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Point In The Story Indirect Characterization
1,941 wordsAn Investigation into the Structure of Gogol's The Portrait Gogol's The Portrait, is a short story which examined through a formalistic approach, can be understood beyond its obvious storyline and plot. Formalism is the literary theory that literature is not simply a mass of words, but comprised of individual words that each may possess a social stereotype, a spiritual aspect or convey a physical response in the reader. Formalism asserts that the world is full of codes that need to be decoded. B...
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The Birth Of A Nation And Greed
1,299 wordsThe progress of the film industry was remarkably fast in the first quarter of this century. I have chosen two films namely The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Greed (1924) for comparison and contrast to show how much the industry had evolved within the short span of nine years. These two films are chosen for the short time span between them. This short time span will enable us to evaluate the development of the film industry in terms of the psychological build-up of the plot and the characters, cin...
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Close Up Shot Point Of View
1,396 wordsJonathan Demme, the director of Silence of the Lambs, and Tak Fujimoto, the cinematographer, do an excellent job in portraying almost every aspect of cinematography to make this movie suspenseful and gripping. Various motifs of camera angle, shot duration, movement, point-of-view shots, on-screen and off-screen space, and framing allow the viewer to better feel the intensity and reality of the scenes. In addition to motifs, there were certain scenes in the film that portrayed Demme's directing a...
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Rose Like Glow Falling From Heaven Passage
1,383 wordsIn this passage, Joyce develops motifs and images present throughout the book to create a moment of epiphany, where the speaker realizes a moment of artistic innovation in a poem In addition, this passage reflects important themes in the novel. Joyce uses the motif of dawn to suggest that this is a breakthrough moment in the speakers life. He begins by saying Towards dawn, he awoke. This is a foreshadowing of the new and innovative moment that is about to come in the passage. He is describes as ...
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Song Comin Thro Date With Salley Hayes Holden
1,104 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye is an in depth allegory where characters and objects stand for larger and more profound things. In the novel, many human ideals are themed and represented. The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, encounters many different thoughts and principles that vary from person to person. The themes, motifs, and symbols here, play out to be like real life: nothing is perfect, and nothing is what it seems. One of the major themes in The Catcher in the Rye is alienation. Holden is excluded ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Seven Hundred
1,082 wordsIn laymen's terms, The Shadow- A Parable, by Edgar Allan Poe to the untrained eye could be seen as a sadistic, unordered, confusing pile of thoughts that should be banned from the folder of Classic American literature. But to the trained eye, the Shadow is a work of art, a beautifully told story, with details so commonplace today, but yet were so revolutionary in Poe's time. Classic of all of Poe's literature the Shadow has many shared Poe motifs, directly meets Poe's classic standards for story...
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Socio Political Reality Fashion Trends
2,898 wordsFinal Project (the original paper contains pictures Ive sent it to administrator, she will be able to forward it to you via email) (1) When it comes to defining the very essence of different fashion trends, throughout the history, many fashion experts fail to understand that these trends actually reflect peoples existential mode, associated with a particular historical era. Therefore, our analysis of current fashion trends and our forecast, in regards to these trends in 2009, are going to be clo...
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Gender Inequality Objective Reality
2,004 wordsThe Whale Rider (1) The rising popularity of so-called post-colonial literature is closely associated with the philosophy of New Age beginning to attract more and more White people in Western countries. In its turn, this can be explain by these peoples tendency to indulge in social escapism while growing increasingly uncomfortable with the factual realities of multiculturalism, these people are simply afraid of admitting this fact to themselves, which in its turn, prompts them to seek emotional ...
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Death And Rebirth Light And Dark
1,384 wordsThe Odyssey, by Homer, is a classical piece of Greek literature. Throughout The Odyssey, the Blind Bard makes use of many literary techniques in order to lend meaning to the poem beyond its existence as a work of historic fiction and aid his readers in the comprehension of the tale. One of these techniques is the use of motifs. A motif is a recurring theme that is used throughout the work. In The Odyssey, Homer makes use of many motifs including eating / drinking , Odysseus anger, bathing, and d...
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Death Of A Salesman Include The Well Liked Motif Willy
378 wordsDEATH OF A SALESMAN The novel Death of a Salesman contains many different motifs. Each motif shows up various times throughout the novel. The motifs bring about the meaning and importance of the novel. Without motifs, this novel would not have an interesting plot. The motifs blend together, to bring an understanding of the novel to the readers. The three major motifs in Death of a Salesman include the well-liked motif, the stealing motif, and the stocking motif. The most significant motif is the...
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Tells His Father Death Of A Salesman
1,557 wordsArthur Miller is a highly proclaimed author who believes that success is based on an opinion rather than a set of rules to live by. In his play, Death of a Salesman, Miller presents a realistic approach to the ideas behind the American Dream. Death of a Salesman has three basic themes supported by the motifs. In addition to these three themes and motifs there is a central idea running through the play. As the play progresses, the motifs merge in such a way as to support the themes and primary id...
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Type Of Music Main Theme
3,213 wordsFILM SCORE MUSIC To say that music plays a large role in our society would not do justice to one of the most important and popular art forms of yesterday and today. We underestimate the effectiveness and power that music, in any form, can have over even the most insensitive of people. In almost everything we do and see music is involved in some form or another. Be it a piece played at a wedding, a song played on the radio or even the music played in the background in a television commercial. The...
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Zora Neale Hurston Eyes Were Watching God
658 wordsZora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, uses symbolism and metaphors, also known as motifs, frequently throughout the novel. Motifs are unifying ideas that are recurrent elements in a literary work, and are used in this novel for numerous reasons. The main reason is that they convey the story? s themes and their purposes. A few examples of motifs introduced in Their Eyes Were Watching God include a blossoming pear tree, horizon, death, and spouse abuse. The motifs used by...
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Song Of Solomon Blacks And Whites
519 wordsMisnaming Motifs in Song of Solomon by: Toni Morrison Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is a brilliantly written novel that accurately depicts racial and social tensions between blacks and whites. Morrison chooses the setting of Shalimar, Virginia and Danville, Pennsylvania, during the late 1930 s through the 1960 s, where she covey s her story through the third person as an omniscient author. In order to emphasize the racial conflicts throughout Song of Solomon, Morrison carefully chooses names ...
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Gamma Rays Play Oedipus
773 wordsModern Vs. Ancient We saw her lying: she had made a noose of her fine linen veil and hanged herself. Harmon lay beside her, his love lost under ground, crying out that his father had stolen her away from him. Throughout history plays have evolved in many ways. For example, the theaters where they hold plays have changed drastically from the original theater. Costumes are another item that has changed, but the content of the play has always been similar, ever since they created the very first pla...
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3,710 wordsNAZCA ART By 15 / 96 # 6720087 76. 26 The classical Nazca culture inhabited areas around the Nazca Valley on the South coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate period, or 300 BC 600 AD. Their capitol city was Cahuachi, located near the Rio Nazca several kilometers inland. In its florescence Cahuachi was a ceremonial place where the Nazca would go and meet to conduct rituals or do business; since the average citizen did not live within the city. Eventually Cahuachi was changed into a mortuary ...
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Pit And Pendulum One Of Poe Man
361 wordsEdgar Allan Poe was a great writer. He could write anything from poems to novels. In all of his works there are many motifs that will recur. Some of them are the eye, the heart, an un-named narrator, premature burial, suffocation, a vortex, and dreams. There are many more but I will not list them. In my essay, I am going to that about three of his motifs and give examples of how he used them. One of Poe s most used motifs is animals. He uses them in several stories including The Raven, Hopfrog, ...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Play A Role
974 wordsRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt WhitmansRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Recurring Images and Motifs in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman, there are many recurring images and motifs that can be seen. Whitman develops these images throughout the course of the poem. The most dominant of these are the linear notion of time, playing roles, and nature. By examining these motifs and tracing their development, ones unde...
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