1. Discuss the emergence of guilt in light of Nietzsche’s analysis in the genealogy. You are expected to trace the sequence Nietzsche presents in describing the descent towards guilt. Creditor and debtor relationship "I have already let it out: in the contractual relationship between creditor and debtor‚ which is as old as the very conception of a legal subject’ and itself refers back to the basic forms of buying‚ selling‚ bartering‚ trade and traffic." (p.43 2nd essay) see pg 49 for
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Producing the Subject: A New Historicist Reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’ As we know‚ new historicism is the American form of criticism which is mostly applied to Renaissance literature‚ esp. the works of Shakespeare‚ and it uses Poststructuralist criticism. What interests new historicists most is the poststructuralist notion of the self‚ of discourse‚ and of power; with regard to power‚ new historicism leans more towards a Foucauldian notion of power and focuses on
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The Origins of Guilt In both Nietzsche’s book The Genealogy of Morals and Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents‚ both authors address the origins of guilt and the effects it has on society. While they both address these origins‚ the two philosophers differ in their beliefs. Nietzsche deduces that guilt is a result of a man turning inward. Freud on the other hand relates guilt to the subconscious struggle between the ego and the superego. To understand Nietzsche’s version of the origin of guilt
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The importance of memories Memories are the only thing in life that are guaranteed to last a lifetime. Some of the greatest significant possessions in life are not perceptible. Not only are memories significant‚ in the end they are all we really have. In Michael Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind‚ fragmented elements convey the importance of memories. The film depicts that one’s memories formulate who he or she is as a person. Gondry incorporates memories in the film through the symbolism
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Before the Battle of Waterloo even began‚ there was a fateful event that caused Napoleon to lose. On the 17th and 18th‚ there was a heavy downpour on the area around Waterloo. This sudden rain slowed down Napoleon‚ allowing Wellington to get to a more advantageous terrain‚ and pushed the battle to a later time‚ allowing the Prussians more time to regroup. It was a lack of luck that undid Napoleon and his plans for battle. Unfortunately for Napoleon‚ the unlucky rainstorm that brought his demise was
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The metaphor of the storage and subsequent retrieval of memory is also sustained in Eternal Sunshine. Once again‚ the inscribed objects‚ which Joel brings to Lacuna to help create a virtual map of Clementine in his brain‚ are represented as housing the memories inscribed to them. Van Dijck writes: “Memory objects […] robust materiality seems to guarantee a stable anchor of memory retrieval—an index to lived experience.” Therefore‚ these objects also need to be erased in the process of forgetting
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Faced with a glaring deficit and terrifying examples of ineffective spending around the globe‚ lawmakers looking for cost-saving measures would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing
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Joe Mauriello ENG 201-028 Ms. Jacqueline Kerr 17 April 2012 The All-Seeing Eye Have you ever had the feeling that you are being watched? It could be the guy across the room‚ your grandmother in heaven‚ or even Santa Claus all the way from the North Pole. The idea of surveillance can work to evoke feelings of guilt‚ fear‚ and security. We‚ as Americans‚ are fortunate enough to live in a country that encourages people of all cultures and ethnicities to thrive together. A country that places essentially
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Schools and Prisons Panoptic Connection It is not surprising that prisons resemble schools in the systems they use for surveillance. The thoughtfulness of how these facilities are laid out and organized comes as a result of many years of planning‚ thought and technological development. The system is called the panopticon. The idea and methodology of the panopticon is not something that everyone has heard of before. The word is lost in an effort to ensure that everyone understands what is happening
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Is the author really dead? “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.” – Roland Barthes Must the author be dead to make way for the birth of the reader? In his essay “The Death of the Author‚” Roland Barthes asserts that the author is dead because he/she is no longer a part of the deep structure in a particular text. To him‚ the author does not create meaning in the text: one cannot explain a text by knowing about the person who wrote
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