Aarti's assighnment 2016-2018

HARRY POTTER 1)      Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter 2)     Ch ildren’s Literature and Harry Potter 3) The theme of Love and Death 4) WEB QUEST SHEET

WEB QUEST SHEET Sr. Topic Web resources Arguments Illustration 1.     Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter 1. https://www.bustle.com/articles/111644-36-times-harry-potters-hermione-granger-was-a-feminist-icon 2. https://www.inverse.com/article/21202-hermione-is-the-real-hero-of-harry-potter 3. http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/hermione-granger-feminist-symbol-20-years-later_us_59381659e4b0b13f2c65d5c6 # How many time and how Hermione Granger was a feminist icon in Movie Harry Potter. #Why Hermione is the real hero of harry potter. # how Hermione went from literary witch to powerful feminist symbol. # She valued her own education and saw nothing wrong with being a "know it all." The best part about Hermione being exceptionally good at magic was that she never questioned herself and assumed because of gender prejudice that she was less t...

              Theme of love and death  Love and death are major themes in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter books. She herself has said in a recent interview in  recent interview in the Tatler  magazine that “My books are largely about death.” And in  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , one of  J.K. Rowling’s chosen spokespersons, Professor Dumbledore , impresses upon Harry that his “ability to love” is the only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort’s.” Voldemort trusts no one. He loves no one. He doesn’t appear even to have any desires, save one: immortality. Everything that Voldemort is about—his power lust, his obsession with killing Harry—is instrumental to his one goal of cheating death. It is in this context of Voldemort’s refusal to accept his own mortality that we can begin to understand his evil. Voldemort is obsessed with conquering death. He seeks the Sorcere...

v Children’s Literature and Harry Potter: J.K. Rowling has said that she wrote the Harry Potter series in such a way that meant as the readers aged, the books had more adult themes. Anyone who has read the books can see this very clearly.The beauty of a really fantastic book is that the meaning changes depending on the context of the reader. This can be seen in the Harry Potter series. This is less true for the earlier books, where the themes are mostly ‘straight-up-and-down’ and meant to be interpreted in a particular way, like most children's  books. However, as the books progress, they become less of a children’s series as adults can begin to divulge a deeper, richer message and understanding of the characters than a child can.   A child can read this series because they can identify certain characters as good, bad and so on. An adult can read it because they identify that characters are more than their ‘good’ and ‘bad’ labels, that things are...

v  Feminist reading of Hermione’s character in Harry Potter   For many of us, the Harry Potter books had been one of the best memories of our growing years. The novels, woven in the rich fabric of fantasy and magic, embroidered with threads of friendship, selfless love, courage, loyalty, sacrifice, and the triumph of goodness over evil resonated with us at the deepest levels. Harry Potter taught us that even the most ordinary person has the power to bring a positive change in the world. The books gave us heroines like Hermione Granger – intelligent, fierce, and a loyal friend, someone who values books more than her looks. When society was  teaching us girls that being pretty  was the most desirable trait for our gender, Rowling reminded us that it was okay to be awkward and to prefer the pursuit of knowledge over the pursuit of outward beauty. Throughout the series our favorite female characters like Hermione, Ginny, and Luna are shown as not being overtly c...