Frame Study

 Frame Study

The Modern Times 

• Charlie Chaplin

 

Hello everyone, I'm a student of the Department of English,M.K.B.U. In this blog I'm going to do Frame Study on Charlie Chaplin's film 'The Modern Times' which is based on the Setting 20th Century. 

Points to Ponder :-

• Introduction of The 20th century

• About Charlie Chaplin

• About Modern Times

• What is Frame Study ?

• Frame Study based on this Film

• Conclusion

1. Introduction of The 20th Century

The 20th century was like no time period before it. Einstein ,Darwin , Freud and Marx were just some of the thinkers who profoundly changed Western culture.The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts, and technological advances. These reshaped the political and social structure of the globe.

Characteristics of the Age :-

1. Imperialism

2. Social Unrest

3. Anxiety and Interrogation

4. Art for Art’s sake

About Charlie Chaplin :-

Charlie Chaplin, byname of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (born April 16, 1889, London, England — died December 25, 1977, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland), British comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion-picture history.His character "The Tramp" relied on pantomime and quirky movements to become an iconic figure of the silent-film era. Chaplin went on to become a director, making films such as City Lights and Modern Times, and co-founded the United Artists Corporation. He spent more than 75 years making his career from his childhood when victorian era was running until his death 1977. 

"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."

This famous line is spoken by Charlie Chaplin. This famous and remarkable line was from The final speech of the movie 'The Great Dictators'.

'Modern Times' :-

Modern Times is regarded as one of Chaplin’s most lighthearted films. There is certainly plenty of social criticism (the film highlights the dehumanising impact of technology), but he plays the story mostly for laughs. The sight gag of Chaplin haplessly trying to keep pace with the assembly line in the factory is regarded as a classic comedy sequence.

The film also gave Goddard, who was living with Chaplin, her first starring role. The movie introduced Chaplin’s trademark song “Smile.”

Modern Times, American silent film, released in 1936, that starred Charlie Chaplin as a man at odds with modern technology. It is regarded as the last great silent film.The film, which was set during the Great Depression, centres on a luckless factory worker (played by Chaplin) who finds himself so unnerved by trying to cope with the modern equipment he must operate that he suffers a breakdown. After being institutionalised, he is freed, only to be mistaken for a communist agitator. He is arrested but released after preventing a jailbreak. He subsequently falls in love with a young girl (Paulette Goddard) whom he met when she was running from the police after stealing a loaf of bread. The factory worker and the girl have many adventures together as they evade the police and struggle for a better life. Eventually they escape for the open road.

What is Frame Study ? :-

Basically in the study frame is a single image of a video. Framing involves composing the visual content of a series of frames as seen from a single point of view. frame is the term used by screenwriters to indicate the entrance of a person or thing into a framed shot.  Frame study is all about the study of a particular image, what that image indicates and what the purpose symbol of that image and other things.

• Frame Study based on this Film :-

Industrialization :-

Clock and Calendars are symbols of Industrialization. In this Film also we can find that how industrial workers becomes the slave of clock and Calanders. Normally , human are controlling machines but when time passes they are eventually becomes the slave of machines. In this Frame we can get the idea how man is doing his work with the help of a machine but after that man is doing his work according to the machine even though he may not be able to do work as fast as a machine.

Rich-Poor Divine :-

In this Frame ,we can find an image of rich people and poor people. Rich people carry animals like a Dog with them as their friends  and they are not feeling uncomfortable with Animals but they are feeling uncomfortable when they are with poor people. 

In this Frame ,we can find an image of rich people and poor people. Rich people carry animals like a Dog with them as their friends  and they are not feeling uncomfortable with Animals but they are feeling uncomfortable when they are with poor people. 

Mechanisation :-

In this Frame we can find how machines controlled the human mind. In the era of industrialism no one can be free from the machine. People are becomes the slave of machines. Owner takes care of their machines and does services of that rather than their workers. 

American Dream :-

This Frame defines how the poor people were dreaming for food, because at that time machines took the place of workers. That's why There is no need for workers in factories . When workers don't get Job or Work they can not earn money. That's why they are not able to fulfil their basic needs. So , at that time American dream is for food. In this Frame we can find how much happiness they get when they get food.

Poor people as the product of an entertainment for rich people :-

Machines were takes the place of workers that's why poor people can not get the work. Poor people can not get job that's why they can not be able to fullfill their basic needs. So, they are searching for a job ,they were becomes ready for do everything. In this Frame we can see a poor girl is doing dance for the entertainment of Rich people.

Jail as a safe place for Poor people :-

In this Frame Charlie Chaplin is released from the jail, he helps the police to catch the thieves that's why he is being released from the jail ,it is a kind of a gift for his help. When he realises he is out of jail he asks the policeman "Can't I Stay More ?"  . He wants to stay because he can get his basic needs like.,Food, Shelter and Clothes. Through this  statement he try to defines how poor people are facing the problems for getting their basic needs. 

Hope :-

This Frame is symbolises the hope of the poor people. Even with the long struggle they can not get their ambition but they can not do give up and still they have hope for their ambitions.

Word Count :- 1142

Images :- 09

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W.B.Yeats Poems

W.B.Yeats poems :-

Hello Everyone, I'm a student of the Department of English,M.K.B.U., this task is assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir.In this blog I'm going to discuss two or three famous poems by him.

Points to Ponder :-

1. Introduction

2. About the Poet

3. About His Poems

• On Being Asked for a War Poem(1915)

• Second Coming(1919)

4. Conclusion 

Introduction :-

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet of The 20th Century. The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts, and technological advances. 

These reshaped the political and social structure of the globe.

The auto-biography of W.B.Yeats is vividly reflected in his poems.We find almost all cultures and traditions as well as history of Irish People in his poems.

About The Poet :-

 He was an Irish Poet and Dramatist. He was born in Dublin, Ireland (1865-1939). He was the greatest poet of the 20th century.W. B. Yeats is a symbolist poet.

 He was one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.In 1922 he became a senator of the Irish free state.His first poem placed in the newspaper was called "The Wanderings of Oisin".He won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1923.

Major Poems of W. B. Yeats :-

• A Prayer for my Daughter

• The Second Coming

• The Tower

• The Wanderings of Oisin

• On Being Asked for a War Poem

• In Memory

• Sailing to Byzantium

Yeats Started writing Poems in 1887.He was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake. In 1899 he fell in love with Maud Gonne, a beautiful actress and she is the subject of most of his love poems.

e.g.,No Second Troy

Poems By W.B.Yeats :-

In this blog I'm going to discuss W.B.Yeats' two major poems. Which are like.,

1. On Being Asked for a War Poem(1915)

2. Second Coming(1919)

Pptx and Video based on 'W. B. Yeats Poems' :-

W.B.Yeats Poems.pptx from AartiSarvaiya1

1. On Being Asked for a War Poem :-

Introduction :-

This poem is based on the First World War. Iw was a troublesome time for all the human beings. In this poem, the Poet  mostly criticises people and politicians,and he also writes about the condition of poets and he describes the role of poets through this poem. 

Key Facts :-

• Poet :- William Butler Yeats

• Title :- On Being Asked For A War Poem

• Published :- 6 February,1915

• Genre :- Political War Poem

• Time. :- Beginning of The First World War

• Asked by :- Henry James & Edith Wharton

• Style of Writing :- Iambic Pentameter, Sextet

• Tone  :- Ironical Tone

About The Poem :-

It’s one of Yeats’s shortest well-known poems, comprising just six lines, and sets out why Yeats chooses not to write a ‘war poem’ for publication.The poem was first published in Edith Wharton's ‘The Book of the Homeless’ in 1916 as "A Reason for Keeping Silent". When it was later reprinted in The Wild Swans at Coole, the title was changed to "On being asked for a War Poem".The poem says that it is not the place of a poet to write about politics, but that the poet instead should limit his interference in the world to pleasing his companions. 

Analysis Of The Poem :-

Poem :-

I think it better that in times like these

A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth

We have no gift to set a statesman right;

He has had enough of meddling who can please

A young girl in the indolence of her youth,

Or an old man upon a winter’s night.

Analysis :-

This poem is written in the Year 1915 by W.B.Yeays. This Poem is a kind of response to his friend Henry James's request for war poetry. It is written in an ironic tone. This comprises only six lines. 

In this poem the Poet mostly criticises all those people who easily believe in politician's talks and promises. In the poem,the Poet describes what is the role of a poet . How people blindly follow politician's speeches rather than listen to a poet. Poets believe that they should not write their poetry on war. He likes to write his poems or lyrics for Young people and Ballads for old people . He believes that poet's should shut their mouth during times like this because he feels that they do not have that much capability or abilities as compared to politicians. They have not any kind of  gift of Statement,who can prove their thoughts,they should never interfere in the politics. 

According to Poet , politician's can easily encourage people but they can do like that and no one can believe in a poet's thoughts as much as politicians.  Poets like to write their poems or lyrics for Young people and Ballads for old people instead of writing a war poem. 

This poem is written in Ironical tone , we can say that because in this poem, the Poet describes that they should not write their poems on war but he says that through writing poetry on war.

According to E. M. Fauster , He criticises this poem and says that the Poet tries to escape from the crowd or a people who can be easily encouraged by politicians. He claims that you(W.B.Yeats) are lier with the crowd. 

2. Second Coming (1919) :-

Introduction :-

This poem is written by W.B.Yeats and it was published in 1919. This poem is based on World War and a Flu Pandemic. In This poem ,the poet defines how the people of that time were suffering from the flu and how innocent people became the victims of war,and what were the problems they were faced at that time.

Key Facts :-

• Poet :- William Butler Yeats

• Written :- 1919

• Time :-the beginning of the Irish war of independence

• First Published :- In 'The Dial' in 1920

• Style Of Writing :-The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse,allegorically describing the atmosphere of post war in Europe.

• Genre:- Epocylipse Poem (end of the world)

• Connected to :- The Flu Pandemic 

About The Poem :- 

This poem is written in two stanzas. It describes two different images of the world at that time. That images are like.,

1). Blood -doomed tide…downed(First Stanza)

2). Sober-looking person coming, rough beast(Second Stanza)

Through these two images the poet tries to define the situation of that time in this poem.

Analysis of the Poem :- 

Poem :-

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Analysis :-

This poem is based on the hopelessness of the people. They feel that God is unhappy and that's why they are facing such a critical condition. Because they face the war at first and then after they are facing the flu pandemic that's why they feel that God is unhappy with them.

In the First stanza ,poet tries to define situation of a war by saying that ,

"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"

Through this Image he says how innocent people survive in war or how innocent people become the victims of war. He also uses the image of sea ,in this poem he defines the water of sea as a blood-dimmed Water means a water like blood. Through the water of the sea he tries to imagine to his readers that like the water ,blood of people is flawed at the time of war. 

In the Second Stanza ,poet tries to define the hope of the people, at that time people believes that,

"Sober-looking Person Coming,into the rough beast"

Through this image , the poet defines how the people of that time are waiting for a son of God ,who is Jesus Crist. People believe that God will send one person who will solve their problems and who will save them from the pandemic and war. 

Title of The Poem :-

Title of the Poem suggests the second condition of Christianity,which is connected to Jesus Crist, rebirth of the son of God. 

Conclusion :-

To sum up, It can be easily said that the auto-biography of W.B.Yeats is vividly reflected in his poems. We find almost all cultures and traditions as well as history of Irish people in his poems. 

Word Count :- 1537

Images :- 2

Video :- 01

Pptx :- 01