Guercino utilizes elements similar to the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque era in his painting titled, Mary Magdalena, to portray an idealized image of a woman. Immediately, the audience is drawn to the dramatic gaze of her face as she looks off frame to the upper right corner. This intensity is highlighted through tenebrism, as an ominous shadow is diagonally placed across the painting to bring even more attention to the illuminated figure. Drama is further illustrated as she reveals a human skull under the cloth that she tightly clenches. The representation of a skull alludes to the theme of death…
He is perhaps challenging the viewer to see more that physical beauty but rather an internal need to be desired regardless of our outer shell or weathered state. He used detail and traditional symbolism of beauty in the clothing, headdress, the red rose, the seductive corset, and the lifted chin and soft eyes. Perhaps the timeless review and contemplation of intent was in fact Massys true intent of this piece, as it has withstood the test of time as a historically famous work of art. The initial dislike for the woman drew me in. The complexity of the painting made be find aesthetic beauty, and the content itself keeps me perplexing on the possibilities of intent. It is truly a respectable and intriguing display of art and…
Sentiment can be easily be stimulated from the readers by writing tender and sorrowful scenes. However, sentiment can also come from angry self-reflexive irony. Instead of the typical sentiment of warmness and sympathy, a different type of sentiment is produced from the words and actions of Daniel. The way he behaved so atrociously to his wife, but then reflected about what he did by addressing to the readers is quite ironic. One moment he is malicious to Phyllis, then the next he tried to pathetically appeal to the audience over his actions; the feeling of what is wrong with him is given by the readers. He does not truly reflect over his actions, but he uses his words to make it seem like he is reflecting to the readers. Doctorow is trying…
Through the use of vibrant diction, syntax, and ever changing tone, the author is able to create a dramatic, yet sorrowful story that affects the reader on many levels.…
The composer shows that cultural identity is passed on from one generation to another and that it may change or be lost due to a person's surroundings, by the intertwining structure of this article. She reminisces about her childhood, while at the same time telling how her mother's perception of Italy is not living up to expectations; she searches for her identity, while her mother loses some of hers.…
The narrator, again, makes a mood of climax by contrasting her consternation and his smile.…
The novel, however, did not only stand out by the creation of character, plot and morality but by the structure of the book itself. The gathered anecdotes act as a device in which Celaya and Cisneros uses to manipulate the audience into surrendering oneself into believing what's merely projected as a figment of imagination. The novel,“Caramelo, is neither a family memoir, nor an autobiography” as a it keep it fictional aspect on how“none of the events and none of the people are based on real life” and yet the glamorous and exotic adventure reveals an underlying revelation about society within a framework of a book (Salvucci 166). The novel outline itself with the principle of the diversion of in respect to time. The novel explicate if one would…
The tone, along with the foreshadowing used in the beginning of the story, create a mood of anticipation and uncertainty. The purpose of all this is to create suspense and to make the story move along faster. For instance, halfway through the story the reader gets a clear feeling that something bad is going to happen, which helps to build up their expectations and alerts them that the story will take an unexpected turn soon. The line, “It became clear at once that help was needed, because the husband was not pleased” is an example of the foreshadowing in the story, because it is at this moment that the reader realizes that the wife’s good intentions did not have a positive effect on her…
The “intercambio” (24) between John and Salome produces a psychic change of Salome. Before she met John the Baptist, she was just a dancing girl, well-trained in the court to be an “objeto de deseo”, “Salomé era tan solo cítara destinda a sonar cuando ellos la tañeran. Hata este momento” (27). Until she met John - “intercambio” occuered, her empty soul was filled and lightened. “Esos ojos transparentes que se fundían con los tuyos”. She became obsessed with John the Baptist’s fine look, which stimulate her desperate…
The world can be a place full of darkness which can impact one’s everyday life. In Oliver Sacks’ essay, “The Mind’s Eye: What the Blind See”, the people discussed live in a world of darkness due to their lack of sight, while in Azar Nafisi’s essay, “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, the author and her group of students live in a dark would under an oppressive government. No matter what kind of darkness one lives in, he or she must make the best out of the situation. Although living in a dark world can be very tough at times, there are ways to escape. People who live in a world of darkness can find hope in their lives through their imagination.…
Art is one aspect of the past that has carried on for decades. Art in any form may it be poetry, novels, and playwright, sculpting as well as painting, has been an outlet for generations and continues to be an outlet and a means for expression. This paper will discuss “ The Mona Lisa” one of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings, as well as another great painting, Antonio Veneziano’s “Virgin and Child”(c. 1380). Both paintings focus on the human form and exhibit many variations of styles from lines, shading, color and possible meanings behind the work.…
In “Only Daughter” and “Caramelo”, Sandra Cisneros explains how being an only daughter made her feel abandoned and erased by her family. But it also impacts her future because it transformed her into a strong independent women and a prominent writer. In “Only Daughter” Cisneros writes, “Being an only daughter in a family of six sons forced me by circumstance to spend a lot of time by myself because my brother felt it beneath them to play with a girl in public.”(Page.816) This quote shows that she feels isolated because no one in her family wants to be with her to keep her company. Also Cisneros recalls that aloneness allowed her time to “think and think, to imagine, and to read and prepare herself”. She includes this in her story, because it shows that she felt her brothers are not only making her feel heartbroken, but they are helping her become a better writer. In “Caramelo” the central idea is similar. The narrator tells a story of Cisneros being forgotten and left playing by herself building sand houses while her family are off having fun together, taking family photos without Cisneros. She writes, “I’m not here, they’ve forgotten about me when the photographer walking along the beach proposes a portrait, un recuerdo, a remembrance literally. No one notices I’m off playing by myself building sand houses.” (Page.820) To emphasize the point that her family abandoned her, Cisneros says that the family noticed the portrait was incomplete once it was delivered to Catita’s house and they didn’t even care, as if she didn’t even exist.…
Nowadays people always said we need to be objective in every activity of daily life, including being objective when we want to date a girl. However, Junot Diaz depicted in his prose how a guy received suggestions to date a girl in very subjective way. Torstenson (2006) stated this then becomes the crucial irony and driving force of the story, and the possible for either participant to know the other objectively becomes impossible as Diaz instructs the reader to go through subjective disguises onto his interactions, masking his history, social status, and even racial characteristics in hopes of manipulating the condition at the cost of emotional intimacy. This paper will examine the writer purpose and the use of subjective disguise to manipulate situation that affect readers’ emotion.…
Rodriguez paints for the readers a dreary present, one in which there is a great divide and disconnect that exists between each member of his family, colored by a sense of guilt, shown through selection of detail, narrative structure, and punctuation. The divide between the parents and their children becomes most apparent when the children rush to leave in their “expensive foreign cars”, the sister in her…
The author appeals to the emotions of his audience when discussing the main character’s feelings for Kate. At first, the narrator expresses regret with Kate, in simple things like not being able to see her ‘lovely knees’ often because of her work’s uniform and the feeling that while the two of them were still together, he could feel them drifting apart. Not necessarily because of their individual feelings, but because he knew that they wouldn’t be able to stay together when the time came for them to follow their plans for the future. He describes his contradicting feelings in that talking about their plans made them feel…