A Study of Novel
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A Study of Novel
September 1,2025
Name : Pathak Deepika kirti
Year. T Y B A Sem 5
Subject : English
Paper name : A Study of Novel
Class Assignment: The old man and the sea
Home Assignment: Sense and sensibility
Essay : Othello play
Class Assignment
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist,short story writer and journalist.known for an economical,understated style that influenced
later 20th century writers,he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken , blunt public image.Some of his seven novels,six Short story collections and two non fiction works have become classics of American literature.He was awarded the 1954 Noble Prize in Literature.
Summary
On the coast of Cuba near Havana,an old fisherman named Santiago has been unable to catch a fish for 84 days .His apprentice,Manolin has been forced by his parents to seek another " luckier" employer, although Manolin continues to work Santiago launch and retrieve his boat from the ocean each day.
Manolin cares for Santiago, bringing him food and clothing and in return Santiago tells Manolin stories about baseball legends and his younger days fishing in a boat off to Africa.
On the morning of the 85th day , Manolin helps Santiago launch his boat into the sea.Santiago rows over the deep well where he has been trying to catch fish for the past week and decides to try his luck farther out.Santiago ties the marlin to the side of his boat and begins sailing back towards Cuba.During the homeward journey, however his third day at sea sharks attack the boat tearing the flash from the marlin. When Santiago fights desperately killing most of the sharks, but eventually the sharks eat all the flesh of the marlin .
Finally he catches a ten pound tuna.Not after long Santiago feels a hard pull on his line and realized that a huge marlin has caught his hook.The Marlin is so big that Santiago cannot pull it in.The next day Manolin finds Santiago asleep in his shack . Manolin is overjoyed to see him but cries when he sees the cuts in Santiago's hands.He brings Santiago coffee,passing the crowd of fisherman who are marvelling at the marlin's giant skeleton .
Analysis
The novella's protagonist Santiago faces the most strenuous days of a long life spent coaxing a living from the sea. Santiago's story examines ideas about why life involves suffering and failure, and of how to face and endure loss .
The story 's action begins when Santiago's luck seems to have left him.
Santiago,whose eyes are " cheerful" and "undefeated", does not let failure discourage him.
Home Assignment
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
About Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique and comment on the English gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Born: 16 December 1775 ,Steventon Hampshire, England
Died : 18 July 1817 (aged 41)
Winchester, Hampshire, England
Occupation: Novelist
Notable Work :
*Sense and Sensibility (1811)
*Pride and Prejudice (1813)
*Mansfield Park (1814)
*Emma (1816)
*Northanger Abbey (1817)
*Persuasion (1817)
Themes:
Money and Inheritance:
Laws surrounding inheritance are what put the Dashwood women in limbo at the beginning of the novel and their lack of money, compounded with their inability to work.
Gender:
There are very definite limitations involved in the society Austen describes women cannot own property,are expected to stay in the house,marry and be polite and good.
Men can decide whether or not to pursue a career if they have enough money.
Marriage:
For Marianne and Elinor , marriage is not a choice but a necessity and their need to marry expediently and well is a pressing concern in the novel,as they look for suiters.
Expectations vs Reality
This is an important theme with regard to Marianne and her mother, whose romantic characters lead them to expect greater drama or trauma than actually appears.But reality always tends to subvert expectations, whether in life or in art ,as accidents and unexpected turns happen to everyone.
Appearance vs Reality
Pertains to character especially,as many characters in the novel present themselves as one thing, and ends up being another.Willoughby is the prime example of this,as he seems romantic,open ,and genuine but ends up exposing himself as vain ,idle,and cruel .
Discretion
Of the utmost importance in polite society, where it is not to one's advantage to let people know all that you think and feel.
Marianne's lack of discretion leads to a great deal of gossip and a very public snubbing by Willoughby,lack of discretion in many others indicates poor manners and lack of refinement.
Expectations and Disappointment
Throughout the novel many characters develop expectations based on sparse evidence or faculty perceptions,this of course leads to disappointment as reality proves very different.Joyful expectations are often dashed by harsher turns of events,as Marianne is extremely disappointed by her expectations of being married to Willoughby ,and is pushed away.
Secrecy
Usually an indication of wrong doing on someone's part ,as is especially evident in Willoughby,his sudden unwillingness to share information with Marianne and the Dashwoods indicates mistakes made on his part .
On the other hand,as with Edward, secrecy can be a sign of discretion, though when his secret is revealed it is damaging as Willoughby 's is.
Essay :Othello play
Othello begins on a street in venice , in the midst of an argument between Roderigo a rich man and lago.
Roderigo has just learned that Desdemona has married Othello,a general whom lago begrudgingly serves as ensign. Lago says he hates Othello.
Unseen ,lago and Roderigo cry out to Brabanzio that his daughter Desdemona has been stolen by and married to Othello, the Moor .
Brabanzio finds that his daughter is indeed missing,and he gathers some officers to find Othello.Not wanting his hatred of Othello to be known,lago leaves Roderigo and hurries back to Othello before Brabanzio sees him.At Othello lodgings ,Cassio arrives with an urgent message from the duke: Othello 's help is needed in the matter of the imminent Turkish invasion of cyprus.Not long afterward, Brabanzio arrives with Roderigo and others and accuses Othello of stealing his daughter by witchcraft.
Brabanzio's plan backfires .The Duke and the senate are very sympathetic towards Othello.Given a chance to speak for himself, Othello explains that he wooed and won Desdemona not by witchcraft but with the stories of his adventures in travel and war.
The duke finds Othello 's explanation convincing and Desdemona herself enters at this point to defend her choice in marriage and to announce to her father that her allegiance is now for her husband.Brabanzio
is furious but acquiesces and allows the senate meeting to resume. The duke says that Othello must go to Cyprus to aid in the defence against Turks,who are headed for the island.Desdemona insists to accompany her husband on his trip and preparations are made for them to depart that night.
In Cyprus, Othello arrives greets his wife and announces that there will be revealing that evening to celebrate Cyprus 's safety from the Turks. Once everyone has left Roderigo complains to lago that he has no chance of breaking up Othello's marriage.Lago assures Roderigo that as soon as Desdemona's " blood is made dull with the act of sport,she will lose interest in Othello and seek sexual satisfaction elsewhere.
That night Othello accuses of being a whore.
He ignores her protestion.Later that night however, Othello ominously tells Desdemona to wait for him in bed and to send Emilia away.Meanwhile Lago instructs Roderigo to ambush Cassio,but Roderigo misses his mark and Cassio wounds him instead.Meanwhile Othello smothers Desdemona.
At first,Othello that lago has told the truth, citing the handkerchief as evidence.Once Emilia tells him how she found the handkerchief and gave to lago, Othello is crused and begins to weep.Hw tries to kill lago but is disarmed.Lago kills Emilia and flees,but he is caught by lodovico and Montano.Cassio is now in chair because of his wound.
Othello makes a speech about how he would be remembered,then kills himself with a sword .
