Cultural studies Chapter 3 - Hamlet and To His Coy Mistress

Hello Readers,

Introduction:

As in previous blog I'm already discussed about five types of cs and here I'm going to write about...

how cultural studies is in practice. A tragedy by Shakespeare, Hamlet and a poem by Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, both are taken as an examples.

1. If these two characters were marginalized in Hamlet, they are even more so in Stoppard's handling. If Shakespeare marginalized the powerless in his own version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard has marginalized us all in an era when - in the eyes of some - all of us are caught up in forces beyond our control.

If these two characters were marginalized in Hamlet, they are even more so in Stoppard’s handling. If Shakespeare marginalized the powerless in his own version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard has marginalized us all in an era when-in the eyes of some- all of us are caught up in forces beyond our control. In other words, a cultural and historical view that was Shakespeare’s is radically reworked to reflect a cultural and philosophical view of another time- our own.

And if the philosophical view of Stoppard goes too far for some, consider a much more mundane phenomenon of the later twentieth century- and times to come, we except. We allude to the Rosencrantz’s and Guildenstern’s, the little people, who have been caught up in recent decades the effects on these workers when multinational companies move factories and offices around the world like pawns on a chessboard.

Whether in Shakespeare’s version or Stoppard’s, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are no more than what Rosencrantz called a “small annexment”, a “petty consequence”, mere nothings for the “massy wheel” of kings.

2) The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' tells us a lot about the speaker, the listener and also the audience for whom it is written. But what does he not show? As he selects these rich and multifarious allusions, what does he ignore from his culture?

Actually here only the speaker talks about "સારી વાતો" Not about "સાચી વાતો". For further speaker told many about his beloved and try to convince her for love him to the end and also realise her to I'm loving you and I'll always love you. He told about to how increase our love about physically and also told about that the life is too short...like these he tried to convince her...actually he saw her only the one side that can b only followed by a richest people as well. 

Example:-
As we always watch a movies..many of serials and movies and web series can reviled only one side...they can't saw poverty.
Like films of karan johar the serial 
(Reality show)
" YEH RISHTA KYA KEHLATA HAI" 
Telocaset on Star plus and in that serial the director saw only richness...and the thoughts,love,romance...that can't afforded by that people whom are faces poverty.

Thank you 😇