Assignment

NAME: JANANI R

ROLLNO.: 38082

1.Lady Chatterly’s Lover:

In 1913 Connie Reid marries wealthy Nottingham colliery

owner Sir Clifford Chatterley but he returns from the Great War
disabled and in a wheelchair. Connie is loyal but begins to feel
alienated as he engages a nurse, Mrs Bolton, to bathe him and
excludes her from pit business. Despite his desire for an heir
his impotency results in a lack of sexual activity and Connie is
drawn to handsome Oliver Mellors, the plain-spoken former
miner her husband has engaged as his game-keeper and who
represents the passion she craves. They embark upon a
physical affair in Oliver's cottage but are discovered and
betrayed by Mrs Bolton. Connie, now carrying Oliver's child,
must choose between a pampered but joyless existence with
her husband or an uncertain future with the man she has come
to love.

2. The Little Prince:

From Mark Osborne comes the first-ever animated feature

film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s iconic
masterpiece, The Little Prince. At the heart of it all is The
Little Girl, who's being prepared by her mother for the very
grown-up world in which they live - only to be interrupted
by her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbour, The Aviator. The
Aviator introduces his new friend to an extraordinary world
where anything is possible. A world that he himself was
initiated into long ago by The Little Prince. It's here that
The Little Girl's magical and emotional journey into her own
imagination - and into the universe of The Little Prince -
begins. And it's where The Little Girl rediscovers her
childhood and learns that ultimately, it's human connections
that matter most, and that what's truly essential can only
be seen with the heart.

3.Jude the Obscure:

Jude the Obscure is the story of a working-class young man

from southern England, Jude Fawley, who dreams of someday
becoming a scholar at the prestigious university at
Christminster, modeled on the world-famous Oxford University.
Before this can happen, however, Jude is tricked into marriage
by the seductive, but opportunistic, Arabella Donn, who falsely
claims she is pregnant. The marriage soon falls apart and Jude
travels to Christminster, only to be denied entry to the
university. The classical studies he has pursued all his life,
almost entirely on his own, have been for nothing. He has
neither the education, nor the money, to become a scholar.
While at Christminster, he meets and quickly falls in love with
his cousin, the vivacious and rebellious, Sue Bridehead. She,
however, marries Jude's former schoolmaster and mentor,
Richard Phillotson, who is cruel to her. Their marriage also
fails; Sue and Jude divorce their spouses, but Sue refuses to
marry Jude.
Then Jude discovers that he has a long-lost son with his
estranged wife, Arabella. Jude's son comes to live with him and
Sue. Still unmarried, Sue and Jude bear two more children, but
are shunned by their community. Jude loses his job as a
stonemason, the family is denied lodgings, and so the five of
them embark on a seemingly endless search for work and
housing.
Ultimately, Jude's namesake, his son with Arabella, known as
Little Father Time because of his grave manner, hangs the
younger children and himself, leaving behind a note which says
only, 'Done because we are too meeny (many).'
Devastated, Sue returns to Phillotson and a life of religious
devotion. They remarry, as do Jude and Arabella. After one
more attempt to reconcile with Sue, Jude falls ill and ultimately
dies at the age of 30. Arabella immediately moves on in search
of her next husband, while Sue lives out the rest of her dreary
life with Phillotson.

4. On Liberty:

John Stuart Mill's 1859 book 'On Liberty' is considered one of

the most important works of political philosophy ever written.
In it, Mill expounds on his theories of utilitarianism and
individual freedom. How should a government guarantee the
safety and well-being of its citizens while also protecting their
individual freedom? This has been one of the central questions
at the heart of political philosophy, the branch of philosophy
that focuses on government, for quite some time. One of the
most important political philosophers of all time is John Stuart
Mill, and his most popular work is his 1859 book On Liberty.
In On Liberty, Mill applies his philosophical system
of utilitarianism, actions based on their consequences, to the
government and argues that a government's primary goal
should be protecting its citizens' individual liberty. It was
widely read at the time, and in the century and a half since it
was published, it has proven to be one of the most influential
books of political philosophy of all time.

5. An Idealistic view of Life:

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan recognizes that the term “idealism”

needs definition. It is clear that he is not a subjective idealist of
the mode of the early George Berkeley. Nor does he much
concern himself with Hegelian rationalistic Idealism. Rather, his
emphasis is on the relation of value to reality. The truly real is
replete with value. The alignment is with the Upanishads in India
and the outlook of the Platonists, especially that of Plotinus, the
father of the Western tradition of mysticism.
The book reflects the meeting of the East and the West. The
broad sweep of Radhakrishnan’s thought brings together Hindu
classic thinkers with the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle,
and with the Anglo-American idealists Francis Herbert Bradley
and Josiah Royce. Less attention is paid to Western naturalism
and realism. That is both the strength and the weakness of the
book. It stands out as an excellent example of its perspective,
and it has both scope and verve.

Radhakrishnan’s general argument is that the ideal world, which

alone is real, lies beyond the phenomenal one of appearance yet
is tied in with it and dominates it. Spirit is working in matter that
matter may serve spirit. In a sense, matter is an abstraction and
not a concrete reality, such as spirit. That is why materialism can
be absorbed and transcended. It is doubtful whether Western
materialists would accept this thesis, but it goes quite logically
with the author’s outlook. For him, the center of the universe is
the transcendent, the Absolute, Brahma, that which has aseity,
being. However, despite this assurance—rather, because of it—he
is sympathetic with other points of view because they have their
partial truth.