Brittany Barna M. Khan HUM2230 17 June 2014 Continuity and Change from The Dark Ages Through The Enlightenment and Beyond We‚ the human race‚ have always moved forward with the changing times. As we gain knowledge through education and other means we see this reflected in our way of thinking and our culture. These changes are portrayed and preserved through art. Starting back in the dark times of the Medieval period‚ we can see two art forms in particular‚ art and sculpture‚ change as we
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their fellow-men‚ and cry that all is dark and gloomy‚ are in the right; but the somber colors are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate‚ and need a clearer vision.” (Charles Dickens‚ Oliver Twist) This belief that the world is dark and gloomy is believed by many authors of the romantic period. They were called the Dark romantics for their more gloomy and depressing views of people and life. One author who shows his dark romantic beliefs in his writings is
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Harvey Dent‚ from The Dark Knight‚ was Gotham Cities white knight. He was the district attorney and made it his had the same mission as Batman: to shut down Gotham’s organized crime. Throughout the film‚ Harvey uses a two-faced coin in order to “make his own luck”. Near the end of the film half after laying in oil‚ half of Harvey’s face and one side of his coin is disfigured/burned in an explosion. Harvey Two-Face then pursues and murders those he felt responsible for Rachel’s death. The Batman’s
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Using the work of EITHER Wordsworth or Coleridge‚ show how Romanticism constituted a radical break with the techniques and subject matter of what had gone before. Wordsworth was the beginning of a new genre of writing. In the late18th century a lot of society and writing focussed around order and reason‚ however Wordsworth romantic and naturalistic writing created a tremendous break through. With the joint efforts and collaboration with Samuel Coleridge he published ‘Lyrical Ballads’ which helped
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Dark romanticism literature became even darker with the birth of Gothic literature. Gothic literature centered around topics of conflict and corruption; and often invoke emotions of fear‚ horror‚ and anxiety in its readers. It tends to have a negative outlook and creates a disharmony with mankind and nature. Two well-known authors of Gothic literature are Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving. Poe and Irving share the theme of a Man’s soul/Individual self in their works‚ but their style of their
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Unavoidable Darkness Darkness prevails in all humans. It is an inevitable trait that people choose to let shine or keep hidden. The dark is usually a private matter‚ however‚ when in frightening or dire situations‚ the darkness overtakes others. The dark is not only shown through real life humans‚ but also in imaginary literary characters and novels as well. In The Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses archetypes such as the hero‚ the quest‚ and loss of innocence to bring out one of the novel’s
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met a protagonist who as unapologetically evil and I was fascinated‚ it led me to discover more literature that dealt with the darker side of human existence; literature that explored the transgressive and subversive. My curiosity for the morbid and dark only grew through my reading of novels like American Psycho‚ Frankenstein‚ Naked Lunch and Lolita; novels which tried to describe something wholly alien yet contain something I found familiar. Unlike works such as Dante’s Inferno these works seemed
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American literature gothic authors‚ normally showed symbolism to convey a deeper message. In the story "Masque of the Red Death"‚ by Edgar Allen Poe‚ Poe uses symbolism. The Abbey‚ the Black Chamber‚ and the clock chiming all convey symbolism. One example is how the author portrayed security through the Abbey. He described the Abbey as‚ " A strong lofty wall gridled it in. This wall had gates of iron." This describes how well built the house was. It also showed the amount of sturdiness and protection
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commonly known as romanticism. Romanticism can be commonly be defined primordially as a movement that flourished in Europe and America between the time periods of 1750 and 1870. Romanticism cannot be directly pinpointed back to its origin since it created out of the earliest form of human expression and innovation‚ its beginnings‚ artistic expression and time frame inspired by nature an awareness of the past‚ a religious spirit and an artistic ideal’’ quoted by ‘’(baron’s6). Romanticism is estimated to
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Dark Crystal Jim Henson’s pride and joy is one of his less famous works‚ a fantasy film named Dark Crystal that was filmed completely with originally made puppets. The film is complete with heroes‚ villains and the other main components of fantastical narratives as described by folklorist Vladimir Propp who states that in fairytale narratives there are 31 functions. A function is defined as‚ “an act of a character‚ defined from the point of view of its significance for the course of the action”
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