NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Essay 1 Freedom

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Essay 1 Freedom are provided in this article with its download link. This essay is about the concept of Freedom. This article can be counted as a political essay where the writer analyzes the idea of Freedom. Though at the end of this article the question remains, “Are we really free?”

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NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Essay 1 Freedom



Freedom Summary

This essay includes six parts that will provide a deeper understanding of the much-discussed topic- Freedom. As G.B Shaw mentioned in one of his writings- a person who can do whatever he likes and whenever he likes and wherever he likes or do nothing at all can truly be considered as a ‘free’ man.

  • In the first part the writer tried to define Freedom with a reference to the South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela’s autobiography- ‘Long Walk to Freedom’.
  • The writer also takes the references to a peaceful non-violent way to fight for freedom. For that the references to Aung San Kyi, who spent her life under house arrest, away from her husband and daughter in Myanmar as she fights for freedom. 
  • In this part, the references from the essay written by Aung San Kyi- ‘Freedom from Fear’ was used.
  • In the next part of the article, the author raises another important question- what are the things and norms that are the sources of constraint for freedom?
  • In search for this answer, the references of Netaji Subhas Bose are provided.
  • According to the author, society, and the caste system are the core causes that do not let us be free.
  • The author considers the constraints needed to control the chaos of society.
  • The essay concludes with ideas related to harmful principles with references to the essay by John Stuart Mill- ‘On Liberty’.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    What is the contrast between the vitality of the swans and the decline of human life?


      • 2.
        What was the jungle superstition about how the tiger came to have the stripes and whom did he blame for it? Why did the tiger feel helpless in tackling the situation?


          • 3.
            Read the following poem ‘The Rain’ by Kamala Das :
            We left that old ungainly house
            When my dog died there, after
            The burial, after the rose
            Flowered twice, pulling it by its
            Roots and carting it with our books,
            Clothes and chairs in a hurry.
            We live in a new house now,
            And, the roofs do not leak, but, when
            It rains here, I see the rain drench
            That empty house, I hear it fall
            Where my puppy now lies.
            Alone..
            Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the questions given below:


              • 4.
                Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
                Solomon Margolin regarded her quietly. She had had her own share of troubles. She had suffered in silence for her two brothers, even for Hans, the Nazi. She had gone through a prolonged change of life. Now her face was flushed and covered with beads of sweat. He earned more than enough to pay for a maid, yet Gretl insisted on doing all the housework herself, even the laundry. It had become a mania with her. Every day she scoured the oven. She was forever polishing the windows of their apartment on the sixteenth floor and without using a safety belt.
                (A Wedding in Brownsville)


                  • 5.
                    Why did the long-tailed, black-faced langur advise the tiger to take great care to avoid going near a porcupine?


                      • 6.
                        Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
                        What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
                        The labour of an age in piled Stones,
                        Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
                        Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
                        Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
                        What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
                        Thou in our wonder and astonishment
                        Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
                        (On Shakespear. 1630)

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