“Pepe” Biondi]) with television’s penchant for inculcating ideology or generating passive spectatorship to protect conservative interests. Yet Di Tella’s documentary doesn’t offer its analysis primarily to lodge a protest‚ but rather to explore the phantasm-like losses that configure his identity. In that sense‚ his film powerfully suggests television’s pivotal role in shaping the popular imagination of his generation. In contrast‚ his father‚ Torcuato‚ quips that he never felt the same kind of attraction
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Gothic texts are distinguished by the conventions they explore. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole‚ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridgem all create an atmosphere of mystery and suspense and highlight to cruel terrors and passions prevalent in Gothic texts. In atmosphere of gloom and terror can be conveyed through medieval setting and inexplicable occurances. In the Castle of Otranto‚ various events occur‚ which are completely arbitrary
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Plato and the censure of Art Plato when imagined his ideal state‚ he asserts that societies have a structure where in everything has its place. To maintain order‚ every factor of life‚ from people to production to ideas must be subordinated to the good of the state. As such‚ if art needs to be censured for the betterment of the State‚ it should be. Plato presents a logical argument of the arts‚ specifically painting and poetry‚ and comes to the conclusion that art should be censored.
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Fear is a human characteristic that everyone must struggle with. This theme is a universal one which everyone can relate to however‚ it is also a difficult one to capture within a short story. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few classic writers who are able to achieve this feat. His story "The Fall of the House of Usher" is centred around the central idea of the impact of fear on one’s life. His parable talks about facing your fears and the self-destruction that can come by allowing fear to run your
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alcoholism and insanity. The narrator’s decent into insanity is further evident by the phrase‚ “when I first beheld this apparition- for I could scarcely regard it as less- my wonder and my terrors were extreme.” He continues for months that the phantasm of the cat haunted him. He then finds the second cat which is seemingly related to his alcoholism as he finds him among one of the taverns frequently visited for the purpose of intoxication. He soon finds aversion for the cat. The narrator then speaks
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In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ a patient suffering from schizophrenia was chosen to narrate the story‚ which greatly affects our perception of the events in the novel. The world that Kesey creates in the novel is through the eyes of Chief Bromden‚ a chronic patient in the ward. Bromden’s observant nature causes for very detailed descriptions of the events in the novel. Chief fakes being deaf‚ and as a result‚ he is able to eavesdrop any conversation in the ward‚ often being able
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and let down the rain like a waterfall” (Golding 153) and another supernatural phenomena of “moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes” that surround Simon’s corpse and make “a moving patch of light as they gathered at the edge” (Golding 154). This phantasm is similar to the moments after Jesus Christ’s death when according to
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string instruments (many of which relate to vampires). Apparently‚ it happens to everyone in his family. Then‚ he says‚ “I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together‚ in some struggle with the grim phantasm‚ FEAR” (Poe np). This quotation indicates that he believes death is near and he lives in fear because of it but what makes him think that? The reason that he believes his life is coming to an end sometime soon is because the symptoms mentioned play
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Summary On the eve of his death‚ an unnamed narrator opens the story by proclaiming that he is sane‚ despite the wild narrative he is about to convey. This narrative begins years before‚ when the narrator’s honorable character is well known and celebrated. He confesses a great love for cats and dogs‚ both of which‚ he says‚ respect the fidelity of friendship‚ unlike fellow men. The narrator marries at a young age and introduces his wife to the domestic joys of owning pets. Among birds‚ goldfish
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Prince Prospero calls together “a thousand hale and light-hearted friends” to come to his castle for fun and to seclude themselves until the danger of the plague‚ known as the Red Death‚ has passed. During Poe’s lifetime a big wave of cholera and yellow fever attacked America and Europe. Poe associates the Red death to those outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever. The symptoms of the Red Death are horrible to observe: the victim is sweep by convulsive agony and sweats blood instead of water. The plague
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