Okay so good afternoon everyone I think I'm live just a second let me check and I would also want you guys to comment if you can see my screen this is going to be a very very special video we are going to be talking about the UDC net syllabus UDC net English syllabus and we are going to look at all the book list and free resources that you can use in order to qualify the exam which is going to happen right after three months okay so if you guys can see the video if you guys can see my screen so I would just want you to comment below so that I can know that everything is working perfect NP square says yes so now that we have received a thumbs up from your side I would want to go ahead and directly jump into the topic which is how to prepare for UDC net December 2023 using the books and various other free resources that we are going to talk about okay so I have a lot of tabs open with me where I'm going to even tell you how to download what you have to do something very very demonstrative that I'm going to do today so if in case you have any questions any doubts you can keep posting I have my YouTube chat open right in front of me so I would be able to interact with you guys as soon as we step into different stages okay so in this video I am going to talk about four main things the first thing would be the UDC net syllabus and how you should take the first step if you have not yet planned if you have already planned your preparation strategy and you are on it so just watch this to know if you are on the right track or if there is something else that you can add into your preparation okay after this we are going to look at booklist I'm going to take you to Amazon which is one of the most most accessible platform so that all of you know key concept okay because at times a lot of students message me key ma'am I'm up in a book the kitey but then the cover has changed so should be referred to this or the previous version so I'm going to do that all the books that you need for cracking UDC net and first attempt we are going to look at it then I'm going to talk about all the websites and other free resources which are available on internet which you can use in order to crack the exam and lastly we'll jump on past year papers and how you should be solving it and what is the best way to get solutions for past year paper okay so if you guys are following me so far just you know type yes ma'am you can go ahead so that I can jump into the topic okay so I'll just wait a moment for you guys to reply I can see a lot of people commenting Arjuna Amrita Neha Mithilesh Muhammad Arshad Sureshri Bhattacharya so all of you if you are ready and if I should proceed so just a drop comment below so that I know and we can move ahead okay great and it says yes fine so we are going to first look at the syllabus this is the official syllabus of UDC net paper to English now if you look here you find there are 10 units that they have mentioned drama poetry fiction nonfiction then language English and Indian cultural studies literary criticism literary theory and research methodology and materials in English now a lot of people say that when we begin the preparation we don't know where to start because drama is such a vast thing that there is so much that you need to cover now if I tell you very very honestly this these four units actually covers anything and everything written or translated in English you can go to the past year papers and you will see they have asked questions from Kalidas they have asked questions from Premchand they have asked questions from a lot of French writers who were writing originally in French and then their works were translated into English so this is not just British literature a lot of students have this misconception that okay if we do British literature we are good to go no British literature is one of the most important component one of the most important pillars on which your success of UDC net depends but that is not the only thing so we are going to first focus on these four units because they have said drama poetry fiction and non fiction any work any work written by any writer falls in either of these four category it would either be a drama or a poem or a novel short story or a essay okay or maybe or an autobiography so all of that will come here in the non-fictional pose now to simplify kya apko kaha se parna and what is the first step you can take I have designed a complete list of writers and topic that you should be studying to crack the exam now this is available free of cost on my website and that is the reason why I asked you that you can go to arpita karwa.com and you can go to the full course syllabus section and you will find this in a day or two our website is getting revamped so you will see that there is something called courses coming here and courses may you will find UDC net paper too so just go to that link and you will find the same syllabus there which is a part of our online course but then that is available free of cost for anybody who wants to start their preparation wants to do cell study because when I was preparing for UDC net I was shocked to see the syllabus abhi toh yeh phir bhi toh da better ho gaya hai when I was in 2018 preparing for this was time pe toh the syllabus was divided in paper one paper two and they did not even change ki paper three jo hai wo subjective se objective ho gaya tha they did not change the syllabus so even I was lost just like most of you are so when I started my preparation this is what I did for the first time I went through all the previous year papers and jo jo writers bahaha pe mujhe mil rehte I kept on jotting them down in a piece of paper and that list went on and on and on and then when I started preparation then I classified them under different chapters which are nothing but different ages and different modules which are nothing but different countries and their literature so that it becomes easier for me to absorb so much material okay so this is what was the syllabus when I was preparing for UDC net English and this is what I designed for my preparation and it helped me a lot because I was able to clear it in first time so I recommend all of you you don't have to subscribe do anything just go to the website and check the list of syllabus you will see that there are so many writers plus I have added this you know division to tell you that aapka jo syllabus hai UDC net ka uske konse unit ke writers iha pe for example poets hai so these are the poets these are the dramatist these are the assays then we have dramatist poets then as you move forward to the enlightenment age you will find prose writer coming in because Alexander Pope all of them were writing pamphlets then we have novels so for the first time novels started becoming a source okay of spreading literature so novelists pehli were introduced hote then poets hai and so on so forth so we have all the writers till post modern age jahata questions aate hain so if you browse this list you will get a get an idea and I would request all of you who are preparing that the first step is knowing the syllabus to go through the syllabus you can write it down and then start with lesson number one chapter one that is very very important okay so in total if you go and look at all the writers there are 350 writers that you have to study in British literature and my new questions have been asked from each one of them I have not included a single writer jisse aajta question hai hai okay and that is the reason why we have limited it to 350 because agar a British literature ko dekhenge there are ample of writers extremely huge syllabus but hain saar bo writers padre hain jo UGC net english maa puche jaa okay so agar aap yeh dekh lete hain poora module one to aapko yeh samaj aadata hai British literature ke konse drama poetry fiction non-fiction hai jaapko padne hain then comes jaisa main batayao ki British literature is not the only thing that you have to study there are other literatures as well I'll tell you something very very surprising I'll show you world map and I'll show you ke how English literature syllabus covers the entire world map so this is world map right now English literature basically begins with British literature which is a country in Europe okay so kahin aapko ek chhot asa yeh wo dekhega Britain as a subcontinent which is now England also so wo hai British literature vaha se English started as a language jisko hain cover karte in the first chapter and we understand that first baar vaha pe English kese introduce we it was introduced by the Anglo-Saxon people yaha se bhi questions aata hai then after this the next largest speaking English country is of course America so this is what we cover in the American literature so American literature mein utne writers nahin hai jitna Britain mein but yeh saare writers hai we cover them in detail in the online course but you if you want to prepare notes then you should also have notes all these writers so iss ko bhi humne classify kar hai on Victorian modern age so that it becomes easier for you to relate because romantic age ke writers kahin a kahin similar themes pe likh rahe hai so once you know that these writers fall under romantic age then it becomes very easy for you to like understand half of this story so we covered one small country in Europe and then we covered the whole of America now after that we have the third biggest module which is post-colonial literature now as you all know that Britain and other European nations they colonized a lot of countries in 1800s and 1900s and they introduced English as a language in all of them and India was one of their colony but India koha malak se pad hai because since India mein hum rahe rahe hai so a lot of questions are coming from Indian literature so we have to read it extensively but post-colonial literature mein we have African-American writers British diasporic writers African writers Canadian writers Australian writers and Caribbean and colobian writers these are basically yeh jo chhotis islands aapko dikh rahe hai yaha ke writers and then Australia as you know yaha pe fall karta hai then if we move ahead Canada Canada again part of America America se thoda sa upar you'll locate it then is Africa whole this this whole continent Africa sorry and then we have British diaspora British diaspora is basically writers who were originally British but they shifted to some other country so they were talking about their homeland so unko bhi hum bolte hai ki wo bhi important hai padna and then we have African-American jinn ka jo origin hai wo donoh hai so agar aap yaha tak dekhay post-colonial literature tak toh we have covered whole of this we have covered European me Europe me America sorry Europe me England and we have covered Australia aap aap ke pahs kya bachah hai humare pahs bachah hai poora ka poora Europe and we have India because yeh jo baaki countries hyaha ke jo literature wo itta important nahi hai wo net mein nahi pucho jata hai they focus on the post-colonial nations jo tzada popular hai then Europe mein bhi there are so many countries so Europe ki agar hum baat kare to Greek literature sabse phele hum padta hai because yaha se aapka English ka foundation tha and bohot saare work sa British writing mein dekhenge I am so sorry I have a bad throat today okay so Greek literature ke angar you will see ki Greek literature is where the drama origin for the first time and boh padna waat zerood hi hai because bohot saare writers aapka baar-baar Greek literature ke references denge Greek gods ke naam aate hai so humara poora ek lesson hai jishma aapka Greek mythology se introduce kare aate so that aap jo baad mein Jews and Prometheus and yeh saare wo naam suntheo to aapko uncommon nahi luck hai so agar aapko bhi Greek literature padna hai to you have to have a in-depth study of this then Greek civilization Greek theater and all these theater artists then Greek ka jaisi downfall hota tha Greek civilization was at its peak in 300 bc 100 bc tak Greek civilization ka kaafi downfall wa and roman literature became popular roman se agar naam baat kare so you all must be aware of Julius Caesar Julius Caesar was a roman emperor usne apne time pe bohot literature ko spread ya and that is where this comes into the picture now so sorry now coming on to this if you talk about Greek and roman ek cheese aur padna zaruri hai which is old and new testament because again bible ke references aapko har jaga milenge and bible ke references jab aapko milenge to aapko pata ho naateye story kya aatee because paradise lost in so many other worlds they talk about bible ka story they talk about creation kesewa so aapko agar yeh nahi pata to all of this would not make sense then europe ka yeh nation hai itli vaha ka literature hai russia another country germany france and then there are other smaller european nations jinnke kuch main writers henrik ipson i'm sure you all must be knowing about boh haan pata hain and then we have indian literature yeh bhi aapko cover karna hain the reason why i'm taking you to all of this is because i want to tell you ki itana kuch padna hain just don't bank on this syllabus it was just going to confuse you so india mein hum novelist pata hain poets pata hain indian aesthetics jispa aapko kaafi baar questions hai hai boh hum pata hain and then dramatist hum pata hain so agar hum yaha tak baat kare yeh paacho modules ke aap agar writer cover karte ho tab jaa ke aapka yeh chaar units cover hota hain the reason why i have designed a syllabus in this way and not in this way is because aapko samaj mein aana boh taasaan ho jaata british history ko chronologically pata hain aap american writers ko alak se pata hain post-colonial ko alak se pata hain aapko country wise yaad ho nahi aapka agar main aapko saare dramas ek saath pata hain ki toh khichdi ban jaayi di maak mein and that is one thing that i want all of you if you are doing a self-study please adhere to this thing if you try ki main random dramatist pallu chronologically aap yahaad nahi kar paoge and then you'll miss out on a lot of questions okay so just a small break to see if you guys are following what i am saying uh okay so if you guys can give me uh some you know write down if you have been following till now so that i can go ahead i don't think i've kept water uh here okay just want to know from you uh if you guys have been following me so far so that we can move ahead please comment so that i know okay great mohi nahi says yes ma'am we are listening to you uh right i'm so sorry again guys apologies for the bad throat uh i've been recording a lot of videos these days because of which uh gale ka baan bach gaya hai but never mind coming ahead to going moving ahead to this part so this is language concepts theories pedagogy is mein kya padna hain aapko we have written that your module number 10 is language and pedagogy the syllabus is designed in a way ki aapko is order mein agar aapko bhat samaj mein aap hai so these are the topics language ke kya methodologies hai aap yaha se naam chek kar sakte okin study English and India ki agar aap baat kare so module number 11 is English and India which is all the topics that you need to study then we have cultural studies cultural studies is right here now cultural studies though we have a separate module because a lot of students demanded it but agar aap chaahe to aap literary theory mein bhi jaba padthe hai to cultural studies kabar utha hai to aap yeh yeh wala you know list bhi follow kar sakte hai ish mein jitthi bhi writers diye hain bo aap pad sakte hai aap agar koas pe jayenge and you try to click on any writer so it will ask you to you know subscribe because it's a paid course but you can never mind you can like check the lessons then we have literary criticism theory right here we have literary criticism kaun se critics padne hai jitse baar baar questions aap hai bo yeh hai kai log bolte hai ki maam yeh wala to humne naam hi nahi sune bhi we've heard of wordworth koldrich keets but maam yeh toh nahi padne ki zarut hai ish baar chaar questions her shift mein doh questions aap hai from this thomas herbs john lock edmund berk and edward gibin chaaro se questions thaam so aisa nahi if you are mentioning it here there is some reason or that is why we are mentioning it here to you cannot skip it haa ab iss ke anthat kya kya padna hai that is a different story wo phir bohat bada analysis hu jaata hai but at least you will know ki kaha se padna hai okay and i'll also show you haamare koas ke pdfs so that you know kya agar aap khudse bhi notes baar aar hai toh how do you make notes then moving ahead we have literary theory first full war 2 which i have discussed here this is entire literary theories meh aap ko starage meh leingin new criticisms it starts formalism structuralism aur yeh sare writers hai jo jo aap ko padne hai hermese aap agar paper lukha ke dekhon ki toh jo writers aap ko unfamiliar lukte hain wo sab yeh writers hai jo aap padke nahi jaatao because aap literary theory ko bohat superficially padate ho but ko kaffi in-depth aata hai toh yeh sare writers aap ko cover hone zeroi hai then we have research methods in material in english which is the last module 13 this is literary research methodology doh cheeze jo ono ne mention nahi kariye syllabus meh jaaha se question aap hain aur literary movements and literary terms and devices so these are literary movements yehaha se ish baar bhi there was a question i don't remember exactly which literary group se question tha i think orden group se ek group meh question tha group baniya group 2 meh se orden group ke writer ka naam puch aata ek loss generation pe question tha so yeh sare groups jo hi literary groups yeh aap ko patao ne shi graveyard poets kaune inki anter con-con se because they might ask you which of them is not a graveyard poet so even if you don't know graveyard poet kaya yeh out of syllabus nahi hai this entire module has been designed after analyzing and doing a thorough research of all the past year papers and set exam papers toh yeh sare wo writers aap jo yeh log lagataar puch tha then we have literary terms and devices yeh bhi inlogon ne syllabus meh mention nahi kya hai but every time i am sure ke aap logon ko pata hoega ki literary theories literary terms con-con se hote hain toh bahaha se question har baar aata hai they'll give you apifani pe question that or they will give you ki inme se kaunsi campus novel nahi hai ya inme se kaunsi dystopian novels nahi hai toh ye aap ko pata ho na chie kis meh kis type ke narrators hai characters con se hote hai then aap ko bohot baar yeh log puch tha hain ki there's a work is it written in blank words now what is blank words what is a sonnet what is the difference between different yeh stari cheeze we cover under poetry and presaudi so i would want ki yeh jo toh topics meh nahi rick hai yeh sab ki aap thara understanding kar yeh because understand one thing guys you have four months in your hand and if you can prepare this much there is nothing that can stop you from clearing that i was recently interviewing one of my online course student who completed just three modules british literature criticism and theory and she cleared ugc night and first time in spite of not clearing all the other literatures so agar aap yeh three modules peh me focus kaldateh british criticism in theory and if you study them in detail then there's a very very high chance that aap ek attempt meh clear ho jainde agar aap meri puche tha i can bet that you will clear in one time if you give your hundred percent in preparing these three units okay now what i have done is i'm also showing you a comparison so kaafi log bolteh ki hain yeh wala syllabus so pehli baat toh ugc ka jo syllabus hai yeh descriptive nahi hai, no ne bataya nahi hai that what you should be studying, what you should be not studying so humne comparison kya in order to tell you that yeh yeh cheeze hain hain hain hain hain hain kaas meh aapko kaha ka melige now this is just a course ka syllabus but this is also available for anyone who wants to do their self-preparation so unit one two three four as i said are from module one two five isko humne further divide kya poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction main unit five language is linguistics, English in india humare module kar aam hai then they have cultural studies we have a same module, literary criticism we have the same module, literary theory is module number seven research is this and doh in oni jo skip kar hain woh main haale kain literary terms and devices which is also known as rhetorics and prosody and literary groups and movement now these two modules are not mentioned in the ugc net syllabus but questions are asked from these two units every year therefore we need to cover them extensively now what i've mentioned here please read this very very important the syllabus released by nta lacks detail and does not provide a prescribed written list of writers and topics to study for your convenience after analyzing the previous year we have prepared a detailed list of topics which covers 1200 writers categorized under different modules that student must read to clear the exam and you can check this list out which is free of cost available on arpatakarwa.com okay so this is one thing this is the you know the entire online course syllabus that we give on our sub domain which is courses.arpatakarwa.com slash loan yaha pe if you go you enroll in our course for paper one and paper two to yaha pe aap koi saare modules milte jis me a client se you get all these writers jo yaha pe mentioned hai unki video lectures and pdf saap ko bilte okay so yeh humare online course ka syllabus hai to agar aapne yeh cover so you have covered everything because humne 5 years se we've been delivering so many results just because students chronologically isko padte hai, samajte hai and they are able to clear on it so all those who are preparing on their own this syllabus is going to make your preparation super easy so this is the first thing that I wanted to talk about next is books koan se refer karne hai now I would again se ki iske saap se to aapko book me legini there's no book which covers all the drama there's no book on poetry if you type UGC net ka books you'll find guide books but you will not find is se saap se koi book jis me sab kuch ho so for British literature kye saare books chai wo drama ho poetry ho whatever I suggest William J. Long agar aap kuch se padhna chata hai William J. Long ka this is the book which I would suggest saare book same it is just that you know I refer to this cover ka book to I remember this so yeh book aap padh sakte hai isme hoga kya you'll get an overview of the entire British literature kya aap se shuru hoega and har writer ke upat ek ek paragraph me wo log batate jaayenge and they'll move forward but that paragraph is not enough guy I'm telling you okay so let me show you something and then I think would help you for example John Dryden ek writer hai ispe one paragraph ka information hoga in this book you are William J. Long ya outlegistry of English literature whichever you want to refer even there's another book called outlegistry or yes English literature you can refer to this as well you can refer to this book okay yeh hai and William J. Long agar I would not suggest to you David Decheese because uska language is very typical plus that is not written from net point of view that is mostly for scholars so that's a very different thing aap aap in dono me se koi bhi book logena so uske andar you will get one page at max for John Dryden but agar me aapko batahun ke aapko John Dryden mein net mein kaha se aata hai so John Dryden ke biography mein se aata hai these are the online course syllabus ka PDFs that we give to our students so I'm just sharing you ki itna panna hai aapko John Dryden ke yeh saare works ko aapko panna hai yeh saare minor works hai jaha se questions aata hai 10 minor works inme se yeh lo questions pujte hai aur yeh works aise jo aapko book mein unke sirf naam mil jayenge yaar fir puj bhi nahi milega and then you might struggle ki aar mein ne to John Dryden padhata but mera to exam clear neewa because you don't know about these works aur inme se kya important aap hum sirf utna padhata hai we don't go ekdom detail mein jo minor poems thi ho aur yeh hai minor dramas of John Dryden ye aapko inko bhi thoda thoda aapko sbke baare mein patahun na chii these are basically our course ke video lectures aapko unhi ki PDFs hai so I'll also show you video ka demo but I would just want to first talk about ke aapko writer ko kyaise padhna hai Absalom and Agitofil is a very important work of John Dryden bhi saam detail mein padhata hai opening closing lines padhata hai then the it's just a puri summary uski aapko aapko aapko aisa dikhara hai but then jo video hota hai so it's all animated and we explain you everything ke kis tari ke se hai then critical analysis facts kya hai important quotations kya hai yeh bakata hai once you study all these five things about John Dryden then one writer is complete jese ish ba John Elvin se question aaya tha now John Elvin nobody knows korn hai but unho ne crease ke upar book likhi hai and bahi question mein puja gaya tha yeh book ka naam puja gaya tha hamsi teen pages ke andar John Elvin aapko sbchaadate hai and that is how we know ki kisse kithna detail mein jaan hai bahi agar aap paradise loss ki baat kare to uska to har book ko sbchaaya jaata hai har book ko aapko detail mein padhata hai because it is a very very important text usme kya hai korn character hai kiska kya hai all of that you have to study okay so these are just like a few pds to show ki aapko sirf British literature ki yeh books pe focus nahi karna hai aapko iske beyond jaana hai now British literature ke baat American post colonial european pe aapko poe books nahi milegi agar aapko amazon to milegi bhi to they are very very bulky book uttina bulky books aapko nahi padna hai because there is very selective information to aapko padniye I will also tell you in the next segment ki yeh information agar aap cost nahi le rahe aap kutse padh rahe it is a brilliant thing usko bhi aap korn korn se free resources used kar kya apne notes bada sakta hai I will move to that part as well then we come to Indian literature Indian literature pe market mein books hai but again they are not going to cover sub-writers ki important works Arkin Arayan ki guide ka summary aapko pata hoon aachiye then agar aap raskinbond ki baat kare hain ki kithni thare short stories puchi jaatiye Anita Desai ki kithni sare feminist work hai wo kraye pikok sorry so wo puche jaati then jhumpa leh rhi aamita aap gosh hai aamita aap gosh ka ek triology hai novels ka bo kaafi baat puche jaatiye tohrudat ki poe-m saroj nahi duk ki poe-m kamladaas ki poe-m so yeh sab aapko detail bhi padna zaruri inni se sari poe-m se nahi padni definitely you have to be smart enough to know ki previous year papers meh se kya questions unko hame padna hai jese aamlok bhi yeh jo aapko Dryden ki minor poe-m se pahar hain Dryden ne bohot saari minor works rik hai but haum ne sirf yeh 10 works kyu pakade kyunki inse questions aaye hain ya yeh kuch ek important reference hai jiski wajase se padna boh zeroon hai so aapko in paacho modules meh se se pe ek ki book mil paige which is British literature literary criticism ki yes there is a book so meri favorite book hai wo M.A.R. Habib literary criticism and theory iss se aap sif criticism padhiye ka theory ke liye I'll recommend you another book literary criticism ki book aap pad sakte iss meh se it's a very very bulky book aapko sif wo topics padne hai jo meh na aapko yaha pe samjhaya hain kaibar samaj meh nahi aata hai but then iss book ki language is very good that's why I'm recommending you can join our classes as well usme aapko detail me you know poore lectures me samjhaya jaata so you don't need to refer to any book again one reminder for anybody who has enrolled in the online course and is watching this video you don't have to refer to any book we are covering everything there are more than 25 books that we have studied thoroughly and then prepared notes and you know created this course and not just books but there are so many websites that we have referred to jinn ke paid subscriptions leke unke jo detail teachers notes wale PDFf bahaha se notes banein so aapko aur kuch padne ke zirat nahi hai but if you are preparing on your own then this is the book that you should be referring M. R. Habib for literary criticism then Pramod K. Nair ka book hai literary theory pe ye aap refer kar satte Peter Berry I would not recommend Peter Berry ka jo book hai from text to theory aap yeh wala book le satte this is very good for literary theory theory kaibar baapis again students ko samaj nahi aati I would recommend you agar aap saath me kuch videos dekh sake so aapko clear hoga we have videos agar aap uske alawa baatio ke bhi dekh sake literary theory if you put you will find this video yeh doh padh ka video hai jis main aap explain pood aap overview the M. N. Literary theory ka so aap yeh sunke aur fir book refer karengi to aapko zada clarity me leka okay now literary theory ho gaya terms and devices we all know the bible of English literature which is M. H. Abrams glossary of literary terms again is book mein there are hundreds and thousands of you know terms but aapko sif wo padh nahi hai jo yaha pe list kare gaya because bahi se questions aap hai you don't need to go over and above literary movements bhi ishi book mein sa aapko mil jayenge unki alag aap jo uska index lekhenge to you will find it literary movements bhi aapko mil jayenge and literary terms and devices bhi mil jayenge now language and pedagogy English and India cultural studies research metallurgies pe koi book nahi hai aapko jo guide books hai usme kuch pages milenge inke baare main aap agar wo padhe so that is fine but again you have to keep referring to the past year questions to understand ki kis type ke questions aah rahe hain. Sirf upar upar se padhke nahi ho gaha aapko bohot in-depth padhna ho gaha jo jo topics hai jo theories hai onke jo writers hai unse bhi question aata hai for example Alan Tate se question pujh liya gaya to agar aapko new criticism pata hai but aapne Alan Tate ko nahi padha so again you will not be able to answer it so that is the reason why in-depth study of all these writers are important and that is the reason why I put this free of cost on my website so that jo bhi log pathbhresht hai wo at least unko ek direction mile, unko ek blueprint mile ki padhna kais hai okay so this is the book list aapko agar ye book list puri chahiye you can whatsapp you know you can whatsapp my team this is the number<PHONE_NUMBER> it's also given on my website aah this is where you'll find it is number pe aap whatsapp kar sathe hain aah you also find that in the description of the video so aap us mili dekh sathe aap whatsapp kar ye my team is going to give you free book list puri ki puri aap un books ko refer kar sathe hain now moving on to websites free websites kaun kaun siye jaha se we can study now free websites ke agar aap baat kare so the very first website that you can study from is lit charts okay i'll show you the website also kaun siye website hain me dikhne ria yaha hain aap kuch bhi dalye par example paradise loss pekte aap yaha paradise loss dalye you will get okay here a lit guide on paradise lost yaha pe introduction hai historical background everything you will see themes miljainge summary miljainge plot summary miljainge characters miljainge okay agar baise detail summary pande har book ki summary bhi miljainge okay aap usko sathe padhavar ke chal sathe hain okay problem ek cheez hiyaate ke kai baar kaafi saare complex works hain jese if i talk about tristram shandy now that is a work tom jones aah ye jo works hain ye ish mein kaafi characters hain and all these characters are linked to each other in a way that it becomes very complicated when you read the summary and you try to understand kyaar ek kiis character ki baat bhi so for that what you can do is there is another alternative to it so for example i'll just show you a small video of my course i would tell you ki ish video ka aap halka sa dekhye and then i'll tell you ke aap jab khud in free websites and notes baan hain to aap is karike se baan hain ye jese main aapne students ko baan hain this would be very helpful for you to understand and memorise these characters okay so let me just play okay sorry i'll just okay so for example i have divided the entire novel into different sections so that hain hain section mein jese similar cheez hai uskum kar sake now yeh tarike references hain aap agar dekhye so the video plays on and we show you the entire story ki kis ka kise kya linkin what is happening but what you can do on your part if you are preparing for net on your own so aap poore jab summary paheenge from for example you're studying the summary from your what you can do simultaneously is that you can keep creating these kinds of small mind maps character maps se hum bolte so aap character maps baan aasate hain you don't have to use such fancy character this is just for students to understand and you know picturize the character but what you can do on your own you can just draw small small faces and you can keep writing ki kis ka kise kya linkin for example who is molly she's doctor of daughter of john uh george black then who is sophia she's squire western's daughter so iss tarike se aapko characters yaad unge and you can keep on making these billboards for uh different different topics okay aap jese itte sare mega twist aata hai all of this happened so you can also make your own notes for example so we know it is divided into four parts charge okay so so in this way you get to understand sath mein aapko kuch facts and quotes yad karne this yahoo and lily puthians yeh doh words hai jo galaga travels mein aaye te so iss tarike se you have to make notes for each of the section uh aap agar yeh chis in websites ke sath kar sake for each of the work that you have to study for these writers that is how you are absolutely on the right track to prepare for you gsn okay uh so humloka jo course hai usme this is this is exactly how we teach so for example i'll just show you a random video or in order to tell you for example let's talk about kristofer malo's dr fosters okay so uh so sorry um okay because i uh because i am on youtube live and there is this uh uh you know feature in our course that you cannot record it that is why you cannot see the screen that's why i showed you these videos because the recording is not permitted and since this is a live we the screen turns out to be black whenever we try to record it so that is why so this is exactly a pojese video uh sunne hain aur agar aap khud se banah rahe to aapko in websites ko refer karke notes banal hai so this was the first website which i spoke about next is park notes yeh sab same hain aapko dekhna hoga aapke uh vocabulary aapke style ko kansa match karta hai meh jab notes banaya karthi thi for net so meh yeh paan chhe website jo aapko bataar yohu issari hai ek line meh kulti thi and sabse padati thi and then i used to make my notes yeh kuch bhi nahi chute because kisi site meh kuch chute hain kisi site meh kuch chute hain so ish meh again you find a lot of um novels for example agar some paradise lost althe hain so yeh aapke aapko milta hai full text bhi milta hain character hain summary hain summary book wise summary miljaini aapko literary terms devices and these websites i am not promoting these websites this is just free content that is why i am telling you okay then we have grade saver i have written down the name so that i don't forget um the grade saver meh bhi again it is the same thing you just type paradise lost and you will find grade save okay results okay so this is the study guide in ka study guide hai just kenthal yaha pe sab mentioned a character list rosy themes symbols all of this yeh sab aapko main works kali study karna hai minor works like abhi john elvin ke salviya ke baat ho iti for that you don't have to study in so much detail okay then we have a core website a super summary this is something which is recently introduced but then they are giving very good summaries easy to understand hai i think baaki ho se but again aapko yeh jo meh aapko dikhaya hai hai those mind maps jo character diagrams hai vo aapko banane bohar zeroon yeh nahi to itini summaries ab yaad nahi rakhain yeh in our course we give 700 summaries aur wo students sift ab yaad rakhpat hai because they have these mind maps handy in front of them okay then ish meh bhi again aap book wise summaries prasap hai her book ka summary hai yeh paid hai to yehata ki aapko milega aage ka nahi milega so that is up to you if you want to subscribe or else you can just read jahata ka free hand that would work okay and then ish ke alawa wikipedia we all know wikipedia sa aapko information milega and britannica encyclopedia so yehaha pe you won't get summaries for that matter but aapko writer ki details kaafi mil rahi so if you i feel type john milton uh so aapko sbhele wikipedia ka pey jayega aap yaha se padh sakte jo major works aapko padh nahi aapko yehaha mil zahin yeh so these are the poetries and prose jo aapko john milton ke pata hone chi okay so i'll tell you something yaha pe okay so agar aap john milton ki baat karein so john milton ka we have hum lo kya padhate hain i'll tell you so this is the biography and these are like views and this so yeh jah biography section hain ish ke notes aap banana chahin so aap john milton ke starting se padhenge end tak vatab unke life in education in sbke baare mein tab aap yeh wale notes bana paenge jo abhi i was showing you your sorry your okay so this is biography and influences then if we move to prose work so these are some prose works of john milton jo aapko thode thode mein padh nahi hain okay joseh main aapko bataya hain works mein so yeh jo works aapko dikhre yaha pe if you look at these works isko hum nahi yaha pe chote-chote root mein aapko padhaya hain jo batahuna chahiye commas mein baat charekta zi toh agar we have made a character diagram jaha pe bhi karekta zi main ek bhi karekta diagram so that it becomes easy doctrine and discipline of divorce he wrote this pamphlet yeh kaafi baat net mein puja gaya arrow with vegetical licensing ke baare mein puja gaya yeh aapko bhi aise images ish ish liye rikriye because yeh amare video cause ka paat hai so we keep on showing images and all of that so that we can relate and you can keep it then poems ke saath ne these are the um these are the poems those were the dramas written by um uh john milton approach works the and then this is paradise lost okay so paradise lost from alak se stadi karte baaki jo poetry aapko thode thode padh nahi okay like this so if you look at john milton so aapko yeh charo cheese padh nahi hain uh aapko yaha se nahi mil jayenge aapinke har page pe jayenge you will get the information aap hain se padh sakte so this is how i used to use wikipedia and botanica's and cycloberia as resources to make notes on writers for important works poetry i've shown you lit charts, clip notes, great savor, super summary all of that uh again one more thing that i wanted to share with all of you right here is that if you go to our website courses.arkhathakarwa.com i have already logged in and this is the course that i've purchased which is online course for ugc net paper one and paper to english literature right now we are running 70 off on this course because tomorrow is my birthday and i wanted to give a token of love to all my students so that is why we are running a heavy discount on this course the details of the discount you can get to you know you can call my team and get it but for now i'll just tell you that you're getting this course paper one paper two full course in which you get all the modules lecture you also get paper one each unit lectures 34 lectures 38 lectures like this you get pdx which i have also shown you that you get complete mock test series for paper two mock test series we have made a mock test series which is exactly like ugc net pattern so if you look at the question it is exactly like you have to attempt like net so that you get a feel of the net exam and you just put a timer just give a net exam like this you can do it once you do the entire thing you get sorry if i submit it so you get to see what you have done attempt you get to see your score in different different sections you get to see report analysis you also get to see your leaderboard ranking that where are you u versus topper versus average so various metrics we give you in order to tell you that your preparation kyaise hua hai so this is again something which i would want ki aap sab kare you can also get free mock test in this course so two free trials are there so you can go and you can get this mock test paper two ka jo cable course hai that is for 11,000 for six months but right now paper one in paper two ka jo bundle course hai we are giving it for triple four times nine that is 9999 10,000 se one rupees less so that is the offer price jo aajar kali hai because tomorrow is my birthday so i want to run this offer for anybody who wants to study with me and you know get on a literary bandwagon so you can check courses dot arpathakarwa.com slash loan pay you will get the website you can also message my team on 797 double six zero three seven three one they'll take you around the entire course so that is one thing that i wanted to share now one more thing is the past year papers so ugc net ka preparation aap kitna bhi kalle it is not complete unless and until you refer to the past year papers so for past year papers the free resource that we have is on our website you don't have to go to any other place you have past year paper for one two and three now you'll ask what is paper three 2018 se pehle tak ugc net me team papers hua karte paper one was a general paper paper two and paper three was subject specific paper so if i show you paper three is also like abhi ka jo paper two hai same hai same tarike ka question se you get the question you also get the answer so ye aap free resource uskar satte hai in order to prepare jitte bhi questions hai her kisi ka you will get the answer and you will get the question you can also go to the website and here we have free demo test that you can give just like i showed you free demo test hai paper one ka bhi ek pura free demo test we have ye mock test series hai aap ye bhi dek sakte hai so aap yaha pe test de sakte hai also when you go to ugc net paper two ka course if you get this course one thing that we have added in this course is that aap ko jo mock test dete hai bo mock test is also according to age wise age of chaucer age of revival elizabethan age restoration age romantic age victorian age unit wise mock test hai in which we have american literature ka alag mock test post colonial ka alag mock test indian ka alag mock test so ye sare wo mock test se jis mistive indian literature hai so if you prepare this is designed for our four students jo ek ek module prepare karte hai and then they keep giving the mock test but kyunki module one british literature is very lendy so british literature ke chapter pe we have a mock test so if you go to british literature age of chaucer aap ne pada you went through all the videos that we have given i just showed you so if you went through those videos you give the mock test of age of chaucer so you know ki aap ne kitna pada and how much you were able to understand all the mock tests are exactly according to the ugc net pattern we have designed it very very methodologically in order to tell you that this is how you have to attempt the paper okay and we are very soon coming up with something very very interesting which will be a part of our course and we'll be launching in like a month or so and that would be related to mock test i'm very very excited about it but i cannot reveal it unless and until we are alive with it so you get british literature ke sare mock test american once you finish the entire module because american is not very very huge so it many writers 50 writers hai so ye aapne jese hi kiya then you can give the american age ka mock test which is you ye aapne american literature ka you can take the test directly jaha pe you get jese ather miller hai death of salesman yehaha se aapko questions berega okay and once you complete all the units then you give the full length mock test so we have 18 unit wise mock test from british literature 19 unit wise mock test from all the other modules except british literature then we have 20 full length mock test okay and 2020 ke we have three sets so mock test one two three all of this is full length just ke aandhar if you see so this consists of 50 questions so ye full length hai ish mein her unit se questions hai so aap yeh bhi kar sakte hai and we also have hundred questions wale mock test so that you know ki this is so hundred questions hi ye last mein hai ki aapne jup sab kar liya so these are mock test that you give right before the exam and you keep tracking your position one more important advice to each one of you out there if you give mock test and if you get out of hundred 80 marks i want all of you to sit down and work on those 20 questions why did you made mistakes in those questions what is else that you have to learn or you have to revise because a lot of times this happened that people just give them mock test and then they forget so if you just forget then the mistakes that you made in the mock test you're going to make it in the exam as well what i want from you is the mistakes that you make in the mock test you rectify those mistakes so that you don't do the same mistakes in the exam and that is the reason why i tell you that every time you complete a mock test you have this option ki aapne ye mock test jup complete kiya hai for example let's just do some demo questions okay right and suppose i completed the entire mock test and then you have to see the entire evaluation and you have to check ki kaha pe aapne galti kariye the entire statistics is going to come what is your you know average score what is the analytics all of this is going to come apne har unit me kitana score kiya hai kaha galti kariye hai speed accuracy kiya thi kansa weak area hai opportunity kiya hai what is the trend so this is SWOT analysis SWOT analysis if you know you know this is your strength this is weakness this is an opportunity where you can work and this is a threat you're happy you're not performing then you have a completion and score statistic so please go through the statistic and work on it so that your score in every mock test should improve okay so these were some free resources which i wanted to talk about again quickly going through what we discussed so we discussed this syllabus so ugc net kajur syllabus is given your it is not the right syllabus that you can follow in order to clear the exam so you can check out the syllabus from my website arpita karwa.com second that this is absolutely free then second is the booklist i've already told you the booklist you can also drop a message to my team and they'll be more than happy to share you the entire booklist you can drop a whatsapp to them second third is the free websites which i told you literature grade saver cliff notes park notes all of these websites you can use wikipedia and britannica you can use how you should be using these websites to make notes i've also shared that so if you're making notes and paradise laws please try to make these kind of mind maps so that you remember the summary so just write a story that you won't remember okay and then finally we talked about past year papers which are free of cost is available on my website you can also get solved papers in the mock test series where you can give it right like the you know ugc net exam and you get paper one mock test series in this paper tukabi video course also for paper one and paper two all of this you're getting for 9999 rupees for the next two days for six months we're giving 70% off just because it's it's my birthday and i i'm really excited to you know have students who are really passionate about literature to you know help them in the ugc net journey so this was all about today's video i wanted to tell you how you can prepare your net prepare for the net exam of december 2023 and i wish you all the very best for the exam and i'm sure that you're going to clear it and make all of us proud for any details related to course any details related to past year papers free resources please feel free to message my team and they'll be more than excited also today we have like a happy art thing which is running from three o'clock to five o'clock if you register you get the paper one and paper two course for 9999 so the you know the happy art only gets activated for two hours so two hours today and two hours tomorrow so three to five p.m today and three to five p.m tomorrow only if you register in these two hours you get the course for 9999 which is on 70% off so i hope to see you there also if you have any questions any doubt feel free to put that in the comment section below i am going to go through with the comments and would take up your questions in the next live sessions that i am going to have so with that note i would like to take your leave and mohini says happy birthday in advance ma'am thank you so much mohini and thank you so much everyone who've been wishing me on social medias i might not be able to you know talk to you one to one but i have received your blessings your messages and i'm very very touched and i would just want to share my heartfelt gratitude for so much love and so much care that you guys give to me on every video on every effort that i take in the field of UGC back English literature so with that note i would like to take your leave and as i always say that's it from my side for this video lecture i'll meet you very soon in the next video lecture till the time you meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to Arpata Karva


Chances are, unless you're a Linux kernel developer, you probably don't pay a lot of attention to the Linux kernel itself. If you use Linux, you get a ton of Linux kernel updates, but you probably never really truly pay attention to them unless something goes wrong. If you install a kernel update and your computer stops working and you try to solve that problem, then you probably will pay attention to the Linux kernel, but every other time you get an update, it just comes through and you just carry on with your day. So today I want to ask this question, are Linux kernel updates actually important? Because there are a lot of them. If you go to kernel.org, which is where the kernel is hosted and where most of the announcements are made for the kernel, you can actually see how many updates there actually are to a kernel. So there are many kernels still in support. Even something that was released a long time ago is still in long term support, something like 4.9, which was released, I don't even know when I suppose I could look it up, but it's been was released many years ago. It's still in support. The latest update was released on the 14th of December. So it's still being updated. And in fact, you can see by the version number here how many updates there actually have been. So there have been 336 updates to the 4.9 kernel since it was released. And you can see for the other long term support releases, how many updates those have had. So as I said, kernel updates come very, very often. Even if you're using an LTS kernel, you get a lot of updates over time. And most of those updates usually have to do with security, especially if you're using an LTS update, you're not going to get a lot of new hardware support in that kernel, if any at all, probably not any at all. You're not going to get any new features or anything like that. You're going to be getting security patches only something that is meant to keep your computer as safe as possible. So again, I asked the question, are kernel updates actually important? Should you pay attention to them? So the answer to the question is yes and no. So I'm going to start off with the negative part of the answer first. So no, you shouldn't pay attention to kernel updates. And the reason why is because for the most part, they're irrelevant. You really don't need to pay attention to them because they're going to come through, they're not going to make any changes to your system. They're just going to update. They'll require a reboot after they're done. But that's really the only only interaction you're going to need in order to actually deal with a kernel update. That's really it. And this is especially true if you're running an LTS release because you're not getting anything new with those just security patches for the most part. So you don't have to worry about having to deal with things breaking probably because really all you're going to be getting is a security update. And you can just kind of ignore that. Just update your system like normal reboot afterwards and you're done. The reason why I would say yes is simply because there are often times when kernel patches or kernel updates are important, especially for people who are running the most current version of the kernel. So if you're running say Arch Linux or Gen 2 or Void Linux, something like that, you're probably running the most current version of the kernel. And for these folks that for you, if you're running one of these distros that's using the most version of the kernel updates for you are going to be much more important to pay attention to for multiple reasons. First, those updates are more likely to be bigger, right? They're more likely to contain more features, more hardware support, things like that. And with more stuff includes the possibility that things might break. So if you are updating your system and you pull in a kernel update and it happens to break, say, for example, a virtual box, this is a very common thing to happen. So virtual box requires certain headers and stuff like that to deal with the Linux kernel. And if you update to a brand new kernel before virtual box has been updated to support it, virtual box won't work, right? And this happens with a lot of virtual machine applications and stuff like that, things that are reliant on a certain version of the kernel. So if you're one of those people who use a distro that uses the most up to date version of the kernel, paying attention to the kernel updates can help you kind of keep track of when they come in. So you can kind of keep an idea of what might break after you do an update. And if you are someone who relies on, say, virtual box and you know for a fact virtual box hasn't been updated, you can hold back that kernel update until virtual box has been updated so nothing breaks. So in that situation, in that scenario, you should pay attention to kernel updates. It's very important for you because you need to make sure that your system stays running well. Now, that doesn't mean that kernel updates are going to break your computer every time or are going to break a piece of software every time. That's not true. In fact, it's probably hardly ever true. But there are situations where it does happen. So you just kind of want to pay attention to it when they come in. And usually, again, that only applies to people who are using the most up-to-date kernel and are going to continue on that track. So the answer to the overall question is kind of split down the middle because it really does depend on which side of the Linux user space that you're actually on. So are you using the long term support kernel or one of the long term support kernels, in which case kernel updates really aren't all that important to you. It doesn't mean that they're not important. It just means that you don't pay attention to them. So I should back that up just a little bit. I'm not saying that Linux kernel updates are never important. In fact, they're always important. Really, the point I'm trying to make is that you don't have to pay attention to them. If you're running one of the LTS kernels, you probably don't need to pay attention to them because the kernel update probably won't cause you any trouble really depending on what you're running. So if you're on the LTS, it should just continue to work and you could just ignore those for the most part. Those go through and you'll be fine. If you're running a more current version of the kernel and you're going to stay on that track, then paying attention to the kernel as it updates is going to be more important to you. So that's the kind of overarching answer to the question. Should you care about Linux kernel updates? The answer is it really does depend. And at the end of the day, there's nothing wrong with paying attention to the kernel updates, no matter what track you're on. Because, you know, just kind of paying attention to what is updating on your system is kind of important because if something does go wrong, even if you're on an LTS kernel or something like that, if you are paying attention to what's updating, you can kind of keep an eye out and maybe identify anything that comes up as a problem later on if something breaks. Same thing, obviously, if you're running a more rolling release type distro, paying attention to what's updating can allow you to troubleshoot better later on, especially if it means you're going to have to roll back to either a different kernel or a different piece of software version or whatever. So at the end of the day, despite what I've said at the beginning of the video where you can kind of just let the kernel fade into the background and let it do its thing, paying attention to your updates is probably a good habit to get into, if only so that if something goes wrong, you can have an idea of where to start troubleshooting. So that is it for this video. If you have thoughts on kernel updates, I'm sure that this is a very fascinating topic for a lot of people. You can leave those comments in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me in Mastodon or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast support links for YouTube and Liberapay will be in the video description. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube.  Well, the challenge is to not be anywhere near where it is right now. So thank you so very, very much for your support. I truly do appreciate it. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time.


Hi guys, welcome to a new vlog today. I am pretty much just staying home and getting some chores done I'm also changing my bedroom back to normal because the Christmas season is over. Yes, we still have the tree up I don't know when we're gonna be taking that down I don't know you're just going to enjoy it while it's here because again I don't really know when that is coming down But I just wanted to intro the video before I start the little time-lapse Montage of me changing my room back to normal. It's so sad. I love my Christmas decorations Workout clothes and this is Saturday. I know crazy But I'm going to work out Saturday this week and not on Monday because Monday have lunch with my boss And I want my hair to be like good. I might even curl it on Monday. I don't know But I want to shower Sunday after my workout. So then on the day after my hair will be like really good Yeah, that's why I'm working out today instead of on Monday, which Monday is normally my workout day But it's fine. I am going to be doing the Chloe Ting 2021 ab challenge. I don't know. It's like a 28 day thing I don't know if I'm gonna like stick to like all 28 days But I really do love Chloe Ting and like she always like motivates me to work out She was the person I started working out with like my whole fitness journey. So I'm gonna go back to the basics It's January. She's released some new stuff. I do want to work on some of her weighted workouts So that's why I don't know if I'm gonna like stick to this whole like plan, but I'm doing the day one Yeah, I will get more into this I'll get more into her plan like in my Friday video Which some of you guys don't like but I honestly love doing those just so I can like talk it out and always like Document it kind of but anyway, I just wanted to kind of like talk in this video a little bit more Rather than it just be like a whole time lapse So and kind of introduce you to why I'm like doing a workout in this vlog I don't think I'm gonna include the same footage in my Friday video because that'll just get like redundant. Yeah I'm also finishing up laundry. I don't know if you can hear it in the background, but that is what is currently happening I just got done editing and uploading in my Monday vlog the Epcot video you saw really wish I would have gotten some more Footage but it is what it is with that. I think I made the point of just showing the fountain and just having a chill day with Valerie Yeah, okay, let's get on to the working out now But I have been very productive and that is what I am trying to get at I had a really good workout I feel great and I'm a little sweaty, but I'm just gonna jump in the shower now Obviously, I'm not gonna vlog that even though I'm sure like some creepers would like love that. Okay. That's kind of irrelevant Whatever, but yeah, so I love Chloe Ting. I loved all the workouts I definitely have built up a lot of stamina from Pamela reef So I do give Pamela a lot of credit for my ability to be able to like complete all of the workouts throughout the entire time So I'm really happy about that other than that I think I'm gonna just take this evening to chill probably finish up my YouTube videos I do want to do a snap Transition of this laundry that I have here. So I'll probably be like the next clip But yeah, overall it's been pretty like it's been a chill but productive day. Okay, so for my dinner I haven't even touched the towels as you can see But I'm just gonna have my salad and my turkey cuz I don't know I'm also gonna have some popcorn and just in case if I forget to do the snap thing which I already did Folded these and now I'm gonna put them away Okay, so I don't think I've actually showed my room when it's done and everything's taken down I just remember that so I'm happy. I just now pulled out the camera to show you guys It is all back to normal This used to actually be over there, but I like the clock So I just decided to keep it there. We just have some memories photos I changed this to say be happy instead of be merry I'm gonna put more like sayings there But I don't know I'm just kind of lazy and then we have my mirror here. So cute I love my little luxury boxes for decor Nothing right here. I have yeah, don't mind the bra I just have it there because I don't know where else to put it down here Just my normal stuff my trash can my mat and then I have my little Tray here with stuff and my picture my grandparents I've explained this a lot But the reason why I have this in my room is because I went to College like a university stayed in a dorm had this stuff in my dorm room And I don't we don't have any room to put it. So it just lives here my workout clothes Coming over here. We have my clock like I mentioned changed out my pillow and Little phone here and then my dresser and my bed my hair is looking crazy Everything's kind of just put back to the way it was don't know when we're gonna clean up the house like from Christmas I'm hoping soon. I just don't know right now again. I guess we're back to life This is kind of like a back-to-life vlog if you guys enjoyed watching me do some exercising and home Stuff then give this video a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel And I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye


Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review This is for the 1987 John Carpenter film a prince of darkness actually prior to seeing this that I've never seen it before this was my first time doing it watched it streaming on shutter and This is one that I did a poll for and this is the Largest win any movie. I've put in a poll for a review has ever had I had this going up against I think best worst movie and Something else. Oh, no, it wasn't those. I don't even remember what I had it going up against But at any rate Prince of Darkness killing it people really want to see it So one of the things that I knew About this film going into it. Well, two things I knew about this film going into it the title says a lot So when I say I'm doing a no spoilers review, I'm gonna talk about you know The devil in it because that's not really a spoiler because the title says it So the only thing I really knew about it was based on title There's something about the devil and Alice Cooper is in it Like it's well-known people like oh Alice Cooper's in that movie Alice Cooper's a movie Which by the way like he doesn't even matter in the film to be honest because He has a very small part and he doesn't even have any dialogue either Does he do a fine job for what he's supposed to do in the film? Sure good enough But doesn't matter the fact that he was in there is just kind of like more of an Easter egg than anything Someone else easily could have played his role. So it's just kind of like hey look Alice Cooper. So whatever But like I said as a 1987 film and this film for John Carpenter He he wrote and directed it for him. This came out after Big Trouble on Little China and before They live so a pretty good stretch of films like boom boom boom in a row And for that reason since it came after Big Trouble on Little China. He actually had two Two people also in the film in the in Prince of Darkness who were in Big Trouble on Little China and that's Victor Wong and Dennis Dunn those two individuals if anyone seen Big Trouble on Little China And then you watch Prince of Darkness you'll immediately recognize those guys will be like hey Because I did and I had to look it up I'm like what are those guys names because I recognize them from Big Trouble on Little China And they do a really good job for the most part the cast does a good job There are a few moments where there's some kind of bad acting But for the most part it's fine and when I say a few moments of some kind of bad acting It's like kind of bad acting for the 80s because when you're watching 80s horror films You just kind of have in your mind like acting back then wasn't all that great Especially not in horror films and when you got a really good performance. It was very rare and you were like, oh wow That's amazing. So Just how it was So this particular cut of the film Looked really good on the shutter streaming service. It almost looked like it was done in high definition It looked really good. I was very very surprised at how crisp and clean it looked I was very impressed with that. It was a very nice Version of the film. I liked it. I liked the aesthetic the look of it a lot I like the strategy that that is employed in this and I think Carpenter does this in a lot of his films where he will have a little bit of credits and then a scene of the actual movie starting and then a little bit of credits and the See in the movie and just like going back and forth. So you're not just sitting there like seeing One backdrop and then the credits keep going because like people don't even pay attention for that Like I know I don't if there's nothing really going on. I'm just like, okay I'll just wait until this stops and then I'll start paying attention So it's kind of cool to like have you engaged but also try and get you to pay attention to The names and the credits at the same time. So I like that Much like the film big trouble little China the set design for this film is very well done For what they're going for and it's not, you know Like the setting that they have for this isn't anything like lavish or elaborate or anything like that But I think they nailed it. They made it look very good. They made it look authentic They made it look like kind of like gritty and old like it's supposed to be and it just looks good It looks really good, especially with The main thing in the film that is the focus looked really cool Watching this made me realize how much relationships are a staple of movies actually. Yeah, so It's not really so much tied to this film But it just seemed kind of like Unnecessary that there's a relationship that happens in the film where it's like oh this guy wants to be with this woman I was woman wants to be with this guy and it just made me think that like for a long time in film It was just expected that like we're gonna have a relationship There's gonna be a love interest and I know that for the most part We're starting to get away from that in film right nowadays And I think that's a really good thing because let's just focus on the story because in my opinion a lot of the times The relationship aspect of things doesn't really add much to it Especially when it comes to horror horror in particular Relationships can matter in certain aspects when it depends on what like the story is But I've seen a lot of them where it's just like Relationships don't matter in this aspect or in this story and people wouldn't be focusing on relationships Because they're trying to survive now with this film the relationship is set up before anything terrible is going on So it's a little more believable, but I've seen horror films plenty before where there's horrible stuff going on and these people are Just like this is life or death Hey, do you want to have a relationship should we slow things down? Should we have a little bit of sex when there's like a zombie apocalypse going on and they're beating in our door right now It's kind of like that type of stuff, but they they don't do that in Prince of Darkness It just made me think so sorry for the side tangent. Let me know your thoughts on that though Put a comment down there. Do you like the relationship stuff? Or are you happy to kind of get away from it? I'm happy to get away from it. Obviously. I also like the whole I Like this whole thing and it happens in films from the 80s from 70s 80s like decades and decades and decades past where if there's science related stuff and there's this kind of like obligatory scene of Setting up all this random Sciencey equipment that nobody knows what it is or what it does and particularly in this film It's funny because all the like the computer screens are like constantly like running code and running text and you're just like What is the point of that? It's just totally random It's just like ah this computer is working because there's all sorts of gobbledygook going on on there. It's weird But I just found that funny It's just kind of remind me I was like ah yes science stuffs of the obligatory Setting up random equipment. You have no idea what it's for or what it does and it doesn't even get explained usually Oh, yeah, I already said that the acting's kind of rough So this this film actually has a lot of very strong foreshadowing in it Which actually takes a lot of the surprise out of it. There really is not much of any surprise I mean maybe a little bit to some degree, but the the stuff going on and very very early on It's super strong foreshadowing. You know where it's going. You know what's gonna happen I mean you already know stuff based off the title of the film Which you know, maybe you should have chose something else, but I mean it is a good title. So I don't know it's just It's just one of those things where like I I am in the mode of kind of liking to Be surprised as I go along especially with a horror film and with this one I felt like I didn't really have that the only things I was really surprised by were The the things they decided to do for their special effects Which we're good like and that's another thing I was gonna talk about it and so I'll just talk about it now The special effects were really cool. I really liked a lot of the choices they made for certain special effects to do and Those things you don't see coming so those are fun and interesting and some of that stuff I haven't really seen in film before so very unique and You know, that's John Carpenter though John Carpenter does that. He's a very unique guy He's had a lot of very cool original ideas. So Although his favorite film of mine is not original The thing remake but you know, but yeah, just the foreshadowing super super heavy. So You know, if you if you really like to have a mystery on your hands when you're watching a film This is not that film for you really Um, okay, so I already said we already know the devil's involved in this because of the title of the film And one of the things one of my pet peeves in film in general is the use of like religion Like God and the devil aspect of religion not because like I have problems with it necessarily it's just that like I feel like it's used a lot It's very tired to me and I feel like it's kind of like a crutch It's like when people can't come up with anything new or interesting They're just like, oh, well, let's do God and the devil stuff because that's there And it's been mined so heavily and You know, this is from the 80s So at that point it wasn't mined as heavily but I feel like it was still mined pretty heavily at that point But but I will say in the instance of this film That there were some interesting new things that john carpenter threw in He had an interesting kind of fresh take on that whole thing So for that reason at first I was like, oh devil stuff But then as things kind of unfolded I was like, okay Well, he he actually made it interesting enough and different enough that I'm okay with it Then I'm like, all right, you may you made it your own thing It it's not tired and old and that's what I'm fine with these things When people kind of take it and they kind of make it their own just like with um zombies Like I feel like the the zombie film is so Unbelievably overdone every time I see a new zombie films come out. I roll my eyes so hard You can probably even hear it if you're in my presence Because I'm I'm sick of it because a lot of it's just the same Now when someone does something new With it, then I'm like, okay, you have my attention. I respect that that's great But when you have all these people just being like, well, we're just gonna do something just like the walking dead or we're gonna do something Just like world war z or just like knight of living dead I'm out You gotta give me something new you gotta give me something at least slightly original if you're gonna use something that's been mined Heavily and like I said prince of darkness did a good job with that. I think good job, john carpenter um Bad things happen a little bit of it at a time in this film And it's kind of like here's a bad omen here's a bad thing happening And I felt like the pacing of when they dropped those things into the film Was like perfect It was it was like the perfect amount because they give you a little bit of Like the characters interacting with each other trying to figure things out and then a bad thing happening And then a little bit more of the character stuff and then a bad thing happening And I just felt like it moved at such a nice pace that it kept you fully engaged until Towards the end of the film to be honest because when when it's kind of those two worlds are merging Where you know, you can't get away from the terrible things happen and and the terrible things are consistent in a certain time frame It got really slow It got very slow and I started to get very disinterested in the film I still paid attention because you know doing the review but There could have been some much better editing on this. I feel like they really needed to chomp this thing down Cut it down. It was uh, I think it clocked in at like an hour and 40 minutes So really I would like to see it more like an hour and a half or less Because it didn't feel like it should be as long as it is It really should not be that long to be honest and you you know If you're watching this film if you go and watch it right now You'll see what i'm talking about you you will feel it and you will see it When you know That moment where you're just like yeah this stop this scene in particular needs to be cut down drastically It's going on way too long. It's not that interesting just cut it down And especially it's bad placement because it's towards the end of the film where things are like really Moving and that's when you want people most engaged. So I don't know that's one of my that's probably my biggest criticism of this film that really took me out of it Uh, I like the setting Um, it's a can you know, this doesn't give much away It's it's a confined setting and I really like horror films that are done in confined settings usually not always It depends on how a director works with it A lot of the times if it's like bigger budget like john carpenter was getting with prince of darkness he You know has a lot of things he can do with it. He can make the set design look really good He can use numerous rooms and new numerous areas of the one location But when it's like lower budget it gets to be a little bit hard because you need to just be like super creative with the story in general Um, because you don't have all that money as as a resource.  I already talked about that as well the practical effects were there's one in particular involving Liquid I will just say that and it happens a few times throughout the film And that's probably my favorite effect in the film. I just thought they set it up really cool They made it look super awesome and you didn't see it coming which I really liked so um Yeah, so that's my overall review of prince of darkness now Out of five stars with half stars in play I don't think I can give it a ton because there are a lot of like I was saying there's a bunch of it that really needs to be cut down Um, there's some cool things that happen overall.  Am I glad that I watch it? Yeah, it's good. I'm glad I watch it. Yeah, will I go back and watch it again? Maybe I don't know maybe But uh, that being said I will give it three out of five stars So still a pretty good mark and I would recommend it if you haven't seen it So especially because I mean come on it's john carpenter Just see as much john carpenter as you can. That's all I'm saying Anyway, thank you for checking this out. Please hit the subscribe button for me I really appreciate it every time I see a new subscriber I get excited and I'm just like ha ha someone else who likes horror and likes horror movie reviews Down with that. Um, I will be seeing mid summer Actually, when this comes out, I will have already seen the movie mid summer in the theater So I will have a review available go back and check that out if you're wondering about it because it's like the new hot thing Hope and it's good. But anyway, um, put some comments down there Let's talk about prince of darkness if you want and like I said, please subscribe Anyway, thank you so much until next time. Keep it brutal


It's a slow burn, but it's definitely not something you'd expect. Hey guys, this is my review for Midnight Special. Now this is a movie that I really wanted to see. Admittedly, when I saw the poster of it on IMDB, I was like, what is that? And then I watched a trailer and I was like, whoa, that's so freaking cool. And Jeff Nicholas is a director that has made some pretty cool works. Admittedly, I have not seen all of Take Shelter, but I have seen Bits of Mud, and both of those films look really interesting. So to see this sort of interesting, different, weird, close encounter to the third kind, sort of, even though it's not, was really cool to watch. Admittedly, this film definitely keeps you guessing the whole time, even though it's a very straightforward story. The point of the film is that Michael Shannon's son has abilities. He has abilities to make people see things and he has special powers. Powers in fact, that he was basically kind of kept on a ranch by John Sam Shepard and was thought to be basically a deity, like basically the voice of God. However, Michael Shannon and Joel Edderton both get his son out of the ranch and they start driving somewhere. However, the government is after the boy as well because he has obviously been talking about certain things that the government should only know, coordinates, special radio signals and everything. So the whole time you're wondering what this kid is, why does he have these abilities, what happened to him, but also at the same time you're seeing this establishing, sort of, re-establishment of a father of his son because his father has been away, basically he was taken from him for over two years. And that's the other thing too. This film starts basically if you jump halfway through a novel and admittedly it's a little bit disjarring, but I actually like that aspect because instead of getting, there's a lot more ambiguity to it and while there are some things that I really wish I could know more about with the kid and the abilities, I still really enjoyed the film. If you're thinking this has a lot of action because they show some action pits from the trailer, they almost show all of them because this film is not an action film. It is in a sense an indie film, so what you're seeing is more so this very interesting story and the kid's abilities and just seeing this kid who has the ability to do things that you would never think possible and the thing that's interesting about it is he's not afraid to use them. That's something that in some of these films we see a child is afraid of who he is, of the abilities he has. This kid isn't. This kid is very mature for what he has and I think he did a really great job in this film. Other people who are in it, there's Adam Driver. He's a post-Kilo Redd. He's an NSA agent who actually, he's one of the most interesting characters because he's not more so a government crony. He's invested in finding out what this boy can do and there are some moments in this film that were actually quite interesting. The finale is definitely not something I expected. However, as I said in the beginning, there are moments of very slow burn. It goes very slowly at moments and admittedly you might find yourself a little bored. I did maybe once or twice. I never checked, I never checked my watch but you know that's kind of, it is slow and some of the moments are, there's a little bit of things I wish I knew a little bit more about certain aspects of the film. They don't kind of explain to you. It's more so just like, oh, I know where he's going. I figured this out and then they cut and then they never come back to it. So in the end, I'm going to give Midnight Special a five out of seven. It's definitely something different. That's something that I definitely appreciate it for. It's a different type of movie. It's a different type of experience. And it's definitely not what you would expect walking in. So you're going to be surprised, which is great. Anyway, guys, that's all for me for this film. I hope you enjoy this review. It's a decent movie.  So I don't know how lucky you guys are to see it here. But anyways, I hope to see you guys soon.