Kurt Schwitters Essays

INTRODUCTION Hannah Höch (or Joanne Höch) is a German feminist artist born on November 1, 1889, in Gotha, Germany and died in 1978. Höch is best known for her political photomontage and semi-abstract collage compositions, and her most recognized artworks are the ones produced during Berlin Dada movement, which was after World War I. This paper sheds light on Hannah Höch’s significant input in the art of photomontage and her political stances as an intersectional feminist icon. I will also attempt

Through the use of characterization, an immense amount of novels are able to satirize and symbolize different types of people. In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, this technique is applied in many instances within the novel. The main character Billy Pilgrim symbolizes the common man, and everything about him, including his name, contributes to this representation. In this deftly written novel, the author deliberately chooses the minor characters as the embodiments of different archetypes

In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the reader follows Billy Pilgrim, a man who claims to be "unstuck in time,” through his WWII experiences until the end of his life. The main character, Billy, lacks conventional heroic qualities like most main characters in novels and is portrayed as weaker than others thus rendering him an anti-hero. Billy Pilgrim is an anti-hero because of his physical appearance, lack of courage and motivation, and his mental instability due to war trauma. Billy

Theme Analysis How would you feel if society forced everyone to be the same? In the book The Giver, society has forced its’ citizens to go to Sameness so no one is different. In the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, the U.S. government has made several amendments so people are the same, going as far to force citizens who are smarter or stronger to wear radios, masks to hide beauty, and weights. Both governments are doing their best to force their citizens to be a certain way, and they implemented

In most places, we believe that people are created equal, and therefore everyone should be treated equally. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, people aren’t treated equally, where the more intelligent people are removed from society either by death or by prison. During the novel, Montag takes the life of someone who was threatening his property, life, and the life of someone else. He was justified in doing so as well, as most people would like to live and enjoy the different things that they own

According to Arendt, the accused was not a devil, but more of a "buffoon". Arendt saw Adolf Eichmann as a normal hard-working bureaucrat without "devilish-demonic depth". Obedience, a sense of duty and career thinking seemed to have motivated him much more than ideological fanaticism or low motives. He committed monstrous crimes without being a monster. “Arendt saw in Eichmann a disturbingly average man of middling intelligence. She didn’t see Attila the Hun in him but something she described as

A Streetcar Named Desire Literary Analysis The late 1940’s were characterized by the emergence out of World War II that led to a dependence on the idea of The American Dream, which meant men were working harder to achieve a more comforting lifestyle and opportunity while women were still fighting the oppression of caused by unequal representation. This idealistic dream is illustrated throughout Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, which has a rigid dichotomy between illusion and reality

Fragmented Humanity -Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, through the lens of Postmodernism Fragmentation, being the major tool of Postmodernism; the concept of fragmented identity has its due importance. The humanity was in a great search for identity after the World War II. Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient reads the pulse of the postmodern era. The idea of fragmentation is dealt exclusively in the novel. The distinct nature of post modernity is analyzed through the various forms

Cultural differences and Hofstede five culture dimensions: Comparison between China and South Africa Culture is a broad and profound concept, but mainly refers to the formation of a specific group of members of values, codes of conduct, beliefs, art, knowledge, customs and other habits of the whole. It is the foundation of people's common life, so people from different countries, races, nationalities and regions will cause different cultural conflicts because of different cultural differences. For

Jabari Walters 28 April 2016 Theatre 2010 Rachel Aker Harlequin in the Ghetto production response On Wednesday April 27, 2016 I saw the world premiere of Louisiana State University’s version of HITG. Honestly it may have been on the plays that I ever seen in my life, because the way that it was presented to the audience. The play was written by a young Jewish prisoner named Zdeněk Jelínek who lived in the Terezín ghetto which is also known as the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Before he passed

In the story The Lady with the Dog, Chekhov’s idea was to give me the understanding of what would be going on with Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, and Anna Sergeyevna von Diderits. The author wanted to show how two lives’ can be such a mess, but when it comes to the affair in the story the author gives me the feedback about how two characters feel towards each other. In the story, the characters talk about what the risks they would be concerned about. The characters also state that they are both in love

“Don’t become a slave to society” – Unknown. Kurt Vonnegut is a well know author of many short stories that uses this topic in many of his stories. Sometimes people wonder how today society is has come to be reality, people also wonder what our society will be like in the future. During the story, 2BRO2B Vonnegut uses internal conflict and characterization to express the theme of trying to make things better might not be beneficial in the end. Characterization is one element that Vonnegut uses to

Nathaniel Hawthorne creates allegory with his characters in his novel and short stories. The way that Hawthorne creates allegory with his characters us by showing their struggles with morals, their need and misinterpretation of love, and the effects of others opinions. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses his characters to symbolize a concrete object which is used to represent something more abstract (Dibble 37.) In the novel The Scarlet Letter we see multiple examples of struggles with morals. Dimmesdale

In most fairy tales and novels a humble male role is used to dictate the normality of writing. In “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, a strong male role is not only that, a lead character, but he is also cruel and prone to violent tendencies In the novel Okonkwo experiences harsh changes when the white men first came and at the beginning of colonialism. In “Things Fall Apart”, Achebe uses Okonkwo to display the negative change in everyday Igbo culture after colonialism. In this novel by

Although the term groupthink was first coined by William H. Whyte in an article published in Fortune Magazine (Whyte, 1952), it was the social psychologist Irving Janis who developed the concept and did much of the initial research on this field. In a foundational article from 1971 he defined groupthink as “a quick and easy way to refer to the mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of

Unfortunately, toxic masculinity plays a role in every society, therefore many people, mostly men, put on a “mask” to hide behind in order to make a false impression of their best selves. No matter who it is, everyone has a way that they want people to know them by, which is why it plays such an important role. The book Lord of the Flies is a fiction text about a group of young boys whose plane crashes after it was shot down during a war. The boys turn from civilized to savages on their long journey

In every society there is a large number of rules and laws that people operate under. For example, in Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron”, the idea of equality is understood in a very literal manner. The way the government handles making everyone equal shows that they do not have a valid understanding of equality. They feel as if nobody should be better than the next person and everyone should literally be the exact same. They issue out handicaps to anyone with any understanding attributes

In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, journeys through space and time reliving the tragedies of World War Two and of the postmodern world where structure and the self are lost. Billy’s typology of INFP allows him to find a fragment of meaning and purpose in a post-war world with help from the Tralfamadorians, alien creatures living billions of miles from Earth, who abduct Billy. Billy’s intuitive nature expands his understanding of purpose and assuages his notion of

The way of Rumor by Robert Knapp Robert Knapp psychologist during the world war II he attempts to classify and define the rumors by studying them, monitor people behaviors he published his book about rumor in 1944 it was nearly seventy years ago, when Knapp published his book and his research about rumor still has strong influence upon rumors. He starts classify the rumors based on the types that drive rumors and make them happen and he reach, three things that drive them and they are wish fear and

City of Thieves – David Benioff How has David Benioff explored the dehumanising aspects of war in his novel? City of Thieves is historical fiction set in the besieged Russian city of Leningrad during World War Two. Lev Beniov, a Jewish seventeen year old, details his story as the protagonist through his first person narrative perspective of the siege. Benioff’s focus is the desensitized attitudes and behaviour shared by characters throughout the novel as they contend with dehumanising situations