Wizarding in the classroom:teaching Harry Potter & Politics
By Stephen Deets
The present article shows how Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling is deals with the real world though it has the concept of the fantasy and imaginations. With using the basic underlying knowledge of the students on it, the article leads towards the issues that mentioned in the series of Harry Potter and happen throughout the world.three main concepts that tries to highlighted here are identity of blood purity, house identity and hierarchy of magical creatures. By practicing this students can be familiar with wizarding world and examines it dispassionately.
Identity of blood purity indicates Rowling's intention to reflect the idea of race & power of Master position through magical world that is completely connects with the reality of the world that is real.the power significance of Voldemort defeated but at some point Harry also shared the same community that got position so by that may be Rowling deliberately points out the superiority of pure blooded race.
Social movements can also forced us to act in some particular way.Hermoine's act or suppression against community may shows this where freedom demands for risks like at present Muslim community,racial parties or anti-immigrants stands to question our freedom and way of living.Media and politics shows unreal image of the society no doubt Rowling is not in that sequence but in Harry Potter it shows as Reporter Rita Skeeter played a role there and politics go side by side indirectly.Globalization is also a point to note with the concerns of political force.copyright material for example for students we are using then we should know it's terms & conditions.trade market is important here where some books are opposed and by whom and why is remains question before us that may based with contextual also.so being a fantasy literature how it's mirrored our real world with the concept of politics that works ultimately is quite interesting here.
Thursday, 5 January 2017
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