 in the name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet this is a famous quote from Romeo and Juliet and this quote has been taken from the famous balcony scene in the balcony scene we find Romeo and Juliet converging with each other and they talk about name and they talk how important naming is and they say that you know naming is a very artificial and superficial thing because you know it doesn't matter by what name you call what matters is the quality of that thing and we also find on the other hand that names play a very influential role in our life we are known by our names so in this video i'm going to talk about some pseudonyms or pen names of some really famous writers and remember to note of all these names because these names have been out in med exams several times also at the same time you must remember what pseudonym actually means pseudonym is false name pseudoword means false if you read signs in 10s and 11s you must have come across the term called pseudopodia pseudopodia is basically false feet that you know any unicellular animal has and that feet help that animal for movement and for in taking food so same pseudopodia is very similar to pseudonym both pseudos stands for false so pseudonym is false name so in this video we are going to talk about some pseudonyms of a really famous writer if you are an ardent reader you must have read preen chandra the great indian writer and even preen chandra had a pen name and the pen name was navabra if you're a haribor fan then you must be knowing the pseudonym of jk rowling if not then go and check the pseudonym of jk rowling today the first writer that we are going to talk about in this video today is robert burton robert burton is an oxford scholar and he wrote this beautiful work called anatomy of melancholy in which he talks about different kind of melancholy and when he was writing this work he used this pseudonym of democratus junior okay and he published this work under the pseudonym of democratus junior this was a question i was a net exam that under what pseudonym did robert burton publish his work anatomy of melancholy we also find a very special story related to his death actually robert burton was a astrologer and as he was practicing astrology he predicted his own death and the day when he predicted he was according to his prediction the day on which he was going to die he became so conscious of this fact that okay i am supposed to die on the day i predicted because i need to tell the people how good i am as an astrologer so he committed suicide by hanging in the chamber of christian church on the very day when he predicted that he would die try to connect with this man that this person was so obsessed about his own predictions and wanted himself to be portrayed as a very very renowned astrologer that he committed suicide just because he wanted to make sure that his predictions did not go wrong so we have such psychopaths people in literature as well now let's look at another important writer and his pseudonym the next important writer is charles liquid dutson you must be wondering whose name this is so i would like to tell you that charles liquid dutson is the real name of lewis carron lewis carron has within this wonderful work called alice in the wonderland i'm a huge fan of this work because it is so so so interesting and it talks about certain philosophical questions in such a easy manner okay and you i would like to tell you this thing about uh mr lewis carron that he used to love students a lot actually what happened during his childhood days that used to stammer a lot and when he was with children he found out that he did not stammer when he was with children just because he loved him so much and he felt so happy when he was with them that he did not stammer so he started writing stories about children at the same time we should also understand the thing that uh lewis carron was a very modest and a private man he did not want people to know that he was writing uh certain stories and certain novels so that is why he decided to use a pseudonym so that nobody comes to know about his real identity the next writer that i'm going to talk about is george orville george orville's real name was erick earther blare he changed his name from erick earther blare to george orville because he was to admire the patron saint of england whose name was george and he was also loving this river called orville which used to run in our england so just because of these two things he started calling himself george orville something that feel that how awkward it would sound if just because of my love for river brahmputra i would change my name from arpita to brahmputra like it it's actually insane but then finally that that that was orville's life and he could do whatever he's what he wanted to do uh we must remember this thing about orville that he was born in bengal and he also worked as a police officer in berma so if you have read his work shooting an elephant which is a wonderful essay say you must know that he has described his daily routine and the kind of experience he had uh as a police officer in berma he has written several other important works which we cover in detail in our online course you can go to my website www.arpitakarma.com you find a list of all the writers that i cover in my audio online course which is specifically designed for ugc net english aspirants you can uh look for the details which is given in the description box below and if you like the course then do join the online course uh we will be studying several works of george orville in the course we study animal farm we study uh the major work the most prominent essay written by george orville which is inside the whale politics uh and english language so all these works are being covered in my online course in detail the next writer that we are taking up is charlotte bronte charlotte bronte used the pseudonym of cuder beng basically bronte family had five daughters in one son out of these five daughters two daughters died the rest three became really great literary uh writers we have emily uh bronte we have anna bronte and we have charlotte bronte all the three bronte sisters used pseudonyms in order to write uh works so that they are taken seriously because uh they were writing in the romantics and victorian period so during that time female writing were not appreciated by people so that is why they used pseudonym you should also remember that out of these five daughters two of them elizabeth and mary these two daughters died in the boarding school uh due to typhus and we find uh this reference of typhus and the boarding school in jane ire which is a very important work by charlotte bronte and that shows the autobiographical connection between the work and charlotte bronte's life the next writer is washington erving washington erving has used the pseudonym of jonathan old style and joffrey creon he is the author of this great american work which is called legend of sleepy hollows and uh if you have seen batman movie then i'm sure that you must know about the city of gotham so he is the person washington erving is the person who renamed or who nicknamed new york as the city of gotham and if you've seen the recent movie of dc comics that the suicide squad they also mentioned gotham and they say that gotham is bro located near new jersey so this gotham nickname is given by washington erving also you must remember one thing about washington erving that he is called first american man of letters first american writer who earned his living totally from his pen the next writer is george elliot's real name was mariana van and she used the pseudonym of george elliot saw that her writings are taken seriously because when uh in the victorian century female writers were writing nobody used to like it or nobody used to read it it was called as chick literature like what we call it today chick literature is basically literature specifically written to appeal women so she doesn't want herself to be categorized in that category that is why she used a male pseudonym also you must remember one thing about georgia here that she was a person who had to leave her education uh because her mother died and she used to work as a housekeeper uh and work with uh her father at the same time and very important thing that you must remember is that she has written some really fabulous literary critical essays so you must go and read those literary essays because there are times when they ask questions from the critical essays written by george elliot the next important writer that we are going to talk about in this video is mark twain his real name was samuel langhor clements now there's a very very interesting story uh on how samuel actually got the name mark twain basically he was going on a trip uh so he was sailing on a boat and he was going to new orleans and while he was going he was you know learning how to swim from the pilot of that steamboat so the pilot asked him to go into the water and try to swim in that cloudy foggy water so when he went there the uh steamboat pilot told him that if in case uh you are fine and you don't need any help you need to shout mark twain which means that water is safe and he used to shout mark twain and that is how he actually got his name mark twain so it's a very very interesting story you should also remember one more thing about mark twain and that is that he is the one who coined it the term gilded age and this was a question which was a net example you must remember that it is mark twain who coined the uh term gilded age which refers to a period from 1870 to 1910 so this is what is important to be remembered uh before you end this video do subscribe to my youtube channel because i post videos every saturday and every sunday to help you guys with your udc night preparation do like this video and give it a big thumb thumbs up 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