Duality of language

Duality of language

Name: Vanita P. Tadha

Class: MA SEM – 3

Roll No. : 30      Year: 2015

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Paper No.: 12 [English Language Teaching]

Submitted to: Department of English

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Duality of language

Duality: The quality or condition of being dual.

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Language: The system of communication used by a particular community or country.

What is duality of language?

Languages have multi-side in its nature. The style of writing is different than speaking. The way of understanding is also differ like direct and indirect method.

Here I am focusing on duality of understanding the style of language. The language is esoteric.  It can be interpreted in different way. There are so many languages in the world. It is manmade. Sometimes it betrays us. It has such kind of power and without it a man cannot sustain in the world. If a person doesn’t know the sound or verbal of language than they have such kind of gesture and expression through which they communicate.

The language is very important in life. It helps us to understand other people but it also cheats us. If we have language power than we can win others otherwise can’t.

Any language is a kind of tool or a medium through which we can express our thought, expression, ideas, emotion etc. Sometimes it’s a kind of wooden toy through which we are playing.

Duality of language in literature

1] Direct way to understand

2] Indirect way to understand

1] Direct way to understand

Language have layer to understand. Whatever read and direct without any evidence or theory we can understand is known as direct method of understanding.

If any poet is writing a poem in direct way than he/she emphasize on straight object related to their subject.

For Ex: A poet is writing about love than he will choose two people, roes and such things. He/she will write in simple way. They don’t need to go for other element like far fetched images.

“Language o man is the language of poetry”

Wordsworth focuses on language when he was writing poetry.Wordsworth argued that poetry should be written in the real language of common man, rather than in the lofty and elaborate dictions that were then considered “poetic”.

The language of conversation in the middle and classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure. Such men communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived.

People convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expression.

Wordsworth focus on simple language rather than philosophical. The language of poetry should be the language ‘really used by men’, but it should be a section’ of such language. He is on the side of simple language that a common man can read it without any evidence.

Literary text: It’s a simple interpretation.

1] Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. He was mad and that’s why he was sent to England. He has no sense so he ever disturbing to other like Claudius, his uncle and Gertrude his mother. Even he said

 “Filthy thy name is woman”

Woman is always fraud to man. All women are equal. In his madness he spoke

“Forty thousand brothers cannot equal to one lover”

He loves too much to Ophelia but after her death.

2] To the Lighthouse: Mrs. Ramsey is protagonist of the novel. She loves too much to her family. She is a faithful wife or a house maker and that’s why she is doing everything for her family. She is playing her role as a good wife or mother.

Lily Briscoe is a painter and she is painting of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey’s family.

3] Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Crusoe wants to be a master. He starts his sea journey. He founds an island, there is no human being. He becomes a master of that island. He gets everything like land, power and mastery.

4] Harry Ape: Majority characters belong to lower class. They are doing their duty in ship. They are drinking beer and enjoying their life.

5] The Bluest Eye: A girl Pecola wants blue eye and therefore she is doing anything for blue eye. At last she dies because she doesn’t get blue eye.

In these examples we find that each has their simple or direct meaning. It provides basic understanding to the mind. If we goes on reading than there is no need to read twice or thrice and no necessary to goes in deep in this method. We can get the simple meaning through reading. Direct suggestion anyone can understand.

Chetan Bhagat’s entire novels are written in simple way. It’s about young generation. It is for entertainment.

2] Indirect way to understand:

Sometimes such things are not understand well or looking attractive in direct method than we have to choose indirect method to convey our message.

The language is highly elevated. It is not understand by all. Sometimes we need such kind of theory to understand. Many times words and meanings are contextual. If we doesn’t know context or evidence than we may fail to get right conclusion.

For Ex:

1.       Teacher:  What is the chemical formula of water?

Student: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O.

Teacher: What are you talking about?

Student: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.

2.       Why did the car have a stomachache?

         It had too much gas!

3.       Is it better to do homework on an empty stomach or full stomach?  
        Neither! It’s better to do your homework on paper!

In these examples questions and answer are right but the context is different so answer will be wrong.

Literary text:  In deep way

1] Hamlet: In actually he is not mad. He is taking reaction of action. He has strong mind therefore he think a lot and then he takes action. His mother is responsible for his action. He wants to know reality and that’s why he is acting like mad.

He is a philosopher still he is searching his answers in the world. He will be the prince of Denmark so he taking every action by contemplates. There is always hidden meaning behind his action.

2] Tom Jones: Henry Fielding presents how a bad character can be a good. Tom has many affairs but through his good work he becomes a good character throughout the novel.

3] Waiting For Godot: There are two characters. Both are good in their way. Vladimir is strong with mind power where as Estragon with his physicality. They are acting as a common man. If we only focus on writing then we find it as meaningless but it has too much deep meaning. They are representing the life of every (common) human being. Estragon is a simple man. He ever forgets every incident. He is doing nothing whereas Vladimir has intellectual power. He is representing the life of philosopher.

They are waiting for Mr. Godot. Instead of him a messenger boy comes to passes the message of Mr. Godot. He speaks as he will definitely come tomorrow. Ultimate it means we are waiting for death. Life is without a single meaning.

4] Mourning Becomes Electra: This play is about the manon family. It is an ambiguous. The family belongs to upper middle class. They prefer to joint army. Ezra comes back from army to home. He comes to know about the relation or affair of his wife to other man.  He becomes weak. He dies and his death is an ambiguous. Who is real responsible for his death Levinia or Christine?

Somewhere looks are similar of some characters like Livonia and her mother Christine and, Orin and his father Ezra and Adam Band.

 Orin killed Adam because he wants her mother’s attention. He says to Christine that I will make you happy. May wants to relax and society is not ready to accept them so they went to Island. Somehow Christine is suicide. Orin and Levinia come back to home. Orin also get suicide. Levinia remains at home. She prefer to dead life.

5] The Old Man and The Sea: This is a story of Old man. He went too far in sea. He is at old age still he wants to achieve something. It has deep meaning that old is wise and he has many experience. He is a fisherman. He has too much hope and desire.

He struggle a lot but he success to catch huge fish Marlin. He wishes for youth. He believes that ‘a man can be destroyed but not defeated’. When he reached at home at that time only remain the rubbish of fish.

Conclusion

So, the direct method of understanding any language and Indirect method of understanding any language is different. In direct method we need to focus on word and indirect method we need such theory and contextual meaning. As in example of direct method we can get the simple meaning and in indirect we need to go in deep otherwise we may fail to understand the real theme message or purpose of story. These both methods are the dual side of language. Without these both we can’t understand any story.