Wilfred Owen’s protest poem Strange Meeting contrasts harshly with Mary Henderson’s An Incident. While Owen argues the futility of war‚ "a nation’s trek from progress"‚ Henderson likens the soldier’s death on the battlefield to the crucifixion of Christ‚ advocating it as a honourable‚ almost divine sacrifice for the motherland. Henderson recounts an incident where she tends to a wounded soldier‚ displaying a motherly characteristic consistent with other female war poets. The soldier is identified
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years ago. During the Pax Romana time period‚ people were incredibly religious. Jesus Christ as well as his mother the Virgin Mary were alive during this time. Jesus was viewed as an authorative figure. His mother‚ Mary‚ was also viewed as a role model. She possessed inner beauty and purity. She was beautiful because she had a kind‚ loving heart. She was considered angelic. Mary was praised and this picture illustrates this. Her shirt has a heart on it to demonstrate she is compassionate and there
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Museo del Prado‚ Madrid‚ Spain. This painting is believed to have been created in 1660-1665 and the artist Murillo knowns for a lot of religious paintings in that time.(Stokstad‚ Cothren‚pg 383). This piece of art is supposed to represent the virgin Mary and her innocence in this world. You can see that there are angels all around her which to me represent how holly she was and how pure her spirit was. The angels are also holding roses‚ which are meant to represent pureness and signify her virginity
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Madonna is the popular title given to a composition by the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch. Munch painted several versions of the composition‚ showing a bare-breasted half-length female figure‚ between 1892 and 1895‚ using oils on canvas. He also produced versions in print form. Werner Hofmann suggests that the painting is a "strange devotional picture glorifying decadent love. The cult of the strong woman who reduces man to subjection gives the figure of woman monumental proportions
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is an anthology that describes the journeys and life lessons of several characters. However‚ it isn’t just an entertaining collection of stories‚ instead it is a clear representation of the society Chaucer was a part of. Society during this time primarily focused on religion‚ specifically Christianity. Christianity which can be seen as a sexist religion‚ generally affected women and the roles they played. Two of Chaucer’s character’s discuss and touch on this
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error; and "conception" is something conceived in the mind‚ an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances. However the phrase "immaculate conception" derives from the Roman Catholic Church. It is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived free from all strain of original sin. In Katherine Gover’s "The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery‚" the meaning of the title as a phrase and the meaning of the title as individual words applied to the denouements in the story
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Child between Saints Theodore and George and Röttgen Pietà both have their own ways when it comes to representing the Virgin Mary. They both have different emotions‚ actions‚ and different times as to when the moment is happening. And with their differences‚ they also have some similarities. Röttgen Pietà is a wooden sculpture that has been painted and it deals with Virgin Mary after Christ’s crucifixion. The sculpture is from 1300-1325 C.E and is located in Rheinisches‚ Landesmuseum in Bonn‚ Germany
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"rigidly defined roles" as either a virgin‚ mother and/or whore. It further oppresses us because it keeps many women from rebelling‚ since those who do are immediately categorized under the "whore." Personally‚ I don’t know many women who would like to be seen as whores. Feminists have taken these roles and linked them to the bible as metaphors representing the three Mary’s present at Jesus’ crucifixion Virgin Mary‚ Mary mother of James‚ and Mary Magdalene. The virgin role is the most prized and respected
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priest has as usual recommended a candidate. But this time Peter Hennessey will defy the priest’s recommendation. Peter’s mother worries that Peter will not vote for the priest candidate‚ and Peter wakes often at night because of the mother’s praying‚ “Mary‚ mother of Christ! Save my son!”(P 185‚ 2. Par.). Peter wants to avoid the
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Mosiniyemang Othusitse OTHMOS001 FIN1005W RED BOOK NO. 43 THE CENSORED BODY Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary‚ which became the central focus of the controversy over Brooklyn Museum’s Sensation Show‚ was condemned as obscene and sacrilegious by Mayor Rudolph Giulani of the New York‚ who attempted to cut off the Brooklyn Museum’s city funding. This painting caused a bit of row in 1999 when it was first exhibited (Mitchell‚ 2001:124). Although
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