Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.


This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 656-676
Author(s):  
Igor V. Omeliyanchuk

The article examines the main forms and methods of agitation and propagandistic activities of monarchic parties in Russia in the beginning of the 20th century. Among them the author singles out such ones as periodical press, publication of books, brochures and flyers, organization of manifestations, religious processions, public prayers and funeral services, sending deputations to the monarch, organization of public lectures and readings for the people, as well as various philanthropic events. Using various forms of propagandistic activities the monarchists aspired to embrace all social groups and classes of the population in order to organize all-class and all-estate political movement in support of the autocracy. While they gained certain success in promoting their ideology, the Rights, nevertheless, lost to their adversaries from the radical opposition camp, as the monarchists constrained by their conservative ideology, could not promise immediate social and political changes to the population, and that fact was excessively used by their opponents. Moreover, the ideological paradigm of the Right camp expressed in the “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” formula no longer agreed with the social and economic realities of Russia due to modernization processes that were underway in the country from the middle of the 19th century.


Author(s):  
Daniel M. Stout

Chapter four looks at Charles Dickens’s 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities. By examining parallels between the novel and Robespierre’s political philosophy, this chapter argues that Dickens’s novel understands the French Revolution not as an event that gave individuals the right of self-governance but as the event that formalized a conception of citizenship in which individual persons stand as avatars for the national will. The Revolutionary Terror and the guillotine are thus seen as the logical consequence of a theory of the nation that prioritized the People over individual persons.


1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee W. Gibbs

This essay is an analysis of the natural law theory of one of the most important of the seventeenth-century Puritan philosophers and theologians, William Ames (1576-1633). Ames' theory of natural law has historical importance because of its contribution to the formulation of fundamental doctrines upon which modern democratic institutions were raised — such doctrines as the duties and inalienable rights of individual citizens, the social contract or government by consent of the people, and the right of resistance when a government exceeds the bounds of its authority. For although Ames spent his life in England and Holland, and although he died in the midst of his preparations to emigrate to America from Holland, his greatest impact and predominating influence were in the New World, He has justifiably been called ”the spiritual father of the New England churches,” ”the favorite theologian of early New England,” and ”the father of American theology.”


Author(s):  
Rohdearni Wati Sipayung

This novel  has many basic values of human, and the writer wants to share about the social value of this Novel. Although this novel tells of a witch, as we know that the stories of about witches, it may be difficult to find which part is the social value. But the writer wants to find the part that is a social value, because in every story there must be a positive value that can be taken by the reader. The social value of Cooperation, cooperation within a group can make the job easier. The social value of care. Human beings we should care about each other, helping each other and pay attention. The social value of bravery, in life we must have the courage because, as we know there are still many people who are afraid to face the people.


Author(s):  
Lorin Niculae ◽  
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Ana-Dora Matei ◽  
Alecsandru Vasiliu ◽  
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...  

„House of Dawn” is the name of a project pertaining to the Arhipera trademark. It follows the same line of action of the group, namely the practice of social participatory architecture. The project concentrates on assuming the human capital that is in the limit situation of privation of shelter and tries to integrate it in a program that involves qualification and professional conversion in the construction field; the goal of the program is the „overnight” building of a minimal dwelling. The solutions for this category of persons in state of difficulty, situated at the extremity of the society, entails the configuration of varied typologies of minimal evolutive dwellings; as in the previous projects, the solutions aim at a democratic architecture obtained by using the „bottom‐up” model. In addition, the project proposes an ecological approach of the design, a durable development of the dwellings and puts a strong emphasis on the sustainability. From a topological point of view, the plots for building the dwellings for the homeless people will be connected with the existent urban tissue in order to achieve the social integration of the participants in the program; the choice of the plots focuses on unconventional spaces with regard to social habitation. A possibility that has been carefully considered from scratch is the reprocessing of unused urban spaces, including the recycling of the initial architectural function. Through the manifest of this program we propose the conversion of certain unfinished spaces of the totalitarian architecture of The People’s House/The Palace of Parliament into spaces for social dwellings destined for unsheltered people. In this particular case, the architectural recycling transforms the Totalitarianism into democracy and restores The People’s House to the people itself. The project is based on the norms of common law regarding the right to occupy the space meant for habitation. A family that is able to erect a house overnight on a plot on which it has no rights to is dignified to inhabit the respective space and proves to be useful from a social and economic point of view to the community that accepts it. The idea of the project is also sustained by a program of social integration of the beneficiaries and their inclusion in the labor market. The implementation of this type of social architecture is defined by efficiency, adaptability and flexibility and it’s centered both on the consolidation of the communitarian potential and on dwelling as an essential dimension of the humans. At the border of day and night, at the intersection of two spaces placed at the extremes, the Arhipera projects speak about opening the limit and abolishing it.


Author(s):  
Nursafirah binti Ahmad Safian

ملخص البحث: تتناول هذه الدراسة البنية الفنية في رواية "Mandala Dunia Kedua" بمعنى (في إطار العالم الثاني) للكاتب الماليزي عزيزي الحاج عبد الله وتهدف إلى إظهار إبداعية الكاتب في صياغتها في روايته. تعتمد الباحثة في هذه الدراسة على الوصف والتحليل؛ إذ تقوم بتحليل العناصر الفنية الموجودة في الرواية المختارة مع التنويه بمظاهر الإبداع الفني فيها، أمثال: العنونة، والاستهلال، وبناء المكان والزمن، ورسم الشخصيات، والصراعات، وبناء الأحداث، والحبكة الفنية، والأساليب السردية، واللغة والحوار، والصور البيانية، والنهاية التي تختم الرواية. تحاول هذه الدراسة الإسهام في إثراء الدراسات النقدية في الأدب الماليزي، جنباً إلى جنب أنها تسهم في تعريف هذا النوع من الآداب لمجتمع العرب. ومما توصّلت إليه الباحثة من خلال هذه الدراسة أن الكاتب استخدم عنواناً مجازياً كما أنه وفّق في رسم الشخصيات وبناء الأحداث، على الرغم من أن الحبكة الفنية للرواية مفككة. ومن التقنيات السردية التي لجأ إليها الكاتب ضمير الغائب، والوصف، والاسترجاع، والتداعي، والحذف، والرسالة. وجدت الدراسة أيضاً أن الكاتب وظّف الصور البيانية كالتشبيه والمجاز والاستعارة في روايته بشكل واسع، كما أنه قارن الحياة الاجتماعية التي تعيش فيها كل من الأشجار والحيوانات بالحياة الاجتماعية التي يعيش فيها الناس المدنيون. وهذا يومئ إلى أن الكاتب دعا القراء إلى التأمل في حياة الأشجار والحيوانات وطبائعها بشكل غير مباشر.   الكلمات المفتاحية: الرواية –عزيزي الحاج عبد الله–البنية–المجتمع الملايوي.     Abstract   This study undertakes the aesthetical structure in the novel “Mandala Dunia Kedua” by a Malaysian writer Azizi Haji Abdullah that aims to identify his creativity in constructing his novel. The study is descriptive and analytical; it analyses selected aesthetical elements in the novel while explaining the creative features contained in them namely: the titling, the introduction, spatio-temporal construction, character building, conflicts, events formulation, plot development, narrative style, language and dialogue, imageries and the ending. This study intends to enrich critical studies in Malay literature while introducing this indigenous work to the Arabic reader. Among the conclusions of this study: the writer uses a figurative title and has successfully building the characters and developing the events, although that the plot seems to be scattered. Among the narrative techniques used by the writer are: third person pronoun, description, flashback, deconstruction, omission and message. He also use analogy and metaphor extensively. He also compares the ‘social’ life of trees and animal with that of civilized human, an implicit invitation to human to look into the life of these creations. Keywords: Novel – Azizi Haji Abdullah – Aesthetical Structure – The Titiwangsa Montain Range – Malay Society     Abstrak Kajian ini menumpukan kepada struktur estetika dalam novel “Mandala Dunia Kedua” oleh penulis Azizi Haji Abdullah dan bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti kreativiti beliau dalam membangunkan novel beliau. Kajian ini adalah deskriptif dan analitikal; ia menganalisa beberapa unsur estetika terpilih dalam novel tersebut sambil menerangkan beberapa unsur kreatif yang terdapat padanya seperti; penjudulan, pengenalan, pembinaan aspek masa dan tempat, pembinaan watak, konflik, formulasi kejadian, perkembangan plot, stail naratif, bahasa dan perbualan, gambaran dan pengakhiran. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menambahkan lagi kajian kritikal dalam sastera Melayu di samping memperkenalkan karya tempatan kepada pembaca Arab. Di antara dapatan kajian ini ialah: penulis menggunakan judul yang figurative dan telah dengan jayanya membina watak dan mengembangkan kejadian, walaupun plotnya kelihatan berterabur. Di antara teknik naratif yang digunakan oleh penulis ialah: gantinama ketiga, perincian, imbasan kembali, dekonstruksi, pemadaman dan mesej. Beliau juga menggunakan perbandingan dan perlambangan secara meluas. Beliau juga membandingkan aspek sosial hidupnya pokok-pokok dan haiwan dengan kehidupan manusia; satu pelawaan yang tersirat kepada bangsa manusia agar melihat kehidupan kejadian-kejadian ini. Kata kunci: Novel – Azizi Haji Abdullah – Struktur Estetika – Banjaran Titiwangsa – Masyarakat Melayu.


rahatulquloob ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Syed Ayaz Ahmed Shah ◽  
Dr. Zahida Parveen

Our world has numerous cultures. It represents the nation’s way of life and the values they have. It is the typical of every nation to try its best to protect its culture and colure other nations in its own culture. Due to such intentions there is always a war between these nations to ruin the culture of another and to make its culture prominent everywhere, however the world doesn’t allow another culture to enter in, by force. It needs that the ruler culture must have high values to admit others to follow it. If we have an analytical study of various cultures, we can find that there were many cultures that tried to dominate the entire world but due to many faults in them, they were not accepted by human being. It was only Islamic culture that was accepted whole heartedly by all. Because it was the first culture that brought prosperity to the people. It gave them recognition and strengthened them. The following research paper consists of introduction of Culture, its history, after that I have focused on Islamic Culture, its prominent features and its impact and blessing on humanity.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Imam Alam Khan

<p><em>The novel, “The God of Small Things”, is a Booker Prize winner fiction. It is obviously a thought-provoking novel with an apparent viewpoint. It is</em><em> </em><em>a novel by Arundhati Roy, an Indian</em><em> </em><em>writer. The novel is a story of stories where conflicting ideas of various subjects play vital roles. The subjects appear to be really striking. The style is marvelous. The plot construction is excellent, and the characterization is superb. Language is unique. It’s a worldwide acclaimed novel. The novel speaks on subjects like love, madness, joy, cast-discrimination, women’s exploitation and most importantly the conflict between the Laltain (lantern), the big people, and Mombatti (candles), the small people, which represent the class antagonism. All these antagonisms transform into a meaning. The novelist projects so many meanings together and tries to weave a story on Ammu, the protagonist of the novel. She has created a world where the readers feel the conflict between the social antagonisms and emotional meanings.</em><em> </em><em>The novelist, Arundhati</em><em> </em><em>Roy, has tried her best to evolve a literal as well as a figurative meaning of emotions. The readers feel spellbound emotions when they start reading the novel and pass through the strong throng until they finish the novel. The novelist succeeds in making her readers feel a trance. They emotionally find themselves in a pang of emotions which remains until the end of the novel. Though the novel is full of many obscurities where the readers fail to understand the obscure images and local languages in the novel, yet they feel satisfaction at the end as it discusses sensibility of the society.</em><em> </em><em>The reality apparently transforms itself into a crystal clear meaning of life which is very vital to the novelist as well as to the readers. The meaning of life, reality, appears like a protagonist. Hence, the novel under research is under scrutiny about the idea of reality appearing like protagonist.</em><em> </em><em>It is undoubtedly a very successful novel. Readers have liked it very much. The critics have found it interesting. It has been the best seller, too. Thus, this research is trying to find out the answer of the question, Is</em><em> </em><em>the novel really successful in arousing a sensibility? Is the meaning of life appears life-like? Does it personify reality of life? Consequently, this research paper has tried to find out the answers for the posted queries. </em><em>Moreover</em><em>, the obvious answer is, yes it does. It personifies the realities of the tragedies of the protagonists: Ammu and Velutha.</em></p>


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