want to admit this; my favorite Disney move of all time was Beauty and the Beast. You are correct‚ I said ‘was.’ I would have to say‚ for the moment‚ my favorite animated film is Hayao Miyazaki’s cinematic masterpiece Spirited Away. Compared to Beauty and the Beast‚ Spirited Away is a complex film that exposes children to a complex storyline where character growth and conflict resolution are progressively showcased. Whereas‚ the Beauty and the Beast storyline a simplistic representation of the hegemonic
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Religious Themes in Spirited Away Spiritied Away is a widely popular animated film by Japan’s most famous animator‚ Miyazaki Hayao. This animated movie focuses on the story of a ten year old girl‚ Chihiro‚ who enters the spiritual realm while moving into a new town with her parents. Her experiences with the different characters she meets hones her personality‚ which ultimately allows her to return safely to the human world. Though it is more of a coming of age story‚ Miyazaki has included many
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David Malouf’s novella Fly Away Peter is a narrative which questions essence. Its content entails many of Jean-Paul Satre’s ideas on existentialism. Firstly that our existence precedes our essence‚ we are born as a "blank canvas" without purpose. This is in contrast to animals whose essence is purely instinctive. The second main idea is the existential life cycle; from perfection to innocence to awareness to dread to acceptance of our fait accompli‚ inevitable death. In a nutshell the moment we are
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In David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter‚ the story follows Jim Sadler‚ an avid bird watcher as he comes to terms with the reality of life through the loss of his innocence and the horrors that he has seen during his tour in World War I. David Malouf uses several literary techniques to express these ideas‚ such as the contrast between the life Jim has at his bird sanctuary in Queensland and the godlessness at war. Divinity and religion are used frequently as metaphors throughout the novel. This all relates
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The film Away From Her‚ is a screenplay adaptation from the short story Bear came over the Mountain by Alice Munro. The story focuses around the relationship of Fiona and Grant‚ an Ontario couple married over 40 years. The couple is forced to face that fact that Fionas forgetfulness is actually Alzheimers disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost‚ she realizes that she can no longer live at home. Fiona has too much self-pride for herself‚ and too much pity for Grant‚ to subject
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In Praise of Melancholy The word melancholy rarely comes out of people’s mouths‚ or people are too afraid to admit that there is sadness that goes around them. Society makes sure that this “life” is so happy like tv shows and movies that we don’t face reality. No one wants to face the reality that sadness and depression are growing more and more‚ but people are hiding behind meditation and antidepressants. There are some people who are starting to embrace their inner sadness. There should
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painted scene will outlast outlandish passion‚ the sorrowful heart and (like the image in ’Ode to a Nightingale’) the fevers men die of. But it is cold and has an aesthetic message that is uncompromising and elusive‚ as Keats later showed in ’Ode on Melancholy’. However‚ if the last two lines of ’On a Grecian Urn’ are taken as the urn’s complete message to us‚ then the conclusion is clear. Beauty is the whole story therefore permanence wins. "Beauty is truth‚ truth beauty‚" - that is all Ye know on
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AP Literature 19 August 2013 Ode on Melancholy John Keats’s poem‚ “Ode on Melancholy”‚ serves as an instructional manual on how to cope with sadness and the feeling of melancholy. Through his vivid use of lyrical language and allusions‚ Keats’s is able to depict vivid images that haunt the soul and is able to convey his message that the only way to deal with a sense of melancholy is to accept it. Keats believes that once one can accept sadness and make it a part of his identity‚ then he can overcome
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ENG 3307-01 March 19‚ 2012 Explication on “Ode on Melancholy” In "Ode on Melancholy" John Keats expresses to readers the truth he sees‚ that joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness fully. Keats valued intensity of emotion‚ thought‚ and experience (“Classification Of Poem”). Keats does not stray away from the suggestion that feeling intensely means that grief or depression may cause sorrow and torture. Throughout the poem Keats expresses his values
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Twelfth Night is the merriest of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ it is also the saddest. The Christian associations of the title suggests the carpe diem theme which runs through the play. Epiphany‚ according to Christian mythology‚ is the time when the shepherds recognized the birth of Christ. The feast of epiphany is the last festival of the Christmas season‚ after which death takes over. This cycle of life is an extension of the ancient pagan fertility rituals. The mood is similar in Keats’s ‘To
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