Stylistic Comparison of Mer-ib and his Wife in their Chamber of Sacrifice‚ Egypt‚ Old Kingdom and Euthymides‚ Revelers‚ Greece‚ Archaic Period This paper will analyze and explore the stylistic differences between the largely unrealistic and conventional style of the Egyptian art of the Old Kingdom depicted in the work Mer-ib and his Wife in their Chamber of Sacrifice and the realistic style of Greek artist Euthymides in his work Revelers. The primary differences in these art styles lies in
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One of the major concerns presented by Shakespeare in Julius Caesar is the struggle between fate and free will. This struggle is evident throughout the play through Shakespeares continual presentation of the supernatural. The supernatural is present in many different forms in the text‚ for example through omens‚ nightmares and sacrifices. Shakespeare believed that life was a combination of fate and freewill‚ he presents this idea to the audience through different events that occur throughout the
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Most of famous traditional Chinese novels have the universal and unique artistic style‚ writing technique and artistic language‚ ¡°Honglou meng¡± is one of the best novels that contain profound cultural connotation and ideological content. As well known‚ the original author Cao xue qing only wrote the first eighty chapters of this novel‚ but died before the completion of the last 40. The last 40 chapters of the novel are of questionable authenticity. It is been said that the other forty chapters
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To what extent do you agree with the assertion that ‘One of the basic features of gothic fiction is the critical portrayal of religion’1 in Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter‚ and Dracula by Bram Stoker? The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture‚ though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous
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“Gothic settings are desolate‚ alienating and full of menace”. In the light of this comment‚ consider some of the ways in which writers use settings in the gothic texts you have read. In ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’‚ Carter and Bronte conform to the gothic conventions with desolate and alienating settings that are full of menace‚ but there are also elements that subvert this view and portray purity and entrapment; the need to escape the gothic mould. A desolate setting is a place
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rather than the merely macabre” The three texts; Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Selected poems by John Keats project images of female characters in very different ways. Much of the portrayal of females is in correlation to the attitudes and position of women within society at the time of writing. The preconception of many people is that the Gothic genre is based entirely upon supernatural motif’s which have been labelled “Gothic” such as: bats‚ castles on hillsides
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though he seems eager to fulfil ‘spark’s into the ‘’lifeless thing’’. In relation to ‘Macbeth’- Shakespeare ties in inflicting pain with one of the major themes within the play- the supernatural. The characters of the three witches are used to present inflicting fear over the reader which enhances the theme of the supernatural due to their nature. This is highlighted by the link between the witches and pathetic fallacy ‘’When shall we three meet again? In thunder‚ lightning or rain?’’- Similar to the
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home. Compare and contrast each setting –inside and out. Does either seem like a fairy tale castle or fit the isolated castle of the Gothic? Carter often gives her settings a greater symbolism – what is symbolic in either setting? Compare the supernatural character – the Beast - in each story‚ and the way Beauty feels about him. Does she feel scared by him in either story? What aspects of his character does she notice? Compare and contrast the storyline of each story? Are there any differences
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Macbeth’s Downfall A guilty conscience can make anyone go mad it they let it. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an ideal example of this. Macbeth‚ a noble of Scotland‚ lets his ambitions to be great and powerful get the best of him. His vaulting ambition makes him do terrible acts of violence continuously. The guilty conscience he holds on his back eventually becomes too heavy ultimately driving him insane. Greed and guilt cause the madness of this protagonist thus causing his downfall‚ not only
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read in the light of this comment. Gothic literatures have characters who disrupt the natural order‚ and ends up with consequences‚ which can be seen as negative or positive. Macbeth (pre-gothic)‚ Wuthering Heights (traditional gothic)‚ and The Bloody Chamber (modern gothic) show the protagonists challenging and breaking the patriarchal society‚ which were simple seen as the natural rules. Gothic Literature is well-known for transgression‚ taboo‚ and to challenge the bias ideas of what is acceptable
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