Gulliver Travels

Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift begins with the protagonist, Gulliver as he sets out for an adventure. He is a surgeon from England who has a taste for adventure, and sets out to find and observe cultures. On his first voyage a storm knocks his lifeboat over and he is the only one to make it to shore. There he is held captive by the Lilliputian people who are only around six inches tall. Eventually Gulliver makes friends and agrees to help them in exchange for his freedom. He takes down the rival towns military and makes peace with them. The Lilliputian leader wants them killed and when Gulliver won’t do it he is accused of treason. Eventually the leader cools off and Gulliver is fine but eventually has to leave because he is going to be killed and he is taxing the small country too much with his eating habits.

                     He is home for five months before he leaves again. The next Island Gulliver ends up shipwrecked on is an island entirely occupied by Giants. He is taken by a farmer who ends up making him a sideshow for money until the queen of the giants comes and buys Gulliver for a lot of money. Gulliver has a mixed experience while staying in the castle. He is fed and cared for, but not seen as human and is constantly in danger. Gulliver also talks to the king about the politics from his homeland and the king just belittles him, saying how silly it all is. Eventually the box they keep him in is set adrift on accident and he is saved by a ship passing by.

                                        

                                                  The next Island Gulliver lands on is an island that floats, thanks to a giant magnet. The king of the island is from a race of people who are always caught up in their own thoughts, so much so that they need a servant to remind them to speak and listen. These people are caught up in learning and creating new sciences but never actually having a practical purpose, and most of the studies are actually contradicting themselves. Gulliver learns that the continent below the island is also ruled with an iron fist by the king who will block the sun and rain from a person who doesn’t pay. Gulliver becomes frustrated and bored and as soon as he is able, he leaves.

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What is language lab?

Modern language lab are known by many names, digital language lab, multimedia language lab, language media center and multimedia learning center to name but a few.

Language Labs are audio and audio visual systems that help students learn new languages through listening and speaking. 

In thert everyday, old school language lab required hardware to be set up in classroom. The teacher occupied one master console while student set at booths with mics. The teacher fed students educational content through a cassettes based system which the students could then listen and respond to at their own pace.

History of Language Lab:

The word laboratory originated in the late 15th century. It refer to a specific structure or a room for mixing chemical and preparing medicine by science experts. Scientists used to follow structured steps to perform their experiments and research purpose. 

Later on this structure was introduced for teaching learning priproc. Any learners can develop one's subjects knowledge practically in controlled condition. Observe and improve through own experience is the key concern of any laboratory.

Today specific requirements of subjects and technology have change the form of laboratories. It has transcended the boundaries of various subjects.

Nowadays laboratory is been used by engineering and language students as well. Popularly it is abbreviated as lab. Language learning has its separate requirements like all other subjects. There are four skills to master as listening, speaking, reading and writing. The sequence of all these skills is also important. 

Advantages of Language Lab:

Students learn much faster in the language lab. Use more resources and varied activities than in a traditional classroom. Language Labs allowe students to practice the language with a much wider variety of activities and exesises based on the computer. Language labs are an intuitive tool for both the student and teacher. 

It is very useful to enhance our listening, speaking, reading and writing skill. Language lab software can help to learn language in simple, easiest way and it improves our vocabulary.

All My Sons

All My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. It is his second play came after his first play The Man Who Had All the Luck. All My Sons based upon a true story which was capture by Miller here very beautifully.

The reflection of the great Grecian tragedies:

All My Sons- the play based on the Grecian tragedies of the likes of Aeschulus, Sophocles and Euripides. In these play main character or the protagonist committed crime and due to that offence they must learn his fault and suffer as a result, and perhaps even die. In All My Sons the elements of Grecian tragedies are presented. Joe Keller first committed a crime and later on he suffering from a previous offence, and punishment for that offence. Likewise it explores the father-son relationship, also a common theme in Grecian tragedies. Ann Deever could also be seen to parallel a messenger as her letter is proof of Larry’s death.

Moreover this play is also considered as the influenced from the play of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, where Miler took the idea of two partners in a business where one is forced to take moral and legal responsibility for other. This is mirrored in All My Sons. He also borrowed the idea of a character’s idealism being the source of a problem. In a way we cannot blame the protagonist because whatever he done it is out of circumstances. He did whatever due to the responsibilities of his family. He wants to make him family well-settle. But in between his wrong work effect on other family and because of that they suffer a lot.

This play also takes into consideration as a failed idealism of American Dream. Arthur Miller later uses the everyman in a criticism of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman, which is in many ways similar to All My Sons.

Tughlaq

Girish Karnad is one of the greatest Indo Anglican dramatists. He has basically written in Kannad. Some of his plays have been translated into English by himself. Karnad has a long and eventful career. He has only three notable plays to his credit. They gave him a prestigious place. 'Tughlaq' is considered as his most famous work.

        'Tughlaq is the second play of Karnad. It is indeed a historical play written in the backdrop of modern times, the period of J. L. Nehru. Here the dramatist describes certain events of the reign a medieval sultan named Tughlaq. It deals with his decision to move his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad and from Daulatabad to Delhi. In this highly entertaining play Karnad explores the paradox of idealistic Sultan whose reign is considered the most spectacular failures in Indian history.

      Tughlaq dramatises the opposites- the ideal and the real, he divine aspiration and the political intrigue. Tughlaq is the protagonist of this New Drama. He has been presented as an idealist aiming at Hindu Muslim unity, at secularism and also at building a new future for India. He is known for his knowledge of philosophy and poetry. But unfortunately he is divided within himself.

       Tughlaq was indeed an idealist and visionary king. In this play Tughlaq is respected by his people. But it was rumoured that he came to the throne by killing his father and brother. Due to his secularism Muslims criticised him. But he did not mind people's criticism. Due to his declaration of the shifting of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, both the Hindus and Muslims became against the king. It is unfortunate because Tughlaq wished for their unity by this act.

       Tughlaq was a learned fellow and a lover of judgement. But at the same time he was a cunning fellow who committed many murders. Tughlaq's stepmother, Saikh, Azim etc. all are killed by him. Barani warned him but due to his suspicious nature he did things which all went against him.  In the end of the play Sultan is found all disappointed and dejected. In fact, his whimsical nature brought shameful situation to him.

       Thus Tughlaq is a fine play. Here the dramatist deals with the problem of search of identity and the problem of isolation and frustration. Though it is a historical play but when artistic necessity requires Karnad does not hesitate to deviate from history.  

The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye is, most simply, a story of beauty and what makes beauty. More specifically, it tells the story of Claudia, her sister Frieda, and their neighbor and sometimes friend Pecola Breedlove. Pecola and Claudia, while often not getting along – Pecola is a bit of the town oddball, and everyone knows how cruel kids can be – share similar feelings about beauty in relation to race. 

Claudia hate Shirley Temple and some of her fellow white classmates because they’re white and, thus, are given attention and praise. Pecola also realizes the power behind being white, but instead of becoming angry, she desires to be like them. More specifically, she desires to have blue eyes, because she believes that blue eyes are what make white people so beautiful. However, more than a story of just beauty, The Bluest Eye also makes comments on race, gender, and getting caught in a life you didn’t intend. Themes that, if you’ve ever read Morrison, you know she’s touched on in practically all her other books.

Morrison’s writing style is always addicting. At once complicated and simple, the book hits on a level that somewhat goes beyond conscious understanding. While her individual sentences can sometimes be convoluted, and there are many times when you just have to trust her, trust that it will all be explained in due course, the power of her story comes through and comes through swimmingly. 

Othello

This  is   William  Shakespeare 's most  famous  play. Through this  play, Shakespeare  has  directly  condemned  Casticism .  A part  from  this  the  play  has been  shown to  be  an  illusions, suspicion  and  spoiled  marriage.  There  are three main  character's  in this  play  but every novel  of  Shakespeare turns to tragedy,  so this  play  is  also  tragic.  Othello  is  the  main  character, his  appearance is black and he is African young man and his wife  Desdimona  is  very pretty and beautiful girl.  Othello  had  understood  this in his  mind ,but  a  person  named  Iago  doubts Othello 's mind  for his  wife . And  this  only  suspicions  Othello away  from his  beautiful  wife. Again  in  the  end,  he  kills  himself at  the   heart  of  repentance.  I  think  that  Othello was  belongs  to  poor  mind  because he  losted  everything.  So  he is  tragic  hero  in  this   play.   

Oliver Twist

Attending the birth and death, takes from the dying woman a locket and ring. Bumble, the parochial beadle, names the boy Oliver Twist. Oliver is sent to an infant farm, run by Mrs Mann, until he is 9 years old, at which time he is returned to the workhouse.

The orphans at the workhouse are starving due to callous mistreatment and cast lots to decide who among them will ask for more gruel on behalf of the group and Oliver is chosen. At supper that evening, after the normal allotment, Oliver advances to the master and asks for more.

Oliver is branded a troublemaker and is offered as an apprentice to anyone willing to take him. After narrowly escaping being bound to a chimney sweep, a very dangerous business where small boys are routinely smothered being lowered into chimneys, Oliver is apprenticed to the undertaker, Sowerberry. Mr. Sowerberry is kind to Oliver, however, his wife, Mrs. Sowerberry is mean, cruel and unjust to him.

Oliver fights with Noah Claypole, another of the undertaker’s boys, after Noah mocks Oliver’s dead mother as a “regular right-down bad ‘un”. After being unjustly beaten for this offense, Oliver escapes the undertaker’s and runs away to London.

On the outskirts on the city Oliver, tired and hungry, meets Jack Dawkins who offers a place to stay in London. Thus Oliver is thrown together with the band of thieves run by the sinister Fagin. Oliver innocently goes “to work” with Dawkins, also known as the Artful Dodger, and Charlie Bates, another of Fagin’s boys, and witnesses the real business when Dawkins picks the pocket of a gentleman. When the gentleman, Mr. Brownlow, discovers the robbery in progress Oliver is mistaken for the culprit and, after a chase, is captured and taken to the police. Oliver, injured in the chase, is cleared by a witness to the crime and is taken by the kindly Brownlow to his home to recuperate.

Oliver is kindly treated at the Brownlow home and the housekeeper Mrs. Bedwin, and after a period of recuperation, is sent on an errand by Mr Brownlow to pay a local merchant 5 pounds and to return some books. On carrying out this charge Oliver is captured by Nancy and Bill Sikes and returned to Fagin’s den of thieves.

Mr Brownlow, thinking that Oliver has run away with his money concludes that Oliver was a thief all along. This assumption is further strengthened when Bumble the beadle, answering an advertisment in the paper, placed by Brownlow, for information concerning Oliver, gives a disparaging opinion of Oliver.

Oliver is forced by Fagin to accompany Sikes in an attempted robbery, needing a small boy to enter a window and open the door for the housebreakers. The robbery is foiled when the house is alarmed and, in the ensuing confusion, Oliver is shot.

Oliver is nursed back to health at the home of the Maylies, the house Sikes was attempting to burglarize. Oliver imparts his story to the Maylies and Doctor Losberne.

The mysterious Monks, revealed to be Oliver’s half brother, teams up with Fagin in an attempt to recapture Oliver and lead him into a life of crime thereby negating the unknowing Oliver’s claim to his rightful inheritance which would then go to Monks.

Sike’s woman, Nancy, having compassion for Oliver, overhears Fagin and Monk’s plan and tells Rose Maylie in the hope of thwarting the plan. Rose recruits Mr. Brownlow, Dr. Losberne, and others.

Bumble the beadle has married the matron of the workhouse, Mrs. Corney. The former Mrs. Corney, attending the death of Old Sally, has taken the locket and ring that Sally had taken from Oliver’s mother on her deathbed. Monks buys this locket and ring from the Bumbles hoping that in destroying it that Oliver’s true identity will remain hidden.

Mr. Brownlow and Rose Maylie meet Nancy on London Bridge and she tells them where to find Monks. Fagin has had Nancy followed by Noah Claypole and, enraged, tells Sikes that Nancy has betrayed them. Sikes brutally murders Nancy and flees to the country.

Monks is taken by Mr. Brownlow. Fagin is captured and sentenced to be hung. Sikes, with a mob on his tail, accidentally hangs himself trying to escape. The Bumbles are relieved of their position at the workhouse, become paupers, and are now inmates at the same workhouse they once managed.