Christine Ku 13 December 2010 ENGL-213‚ Pollack The Use of Grotesque in Literature While we can make some useful generalizations about the purposes to which the grotesque may be used‚ it is clear that the range of possible functions is very broad. Some instances of the grotesque serve no purpose at all apart from a purely ornamental or personal one; some have no function except the fulfillment of a whimsical and capricious desire to invent something bizarre and eccentric. In some works‚ satirical
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Rejection Led her to Psychosis In Tennessee William’s Portrait of Madonna Lucretia Collins is driven mad by the rejection of a man who she so fondly treasured and loved during her youth‚ so mad that she can no longer seem to grasp reality or even take care of herself. Her psychosis led her to think she is pregnant by the intruder who was the man she was in love with as a young girl and whose rejection is the main contribution to her flight from reality. Thus her heart break led to obsession and
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Similar to the southern gothic settings found in the two stories that were examined above‚ this next story also takes place out of the American south. In Capote’s “Miriam”‚ out of his collection entitled The Tree of Night‚ we find our grotesque character living alone in a cold‚ desolate version of New York City. Similar to “Mr. Jones”‚ the setting is winter in an isolated city apartment. The streets are described as shrouded in “a pale but impenetrable curtain” which gives the feel of a setting
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A Look at William Blake’s Archetypes Used in His Poems Blake’s Deep Poems William Blake‚ a poet‚ painter‚ and printmaker‚ once stated‚ “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower‚ hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour” (William Blake). He often opens our minds to deeper thought in his pieces. Blake wrote two pieces called Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Within these two topics‚ Blake wrote many stories/poems that demonstrate the personality
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cast down. I stand here today to stop the grotesque sin of slavery and achieve equal rights for my brothers and sisters. This is a white man’s dream ‚ a black man’s nightmare. Have you ever realized that slavery directly goes against the Declaration of Independence? The second paragraph states “ we hold these truths to be self-evident‚ all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator…” The Constitution does not discriminate based on how light or dark a person is. African-Americans
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even plans to kill her husband Tom Willard‚ since he is in abnormal pursuit of “business success” (Anderson‚ 1919). Based on these peculiar behaviors‚ Elizabeth is often considered as a “grotesque” by both the people in the town and literary critics. Critics‚ like Regis Michaud‚ endeavor to explain Elizabeth’s grotesque psyche with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical terms including “fear of intimacy”‚ “the Oedipus complex”‚
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Explore how Williams presents Stella. Choose two or three sections from the play to analyse in detail. In your answer you should consider: Williams use of language Dramatic Technique Stella plays an important role in ‘a streetcar named Desire’‚ even though she is not the protagonist. Williams presents her in the middle of Blanche and Stanley’s conflict‚ this is mainly because they both have continuous battles over who gets to have her love and
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The Grotesque Old Woman‚ by Renaissance painter‚ Quinten Metsys illustrates an old and unattractive woman of the 16th century. Her voluptuous‚ weathered breasts are on displayed and her headdress is one of astute fashion of an earlier German period and her eloquent dress and corset are fashionable to Italy in this time period. Her aged hands hold a small and delicate red bud‚ a symbol of engagement‚ and her slightly lifted chin is of poised position. All of this beauty and detailed is over shadowed
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Even from the first few scenes of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’‚ we can see that Blanche DuBois is a complicated character; throughout the play she ignores warnings and breaks moral codes‚ and it is this that leads to her demise of character. At the beginning of the play‚ when we are introduced to Blanche‚ and our initial impression of her is that she is a judgemental person who seems to think quite highly of herself. Although Eunice is trying to help her‚ Blanche is rude and brief in response. She
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How Information is Used Anesse Palmer HTT220 April 22‚ 2012 Danin Gray How Information is Used 1. Provide three examples of information collected by an EIS. a. Occupancy levels‚ average daily rates‚ and revenue produced daily. 2. Provide three examples of information collected by a DSS. b. Projected revenue summaries‚ inventories of information to help in forecasting hotel‚ and data compared to same time last year. 3. How does information collected by an EIS and a
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