characters‚ settings‚ and relationships‚ the majority of which are sterile and desolate. Appleyard considers the mood that dominates the poem‚ “The one connecting device is a mood of despair‚ of barren dislocation”. Within the Waste Land Eliot persistently presents a modern world which is full of isolation and despair using each of the portraits of either settings‚ characters or through the depiction of relationships to express this attitude up modern society.. The first character we are presented
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evokes hope and despair for Holden Caulfield. Which techniques does Salinger use to do this? JD Salinger uses a variety of techniques to evoke both hope and despair for Holden Caulfield. Hope is explored as an emotional state where one believes in a positive outcome‚ whereas despair displays a complete lack of positive belief. J.D. Salinger uses such techniques as narrative style‚ symbolism and foreshadowing‚ in his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The reader’s feelings of despair and hopelessness
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The absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but‚ pathetically and tragically attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans – and dies in despair. Nabakov‚ Lecture on Metamorphosis Discuss the above statement with reference to at least two texts on your course. ’CURSED CURSED CREATOR! Why did I live’ ? Words vented out of frustration and self pity by the initially kind natured monster in the novel Frankenstein. It could be argued that had Gregor Samsa found
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The Great Gatsby & Enduring Love ‘Obsessive love has the capacity to drive a person to insanity‚ leading to irrational behaviour‚ alienation and despair’ Compare and contrast the ways McEwan and Fitzgerald present the complexities of human love in light of this comment. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ian McEwanpresent obsessive Idealised love as deranged and harmful.Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ published in 1925‚epitomises the euphoric atmosphere which permeated consumerist attitudes after
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The Scream and Starry Night: Differences and Similarities FAS/202 The Scream by Edvard Munch was painted in Norway in 1893 and is a product of the Expressionism period. This piece measures 3’x 2’5” and was created using oil paint on canvas. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh measures 2’5” x 3’ and was painted in France in 1889 using oil paint on canvas. This work is from the Post-Impressionism period. Both of these paintings have techniques that are individual to
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picture is an expressionistic construction based on an actual experience of a scream whilst Edvard Munch was on a walk‚ after his two companions-seen in the background-had left him. Fitting the fact that the sound must have been heard at the time when his mind was in an abnormal state. Edvard Munch makes it in a style‚ which if pushed to extremes can destroy human integrity. The truth behind the painting is that Munch looked to express internal emotions through external forms and thereby provide a visual
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Artists often display emotion through their artwork. In 1604‚ Caravaggio painted the Entombment of Christ. Vincent Van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889. Very close after‚ Edvard Munch painted The Scream in 1893. Lastly‚ Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937. These four images convey the recurring theme of suffering through art. Caravaggio used oil on canvas to create the painting Entombment of Christ. This painting has many significant points that shows that the artists was expressing the emotion
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Life is a cruel mistress. This can not be better displayed than by The Scream by Edvard Munch and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Both pieces of art represent the idea of Depression‚ Death‚ and Anger. This is symbolised by the bloody‚ orange sunrise; The Dark pastel colors also symbolize depression‚ with a touch anger contributed by the red‚ orange mix. The Scream gives off a very eerie tone of death and depression. The Crucible has many lesson throughout the book with these same ideas. During the
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they came from emotions based on how you are feeling at that given moment. Paintings made by Vincent Van Gogh. “The Starry Night”. 1889. Oil on Canvas. Figure 1.10 in “Living with Art”. Even painter Edvard Munch. “The Scream”. 1893. Tempera and casein on cardboard. Figure 4.35 in “Living with Art”. Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream has a lot of comparisons with Vincent Van Gogh’s art Starry Night. Both paintings were painted near the end of the period‚ during the fin de siècle‚ using bright embroidered
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* The most well-known German expressionists are Max Beckmann‚ Otto Dix‚ Lionel Feininger‚ George Grosz‚ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner‚ August Macke‚ Emil Nolde‚ Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka‚ the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norvegian Edvard Munch are also related to this movement. During his stay in Germany‚ the Russian Kandinsky was also an expressionism addict. Issues: Politics - Social Realism-The human form Forms: Printmaking and sculpture Powerful - Intense - Deep Tenderness
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