![]() ![]() Departing from a critical re-examination of those studies that see in The Matrix a meticulous visualization of Baudrillard’s theory, it will be elucidated that the film’s explicit visual reference to Simulacra and Simulation is but one element within the “smorgasbord” of a double-coded network (Charles Jencks) of intertextual references.īy resorting to Fredric Jameson’s concept of pastiche and his theory on late capitalism, this essay sets out to illustrate that The Matrix is a comprehensive reflection and representation of postmodern culture at the conclusion of the twentieth century. Under close scrutiny, however, it soon becomes obvious that a reading of the movie in terms of Baudrillard’s theory is based on a profound misunderstanding of his tenets. What is striking about the proliferation of explanations of The Matrix is the extent to which the early writings of Jean Baudrillard, especially his Simulacra and Simulation (1983), now appear as the chief interpretive grid of the movie. In every novel, she deals with the theme of liberation of the individual and elaborates it against the backdrop of nation's struggle to achieve independence.Since its blockbuster release in 1999, The Matrix has triggered off an avalanche of studies focusing on different aspects of the movie. Sahgal shows a deep faith in individual freedom, and the single unifying theme that runs through all her novels is man's awareness of the implications of freedom. She explores freedom in all its varied manifestations in her works. Underlying these twin concerns is her preoccupation with the theme of freedom. She deals with marital and political crisis alongside crumbling politics and crumbling marriages take the centre of her fictional matrix. ![]() Nayantara's Freedom of individual and freedom of India emerged as twin themes in the fictional world of Nayantara Sahgal. Her fictional work is a thoroughly integrated system of values focused on the concept of freedom as of fundamental significance to the peace and progress of the human spirit. In almost every novel Sahgal is preoccupied with the individual's search for freedom and self–realization. individual's search for freedom and self –realization. The present study was aimed on an intensive and discerning study of Nayantara Sahgal with exclusive focus on Sahgal's major concern in her novels i.e. So, ‘migration’ and ‘diaspora’: Are their connotations and denotations similar? Are they interlinked? Or are they simply synonymous? Let us explore, and maybe attempt to define and demarcate migration and diaspora: their essences, nuances and effects on the human mind, personality and culture. What is migration? Is it bad? Is it good? How does it affect the immigrant? Is the consequence of migration a feeling of displacement? Or does it differ individual to individual? As no two personalities are alike, as no two mindsets are the same, as no two human backgrounds are similar, what after effects does an act of migration have? It’s a globally heard saying that home is where the heart is… So, how does the heart take a sudden radical shift in location and life? And why do individuals migrate, leaving behind their comfort zones? And since when have people been doing it, this moving from one place to another? Added to the notion of migration is this widely used term in the modern era (maybe earlier too but on a lesser scale than when diasporic literature became a raging trend), ‘diaspora’. The only way we can solve a problem is by human solution: a cooperative solution. When we talk about the greenhouse effect, we are talking about something that affects the entire Earth.The entire human race is facing the same problems.It is important for the world to get together to face the challenges head on as one single unit, be it the problems with the ocean, with the atmosphere, with the population, or with pollution. They go to the root of the viability of the planet itself, making the Earth a lot less habitable.We are facing issues that transcend the boundaries of nations. ![]() ![]() Coral reefs are being bleached and the soil is being dirtied.Not only are we piling in more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere but we are chopping down the sinks, the forests of the earth at a great rate.These problems are certainly matters of life and death. We are actually tampering with the climate of the earth and with the very atmosphere that we breathe in. The world has become so fragile that we cannot subject the earth to the torches we now inflict upon it. ![]()
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