v Name: Gohil Khanjaniba Mahipatsinh.
v Class: MA (Part-1) (Semester-2).
v Roll No: 15.
v Subject: Victorian Literature.
v Assignment topic: “Doing as one likes” by Matthew Arnold.
v Guided by: Dr. Dilip Barad.
Heenaba Zala.
Ø Dedicated to: The Department Of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.
Introduction.
Ø Matthew Arnold has written an essay on ‘Culture and Anarchy ‘in 1867-1868.In this essay’s first chapter he begins his writing with the introduction of ‘Culture and Anarchy’ which is compared as ‘Sweetness and Light ’through which he clarifies that culture is the study and pursuit of perfection so that Sweetness and Light both are main characters.In this chapter he pointed anarchy and he speak of light as one of the characters of perfection and culture as giving us light.
Ø Doing as one likes.
Ø As Arnold Begins his chapter with the point that is sweetness and light as well as Arnold also puts stress on ‘Beauty’ to complete rightly as design it evidently remains to speak also of intelligence or light , as a characters of perfection.
Ø A man with the theories of sweetness and light is full of antipathy against rougher movement.Because according to Matthew Arnold in his time he was mostly surrounded by this kind of rougher and coarse action known as ill-calculated action.These action are mainly with an insufficient light here. Arnold puts a question that what society usually needed or what society people wants to know? And the members of the society never replies their argues or they never acts as any price and because of not giving any actions.\
Ø Arnold Prussian friend, Aminius says that…
“Death, sin, cruelty stalk among us, feeling their maws with innocence and youth”.
Ø And Arnold also concludes that it is impossible to him that all these remonstrances and reproofs should not affect him.Therby he gives his views in speaking of light as one of the characters of perfection and culture provides light, to profit by the objection to drive as a practice as much as he can.
Ø However in the society the middle class has to suffered a lot because their voice is suppressed and so that they have not get voice as well as little bit of education in their life and if they have no knowledge about the structure of the society or the knowledge of particular rights so they could not get normal rightful life. Although it is a right of all human beings who lives in the society.
Ø Sometimes movements which are rough and coarser are going on arroud us but it is basically related to uor individual primary needs. Arnold says that this rough and ill-regulated action.This action with an insufficient light.If in day to day life we get a freedom in practical life then we can think without any trouble.The main idea is that we do not want to live with the troubleof thinking and seer constraints of any kind of canon.
Ø Freedom is a worship for us.It is worshiped in itself but we are just desived to get freedom.It is pleasurable thing to common man that he is free to do anything whatever he actually wants to do or he would likes to do.
Ø According to Arnold individually we are the best judge of our own interests.In a particular state our working-class ,had a strong hold over the centere and they have also own rights and they have fecility to do as he likes.
Ø When industrialization came into existence it affected very well common man’s life.Because of this revolution machinery take place of middle class people’s place.But any English –men would like to do what he perpectually wants. The Atlantic , all sorts of objection are raised against the religion of culture but some of the objectors mocked on this.Although Arnold has puted this idea publically many scholars like austere Toiler (The editor of the daily telegraph upbraids him very kindly in sorrowness-for trifling with aesthetics and poetical facies ,while he himself is bearing the burden and the beat of the day so , that when he riches at that height he also feels antipathy for middle class people because he has suffered from that condition as Arnold passes his life into this kind of condition.
Ø Arnold has given a reference of very good news paper printed in his time in which quoted text are as under officially came in front public also.
Ø Whereas Arnold on the another point and he speaks of culture with an example and influence of machinery world , how it holds us in the society / it is very important to every nation when in our common notion, we talks about freedom which shows our idolatry of machine.
Ø “I see my enemies waiting for me with a hungry joy in their eyes. But I shall elude them.” Is the quote from the essay and here we can say that Arnold has deeply analyzed his enemies.
Ø The state becomes the right reason for the progress from where the authority rules over us, but in his times because of revolutionary ideas they have not marked their struggles because of the highly privileged class of the society.
Ø For the example now days Mr. Anil Ambani and Mr. Mukesh Ambani are came into the category of the highly privileged class and they also have gained market value over the nation or we can say that they have gained their authority over the capital world as well.
Ø Conclusion.
Ø Our industrialists are just the vesses of sweetness and light, being wealthy and comfortable it calls.Culture of industrialism and becomes authentic reconition.From authority/ we found nothing else but jealous classes and a dead lock.
Ø For example in present days there is a trend of Right To Information, through which people can ask question what arise in their minds but nobody dares to question to other members of the society because of the class, power, money, capital, status, gender, etc- makes differentiations in the society.
Ø “The principles which will obtain recognition in the future are the future is the principles for which I have long and jealousy labored. I qualified myself for joining in the work of harvest by doing to the best of my ability the duties of seed-time.
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