Friday, September 3, 2021
Door in the wall by H.G. Wells Quiz
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Quiz
- Where Wallace came after the garden vanished?
- street in West Kensington
- school in West Kensington
- shop of West Kensington
- Was Wallace sure of what he saw?
- Yes
- No
- it might be a daytime dream
- How Wallace felt after his return?
- he wept and prayed to return to it
- he felt relieved
- no emotion at all
- What age Wallace was when he saw the door again?
- he was seven years old
- he was eight years old
- he was nine years old
- Why Wallace did not enter the door second time?
- his father was nearby
- he fears to enter in it
- he was late for school
- Whom Wallace blabbed about the door?
- A schoolfellow Young Hopkins
- To his nursery governess
- To father
- Who said it was the best lie he had ever heard?
- Big Fawsett
- Crawshaw major
- Morley Reynold
- Who made the joke about girl in green
- Fawcett
- Reynold
- Crawshaw
- Who held a council over wanton lies
- Fawcett
- Carnaby
- Crawshaw
- When did Wallace saw the door third time?
- on way to Oxford scholarship
- on way to Cambridge scholarship
- on way to California scholarship
- How many times door offer itself to Wallace?
- four times
- three times
- two times
- Which door opened for Wallace as he neglected The Door?
- a door to failure
- a door to money
- door of career
- How Wallace felt at the age of 40?
- He longed for The Door
- He wanted to more hard work
- He don’t want door to appear
- What was Wallace by profession?
- Principal
- A Cabinet Minister
- President of Country
- Where was Wallace body found?
- in excavation (East Kensington station)
- in office where he works
- in the trench
- Why Wallace went through that door?
- because somebody push him
- because of hallucinations of the green door
- because of political reason
- Who told Wallace story?
- Redmond
- Reynolds
- Carnaby
- What Redmond thought next morning as he recall the story?
- it seemed fantastic tale well-told
- real experience
- a dream
- What price had Wallace belief caused him?
- His lost of career
- His lost of loved ones
- his own life
- In the end, the door
- Offers itself
- Betrays him
Friday, October 23, 2020
Lectures on fine arts by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel Aesthetics from “the Introduction to Lectures on fine arts”
Hegel clears
four false notions about art in his work “the work of Art as a product of Human
Activity”. Besides clearing the objections, he praises the art by providing the
aim of art.
The four
perceptions about art were following
Firstly, it was
known that art is conscious effort of some external object by individual. When
that art is known, learnt and pursued, it has granted universal association. So
work of art is confined to some rules. Other artists imitate that work of art
through prescriptions for their practical applications.
Secondly, work
of art is considered as work of talent and genius of a specially gifted spirit.
Man has no power to give this talent to himself with self-conscious activity.
It is considered superfluous and harmful because it is produced particularly in
state of inspiration. This state excited their genius and they transpose the
object by their own swing of mood.
Thirdly, work
of art is ranked with the external phenomenon of nature and considered below
the product of nature. Art is viewed as a dead thing because it encompasses
life on surface as compared to nature. Another objection was that the things
created by God has surely a higher place.
Fourth and last
one is the question that arises on the work of Art. It is one the need that
what is man need to produce works of art? There were two objections on the
arts. At first, aim of art can be achieved by better means because it’s just a
play of fancies. And the other is art satisfy the higher needs which produced
from higher impulses.
Hegel gives
them ingenious answers to comprehend the true conception of art. He, unlike
Plato, presents the ground breaking notions about art and fulfil his duty as a
critic.
Demonstration
to first notion was that art is a spiritual activity of the artist. He argues
that art work is not totally mechanical but the generalities like interesting
themes and character dialogue according to standing remain the same.
To clear the
second notion, he proclaims, production of art indeed the work of genius but it
has technical side too that requires the development of thought. It is not that
artist in his mood produce anything but he has to reflect on his mood which
need practice and skill. It is essential for the artist to learn the skills, so
that he can display the depths of the heart.
He sets forth
the defense of art against third notion and rejects the aspect of external
existence. As work of art originates from spirit, it goes through the spiritual
journey. Elements like a human interest, individual character, an action in its
complexity is penetrated in the work of art. So a thing which possess
spirituality is higher than any natural product and present the divine ideal.
Second argument is conferred is that anything which is living is vanished after
completing his life cycle but work of art stands for long time. Third argument
which was questioned about the natural production is a divine creation. He
indicates that it only restricts the God work to nature only because God exists
in man also and God honored by the work of spirit in man.
In answer to fourth question, he says that “man is a thinking consciousness”. Hegel gives his philosophy that the human as spirit duplicate himself in a twofold way. First theoretically and second way through practically brings himself into his own consciousness. Through theoretically as well as inwardly way, he represents, fix and recognize himself to himself and through practical way he produces himself. It’s in the nature of man to alter himself and for this reason he dresses himself.He asserts that the universal need of art is "man rational need to life inner and outer world into his spiritual consciousness as an object in which he recognizes again his own self"
Idea of Spirit in the Hegel
Aesthetics:
Hegel gave his
concept of Idea of Spirit in his work “Development of the Ideal into to the
particular form of beauty”. He discussed the three forms of art. These forms of
art proceed from Idea. Every form provides true basis of their own domain.
Idea of Spirit
in Symbolic art:
Art is the
spiritual activity and it brings before mind eye in form of Idea which is in
its abstract form. When the art begins, Idea is presented in its bad
determinacy and can’t be truly presented. It has not taken a form of anything,
so it remains in shape of defectiveness. Idea is something that possess the
quality of inwardness and first form of art. This form of art in which idea
arises from the depth of heart is called symbolic form of art.
Idea of Spirit
is Classical Art:
Classical art gives
indeterminate Idea a shape. Idea comes into sensuous existence through a shape appropriate
to Idea. The content of Classical art consists of concrete Idea as well as
concretely spiritual. Classical art which, based on subjective Concept, is the
unification of idea and reality. So the classics manifest the Idea as spiritual
in human form. For example, Greek Gods are presented through sensuous
imagination in form of Human. They look like human but possess extraordinary powers.
So human body counts as natural shape of spirit.
Idea of Spirit
in Romantic Art
Romantic form
of art disperses the concept of Classical art form and deny the unification of
Idea and its reality. It demands a transition from this immediate existence to
the known unity or a higher form. Romantic art finds the defectiveness in
Classical art for the Idea of spirit. For Romantics, spirit is not manifested
in its true nature, if it is embodied in something subjective. Romantics assert
that the true element for the realization of spirit is the inwardness of
self-consciousness. Romantics coincides with Christianity who believes in the
absolute unity of divine. In Christianity, the concept of God as spirit resides
in their imagination not as human body which Greek portrays.
So the subject
matter of Romantics in arts is the free concrete spirituality which is not
bound by any bodily forms and art cannot work for sensuous intuition.
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