Here's a blog post about a very well known novel series, Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling has won several awards for this novel. First book published in 1997 and successively the last book was published in 2007.
Here's a blog link from which these questions and activities are instructed by the teacher.
* Self-Help culture and Harry Potter: How does it stand by an argument that Self-Help Culture serves as a tool of social control: it soothes political unrest . . . one blames oneself for not getting better off in society and remains in one's own pursuit of self-invention, blaming oneself for the failure rather than the systems?
Ans: Self-help culture in modern literature has been much witnessed in recent times. This genre of literature deals with an individual's person life and belief system. Self help literature and self help culture are two supplementary entities between which, people seek their societal upbringing and fulfill their desire to be a part of high brow culture, largely enjoyed by the people who control many things together, by the people who hold power.
By one way or another, it can be read that, self help culture is a conditioning over minds. It is gulped down, drunk and dissolved by people either in form of politics, religions, books, videos etc. Albus Dumbledore doesn't directly help Harry but indirectly makes him make some decisions.
Power is likely to be transient and very lucid, just like water. It keeps on changing it's dimensions. (Read more here) Self help culture is controlled by elite group of society, who are wealthy,
* The theme of Choice and Chance: How does Harry Potter discusses the antithetical concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’?
Ans: Choice and chance have been a matter of discussion since long. When we have choices, we hardly notice them and act. There are lot many things that we can't get to choose or make choice, for example, birth, location of birth (city, or country), gender, cultural backdrop etc.
Albus Dumbledore states about choices:
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
* The theme of Love and Death: How does Harry Potter make use of age old theme of Love of the dead as well as living as protecting armor? How does Harry Potter deal with the concept of Death as something inevitable?
Ans: Harry remembers his parent's love and care by the help of his teachers, Hagrid and Dumbledore and others. He uses this element of Love to gain strength to fight back against Voldemort. Another theme like death is stretched as part of the life journey. The death is inevitable and it's the strongest reality. So the theme of love and death is used as theme.
for further reading: https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/61116.pdf
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