The parallelism of Vera to the figure of the reclining nude as the object of the male gaze is constructed only to be threatened by Vera’s returning of the gaze. Almodóvar implicates the viewer into the narrative as the film alternates between footages from the surveillance cameras in Vera’s chamber and these long shots of the camera slowly panning across Vera’s body in a manner that associates the viewer’s gaze with that of Robert’s. The cinema‚ according to Laura Mulvey‚ derives its pleasure from
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working class‚ middle class‚ upper-middle class‚ bourgeois‚ and aristocrats. In the story‚ "Madame Bovary‚" we see a number of individuals striving to move themselves up to the bourgeois‚ a status that is higher than the working class but not as high as nobility. The bourgeois are characterized by being educated and wealthy but unlike the aristocracy‚ they earned their money through hard work and kept it through frugality (Britannica). Our bourgeois strivers in "Madame Bovary" kept up appearances
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An analysis of Homais as an instrument of satire In Flaubert’s satiric novel‚ the story’s apothecary is used to convey Flaubert’s views of the bourgeois. As a vehicle for Flaubert’s satire‚ Homais is portrayed as opportunistic and self-serving‚ attributes that Flaubert associated with the middle class. Homais’ obsession with social mobility leads him to commit despicable acts. His character and values are also detestable. He is self-serving‚ hypocritical‚ opportunistic‚ egotistical‚ and crooked
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GERMINAL – by Emile Zola – translated by Roger Pearson Industrialization had many social costs‚ especially the effect it had on the lives of the working class.Discuss Zola’s portrayal of coalminers in Montsou over the course of the entire novel and show how industrial labor affected their overall lives.Does Zola believe that the condition of the working class will improve or get worse? Industrialization had a general positive effect to life‚ providing more jobs and changing transportation
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Comparing to the speech and movie express their definition of happiness through sharing personal story‚ the article expresses its definition through analyzing a painting. For example‚ the painting which is drawn by Matisse named Le Bonheur de Vivre. It is a paradise which has lots of couples lying on the wood to performing people have unthinking happy (Jones‚ 2014). The author uses words to introduce what the painting has and what the means is. Through analyzing the painting‚
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property‚ which constituted the pivotal moment in humanity’s evolution out of a simple‚ pure state into one characterized by greed‚ competition‚ vanity‚ inequality‚ and vice” (2c). Out of this competition‚ the social classes were formed and the bourgeois formed by seizing the means of production and subjugating the proletariat. Marx discloses that such oppression has always been present when there have been social classes. “Hitherto‚ every form of society has been based‚ as we have already seen
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extent were poverty and prosperity causes of the 1789 French Revolution? To a great extent because the prosperity of the bourgeois encouraged the poverty‚ peasants‚ to make justice for themselves by making a revolution against the authorities. The first and second estates had several privileges and it produced in the third estate a feeling of resentment‚ specially among those bourgeois who had education and certain power.2 This cultivated class had been influenced by the ideas of enlightenment and could
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recently in the news. Zizek: Yes‚ I read this thing lately‚ wherein the Oxford University banned the pronouns he and she in favour of ‘ze’ because apparently‚ the use of the incorrect pronoun might offend transgender students. Marx: Looks like the bourgeois are trying
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· The tragic power of many of the stories derives from the fact that Maupassant presents his characters‚ poor people or rich bourgeois‚ as the victims of ironic necessity‚ crushed by a fate that they have dared to defy yet still struggling against it hopelessly. ABOUT THE NECKLACE · It was first published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois on February 17‚ 1884‚ and was subsequently included in his 1885 collection of short stories Tales of Day and Night (Contes dejour
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English 10 Honors Period 3 April 13‚ 2011 Animal Farm Essay “The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth” (Rutherford B. Hayes). This statement asserts the fact that when people compete for survival the best individuals more often do not survive and in fact the more conceited and moral deprived individuals do survive. This shows they are best at getting what they need to survive and nothing
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