Teotihuacan. This feline figure is one of many, for there are claws on top of it and a tail to its right. After a cursory glance at the mural, three objects catch the eye. It depicts a feline figure, an extravagant headdress, and a raincloud. Upon further analysis of these three objects, the artist’s message is elucidated; the mural portrays a jaguar sacred to the storm god Tlaloc, whose purpose was to strike awe and respect from its viewers. There are many objects in the mural which show a clear association
you read a play? (1000 words) Sound is an intrinsically important aspect of any play, being one of the main mediums by which producers create mood, setting and atmosphere within a play. Music, especially, is an immensely powerful element in any theatrical performance- it is the means by which a director can completely alter the tone of their show, enabling them to bring the audience down from feelings of sheer elation to perpetual sadness, shock, anger or fear. Sound is any artist’s key to bringing
Article Summary and Analysis (The Open Boat) The Open Boat is a short story by Stephen Crane. This short story is about four men: the oiler, the correspondent, the captain, and the cook who creates a brotherhood while trying to survive while out at sea. These four men were survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Florida. With the roughness of the sea, they battle to keep their small boat they were in steady and from capsizing over. The Captain who is injured steered the boat, the cook freed the
The “qualitative analysis” shows that there’s nothing wrong with her, but Seward believes there must be something causing the difficulty breathing and heavy lethargic sleep that comes with nightmares. Thus, he writes to Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, a philosopher and metaphysician
Death’s Influence in Macbeth While in most stories readers pay particular attention to the living, in Macbeth readers can truly analyze the influence of the dead among a story. Focusing an analysis on the dead may seem strange, as it is usually the living who move the events of a play along. While this is true even in Macbeth, there is a large amount of death driving the play. From early on with the death of King Duncan, to the pivotal death of Banquo, and finally the death of Macbeth, death is
While the class has the option to write a research paper on a topic of their choice, the majority did a creative project in place of the paper. This gave the class the creativity to accomplish a plethora of projects such as a web page, a comic, or a poem. In this instance, I personally created a poem in a heroic couplet format to parallel Alexander Pope's "Essay of Criticism". Writing a response in a poetic format as a recreation of Pope's poem and to challenge myself with this project. Alexander
Romantic or Gothic? This is one of the famous questions many people have asked when trying to categorize Frankenstein. Mary Shelley is one of the most well-known women writers of the Romantic Period, and throughout history many people have analyzed and studied this novel in attempt to pin it into one single category. Frankenstein is one of the most popular gothic novels of our time, however, Shelley’s writing shows undertones of another style as well, romanticism. Frankenstein was written in a time