In
this blog I have shared my classroom activity on “Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows” from The New Literature paper.
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view full activity – click here
“Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” is written by J. K. Rowling. It is a part of fantasy series and a journey of a boy named Harry Potter with his friends in Hogwards.
1) Feminist
reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter:
Harmione, Harry and Ron are best friends,
but the portrayal of them character is different. We can observe in all parts
of Harry Potter that Harmione is an intelligent girl. She raises her hand in
every question asked by teachers. She is more studious than Harry and Ron and most
of the times her magic and knowledge of spells helps and saves lives of Harry
and Ron. She is powerful character but she is not given enough space in the
novel. We do not see any major work done by in the novel. She is always a
supporting character of Harry. Harmione is the only girl who is close to Harry
and Ron, and in Part – 7 “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” Ron and Harry
also becomes rivals of each other. (Dave) Harmione’s use of
spell and her intelligence was a thing of use for Harry and Ron to rid out of
difficult situations.
We don’t see any major word done by her. She
helps but never done anything notable. She does not destroy any Horcruxe but
helps in breaking all Horcruxes. She is powerful but marginalized. We observe
that she always tries to prove that she is a good witch and can use any spell perfectly.
She has abused many times by Malfoy but she stands strongly. J. K. Rowling has
portrayed her character as a Muggle girl who wants to be a powerful witch. She
is portrayed as a Muggle and as a girl rather than powerful and strong girl.
2) The
discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter:
The
main power in Harry Potter series is Ministry of Magic Functioning. Every time there
is some orders from the ministry to Hogwards and Hogwards have to follow that. It
has a power to operate all the systems in school of Hogwards. Dumbledore tries
to keep school distanced from Ministry but it rarely happens. Ministry’s power
also works in Muggle’s world and makes changes in their world without their
permission and they don’t even know about the magical world. All Muggles are
considered as ‘Others’ and Wizards and Witches including Dumbledore have to
follow orders by power. (Wikipedia)
In Hogwards
also we can find this power politics in one or the other way. Dumbledore has a
power and with those powers he favors Harry in his each task. Mr. Filch is the one
of the character who likes when power works on students.
3) Moral
and Philosophical reading of Harry Potter:
In “Harry Potter and The Deathly
Hallows” we observe that Voldemort is defeated by Harry on each level of fight.
As it is said ‘Evil breeds evil’, Voldemort has parted his soul and hide it in different
things call Horcroxus but he also got result of his this act and one by one all
Hurcroxus were destroyed by Harry and his friends. In the novel evil leads to
death by good characters, we can say that novel has poetic justice.
As it is said that every evil deed will
have its end in disastrous way, in novel also the same happens. Harry Potter is
also one of the Horcruxes and he is also having such effects of that evil
energy on him. But he chooses to be a good person and gets rid out of that and
ultimately leads towards goodness. He killed Voldemort and didn’t loose his
moral values. (Barad)
Bibliography
Barad, Dilip. Dilip Barad's Blog.
<http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2016/03/webquest-harry-potter-think-and-write.html>.
Dave, Nimesh. Nimesh
Dave.
<http://nimeshdave22.blogspot.in/2016/03/harry-potter-by-jk-rowling.html>.
Wikipedia. Wikipedia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Harry_Potter#Racism.2C_mistreatment_of_minorities_and_totalitarianism>.
WebQuest Rubric - Self evaluation
Overall Visual Appeal – 2
Navigation & Flow –2
Mechanical Aspects – 2
Motivational Effectiveness of
Introduction – 1
Cognitive
Effectiveness of the Introduction – 1Connection of Task to Standards – 2
Cognitive Level of the Task – 3
Clarity of Process – 2
Scaffolding of Process – 3
Richness of Process – 1
Relevance & Quantity of Resources- 2
Quality of Resources – 2
Clarity of Evaluation Criteria- 3
Total – 26/50
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