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Romanticism: Grande Odalisque
Number of Words: 912 / Number of Pages: 4
... Odalisque also typifies Romanticism. Ingres, using example such as the Mannerist Parmaganino’s Madonna with a long neck, takes the artistic license to elongate the figure of this Turkish harem girl. Influenced by the neo-classical revival Ingres draws upon the Greek technique of flat linear forms and depicts his model in an impossible position allow us the view of both her shoulders and her breast; the figure is given an extra three vertebrae in order to maintain this position. Ingres endows a feeling of sensuality into the figure instead of the paint. The chromatic effect of the composition pulls t ...
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Powder
Number of Words: 611 / Number of Pages: 3
... here.
Instead of the independence imbodied in most people, Powder belives in a
unification of all humans, every single one, through some sort of single-
consciousness. The idea of using Powder as a role model can work, but the
audience has to view powder as being worthy. Here Powder views people, unwilling
to accept the idea of a single-consciousness solely on faith, as closed-minded.
This dogmatic type of view nullifies any worth powder might have had as a role
model, and it dooms any chance the message of the film, which supposedly
presents a different, better, and higher, view of things, ever had ...
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Krapp's Last Tape: Imagery In Color
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... constantly reevaluate
his own life and try to always improve it, using these tapes as "help before
embarking on a new retrospect" (1629). He had also stored these various tapes
organized in boxes with their location written in a ledger. Yet in his latter
years, there is an apparent decay of this regimental attitude. His very
appearance is an indication of this decline. He is described as wearing "Rusty
black narrow trousers to short for him. Rusty black sleeveless waistcoat.
Surprising pair of dirty white boots. Disordered gray hair. Unshaven. Very
near-sighted (but unspectacled)," which is not ...
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Sankofa: A Movie Review
Number of Words: 943 / Number of Pages: 4
... her way out of the cave she is transported in to another time. She goes back to slave times. It is here that she finds her roots. She remembers what her ancestors went through and how she was disgracing them, now. She experienced what her ancestors went through, from the branding with a hot iron to the whippings across the back. During her journey she received a little bird from the man she loved. Its name was Sankofa. Near the end of the movie the slaves rebel and flee. While they are fleeing she talks about being taken up into the air, floating. Then, at the end of the movie she, and othe ...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Time And Decay
Number of Words: 656 / Number of Pages: 3
... then are slowly forgotten. In other words life is like a flower that blooms. It bursts out with beauty and then time and decay cause it to slowly wither away to old age and death. In the last couplet of the sonnet, Shakespeare gives his friend a way to win the war with time and decay and implant his beauty again. The way offers this is to be featured in his poetry. What better way to “live on” then to be read about for centuries?
The cycle of the year is used to describe life in sonnet 18. Spring equals youth, summer equals maturity and perfection, fall equals middle age and winter equals ol ...
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“Agamemnon”: Clytaemnestra
Number of Words: 1462 / Number of Pages: 6
... Clyteamnestra explains that she is lighting the alters because the war against Troy is over, which she knows because of the torch signals, she say that they are her, “proof, my burning sign…the power my lord passed on from Troy to me!” (Line 318-319)
Even though the Chorus did not initially believe her report about the victory at Troy, this does not compromise the respect and fear they feel for their queen. They justify their disbelief the easiest way they can, with the notion that women are easily swayed by gossip. Clearly, it was more their own qualms about believing victory has come after ten year ...
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Interpretation Of Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
Number of Words: 1322 / Number of Pages: 5
... depicts the role of women as subordinate in order to emphasize
the need to reform their role in society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a
relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her
infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her
resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of Torvald
by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her opinions,
including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her husband; and Nora's
flirtatious nature contradicts her devotion to her husb ...
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The Crucible: The Transition Of John Proctor's Character
Number of Words: 2053 / Number of Pages: 8
... he still
denied it and claimed he had no love for her any longer. She said to him,
"I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a
stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out,
you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and
you loved me then, and you do now." In all of Abigail's persuasion to try
to get him to admit his love for her, Proctor replied, "Abby, I may think
of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll
ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby."
Proctor ...
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Superstition In The Play The Crucible By Arthur Miller
Number of Words: 615 / Number of Pages: 3
... are being seen in Salem. Terror took possession of the
minds of nearly all the people, and the dread made the affliction spread widely.
"The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms
of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would
immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted
and the accused became so numerous that no one was safe from suspicion and its
consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of
suspicion.
Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and ...
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