(social‚ cultural‚ spiritual‚ personal‚ demographical) in which a text is engaged with. All texts have contextual integrity‚ as all texts are products of human thought. All texts are altered by context as their meaning and interpretation is a product of human right‚ it innately influences the writer‚ you cannot write without thought. All human thought is necessarily based on the context it is born out of. “Death of the author” – the author doesn’t matter when the text goes public‚ it is all
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Stephen Conway 1996 Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Mimesis As literary critics‚ Plato and Aristotle disagree profoundly about the value of art in human society. Plato attempts to strip artists of the power and prominence they enjoy in his society‚ while Aristotle tries to develop a method of inquiry to determine the merits of an individual work of art. It is interesting to note that these two disparate notions of art are based upon the same fundamental assumption: that art is a form of mimesis‚ imitation
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Is America falling apart? Anthony Burgess “People are underpaid but they go through an act of liking their work‚ the open markets are luscious when esculent color‚ the community is more important than the stat‚ the human condition is humorously accepted.” (297) “The quality of life has nothing to do with the quantity of brand names. What matters is talk‚ family‚ cheap wine in the open air‚ the wresting of minimal sweetness out of the long-known bitterness of living.” (297) “American individualism
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Critique of Human Moral Nature What is “human nature”? Do a natural set of behavioral paradigms govern our morals at the most basic level? And more importantly‚ are those prescribed behaviors inherently good‚ or naturally evil? The Large Ant by Howard Fast depicts human nature as leaning toward the latter. Many other artistic and literary works seem to take this position‚ arguing that because humans have the capacity to commit evil deeds‚ they must themselves be evil. In Fast’s view‚ humans are naturally
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today. It is a subconscious survival instinct to want to fit in and conform to those individuals around them; it is the human condition that has been present long before the 1950’s. The interaction of others are necessary to the successful formation of the survivalist instinct‚ but it is often through extreme actions that the end result will be met. Rejection goes against human nature itself and an individual’s longing for acceptance and positive relationships with others. The only apparent option
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Our Town “Our Town”‚ by Thorton Wilder tells a story about life and the people of Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire. The choice of Grover’s Corners is meant to typify every small town or community in America. Grover’s Corner is Anytown ‚ U.S.A. It is a simple place and this reflected in the physical setting of the play. Basically‚ Our Town is about Grover’s Corners and its people‚ particularly the Gibbs and Webb families. It takes the audience through the stages of life‚ in a simple way
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Eventually Lear goes insane‚ is captured by the English with his daughter Cordelia and is imprisoned. There are many sophisticated themes that prevail through out this play but one stands out‚ and that is the theme of nothing and the effect it has on the human psyche‚ and our perception of reality. It is in the beginning that there is the first utterance of the word nothing. Shakespeare a master of the subtext utilizes words in many different fashions. But what is probably the most notable is his use
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“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.” This line really struck me when I first read it. At first glance‚ such words quite obviously appear harsh and cold but this aphorism is really just a stone-cold truth‚ one most people are not entirely comfortable with. The majority of said people who might question the ethics of such a statement would most likely be those who are on the receiving end of such a comment or rather the indifference of
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rationalization in imaginative ways. Explanations vary from attributing the presence of evil as a test presented to humanity by God to sift out the worthy from the masses‚ a challenge conjured up by a malign force which opposes God‚ an illusion of the human condition‚ or some variant of the above designed to placate the questioning faithful. Not many religions have turned the blame from alien figures of darkness to humanity itself. Though faiths such as Protestantism delegate blame onto humanity for the
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After thinking about it‚ I thought Wicca hasn’t really changed my life that much‚ at least not in concrete ways. I’ve always loved the Earth and thought of it as being beautiful and precious. I’ve always been fascinated at the beauty and mystery of the Moon and the starry sky. I’ve always found Nature to be healing in an all inclusive way that encompasses the physical‚ mental and spiritual realms. I’ve always believed that our minds have the power to accomplish amazing things. I’ve always thought
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