appreciate things in her life.Even though their whites in her village she still shows how to put a smile on her face.The narrator wants to readers to show how she so grateful for things.Also how she grateful for her family and
The narrator, a young girl named Nea, starts the story in the middle of action. She told that she stabbed a man with knife at eleven years old in order to release her older sister, Sourdi, from the man. “I charged and stabbed the man in the sleeve” (9). This situation is not only a introduction of this story to the readers, but the further explanation of the events explains each of the characters involved in this story. The main character of this story is Ma, who willing to sacrifice Sourdi’s happiness in order to please the man in the society. Next, Sourdi is another main character in this story. She has beautiful face that attracted the attention from admirers throughout this story. Then, Nea is also main character in this story. She is impulsive young girl who reacts in rash to protect her sister from the men that can threaten their relationship.
People have different views on different things. For example, culture; people think many things about different cultures like “What culture are they from?”, or “Where did they come from?” Culture is expressed in ways such as, clothing, language, religion, family values/beliefs, holidays and much more. One’s culture greatly influences the way people see them and the world. In “By Any Other Name”, the school headmistress already makes the girls; Premilla and Santha feel different by giving them different names… “Oh, my dears, those are much too hard for me. Suppose we give you pretty English names (Rau 44)”. Just because those names were too hard to pronounce, the headmistress changed the girls name to somethings else which affected the girls greatly. Culture consistently influences the way one views another and the world as conveyed in these stories, “An Indian father’s plea”, “Multiculturalism Explained in One Word: HAPA”, and “By any other name”.
Men, like in many ancient and modern societies, had a higher importance than women and were considered more useful as they were stronger to handle manual labour. The Hindu scriptures dictate that while men and women have different responsibilities and roles within the community, they should both be treated with equal respect. However in reality, this was not always the case. Sea of Poppies addresses this issue with Deeti, the wife of a veteran and the mother of a daughter, Kabutri. Deeti is raped by her brother in law, Chandan, on her wedding night due to her husband’s infertility and is continuously harassed by him. With the quote “You need a son, to give you a helping hand. You're not barren, after all . . . “ (Ghosh, pg. 11), his prejudice against women as well as his pervasive tendencies towards women emphasise the attitudes of people in mid 19th century India, especially men, that tended to denigrate the role of women. Although Sea of Poppies and Their Eyes were Watching God are set in different cultures, they both portray the privation of women and the damaging effects it can have on an individual. Through the incorporation of accurate historical context, the audience is able to evaluate the treatment of women and men in the modern
The plot in the short story “Hindus” demonstrates how a certain sequence of events can help people better understand themselves. Leela meets many different and unique people on her journey throughout
There has been many changes during the middle ages to now of days in the twentieth century. Even humanism has affected us today through many obstacles every now and then. It is the belief that people can achieve happiness and live good without religion in their life. It helps in many ways one is Education that includes students. Another way is poetry or music how it has changed over the years. Their are other reasons, but many movies replaced to better ones throughout.
Culture, “the language, values, beliefs, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to another” was represented in this movie because it is the culture of Indian people that the woman were to become nuns after being widowed.. They were looked down upon by those who were still married around them and everyone wanted to stay away from them. After becoming a widow, they were expected to stray away from color and only wear white along with shaving their heads, this is an example of material culture, which is “the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry”. The norms (expectations of “right” behavior) of this Indian culture is that once the husband dies, the widowed wife had the choices of: one, dying with the husband, two, live the shunned nun life, or three, marrying the dead husband’s younger brother. A negative sanction, which is “an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a formal reaction such as a prize or prison sentence”, that was expressed in this culture is the thought of remarriage for a widowed woman.
4, pp. 69 ff.), "Humanism recognizes the value and dignity of man and makes him the measure of all things or somehow takes human nature, its limits, or its interests as its theme."
The individual’s role in society dramatically changed following the introduction of humanism. The idea that was depicted is still heavily important today and still holds strong within society. Humanism brought forward the thought that everyone is important and the concept of individuality. Humanism created the notion that instead of being part of a whole, everyone is unique. Before this introduction, most just thought about their actions and what consequences it had in the afterlife; Whether that be going to heaven or hell. Following the emergence of humanism, people started to think more about the present, encouraging education in humanity, the study of literature and enhancement of art – all this expanded an individual’s outlook on life and in turn allowed for the development of personal success.
In conclusion, to practice humanism is to spread kindness and peace each day and to not let the minor, snippy remarks and crabbiness of others bother us. We must try to realize that this person might be having a bad day or be experiencing a loss or hardship. This may be