Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is a satire of the stifling conventions of Victorian England‚ a time when a serpentine code of behaviour governed everything from communication to sexuality‚ and when class was the sole dictator of relationships. With a witty‚ humorous delivery‚ the play explores the central themes of materialism‚ gender roles‚ marriage and the ignorance of the upper class. Passage one opens with a series of hyperbolic questions posed with Jack‚ building in rhythm
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As Barbara Kruger said in her untitled 1982 work‚ “You invest in the Divinity of the Masterpiece.” I believe this is the reason so many different businesses‚ companies and people‚ use‚ wear‚ or have common articles with famous art images on them. They are trying to have the “greatness” or the “divinity” as it were‚ rub off a little on them. Coffee mugs with great works of art on them‚ or in my case‚ a yearly calendar with paintings by Van Gogh on each page‚ help us feel better about ourselves.
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The Renaissance period in art history began in the late 13th century through to the early 17th century. The Renaissance art period‚ which is a French word for rebirth‚ was a stark divergence from the preceding art periods. Not only was oil painting first introduced in this time period‚ there was also the introduction of linear art for the first time in artistic history. Linear perspective is a more mathematical approach to art‚ due to the high scientific nature of the time period. Europe was undergoing
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While America’s greatest challenges in cultural history have always been about race‚ American blues music exemplifies the complex relationship Americans have with race and art. American Blues music has been appreciated‚ examined‚ appropriated‚ and immortalized through the transformation of music over the past one hundred years. Originating from African American slave songs‚ the blues has over time lost its relevance for black people‚ yet continues to be an important cultural entity and has been revered
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Nearly 70 years ago‚ India’s greatest writer in English‚ took out a brand new notebook and wrote in it: "It was Monday morning." With those four words‚ Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan fondly known as R.K. Narayan to most took off on a journey to that oddly populated fictional continent called Malgudi‚ with the young boy Swami and his eclectic mix of friends. R.K. Narayan was born on October 10‚ 1906 in Madras. His father was a provincial head master. R.K. Narayan spent his early childhood with
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As [author notes] notes‚ despite the large amount of new creative television content being produced in Quebec every year: “The television landscape is striking for the near absence of minorities‚ except in caricature‚ as Mafiosi or exemplars of social problems. The current crop of téléromans betrays Quebec’s hesitancy about opening to a world that can’t help but change it.” (p 138). This stereotype is reflected in the real-life experiences of actor Irdens Exantus
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Blues‚ but Paley makes it clear when the story switches. (Wikipedia) (Parispins) The first story is done in squigglevision. Squigglevision is an extremely modern animation technique. The story also uses twentieth century cartoon sketches such as Caricatures with unstable lines. Nina Paley writes this story about a woman in San Francisco and her relationship ending in an unexpected breakup. It is obvious that this story is told in present day because the animation used is a familiar style used today
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The myriad of characters present in The Destructors are varied in their caricatures and diverse in their motivations. The Destructors is a short story written by Graham Greene and set in WWII period London after the Blitz. The story follows the exploits of a certain juvenile gang and their interactions between one another. The short article Why Young People Join Gangs briefly outlines some of the reasons why youth‚ or juveniles might be inclined to willingly join a gang. When you compare the motivations
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produced a brilliant rereading of Hard Times that has changed almost every critic’s approach to the novel. Yet a difficulty still remains: the nature of the target of Dickens’ satire. Both Gradgrind and Bounderby are emblematic‚ to the point of caricature‚ of representative early-nineteenth-century attitudes. Dickens tells us that Gradgrind has "an unbending‚ utilitarian‚ matter-of-fact face"; and the novel
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Discuss how effective the two poems are in showing a sense of cultural understanding and/or assimilation. Personally‚ I find Assimilation by Eugene Gloria is more effective than Returning in depicting cultural understanding as a state of recognising and appreciating the culture. In the former‚ the poet focuses on the presence of the “scattered rice beneath the red-painted bench”. Although those rice grains are left-overs from his previous meal‚ the poet still attachs some significance to them‚
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