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Q.3 What is the attitude of the West towards nature ? How is the attitude different from it?
Q. 4] Write note on the prose style of Swami Vivekananda ?​

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Ans 3 Indian Culture has a variety of religions like Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, etc. while in Western Culture the people mostly belong to Christianity. In Indian Culture, joint families are common, however nuclear families are also there. Conversely, In Western Culture, small families are there.

Ans 4 Swami Vivekananda has been studied generally as a saint and philosopher. Unfortunately, his prose style has seldom received due literary attention. A close study of his style shows that it possesses, in ample measure, all the qualities of good prose. It has simplicity and clarity, rhythm and harmony, a fine use of figures like similes and metaphors, epigrams and paradoxes, and also subtle effects like euphony and cacophony, assonance and consonance. He first places a point and then effortlessly expands it through cogent logic and/or apt analogies.

About style, Vivekananda said: �Simplicity is the secret. My ideal of language is my Master�s language, most colloquial and yet most expressive. It must express the thought which is intended to be conveyed.� (1) Thus, according to him, a good style must be simple, colloquial and expressive. Bernard Shaw also said: �Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.� (2) These are the qualities that characterize the style of the great masters of English prose like Dryden and Swift, Shaw and Hemingway.

As regards classification, Vivekananda�s style may be termed expository as distinguished from the descriptive, the argumentative or the persuasive. Expository prose is generally informative or thought-provoking. The effectiveness of such prose depends mainly on its clarity and lucidity, which Vivekananda�s prose has in adequate measure. But on occasions it turns towards the persuasive without losing its original character.

In terms of rhythm, its main pattern is associative, turning sometimes to prose rhythm and sometimes to the poetic. But the distinctive feature of his style is the harmonization of all the essential elements of style into an organic whole.

Vivekananda first places a point and evolves it gradually with the help of logic (now deductive, now inductive) and analogy. Talking about �The Cosmos and the Self�, he says: �Everything in nature rises from some fine seed-forms, becomes grosser and grosser, exists for a certain time, and again goes back to the original fine form.� Then follow illustrations:

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