in the left foreground‚ holding a mirror with the reflection of Venus’ face on its surface‚ while a dark-skinned‚ exotic handmaid fills the upper right of the painting fondling the golden hair of the Venus. The three figures form a lunette that emphasizes the mirror that frames Venus face like a portrait. The viewer follows this lunette once his attention has been caught by the nude female body and then the eyes move from the handmaid to the female body again and the adolescent cupid; this lunette
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Bantam Dell‚ 2003. Print. Function: The author used parallel structure within the beginning of the story because he wants to emphasize how much Huckleberry Finn‚ the protagonist of the story‚ dislikes the lady that is helping take care of him‚ which is known as Miss Watson. The author wants to emphasize that although Huckleberry Finn is no longer living what was considered a terrible life‚ he continues
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House‚ Henrik Ibsen uses the metaphor of a dollhouse in order to illustrate and emphasize the controlling of women during the late 1800s as well as the imperfections of a family. When Nora describes how she feels to Torvald‚ she says how Torvald has “only thought it pleasant to be in love with me [Nora]” (Ibsen 66)‚ Ibsen’s diction‚ such as “pleasant” is an important factor to Ibsen’s metaphorical use because it emphasizes more the fact that women were controlled during the late 1800s. Pleasant means
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Samuel Godinez Ms. Bartholomew Freshman English Honors 1 9 March 2017 Lord of the Flies Final Essay In the novel Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding reveals how the first enemy one has is their own self. From the famous quote “We have met the enemy and they are ours” by Commander Hazard‚ Golding uses a threatening tone when the boys on the island start to realize that fear is within the mind and that fear causes a desire for savagery. From this‚ Golding reveals that fear can threaten people’s struggle
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their goals and functions to justify their view of how the Catholic Church should behave. The first‚ Institution‚ defines Church as visible and palpable‚ lacking nothing and subordinate to no other. It describes itself using political analogies. It emphasizes what is visible; rules‚ governing‚ body‚ actual members‚ structure‚ etc. Its functions and goals are to teach (resembling a school in which the teachers hand on doctrine)‚ to sanctify (the pope and bishops guide others to holiness – pastoral)‚ and
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brotherhood”. These examples show that alliterations point attention to the sentence and help to fix the reader’s mind. It then goes on with the simile: “Man is more flotsam and jetsam in the river of life”. By these words Martin Luther King wants to emphasize that it is possible for everybody to change something in the world‚ despite the fact that people do not have the same
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movie is set in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn‚ New York on the hottest day in the summer where racial tensions are growing. Spike Lee uses color dramatically to help illustrate and emphasize these growing tensions that ultimately escalates to violence and tragedy and also‚ to help emphasize emotions. Color‚ as defined by Gianetti‚ is a realist technique but can be formalist having a subconscious impact on the viewer. There are two types of colors; warm and cool. Warm colors stress
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“The Scarlet Letter and the Antislavery Feminists” Jean Fagan Yellin‚ in her essay “The Scarlet Letter and the Antislavery Feminists‚” argues that The Scarlet Letter’s motifs and language reject the doctrines of the antislavery feminists and instead reinforce patriarchal norms and ideas. Yellin’s purpose is to reveal Hawthorne’s rejection of feminist ideals in order to help her readers examine how The Scarlet Letter upholds the patriarchal status quo of Hawthorne’s era. Yellin convincingly employs
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The delicious breath of rain….[hear] the notes of a distant song...and countless sparrows were twittering‚” all while the “physical exhaustion haunted her body” (Chopin). Chopin uses this strong imagery of happiness and possibility in order to emphasize the conflict in Louise’s reaction. The contrast of the immediate weeping and the
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In Jack Clayton’s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the director uses several visual techniques to emphasize and heighten the illusion of the American dream. These visual techniques include: Framing‚ color‚ lighting & space. The most interesting type of framing repeated al throughout the film is the use of mirrors in trapping the characters in their surreal reflection. The director used this technique in more than one scenes‚ nevertheless this framing was used when Gatsby
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