My Review on the Play and movie 'The Birthday Party' By Harold Pinter

                       Here I am presenting my reading and understanding of the Play and the movie Birthday Party by Harold Pinter.                       I also want to thanks Barad sir, for he provide platform creating this worksheet where students can express even those things which missed out during movie screening or discussing the play and movie.                    ‘The Birthday Party’ is basically showing meaninglessness and nothingness as the Theater of The Absurd. It shows nothingness of human existence. The word Comedy of Menace is also used to describe the play.                              Comedy of Menace term was coined by Irving Wardle. It described in the plays of David Campton. As there is pauses and silence shown in the play that shows Pinteresque effect. Pinter also used many non verbal devices to create the feeling of threatening.                                                         Till the movie is concern to give the effect, I’ve felt the effect of Menace during the play. There are many scenes which created such kind of effect like, while Lulu comes and she knocks the door but that time Meg and Stanley gets frightened about the arrival of strangers. But she was Lulu. So there was Knocking at the Door. Again there was Knocking at the door and that time two strangers were there. So again they frightened. Thus Knocking at the door became medium to create Menace in the play. So the Knocking becomes Threatening and it is used as technical device. While Reading the Text also it gives visual Imagination that is creating Menacing effect.                    The movie could arouse comparatively good effect of lurking danger as the Reading text it arouse. As the Character of Goldberg is confirmed and powerful while McCann has been shown under the threaten of unknown thing, Showing his Weakness asMcCann : Is this it ?Goldberg : This is it.                              Pinter also used that reading newspaper and other connections which proves that basic elements an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles as we can see the reference from the dialogues of Goldberg also that he refers to his past as McCann can viewed as victim of    Goldberg, Goldberg was victim o Society. The dialogues are also unpredictable as in the interrogation scene it’s seen. How the dialogues are spoken like•       Why did you seen that men to play chess?•       What would you do with old lady?•       What have you done with your wife?                                viewing movie has obviously helped in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics like pinteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger as all this are included very well by the director William Friedkin. So here it’s concluding that It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version as this made by William Friedkin.I look forward for counter argue or agreement from all my classmates. feel free to discuss virtual way.Thank you.

Is Teaching a Noble Profession?

Is Teaching a Noble Profession?

                       “A teacher is never an ordinary person. Construction and destruction can be produced in his lap.” The above given quotation by Chanakya shows the power of teachers and teaching. Teaching is a very important activity on which the base of any nation and culture is established. So let’s see what teaching is.

          The word ‘teaching’ means the work of a teacher to provide knowledge and guidance. It is one of the oldest and noblest services to the society in any culture. But the question arises if teaching is a profession or a duty first. According to The Oxford Dictionary the word ‘profession’ means ‘a paid occupation’ and ‘duty’ means ‘a moral responsibility’. So it’s better to call teaching a duty than a profession. Let’s consider that this noble profession is a duty and discuss its importance then. Teaching not only shows the right path that the students should follow but also prepares the human resource for the further development of the nation. It has the potential to have a great impact in the molding of the next generation. That is why education should be valued by social institutions like government, the church, the family and civil society. Therefore teaching is:

·                                   A process to impart knowledge and information

·                                   A process of causing change

·                                  A process to instruct and guide others

                      Teaching is the noblest among all the professions since all professionals underwent education with a teacher. It’s also a process to prepare the next generation of skilled professionals and workers like politician, engineers, doctors, policemen, priests, educators, legislators and good citizens. Teaching, therefore, is considered as a means for which God uses a teacher as an instrument to touch lives.

                         Kalam in his autobiography ‘The Wings of Fire’ pays tribute to his teachers. He is thankful to the teaching that he got from his teachers at the primary level. He was inspired to study further and be a scientist because of the care and guidance of his science teacher Shivasubramaniyam iyer. That is the role of a teacher and his teaching in the life of a student.

                        Another important thing about the profession of teaching is that it enlightens both sides of the teacher as well as the student. In this noble profession not only the students learn but the teacher also learns the lessons of life from the innocent students also. So it is beneficial to both of the sides.

                            Aristotle rightly said, “Those who educate the children are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” So teaching is a profession that provides an art of living. It is not only a duty but a moral duty. It is not a profession but a noble service to the world to create a more beautiful and peaceful world.