Day after day,
Most of us find ourselves with our nose stuck in a screen than a book,
Have you ever felt uncomfortable in a gathering that caused you to agree or disagree with your belief because of the mask you wear? Masks are a manner of expression that hides one's true character or feelings; a pretense. In John Irving book, A Prayer for Owen Meany, he uses Owen's life to demonstrate the idea that masks shield beliefs.…
The movie Castaway is mostly over the topic of communication, symbolism, and the use of nature good and bad. Communication is key in this day in age, but most of the time it fails. Symbolism is also important in this movie, it’s everywhere the sailing pictures at the beginning of the movie and then he gets off the island at the end by sailing. Chuck in the movie uses nature a lot he uses trees to make rope, good, uses that rope to try to kill himself, bad.…
Overall while I was reading, this poem made me feel happy. I liked that I could read what the poet learned from their family and compare it to what I have learned from my family.…
Masks – artistic style throughout the whole show, everyone has something a little bit twisted about their costume to symbolize the disturbed elements within the play. Also symbolism of the word to ‘bear’ something bear the guilt or weight of Leontes. If the actor of Leontes was the one to wear the bear mask could symbolize how Antigonous is bearing the weight of the task Leonte’s has set him.…
This picture as a whole is a symbol it reveals the harsh reality that in order to be accepted it is essential to be the same as everyone else in order to belong. This raises the issue of conformity, if everyone conformed there would be no individualism and everything and everyone would look exactly the same, nothing would be unique and people would lose their identity.…
In this report we will examine a couple of Australian movies which offer representations of Australian masculinities and discuss how men are represented and the relationship between this and questions of Australian identity. These movies are namely Crocodile Dundee (character Mick Dundee) and The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.…
“Inside Man” was released in 2006 and would later become the highest grossing film for the director Spike Lee. The film is a crime-drama, located primarily in a bank in New York City run by multi billionaire Arthur Case. Although the film is a thriller and contains bits of action and suspense, the movie focuses heavily on the difference between good and evil. The movie begins with a shot in medias res of Clive Owen’s character Dalton Russell explaining the difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison while he moves around a small room which is later disclosed to be part of the maintenance room of the bank blocked off by a fake wall. Russell then explains that he has recently robbed a bank for “obvious financial reasons” and just simply because he can. How he does it is then shown throughout the film, leading up to the conclusion of the film and a second showing of the opening scene, this time possessing a different connation. The significance of the bank is shown to be in the contents of the unregistered safety deposit box located in the vault. The box contains jewels and potentially damaging content to Arthur Case which proves his involvement with the Nazis during the Holocaust in order to gain the financial status he now has. This prompts him to hire Ms. White (Jodie Foster), a woman who specializes in “dealing with these kinds of things” to somehow extract or eliminate the box. In the meantime Denzel Washington’s character Detective Keith Frazier leads the police force surrounding the bank and essentially becomes the viewer’s alignment unit for much of the film which focuses primarily on his character throughout the picture. The film goes on to explain Arthur Case’s involvement with the Nazis in the Holocaust, sparking Ms. White’s necessity to use her…
I thought the poem “Our Generation” By Jordan Nichols, was very unique. It showed that people can have two perspectives on the world, a positive or a negative. This poem is different because of the way you can read it from top to bottom, and bottom to top. Both ways showed that you can view the world in two different ways. The first time read it, it was very negative with lines saying “our generation was a failure” and “our generation will be known for nothing”. The second time, It was very positive with lines saying “giving up is something we never did” and “we are the peak of mankind”. Overall this poem shows that this generation can be changed if the world is viewed more positively.…
Dunbar’s We Wear the Mask addresses the faults of humanity and the intersectional themes of race, society and class within the poem. The “mask” within this piece is symbolic of the ways in which society structures and organizes individuals to conform to societal standards. To support this theory - Dunbar uses the American Dream and slavery to remind his readers “we” wore the mask back then and “we” still wear the mask to this day.…
I used to love reading. In kinder and first, my nose was stuck in a Magic Tree House book. Third, fourth, and fifth grade I basically lived at Hogwarts (in my rightfully sorted house, of course, I am a proud Hufflepuff). And in middle school, I discovered THE tween series of my generation, Maximum Ride. Reading was exciting, and even though I had done it for years every time I picked up a book it felt so novel. I was your ordinary bookworm until seventh grade when the joint power of Ms. Green’s teaching and James Patterson’s writing broke my will to read.…
The pursuit of a fixed definition to the Australian identity has been a controversial journey, and the identity remains as elusive as ever today. For that reason, the theme of the 2009 Brisbane Film Festival will be Australian Identity in Film – A Retrospective, as we hope to explore the ways in which Australian feature films have helped shape the complexities and diversity of Australia’s culture and identity. In particular, the festival will explore the diverse representations of homosexuals in Australian film and how this has influenced society’s perception and acceptance.…
Part 1: In the movie Awakenings, a man named Dr. Malcolm Sayer applies for a job at a hospital in The Bronx, New York. As he's being interviewed it's obvious that he's nervous and not comfortable around people. His resume shows how in the medical field, he's mostly spent his time doing research and experiments but never working with humans or psychological problems. The manager hires him anyways and he gets right to work. They give him a patient named Lucy who has been in a catatonic state for over 30 years. She isn't able to talk or move any part of her body. When her glasses drop, Dr. Sayer notices how she only grabs them when he drops them in front of her hand. He then experiments by throwing a tennis ball to her and watches…
In the first essay, ‘Masks’, written by Lucy Grealy, it supports the assumption that identity is shaped by culture. Lucy talks about the struggle through school as a child. At age six, Lucy was diagnosed with a lethal form of jaw cancer and nearly lost half her jaw to the disease. The frequent surgeries had to reconstruct her face left her with some very noticeable scars. In her essay, she talks about the way other kids treated her or talked to her when they saw how she looked. “They pointed openly and laughed, calling out loudly enough for me to hear. ‘What on earth is that?’(Grealy, Pg. 69)” That is the ugliest girl I have ever seen.’ Lucy also explains how she dealt with all of the pain and torment she was receiving from other kids by saying, “I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: If there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. (Grealy, Pg. 70)” The culture of the school made it easy for other students to bully her and tease her about the way she looked. As a result, Lucy became very self-conscious of her identity. Because of the culture Lucy grew up in, her identity was shaped in a way that made her feel self-conscious about the way she looked. Lucy’s story is just one out of many that proves that a person’s identity can be shaped by culture.…
The Return, directed by Andrei Zvygiantsev, is a film that is ultimately about the evolving relationship between two brothers who had to grow up without a father. In the beginning of this film the brothers got in petty fights and didn’t take care of each other. The also had a hard time being independent and acting maturely. By the end of the film, the boys had learned that if they work together they are capable of surviving on their own and getting things done. They realize that they don’t need their father to be good men. They grew up without their father and may never see him again so it was an important thing for them to learn that they can become men despite not having a father to help them.…
Around the world, people struggle with many things like drugs and depression. The film adaptation of The Namesake starts with Ashima and Ashoke getting marry and adpadting to the American culture. Later on, they would have two kids named Sonia and Gogol. Gogol the main protagonist of the film doesn’t understand why his father gave him the name Gogol. Throughout the film, Gogol struggle to find his identify and he started to change throughout the movie.…