what dose 'Arnold mean by 'Anarchy' in society in culture and Anarchy

Name: Goswami Gayatri Mahipatgiri

Paper: 6, MA –part -1-SEM -2

Topic: what dose Arnold mean by anarchy in society in culture & Arnold

Submitted to: department of English, maharaja Krishna kumarsingji Bhavnagar University

v Introduction of Matthew Arnold :

·       Matthew Arnold born in 1822

·       Died in 1888

·       The year’s marked the centenary of Byron’s birth

               

                          The time celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. Sixteen miles west of Landon, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold historian and headmaster of rugby school. The family moved to rugby in 1828 when Thomas Arnold took up his past as headmaster at the school. the future poet .Arthur Hugh clough, became a pupil in 1829,and though four years older than Matthew Arnold ,became a lifelong friend and correspondent. At this time the family began to spend their summers in the Lake District, and in 1830, Matthew Arnold first met the poet William Wordsworth. Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essay Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) began his career as a poet, winning  early recognition as a student at the rugby recognition as a student at the rugby school, Arnold also studies at Balliol college, oxford university .and 1844, after completing his undergraduate degree at oxford. Arnold became a first professor to lecture in English rather than Latin.

During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical work, essay, in criticism (1865)and culture and Anarchy (1869_) .in wich he sets forth ideas  that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era .

v Matthew Arnold work as a novelist and poet :

                 Arnold work is meditative and rhetorical, Arnold poetry often wrestles with problems of psychological isolation. In “to morquelity contived” for example Arnold revises Donne’s assertion that “no man is an island” in the sea of life Enisland”. Other well know poems , such as “Dover Beach” link the problem of isolation with what Arnold saw as the smaller, or less in number faith of his time . Despite his own religious deubts, a source of great an anxiety for him, in several essays, however, were those literary topics. In the foundation of criticism and the study of poetry Arnold called for a new epic poetry: a poetry that would address the moral need of his readers, “to Animate for a renewed religious faith and an adaptation of classical esthetic and are moral.

v Plot of culture and Anarchy :

ü Culture and Anarchy major work of criticism

ü Culture “the study of perfection”

ü Arnold classified English society into the barbarians.(with their lofty spirit, serenity and distinguished manners and their inaccessibility to ideas).

   

               Matthew Arnold, in the first chapter of “culture and Anarchy”-“sweetness and light” has tried to show that culture is the study and pursuit of perfection and sweetness and light, art the main characters. But hitherto he has been insisting chiefly on beauty, or sweetness, as a character of perfection. To complete rightly his design, it evidently remains to speak also of perfection. in this chapter to bring home  his point of anarchy of perfection, and  of culture as giving us light in culture and anarchy . Matthew Arnold sought a center of authority by wich the Anarchy caused by the troubled passage of the reform bill of 1867 might be regulated. At best his style is clear, flexible, and convicting. He wrote in such a complicated mood of indignation, impo0ietnce, and fear, however, that his style and his argumentive method are frequently repetitious and unsystematic.

v  Anarchy in society:

   Anarchy has more than one definition, some used the term “Anarchy” to refer to a society without a publicly enforced government when used in this sense, and Anarchy may or may not be intended to imply political disorder or lawlessness within a society. Many Anarchists complain with Anselme bellegarrigue that vulgar error has taken Anarchy to be synonymous with “civil war”.

         Most individuals who self –identity as Anarchists use the term to imply a system of governance, mostly theoretical at a jurisdiction level. There are also other forms of Anarchy that attempt to avoid the use of coercion, violence, force and authority while still producing a productive and desirable society activity. Than liberty becomes liconce and in organized society Anarchy brake out. Arnold critic  believe in action and not in aesthetic detachment .if this culture a spirit of a cultivated is blind to the existing evils of society or if of being and  this culture is in danger  enemy to all reform and reformer, then that culture is bound to become all moonshine. Arnold critic believes in action and not in esthetic detachment. Arnold’s culture may bring about a spirit of cultivated inaction.     

v How does this effect the working class?

                         The poor working class pressed by the hard daily compulsion of material wants is lured by the political ideal of personal liberty. That is, right to do as he likes for an individual. The modern spirit of freedom wich boils down to a blind faith in doing what one likes and in machinery, “so the working in Arnold’s time, is asserting their light to do what they like, meet where they, meet where they like and enter where they like. And all this tend to Anarchy. These acts of toadyism of the messes are only the assertion of their personal liberty .this is to be tolerated without a protest as every man has a right to do what he likes. The rule of reason is banished from the society .culture alone can counteract the tendency to anarchy in England of Arnold’s age.

“Culture can remedy Anarchy in society”.

The authority of right reason derived from culture.

“to this end culture must find all kind of Anarchy in our society”.

v Culture and Anarchy in society:

  

·       Culture:

Culture is ought to be, the study and pursuit of perfection: and that of perfection as pursued by culture, beauty and intelligence, or, in other words

Wetness and light, are the main character.

Anarchy:

Doing as one likes may become an anti-social activity. This political mistn and it may lead to Anarchy.

            Culture and Anarchy foremost design in writing this preface to address a word of exhortation to the society for promoting Christian knowledge, in the essay wich follows, the reader will often find bishop Wilson quoted. The disparages of culture make its motive mere exclusiveness and vanity. The culture which is supposed to plume itself if on a smelting of Greek and Latin is a culture which is begotten by nothing so intellectual as curiosity; it is valued either out of sheer vanity and ignorance, or else an engine of social and class distinction, separating its holder, like a badge or title, from other people who have not got it no serious man would call this culture.

ü Human Bing is do it logical argument is the petionality.

ü It was first used to emphasize national and traditional culture, including the new concept of folk culture.

ü It was used altak what was seen as the mechanical character of  the new civilization

ü Than emerging Bothe for its abstract rationalism and for the inhumanity of industrial development.

ü Culture of social and economic groups within a nation.

ü Culture is a independent

ü Culture and cultural and subculture

Culture another view. In wich not sole by the scientific passion, the sheer desire to see things as they are, natural and proper in an intelligent being, appears as the ground of it. culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity , but as having its origin in the love .to compete rightly my design , it evidently remains to speak also of intelligence,  or light, as a character of perfection  .it is impossible that all these remonstrance’s and reproofs  should not affect me and I shall try my very best, in completing my design and in speaking of light, to profit by the objection  I have heard and read ,and to drive at practice as much as I can, by showing the communication and passages into practical life from the doctorial wich I am including.