Joan Didion is an author who was part of the New Journalism movement during the 1960s and ‘70s which was a change from the traditional styles (Rustin 1). As a member of the New Journalism movement, Didion used stories and real-life events to explore sensational events that occurred in the sixties and seventies. Using imagery to centralize her ideas, Didion boldly informs the reader on the subject of morality and gets him/her engaged with the text. Didion’s use of gruesome imagery resonates with the idea of survival-based morality because in the most physically painful and emotional situations, people are defined by the actions they take. Joan Didion positions her view by providing symbolic imagery including the blazing desert, the nurse who travels one-hundred and eighty miles of mountain road for an injured girl, the sheriff’s deputies who search for a kid, and the painting by Hieronymous Bosch illustrating the diverse concept of morality, all which construct the exaggeratingly annoyed tone of the essay and deliver an idea that survival is central to morality.
‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ is a documentary designed to let the audience view the ‘Other side’ of Nina Simone’s career. From her beginning of stardom, to her gradual collapse, this shows that not all music careers are easy. Through being abused to being the abuser, it shows that music can take a toll on anyone. This documentary film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary and was a winner of five awards including “Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary” and “Peabody Award for Documentary and Education”. Directed by Liz Garbus (Also known for ‘Bobby Fischer Against The World’ and ‘The Farm: Angola, USA’), through her journals, interviews, and stock footage, the film covers as the audience watches the downward spiral of yet
Choices and consequences are a subject that looks shallow from a certain angle, but if you view it from above, you’ll see the depth and the skewed perception and vision of the object. Responsibilities and consequences derived from choice and agency can vary wildly, and as a result, the relationship between the two sides can be directly connected, or extremely muddled. The justification for this statement lies in many places, daily life, the two passages, “The Lady, or the Tiger” and “Gladiators,” and even in subconscious choices. ”The Lady, or the Tiger,” a fictitious passage, has a realistic representation of choice and consequence, although it appears simple, inane, and obvious, it has an underlying meaning of choice and displays myriad quantities of control over it. This literary text shows the illusion of choice in its “poetic justice” of random chance.
Ambiguity or fallacy of ambiguity is a word, phrase or statement, which contains more than one meaning. Ambiguity is usually a technique used in a text to generate confusion for the reader. For instance, " The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen is a short narrative that shows this previous characteristic, since it can be interpreted in several ways such as: it is a ghost story or it's simply about a mentally unstable protagonist ( Kathleen). Personally I believe it is just a story about a mentally unstable woman for reasons such as : trauma for having her husband lost and presumably dead, trauma for the war and several other descriptions in the text. It is important to state that losing a loved one, especially the person you share your life with, is a much dramatic if not traumatic event.
Conflict provides a lot to a story as it gives new ways of telling a story. In Cane River Lalitta Tademy tells us about the story of her ancestor's from the early 1830's to the late 1930's. In this essay the different conflicts in this story are going to be discussed and analyzed. Starting with Suzette's conflict with herself on whether to tell her mother about Monsieur Eugene raping her. Then Philomene's Conflict with Narcisse for sending her husband away to get her for himself.
In Beloved by Toni Morrison, the author often utilizes many different writing techniques to emphasize the story’s main idea that one cannot let past mistakes dictate one’s life and future. Morrison’s application of nonlinear exposition in Beloved helps convey the novel’s main theme by allowing the reader to witness Sethe’s journey to self-acceptance through her personal flashbacks and Paul D.’s point of view. From the beginning, the author incorporates a flashback to illustrate how Sethe is burdened with guilt from killing her baby daughter. Morrison makes it clear to the reader that Beloved is constantly on Sethe’s mind.
Their materialistic views still corrupt their lives and dreams. Nearly a century after publication the famous novel lives on to be a classic. The struggle between ethical values and desire for prosperity is still prevalent in today’s society. Nowadays social position is of less importance than back in the 1920 but still fame and wealth continue to be of much importance to
While Roth manages to show what Beauvoir discusses in “Myth and Reality”, that individuals have ambivalence which controls their choice of acting following the society roles, she just gives her point of view of how men treat women and base on women’s experience, however, she fails to show that women are, also, have ambivalence attitude. What is missing from her analysis is that Beauvoir when she discusses the ambivalence and the immanence and transcendence she shows that all individuals have these features, but Roth takes these ideas and discusses them based on men experience in the novel not women. In fact, Females, also, have ambivalence attitudes. For instance, when Lucy recognizes that there is something that is sucking her blood and she was able to describe it but she did not. Lucy just gives up by doubting what is going with her.
In this essay I will be writing about the two main characters of the novels we read this partial which were somehow alike, Tita de la Garza from Like Water for Chocolate, and Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who belongs to Pefume, about their similarities, but also their differences, showing which were their attributes and how they develop according to the story. The first similarity shown in the books has to be between the protagonists, Tita and Jean-Baptiste, with the unique attributes each of them possess. Tita de la Garza is gifted with cooking skills, while Grenouille is gifted with the capacity of smelling the essence of anything. The fact that both main characters own a unique skill makes the novel’s subject revolve around them.
The second chapter is a kind of an invitation to discover the proverb phenomenon. Its main goal is to focus on possible definition(s) of a proverb, on the role that it plays in human worldview and in metaphorical structuring of our minds; moreover, in this chapter the readers will have a possibility to see the presence of the proverbs in multiple aspects of life, like art and mass media and, in fact, how they can perfectly fit into every context. This brief research was inspired by a scene from the movie “Amelie” (2001), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. In this short scene, Gina, colleague of the main character, interrogates Nino, a man with whom Amelie has fallen in love, in order to be sure that Nino is a perfect match for Amelie; she then orders him to finish a set of proverbs. Nino manages to do it correctly, and he asks what was that activity supposed to check.
Simone Beauvoir states that being a mother is not enough for a woman. She brings up the example of Sophia Tolstoy, in which she used her children, her motherhood, as a sort of weapon against her husband. The viewing of one’s children as weapons is an obvious deformation of what would have been maternal love as it becomes more like an objectification. Moreover, Tolstoy notes that this lifestyle bores her: “I realize that I don’t want and can’t do anything, except care for my babies, eat, drink, sleep, love my husband and my children, which should really be happiness but which makes me sad and like yesterday makes me want to cry.” Beauvoir also notes that having children is not a form of medication for women and that having children is only beneficial
Maupassant’s creation of the interesting character Boule de Suif and her relationships with the other characters is done through his use of effective techniques such as imagery, symbolism and tone. These techniques support the key themes of equality, fraternity and betrayal which are present in the short story. Throughout the short story but specifically during this extract, Boule de Suif is described as a very desirable person. Maupassant’s
Still life arrangement on the table in the painting suggests a significant theme, refects the idea that all physical pleasures are fleeting, that life is short and the license of Art is the only thing that makes the artist immortal. The scope for my further research is to explore the painting Les Demoiselles D Avignon from a feminist perspective or to analyse in depth the the still life painting of fruits on the table in the painting Les Demoiselles D
The autobiography, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, provides a vivid insight into the complicated, yet exhilarating, life of Rousseau. The beginning of his life was filled with misfortunes, such as the death of his mother which was quickly followed by a distraught and self-sabotaging attitude which his father adopted. This led to his father’s involvement in illegal behaviors and the subsequent abandonment of Rousseau. His mother’s death was the catalyst for his journey to meet multiple women who would later affect his life greatly. The Influence of Miss Lamberciers, Madame Basile, Countess de Vercellis, and Madam de Warens on the impressionable adolescent mind of Rousseau led to the positive cultivation of self-discovery and the creation of new experiences, as well as the development of inappropriate sexual desires and attachments towards women.
Consequently, the context became fundamental and it represents the starting point for the description of the events. Le Père Goriot is set in 1819, after the Napoleon defeat and when the industrial revolution started. It was a period of great revolution and changes between the hierarchy of the social classes and Balzac aims to represent the various tensions of that period, especially in Paris. Moreover, in the Avant-Propos Balzac affirm that the novelist should be the secretary of the history, he tells us the story from a scientific point of view because he added that the novelist has to study the humanity as the biologist study the animals. Hence, this essay discusses the fact that the context of the novel and the description of the social tension can be defined as the realistic part of the novel which are intertwined in the plot and in the fictional characters who have a connection to the real life.
