Hiba Zehra

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Film 'Frances HA' under the light of second wave of feminism.

Frances Ha was released in USA on May 17 th , 2013. Directed by Noah Baumbach and its screen play... more Frances Ha was released in USA on May 17 th , 2013. Directed by Noah Baumbach and its screen play is written by Greta Gerwig, and Noah Baumbach. It is purely an example of feminism, as the protagonist is a female facing all the challenges and the stereotypical merits and merits of the modern world associated with the existence of women. The story revolves around life of struggling female Ballerina artist, who shares an apartment with her best friend. Frances possesses the art of multiplicity and her personality consist the feature of women that have been put in spotlight by the second wave feminist critics. Frances Ha is presented as a twenty seven years old woman, conscious and confused of her beauty, talent and age, but her concrete aims can be seen through the steadiness that she shows in the times of struggle. Her value for the Ballerina dance can be compared to what Hélène Cixous has said for 'writing'; " Women must put herself into the text-as onto the world and into the history—by her own movement ". Frances presents the multiplicity of the women of second wave, she expresses her soul from her body, and thus, as writing need such effect, and Frances uses her quality to be expressive through body i.e. through her Dance (which usually is not appreciated, and she is often asked to be in control). Frances only lackluster trait is her seek of dependency on others, she is seen to be quite attached to her best friend, (who apparently is from a better financial background, more stable in life, and more in " control " than Frances) and shares an apartment with her. The Turing point of Frances' life is when her best friend suddenly informs her that she have got a new job and plans to move in with a new friend,. Frances is seen to be sad, depressed, angry and at the same time struggling towards aims, she is seen to be happy at time, busy with her schedule and then again depressed, happy when she gets some money, go out to eat, and again to meet her friend, her sequence of emotions and activities represents the actual emotions and actions of women, which is always at the same time confusing or simple. As Helene Cixous says; " … but what strikes me in the infinite richness of their individual constitutions; you cannot talk about a female sexuality, uniform, homogeneous, classifiable into codes-anymore than you can talk about one conscious resembling another ". Frances emotions also is seen in her dancing and her speech , all her emotions sometimes pours out on her face as well as in her dance performances, " Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing; their stream of phantoms is incredible ". With her Best friend busy with her own life, Frances meet two Male actors and after some time decides to move in with them as a paying roommate, though Frances sweeps away all sexual desires between three of them from the very first day, but she does seeks to finds the same

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Talks by Hiba Zehra

Q: Are Humans Inherently evil, evaluate by giving textual evidences from William Golding's Lord of the Flies

We humans part our self away from nature, thinking it as cruel and extreme. We create dazzling ur... more We humans part our self away from nature, thinking it as cruel and extreme. We create dazzling urban cities far from the darkness of the nature but still then we keep ourselves locked in behind the doors, as we are equally afraid of each other as we are of nature. This is because we our self know, that to what extremity of evilness, can we humans go. We have built laws and norms and regulation and molded them into a civilization, on the bases of the reality that we are cruel and extreme. We distinguish ourselves from the nature, forgetting that we are also a part of nature. But we are, unlike the beast of the forest, are gifted with rationalism and intuition; the ability to think and judge. Thomas Hobbes, the famous philosopher, also through his work, presented the similar idea of humans being 'beast-like', or, we can say, evil. According to Hobbes humans are inherently evil, and thus with realizing of this truth humans created civilization to control his evilness from surfacing. But this evilness surfaces at times, and triggers the evilness amongst the other humans. It is only in the hands of humans to defeat, their inner evilness with the rationalism and intuition. William Golding's, Lord of the flies, revolves around the similar idea that humans are inherently evil. Golding's exhibition of his characters as mere children makes sense to us if we try to understand it with reference to the idea that Humans are inherently evil. All these children represents the mode of a human child, who is not yet a complete part of civilization, they are still in the process of understanding and applying the rules and regulation that they are being taught. From the very beginning of the novel, it can be seen that these children were less upset and more happier to be in an 'adult-free', or we can say 'rule-free' place. It seems that these children are derived toward their real origins i.e. Nature. Ralph, who throughout the novel demonstrates the real struggle of Men in the world, was also attracted to the wildness of the island and freedom in the beginning like all the other kids on the island. Ralph, at every step seems to depict 'Men's attempt of winning over his evilness', For example he does have the desire to rule, the pride to be the chief, the fun in been a savage; like everyone else (except piggy and Simon) he felt the power of the nature over him, the power that let them to be ultimately wild, free and this power eventually let them surface their 'beast-like' nature. But Ralph, unlike others, was able to fight this power and clung hard on his lessons of civilization and mostly rationalism and intuitions. We can say that piggy symbolizes the rationalism while Simone symbolizes the intuition, within Man. These characters can be seen to be mostly associated with Ralph throughout the novel, especially Piggy who never left Ralph's side. The only instant when piggy left Ralph's side resulted in Ralph's contribution in Simone's

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Other by Hiba Zehra

EU-South Asia Relations

This article discusses European Union's relation with the South Asian region; however, the analys... more This article discusses European Union's relation with the South Asian region; however, the analysis will only focus on the two south Asian countries, namely Pakistan and India. This article further discusses the idea of regionalization and how globalization has been an active catalyst for the European Union and Asia's trading and economical relation. Moreover, this article will try to further explore the, elements of inter-regionalism in these relationships, as well as, elements that go beyond trade and economy.

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EU AS A MODEL SINGLE MARKET

The paper explore the working of European single market, and its standing as a model for other i... more

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The French revolution (1708-1819): Incidents, Causes, consequences and impact.

This paper aims to study the history of French revolution of 1708-1819. This paper mainly focuses... more This paper aims to study the history of French revolution of 1708-1819. This paper mainly focuses on the causes of the French revolution and also study the seven years' war in relation to French revolution. Furthermore this paper sheds light on the consequences that the French revolution brought upon its own land and to the rest of the Europe.

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