Webquest: Harry Potter: Think and Write

1)     Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter: How do the character portrayal of Harmione and other female characters support feminist discourse?

Harry Potter novels both challenge and do not challenge the stereotypes of gender. However, all characters show both masculine and feminine characteristics and that is what makes the novels unconventional in this aspect. Gender and faminity is represented in this novel when it comes to the three main characters Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione. And femininities are portrayed in the books as a whole.

Harry Potter universe is full of take-charge women and supportive men who don’t let a silly thing like gender constructs get in the way of their fight against the evil forces of the world. In fact, many of the female characters in the Harry Potter series are great leaders, fighters, and thinkers. And one of the main themes of the work is the power of a mother’s love, which is portrayed as strong enough to thwart a terrible curse. Hermione Granger is one of the most important characters. Hermione Granger, and lists many examples of negative ways women are portrayed in the novels. Hermione to be confident in herself and not relyingon male characters to save the day. Unabashedly brilliant, Hermione Granger is a dedicated student, advocate for the ethical treatment of house elves, and overall good person. Her voracious appetite for learning, combined with a can't-be-bothered approach to beauty norms, have made her a longtime feminist icon.

 

Contrary to male characters, Hermione often shows fear - in the first novel,

for example, she cowers with fear when she sees a troll, so that the boys (Harry and Ron) had to rescue her: Hermione's characterization are reflected in her hysterical, timid and fearful behaviour, as well as the language Rowling uses to describe her behaviour. This leads to the false interpretation of female characters as weak or comical, which is unacceptable for feminist criticism. Hermione’s power is not realized through typically male roles; also, she does not attain androgynous characteristics conforming to the theories of radical feminists. 

6) Children’s Literature and Harry Potter: How far does J K Rowling transcends the canonical confines of children’s literature and claims the heights of ‘real’ literature?

Harry Potter is an international phenomenon that has had a huge impact on children's literature and the world.  In the novel optimistic, hope, full of action, fantasy and fanciful idea, think wishful thinking ,tone of  joy and innocence, unquestionably reliable friends.  The characters are children. Good wins over evil. So it is children’s literature. Harry Potter is children’s detective stories, children’s handicraft books, children’s adventure stories and children’s fantasy books, just like there encyclopaedias, detective stories, and fantasy books for adults and many are suitable for both age groups. Harry Potter is horror books and fully imagination and fantasy books but children enjoy a lot and one more things that whenever children literature wrote that time write centre of ending of any work form that is any story is horror is happy that is children literature. So Harry Potter is horror books, but fantastic books so children are like Harry Potter books.

9) 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 armour? How does Harry Potter deal with the concept of Death as something inevitable?

Love and death are major themes in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter books. At the very beginning of the story we hear that Harry’s parents have died, and in due course both we and Harry learn that they were murdered. The shadow of death hangs over Harry; he learns that he, too, was intended to be a victim, but spared in a way no-one can explain.

What is worse than death is the denial or betrayal of love. This brings us to the second major theme. Harry learns that he escaped death because his parents, and especially his mother, were prepared to die for him. He was always Voldemort’s intended victim. His father, James, was killed trying to give his mother time to escape with her child. His mother, Lily, was even given the chance to stand aside and be spared. She preferred to protect him, and her love at the cost of her life gave Harry the protection that turned the Dark Lord’s curse against himself, robbing him of most of his powers for twelve years.

Harry’s own love-life is more subtly recorded. He is friend to Hermione, but Rowling never gives us grounds to suppose this will ever be more than friendship.  His first adolescent attraction is to Cho Chang, his opposite number in the opposing House Quidditch team. This theme will clearly form an important element in the final book. Harry has been saved from the start by love, the love of his mother.

Lily gave Harry the wondrous protection of her loveand a chance at a life free from Voldemort's tyranny Rowling makes a distinction between the natural process of death and Voldemort's warped attempts to "defeat" it and attain immortality. We can defined that Voldermert wish for love don’t wish for death. But he has not win the love with anybody and he didn’t win the death. Voldermert think that I have power and I win the death but at last he doesn’t want to death.