Mish Mash

While scrutinizing the statistics of the involvement of women, particularly girl child in sectors of education, what materialize is the precarious condition of their intellectual development. This has been one of the most overlooked state of affairs pertaining to societies governed by the sense of patriarchy and poverty. If we turn the pages of history, women had always been a subject of marginalisation and subjugation and their voices were neglected. Even when we look into the history of literature, the number of women authors as compared to their male counterpart is quite less. Lack of proper formal education and inferiority complex created by stereotypes made them subject. The girl child and women in general internalize these ideas and believe themselves inferior to men.            The dominant factor responsible for this condition of the girl child is the stereotypical structuring of the society which don’t allow women to venture out of the domestic rea...

           There is a natural tendency among the human species to consider themselves superior to all the other beings that do not fall in the category of the scientific term 'homosapiens'. Because of this human centered instrumentalisation of the non- human nature, increasing destruction has been the very fate of the environment as a whole. This is the idea of human centered value system that the adherents of deep ecology movement goes against.           Deep ecology is a movement which is concerned with encouraging an egalitarian attitude on the part of humans not only towards all members of the ecosphere, but even towards all identifiable entities or forms in the ecosphere. Thus this attitude is intended to extent, for example, to such entities ( or forms) as rivers , landscapes, and even species and social systems considered in their own right. The idea of deep ecology stands in sharp contrast with the various dominant ideas of ...

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ has been, for long, read as a  prominent example of an absurdist play, dealing with the questions of an existential crisis. But with Beckett, it's best not to get tied down to one particular meaning.Recent scholarship has engaged some other plays of Beckett in the context of Ecocritiscm  Eco-criticism as a mode of studying literature enables the conceptualisation  of nature and natural world as imagined through literary texts.  Most critics have failed to read "Waiting for Godot" as a text that articulates deep concerns regarding an impending environmental crisis. Though ‘environment’ or ‘nature’ as a theme is not employed vividly in the play, Beckett’s setting of the play as dead and apocalypse-like landscapes have much to say about the growing anxieties of an environmental catastrophe. Torn and tarnished by wartime destruction, nature has lost its conventional power to console the threats caused by the war, and the ruination the...