Thinking activity: Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold

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I am share my views on cultural and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold this task given by Dr. Dilip barad sir click here to visit the blog.

He was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby school and brother to both, Tom Arnold, literary professor and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.

We can see that his first published essay "Cultural and Anarchy" . This is first published in Magazine in Cornhill Magazine (1867-68) and thereafter collected and published as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Cultural and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays. He also often to phrase " Culture is the best which has been thought and said" comes from the preface to Anarchy. Although Mathew Arnold does not create specific fictional character to express his ideas in Cultural and Anarchy, he does infuse his essays with a narrative persona that can best be described as a Socratic figure.

Comman things of all Three classes:

1) Barbarian: The aristocratic segment of society who are so involved with their archaic traditions and gluttony that they have lost touch with the rest of society for which they were once responsible.

2) Philistines: The selfish and materialistic middle class who have been gulled into a torpid state of puritanical self-centeredness by nonconforming religious sects.

3) Populance: The disenfranchised, poverty-stricken lower class who have been let down by the negligent Barbarians and Philistines.

So here, Cultural and Anarchy essay written by Matthew Arnold is divided in many chapter:

•  Preface..
• Preamble : What is Culture?
• Chapter I : Sweetness and light
• Chapter II : Doing as One Likes - Anarchy
• Chapter III : Barbarians, Philippines, Populace 
• Chapter IV : Hebraism and Hellenism
• Chapter V : Porto unum EST Necessarium
• Chapter VI : Our  Liberal Practitioners

So here I am discribed key points and how do I understand it. Let us see in chart.

Critique	Key points	How do I understand it?
Culture	Study of perfection, Harmonious expancance of humans	Culture is through this knowledge and free thought upon our stock nations and habit. Cultural as a study in perfaction.
Sweetness and light	Sense of Beauty active intelligence. For example Haney bee and spider. Satire is web of Modern writer	It is an immense spiritual significance of the Greeks with central and idea of the essential characters of human perfection. Sweetness and light it is freedom from fanaticism. And one great passion for sweetness and light.
Doing as one likes	Personally liberty freedom
Barbarians Philippines Populace	The prophets of culture.
Hebraism and Hellenism	Class distinguished, change the behaviour
Porro Unum est Necessarium	One thing naccessary.
OurLiberl Practitioners

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