King Lear: Motifs Shakespeare uses many motifs to expand on the themes of the story. His most-used motif revolves around filial responsibility. Each of the two plots contains characters who betray their fathers. Goneril and Regan flatter their father‚ King Lear‚ and then betray him. The drastic change that occurred in their attidtude towards their father is clearly evident through Goneril’s speech before: "Sir‚ I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight‚ space‚ and
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In 1434‚ Flemish artist Jan van Eyck painted‚ signed‚ and dated his piece‚ the “Arnolfini Wedding Portrait.” This painting is believed to be of Giovanni di Arrigo Arnolfini‚ an Italian merchant‚ and his wife Giovanna Cenami and is thought to stand as documentation of their marriage. While it may seem like a simple dual-portrait‚ there are many subtle symbols incorporated in the scene that enhance the portrayal of this couple. Use of symbolism within the painting explains its purpose‚ shows what
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Jan van Eyck’s work‚ The Arnolfini Portrait‚ is a famous piece of Flemish portraiture with a lively history of interpretation (Hall xviii). Most interpretations of the work hinge upon the symbolism found in the iconography of the work‚ while others rely upon the presumption that the work is nothing but masterfully rendered naturalism‚ while still others apply various modern art history methodologies. In this paper I will provide a brief survey of the leading interpretations and methods that have
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Young Money Entertainment is an American record label founded by rapper Lil Wayne. Young Money’s president is Lil Wayne’s lifelong friend Mack Maine. The label is an imprint of Cash Money Records and is distributed by Republic Records. The label has released eight US No. 1 albums: Tha Carter III‚ I Am Not a Human Being‚ and Tha Carter IV by Lil Wayne‚ Thank Me Later‚ Take Care and Nothing Was the Same by Drake‚ and Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded by Nicki Minaj. Current artists include
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My Career Goals as an Artist My goal is to attain a career where I can express my artistic talent and passion for art as well as open my mind in ways that I could never do in any other field .To obtain these goals‚ I must set a track. After considering many other career opportunities‚ such as the army‚ attempting to obtain a job at Boeing‚ and looking into various other art colleges ‚to name a few‚ I have found that the Art Institute of Seattle has just the programs I’m looking for and just what
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Themes‚ Motifs & Symbols Themes Love as a Cause of Suffering Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy‚ and romantic love is the play’s main focus. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending‚ in which the various lovers find one another and achieve wedded bliss‚ Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. Many of the characters seem to view love as a kind of curse‚ a feeling that attacks its victims suddenly and disruptively. Various characters claim to suffer painfully from being in love‚ or
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time of writing‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne was facing the impracticality of his literary vocation as the economic support for his growing family” (Bunge 46). Nathaniel Hawthorne felt misunderstood as an artist and used his story The Artist of the Beautiful to represent what he was going through. In the Artist of the Beautiful Owen Warland has a love and need for beauty‚ where is everyone else feels the need for objects to be useful. As one critic mentioned‚ “Warland has a disinterested search for the
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The opening Act of King Lear uses the motifs of nature and the unnatural‚ sanity and madness‚ and “nothing” to reinforce the downward movement in Lear’s perception of his own identity. For example‚ at the beginning of the play‚ Lear expresses his awe at the serenity of a beautiful world: “With plenteous rivers‚ and wide wide-skirted meads…” (I‚ i‚ 66). As the plot moves forward‚ the motif of the unnatural becomes present and indicates the negative trend of Lear’s own identity. Specifically‚ when
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of the story‚ including Amir’s journey to Kabul to find Sohrab and his confrontation with Assef. The moral standard Amir must meet to earn his redemption is set early in the book‚ when Baba says that a boy who doesn’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything. As a boy‚ Amir fails to stand up for himself. As an adult‚ he can only redeem himself by proving he has the courage to stand up for what is right. The Love and Tension Between Fathers and Sons Amir has a very complex
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Memory A motif can be described as a recurring subject‚ theme or idea found in a literary‚ artistic or musical work. These are structures or literary devices that can help to develop a major theme within a work. In One Hundred Years of Solitude there are several motifs that contribute to conveying the theme of a cycle of solitude that the characters are unable to escape from. In his novel‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates an imaginary town called Macondo where the inseparability of the past
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