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__God of Small Things:__ “It really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.” Pg33- repetiton of the same quote __Hero of our Time:__ “…fearing ridicule I buried my finest feelings deep in my heart, and there they died” 3 June Princess Mary Passions are nothing more than ideas at the first stage of their development. June 3 __1984:__ p264 : he had never loved him so deeply as at this moment p280 :There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. Pg 180 “You are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we order you to do so? Yes You are prepared to, the two of you, to separate and never see one another again? No! broke in Julia.” **Friendships:** God of Small Things: __Hero of Our Time:__ “…I am incapable of friendship. Between two friends one is always the slave of the other, though frequently neither will admit it--the slave I cannot be, and to dominate is an hard job since one has to use deception as well.” Pechorin 13 May Princess Mary __1984:__ p51 : you did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades. **Forbidden Love** __God of Small Things:__ “When she was eighteen, Baby Kochamma fell in love with a handsome young Irish monk, Father Mulligan, who was in Kerala for a year on deputation from hi seminary in Madras.” Pg 23 Pg224 “She imagined it in vivid detail: a Paravan’s coarse black hand on her daughter’s breast. His mouth on hers. His black hips jerking between her parted legs. The sound of their breathing. His particular Paravan smell. Like animals. Mamachi thought she nearly vomited.” __Hero of our Time:__ 1984: pg 146 “The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt he had a right to.” “as he sat waiting on the edge of the bed he thought again of the cellars of the ministry of love” foreshadowing **Unconditional Love:** God of Small Things: rahel and estha Hero of Our Time: 1984: pg 171 “she has possessed a kind of nobility…Her feelings were her own and could not be altered from the outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” “ they were governed by private loyalties which they did not question.” **Lack of hope:** 1984: “We are the dead” Hero of our Time: “Perhaps that’s why you loved me, I thought. Moments of happiness one forgets, but sorrow never” **Hypocrisy in Gender roles:** The God of Small Things: “Her tolerance of “Men’s Needs”, as far as her son was concerned, became the fuel for her unmanageable fury at her daughter” **Fatalism:** God of Small Things: Hero of Our Time: “why did fate toss me into the peaceful midst of these honest smugglers?” “...fate always seems to have brought me in for the dénounment of other people’s drama’s” “how many times have I been in the axe in the hands of fate?” “Why didn’t I choose to follow the path that fate had opened to me?” 1984: pg146“one could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it” pg 159 “In reality there was no escape. Even one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out” "There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on" **Character-boredom** God of Small Things: “the other students, particularly the boys were intimidated by Rahel’s waywardness and fierce lack of ambition.” Hero of Our Time: “ If you like I’m still in love with her. I’m greatful to her for a few moments of relative bliss. I’d give my life for her. But she bores me.” “What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.” 1984: Julia 160 “Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.” **Sex as a means for rebellion:** God of Small Things: “If he touched her, he couldn’t talk to her, if he loved her he couldn’t leave, If he spoke he couldn’t listen, if he fought he couldn’t win” “Ammu longed for him. Ached for him with the whole of her biology” “There is no time to lose I hear her say Cash your dreams before They slip away Dying all the time Lose your dreams and you Will lose your mind” Hero of Our Time: 1984: pg 163 ‘your only a rebel from the waist downwards’ he told her” similarly to Pechorin since she find little pleasures out of life but doesn’t care about what is really important. **Rebellion in Characters** God of Small Things: Hero of our Time: 1984: pg 166 “He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions the last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it.” Winstons's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party and the Thought Police. “//And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.”// **Freedom:** God of Small Things: Hero of Our Time: “I'll hazard my life, even my honor, twenty times, but I will not sell my freedom. Why do I value it so much? What am I preparing myself for? What do I expect from the future? in fact, nothing at all.” …for me the verb "to marry" has an ominous ring: no matter how passionately I might love a woman, it's farewell to love if she as much as hints at my marrying her. 14 June 1984:  Winston- free –physical ailments are getting better Pg 157 “Winston dropped the habit of drinking gin at all hours. He seemed to have lost the need for it. He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, is fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped. The process of life had ceased to be intolerable.” **Betrayal** God of Small Things: Baby Kochama: “the Kottoyam Police had acted on the basis of a F.I.R. filed by her. The Paravan had been caught.” “or the children must identify the Paravan as their abductor in the presence of a police witness.” “Shall we save Ammu or should we send her to jail?” “Save Ammu” Estha: “yes” Hero of Our Time: “ If you like I’m still in love with her. I’m greatful to her for a few moments of relative bliss. I’d give my life for her. But she bores me.” “When I think of imminent and possible death, I think only of myself; some do not even do that. Friends, who will forget me tomorrow, or, worse still, who will weave God knows what fantastic yarns about me; and women, who in the embrace of another man will laugh at me in order that he might not be jealous of the departed--what do I care for them?” 16 June 1984: p300 : Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me! Pg 80: “under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.” Pg 173-174 “ I don’t mean confessing. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you- that would be the real betrayal” pg173 **Character – anti hero** God of Small Things: tragedy in the life’s of the main characters “By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sticky sweet. Like old roses on a breeze” “Estha withdrew from the world. He grew accustomed to the uneasy octopus that lived inside him and squirted its inky tranquilizer on his past. Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it.” “Rahel grew up without a brief. Without anybody to arrange a marriage for her. Without anybody to …” pg20 “her charcoal still life sketches. The careless, reckless lines were mistaken for artistic confidence, though in truth, their creator was no artist.” Hero of our Time: failure and heroism My whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day (Pechorin, 11 May, Princess Mary) If I must die, I must! The world will lose little, and I am weary enough of it all. I am like a man who yawns at a ball and doesn't go home to sleep only because his carriage hasn't come. But now the carriage is here--goodbye! 16 June 1984: p3 : Winston who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle ( anti hero) p251 : In the face of pain there are no heroes **Setting** God of Small Things: “Swallen cuboards creaked. Locked windows burst open. Books got soft and wavy between thier covers. Strange insects appeared like ideas in the evenings and burned themselves on Baby Kochamma’s dim forty-watt bulbs.” Pg 11 Hero of our Time: 1984: p3 : The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats p5 Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber, their window patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions “Oranges and Lemons” say the bells of St Clements…..Here comes a candle to light you to bed here comes a chopper to chop off your head” p6 : So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions. p125 : The sweetness of the air and the greenness of the leaves. p100 : and in the warm dim light the placed looked curiously inviting p157 : The room was paradise **Oppression** God of Small Things: Hero of our Time: 1984: //p 3 : Big Brother is watching you.// p 107 :War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength p 52 :But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated p37: Who controls the past', ran the party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping of a human face --for ever. ‘…the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.’ The two aims of the party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. "Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right" **Women:** God of Small things: “Pappachi would not believe her story- not because he thought well of her husband but simply because he didn’t believe that an Englishman any Englishman, would covet another man’s wife.” “He stared at Ammu’s breast as he spoke. He said the police knew all they needed to know and that the Kottoyam police didn’t take statements from veshyas or their illegitimate children.” “he tapped her breasts with his baton. Gently. Tap tap. As though he was choosing mangoes from a basket.” Hero of our Time: “Women! Who will understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and lure, while the sound of their voices drives us away. One minute they comprehend and divine our most secret thoughts, and the next, they do not understand the clearest hints.” Women must be given credit for possessing an instinct for spiritual beauty 13 May Princess Mary //I must confess I don’t really like strong-willed women. That’s not their role in life!’// “It is difficult to convince women of something; one must lead them to believe that they have convinced themselves” 1984: Julia pg 136 “Julia was twenty-six years old. She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls.(‘Always in the stink of women! How I hate women! she said parenthetically)” “she had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a party member who later on committed suicide to avoid arrest.” //It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party…’// **Deception and Convincing:** God of Small Things: “In the years to come they would replay this scene in their heads. As children. As adults. Had they been deceived into doing what they did? Had they been tricked into condemnation?” Hero of Our Time: “It is hard to convince women of anything--they must be brought to a point where they will convince themselves. “June 11 Princess Mary 1984 :  pg83 “In the end the party would announce that two and two made five and you would have to believe it” “the party told you to reject the evidence with your eyes and ears” There are two men within me - one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reflects and judges him. In an hour's time the first may be leaving you and the world for ever, and the second? **Structure** The story of a human soul, even the pettiest of souls, can hardly be less interesting and instructive than the story of a nation Intro to Journal entries I don't like him either, and I feel we are bound to fall foul of each other one day with sorry consequences for one of us. 11 May Princess Mary **Pechorin** **Cynicism** //‘Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it. I can never be a slave, and to command in these circumstances is too exacting. For you have to pretend at the same time.’// //‘What if it does? If I die, I die. It will be small loss to the world, and I’ve had about enough of it myself.’// //‘What is happiness but gratified pride? If I thought myself better and more powerful than everyone else in the world, I should be happy.’// **Inability for emotional experience** //‘My whole life has been nothing but a series of dismal, unsuccessful attempts to go against heart or reason’// ‘//The turmoil of life has left me with a few ideas, but no feelings’// "For a long time now I've lived by intellect, not feeling." //‘Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. They are the property of youth, and anyone who expects to feel their thrill throughout his life is a fool.’// "I make fun of everything, feelings especially, and this is beginning to alarm her." **Byronic Hero** "I'll hazard my life, even my honor, twenty times, but I will not sell my freedom." "This is how the hero of our time must be. He will be characterized either by decisive inaction, or else by futile activity." “There are two men within me – one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reflects and judges him. In an hour’s time the first may be leaving you and the world for ever, and the second? …the second?” **Winston** **Not a typical hero** "A varicose ulcer above his right ankle" "Do it to Julia!" //‘There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the world, you were not mad.’// **Laws of society** ‘The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’ ‘He started off by saying that my niece had //consented,// can you imagine’ (women are not supposed to consent for sex) ‘The fate of the wretched man-less woman’ 'They had no instrument to calibrate how much punishment he could take.' (shows true level of division of classes) **Estha and Rahel** ‘As though they were a rare bread of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities’ **Narrative voice** ‘But a viable die-able age’ //‘In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices.’// **Decay** //‘…crazy garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willowherb straggled over the heaps of rubble.’// //'...it had grown knotted and wild, like a circus whose animals had forgotten their tricks.'//
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