then hand written letters and phone calls. Nowadays, one can simply turn on their computer and talk to anyone around the world, and online communication has also opened people to be able to talk to people without ever meeting them in real life. For example, the documentary Catfish, termed what is the concept of online cat fishing, whereas the plot of the story is about the protagonist, Nev who faced dealing with what lies across the sphere of online relationships, such as they people do not…
Albee choice to make Martin’s mistress a goat is a disturbing yet effective way to portray the message of human sexuality and desire. The first couple times Martin speaks about Sylvia the goat, the audience and characters see it as a joke. There are many moments of laughter in the audience. When Martin’s friend, Ross, writes a letter to Martin’s wife, Stevie, exposing Martin’s infidelity, laughter soon turns into shock and disgust. Before the climax reading of the letter, the walls of the room…
Neon lights, upbeat music, and the slim figure of a stark white innocent looking girl. A doe-eyed teen in a fitted latex dress lays her lifeless head on the nape of an 18th century styled cabriole sofa. Covered in blood, the audiences’ first instinct would be that the girl, who we eventually find out is named Jesse, is dead. As the scene continues further, it is discovered that the scene was created for a fashion photoshoot. Death and beauty. That opening scene sets the imagery and tone for the…
One of Nolan’s common techniques, which he employs brilliantly in several pictures, is nonlinear storytelling or a narrative that takes place in different times. There is almost none of that here in Insomnia, his most straightforward film to date (even The Dark Knight Trilogy included some extended flashbacks). Nolan does seem to want to include some more difficult to…
of humans in his graphic novel creates awareness through both the manipulation of words and images as it is a vital component of remembrance. Page 87 of The Complete Maus is an idyllic example of Spiegelman’s combination of thought, attentive detail and fundamental meaning. By using form Spiegelman creates a narrative accompanied by pictures instead of needing to use immense worded detail toping the graphic novel off with powerful cyphers throughout, in which could not have been possible with…
Every example that she provides, from the wasps, to the cat and finally the small child is easy to connect with the larger meaning that she is trying to get across, by providing us with convincing examples it is that much easier to put yourself in the place of the author and understand what she is trying to convey. When faced with the two wasps, Jacobson describes the animals…
Sylvia Plath writes to express the things that have happened throughout her life that also affected many young women her age. She also writes to discuss stigmatized or provocative topics. Plath takes to discussing subjects such as depression, double standards, and societal expectations, at length and candidly. Drawing from her own life and battles with depression, Plath herself went through some of the more invasive procedures as described in the novel. For Esther Greenwood, the therapy “took…
From Detachment to Authentic Forgiveness, Empathy, and Hope: Participating in the Spirit’s Solidarity with the Poor and Sinners Calvary starts with Jack’s confessional with his face blurred by the screen. Rather than a usual listing of grave sins, the man begins with announcing that was molested by a priest for five years as a boy. Now, he is looking for someone to compensate for the sin of the priest. Since the priest who violated him is dead, and above all, killing a bad priest would not…
development, the creation of believable characters and truth telling” (87). In other words, writers learn how to craft prose by reading the works of others. Influential novels include Leo Tolstoy’s twisted Anna Karenina, William Faulkner’s multi-narrative story The Sound and the Fury, Nathaniel Hawthorne 's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter and so on. The enrichments experienced from reading novels, short tales or even poetry are unlike any other. A writer can also become inclusive, tolerant and…
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the civilization of England mediated around a rebirth of a religious movement that was exclusive to the Puritan age. People lived their lives upon the foundations of moral behavior, where all art was a mere reflection of religion and morality. This notion persisted that art served as a reinforcement of ethics. As religion and morality pursued to restrict art to stand on its own, a group of artists revolted against Victorian beliefs; among them was Oscar…