SIROHI, SHRUTI IBD-II SELAQUI WORLD SCHOOL Doctor Zhivago Symbolism, Themes, & Poetry Sirohi, Shruti...

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Doctor ZhivagoSymbolism, Themes, & Poetry

Sirohi, Shruti Candidate Number: 002150-009

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“ART REFLECTS ITS SOCIETY AND WORKS A SOCIAL CHARACTER THROUGH TO ITS REALITY IN EXPERIENCE. BUT ALSO, ART CREATES, BY NEW PERCEPTIONS AND RESPONSES, ELEMENTS WHICH THE SOCIETY, AS SUCH, IS NOT ABLE TOREALIZE…”

Literature as both Socially Influenced and

Influential


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Russia in the Early 1900’s

1917- Bolshevik Revolution

1930’s- Pasternak persecuted

Devastated by War1905 and 1917Revolutionary Ideals

Lenin Trotsky Stalin Bolsheviks

The October Revolution overthrew the Tsarist regime in 1917, replacing it with a socialist government…the period was a time of instability


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…TO M I RROR TH E H UM A N QUA LI T I ES OF CH A NGE LI FE , DEATH , RESURRECTI ON, A ND REB I RTH DURI NG TH E TURM OI L OF 20 T H

CENTURY RUSSI A

TH E NOV EL I S SET BETWEEN 1901 & 1943 , A P ERI OD OF I NTENSE TURBULENCE I NVOLV I NG

TH E BUI LDUP OF POLI T I CA L UNREST, ECONOM I C I NSTA BI L I TY, A ND SOCI A L

CONF LI CT

TH I S VOLATI LE ATM OSPH ERE I NSP I RED M A NY GREAT RUSSI A N WORK S I NCLUDI NG TOLSTOY ’ S

WA R A ND PEA CE , A M A JOR I NF LUENCE ON PA STERNA K ’ S L I TERA RY CA REER

Symbolism is Pasternak’s

Instrument…


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The Wild Duck“This is the last judgment on earth, my good Sir…a time for creatures from the Apocalypse with swords, for winged beasts and not for fully sympathetic and loyal doctors…”

-Strelnikov

Click icon to add pictureA symbol of the

illusions that enter the fabric of both the

ordinary bourgeois existence and the

“intrinsically creative spirit.”

Signals the end of bourgeois Russia and the collapse of the idealistic “followers of Blok” (like Zhivago)

Portends the triumph of the apocalyyptic-nihlistic element in Russian life

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Storm at funeralSpring at Zhivagos Death

Weather

Images of weather in Zhivago’s life also mirror social aspects of Russia and its Revolutionary Age


Symbolize change as life goes on– alludes to Christ’s resurrection in spring.

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Shadows

Represent foreshadowing of change or “revolution”

Examples Realization of Zhivago’s love for

Lara Railroad stations on his way to

Moscow Diary sessions Winter Night poem


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SYMBOLIZE THE LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGE… 4 INSTANCES OF TRAINS

BRINGING MISFORTUNE AND COMPARE THIS TO THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF

1917

Trains


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Train Instances

1)A train carries Zhivagos father to his death; 2)the sudden appearance of a military train in the night

brings Pasha's thoughts into focus and precipitates his decision to go to the front.

3)Later Pasha, now turned Strel'nikov, will ride an armored train like an iron beast of the Apocalypse, fighting desperately for

freedom, happiness, and Lara.

4)The train which carries Zhivago and his family to the Urals gradually comes to resemble a Mythological barge of destiny,

containing, in miniature, the history of the Soviet Revolution, written in

the individual human stories of the passengers. The individual and human

failure of the Revolution then becomes evident in the graveyards of trains

which Zhivago traverses on his return from the guerillas.

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“HOLY WEEK”“THE WEDDING”

THESE POEMS ARE RELATED BY THE IMAGE OF SLEEP PRECEDING AN

OUTBURST OF L IFE , AND IN B OTH OF THEM SLEEP IS A METAPHOR OFTHE ETERNAL CYCLE OF DEATH AND

RESURRECTION. THE RESURRECTION, HOWEVER, DOES NOT COME AS A REBIRTH OF AN INDIVIDUAL BUT AS THE GIVING

AWAY OF ONESELF TOTHE SURROUNDING REALITY.

Biblical Allusions


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Doctor Zhivago is not a novel but rather a “kind of autobiography” of the poet’s inner life, in which the hero is “not an active agent but a

window…”


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Bad Roads in Spring Winter Night

Symbolizes Zhivago’s capture by the guerillas

Poem show this as unavoidable and necessary…shows that the war affected all parts of individual lives including their personal lives

Symbolic nightingale’s song= signal

Snowflakes (accumulation of incidents)

Crossing of fatesCrucifixion of loveShadows in the

candle of human life

Poems and their Significance


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M AN I S "DE VO T E D T O T HE SO LUT I O N O F

T HE E NI G M A O F DE AT H, SO T HAT DE AT H

I T SE L F M AY E VE N T UAL LY B E OVE RC O M E . "

A T RI AL O F T HI S NAT URE I S BY NO M E ANS

L I MI T E D BY A S E ARC H T HRO U G H T HE

ART S AND L E TT E R S B UT E NG AG E S T HE

WHO LE M AN. " T HI S I S, " W RI T E S

PAST E R NAK, "WHY PE O PL E W RI T E

SYM PHO NI E S, AN D W HY T HE Y DI SC OVE R

M AT HE M AT I C AL I NFI NI T Y AND

E L E C T RO M AGN E T I C WAVE S" (P. 19 ) .


Conclusion

THANK-YOU!


THE END

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Bibliography

1. Jackson, Robert L. "The Symbol of the Wild Duck in Dr. Zhivago." Comparative Literature 15.1 (1963): 39-45.

2. Pasternak, Boris, and John Bayley. Doctor Zhivago. New York: Pantheon, 1997.

3. Rogers, Thomas F. "The Implications of Christ's Passion in Doktor Živago." The Slavic and East European Journal 18 (1974): 384-91.

4. Silbajoris, Rimvydas. "The Poetic Texture of Doktor Živago." The Slavic and East European Journal 9 (1965): 19-28.

5. Vickery, Walter. "Symbolism Aside: Doktor Živago." The Slavic and East European Journal 3 (1959): 343-48.

6. Zaslove, Jerald. "Dr. Zhivago and the Obliterated Man: The Novel and Literary Criticism." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 26 (1976): 65-80.


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