Uncertain Lines

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” “A woman is capable of changing the whole course of history”.The  movie can be summed up in the above two lines. The first 300 dealt with Leonidas and his brave 300. The second part revolves around the events that led to the war. The second part simply has a different point of view. The term sequel would not apply to the second part as the movie has a different POV from the first. The battle shifts from land to sea. Artemisia played by Eva Green has the most powerful role in the movie. Eva is at her evil best. She changes the course of history by creating the God king Xerxes to quench her thirst of revenge on Greece. She has a blood lust to destroy all of Greece and she does not spare anyone in her rampage. She meets her match in Themistocles in cunning, bravery and strategy. The rest of the story is filled with blood, gore and violence along the lines of the first movie. The overall tone and hue of the movie gives the view...

Dress Code in Tamil Nadu The answer to that question depends entirely on the dress that one wears. A few people find women wearing jeans and t shirt as provocative, while some call them ultra-modern. Somehow I can’t understand how much more a woman should cover herself up. What on earth could possibly go wrong when a boy wears a t shirt to college? Does the T shirt cause any hindrance to his studies? Are his grades in direct relation to the T shirt he wears? Character and values are not reflected by one’s attire, but by their attitude and behaviour. More than 60 years of independence and a student does not have the freedom to wear his/ her choice of clothes. I’m really beginning to doubt the meaning of the word “independence”. Will the dress code instill moral values in the students? I don’t know what moral values a dress code will teach us. I do agree with the fact that first impression is always the best impression, but who are we out to impress in college. Do we go to c...

Some of life's experiences are short, but yet unforgettable and one of them to remember for life is "Coffee House '13". I always had a feeling that this was going to be a total fiasco, but it was not. I still hasn't sunk into me that "Coffee House '13" was, in my humble opinion quite a successful show.  We started with the usual meetings raving and ranting about the logo, the budget, the events and lots of other stuff. That was almost two months prior to Coffee House. Three weeks to coffee house and we were still raving and ranting. I was at loggerheads with myself. I had no idea what to do and where to start. Two weeks down to go and we haven't even decided on the events and the invitations. All i had was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny amount of confidence that i could pull this off and with oodles of help from Dominic. Two weeks on, Dominic and myself started bunking classes much to the chargin of a few of our staff. Well, that couldn...

--> Book III of Homer's Illiad General Introduction to Homer's Illiad: The Illiad is one of the foremost achievements in Western Literature. The Iliad is an epic poem written in Homeric Greek around eighth century BC. The Illiad recounts the final weeks of the war between the Trojans and the Acheans, the fall of Achilles, the fall of Troy. Short Summary of Book III: The war is about to begin and the Acheans march in silence towards the Trojans who rush towards them screaming. The Trojan Army is led by Alexandrus also called Paris. He wears a skin of panther and he carries a bow, a sword and two spears made of bronze. He show off his spears in order to challenge the bravest of the Acheans to come forward and fight him. On seeing this, Menelaus comes out of his ranks relishing at the fact that he will be having his revenge soon enough. Alexandrus, on seeing Menelaus is frightened and falls back upon his ranks. Hector on seeing his cowardice rep...

Symbolism in Lord Of The Flies Symbol is somethimg that stands for something else, most often a symbol in a novel is based upon an image. An image is something that can be recognised by one or more of the five senses. It can be seen, heard, tasted, felt or smelt. The image is then made to stand in place of an abstraction which cannot be easily visualised – an idea. Symbols can be divided into two large categories, both of which appear in Lord Of The Flies – public symbols and private symbols. A public symbol is one which anyone can understand without explaination as it uses images that are familiar to us. A private symbol is one which must be explained by the author since its meaning is arbitrarily assigned by him. Thus when we see the crosses on the boys dresses, we know without further explaination that they are christians and that they are supposed to think and behave like Christians, follow The Ten Commandments and so on. This is what we come across in the...

William Golding’s use of satire in Lord of the Flies Since Golding’s purpose in writing his novel “Lord Of The Flies” is to, ‘trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature’, his aim is really to comment upon the civilized world. Golding’s boys are merely the metaphor by means of which he makes his comments upon the real world. His metaphor is itself satirical since it makes fun of adults. Briefly put, Lord of the Flies says that civilized man, in his civilized society is no better than a pack of children running wild without adult supervision. This comparison seems absurd at first, so there is humour in it, but Golding does a pretty good job of making his argument stick. The naval officer at the end of the story is too close to the reality of the war like world we all like to ignore. He looks and talks like a gentleman polished and sophisticated, but in the line of his duty, he will find the enemy and give the order to commence firing, killing indiscriminately...