Week 8 Assignment 2: Self Portrait By: James Roppel II Professor Michael Briere HUM 111 September 4‚ 2012 My self portrait would be the combination of Michelangelo (sketch of a male head‚ in two positions)‚ and the abstract self portrait of Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973). Stanton MacDonald-Wright collaborating with Morgan Russell developed “Synchronism”. An “aesthetic philosophy upon modernist theories of perception“. My portrait would show signs of Synchronism‚ a color based style that
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Young Goodman Brown By Nathaniel Hawthorne In his deep and particularly dark short story‚ Young Goodman Brown‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne explores a very real but uncomfortably thought of side of the human spirit. Set in the real town of Salem‚ Massachusetts where the historic Salem witch trials took place‚ this story looks into the depths of the spiritual battle being waged for the hearts and minds of humans. While at first glance the story is about a man’s surreal late-night
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the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? * When you read‚ don’t just consider what the author thinks‚ consider what you think. * There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution‚ and a wise man understands which is called for. * Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone. * No matter what anybody tells you‚ words and ideas can change the world. * They’re not that different from you‚ are they? Same haircuts
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Astrid Agerskov Pedersen - 3.b - Skive Gymnasium og HF! Engelsk A - Aflevering 1 (fiction) - The Oval Portrait d. 6/9-2012 The Oval Portrait‚ by Edgar Allan Poe The short story “The Oval Portrait” is written by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a gothic novel because of particular elements of gothic reference. It describes the two different passions of a married couple. The husband requests that the wife let him paint her‚ and in obeying him she loses her love. As the painting finishes‚ both her health
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Analysis As one of the shortest of Poe’s stories‚ "The Oval Portrait" consists of a brief one-paragraph story framed within a larger vignette whose main purpose is to establish the romantic Gothic mood in which the story occurs. The setting and basis of the plot are shrouded in mystery; the narrator does not explain how or where he is wounded‚ and with his servant‚ he enters an abandoned‚ decaying chateau that offers no more answers than the narrator. The dark gloom of a deserted house is a classic
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change in the main character‚ Grendel. One compositional risk that Gardner uses extremely effectively is motif. A motif is defined as recurring structures‚ contrasts‚ or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the piece’s major themes. The most effective motif Gardner uses over the course of the novel is the recurring references to the signs of the zodiac. Other important motifs referenced in Grendel are the seasons‚ machinery‚ and the number twelve. Starting in chapter one‚ Gardner
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are growing‚ and social injustices have become very common during this time. These events cause drastic changes in the live of these two men and many other characters in the novel. Alan Paton has a reoccurring motif throughout the whole novel to help portray his themes more clearly‚ such motif is that of fear. Paton shows the readers that the people of South Africa fear of society and of the mysterious nature of life. Through the use
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Jasmine Watkins Mr. Seborowski British Literature Honors April 9‚ 2013 Motifs play a central role in Macbeth as a way to display important actions‚ scenes‚ and lines. Motifs are a recurring subject‚ theme‚ or idea especially in a literary artistic or musical work. In the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth‚ the three motifs‚ appearances vs. reality‚ blood‚ and darkness are used in Macbeth to demonstrate repetitive structures‚ contrasts‚ and literary devices that aid in the development of the
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The Blood Motif Shakespeare used many motifs through out the tragedy of Macbeth. These motifs help to create an underlying theme‚ each one developing on its own. The blood motif‚ which is the most‚ used one that is why I selected it. Shakespeare uses the blood motif to reinforce the theme that violence leads to more violence. The blood can also symbolize the guilt that Macbeth cannot escape from. Macbeth in this story starts off as a good guy‚ a respectable man. But after Duncan grants
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Ultimate Renaissance Man: Scholar‚ Artist‚ Politician The Ultimate Renaissance Man: few scholars achieve the degree of success necessary to qualify for such a distinguished title. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci‚ the famed painter‚ sculptor‚ architect‚ and inventor set such an example as the quintessential polymath and the world still struggles to produce another mind of his magnitude 500 years after his death. Although opinions of which achievements constitute a Renaissance man may differ‚ the title
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