When thinking about art, especially in written form, sometimes it is necessary to be unspecific; that is, to leave some or all of the meaning up to the readers interpretation. Nevertheless, an artwork always has a meaning, although it may not be interpreted the same way by each person. There is no non meaning. Each piece of artwork or word written carries meaning to the artist, and was inspired by something which the artist had a connection and reaction to, and which he wished to express. When thinking
In the essay titled, “Decolonizing Culture: Beyond Orientalist and Anti-Orientalist Feminisms”, Nadine Naber discusses her own experience of growing up in an Arab-American household, and the pressure of upholding Arab culture, while also attempting to assimilate into American culture. She discusses how and why some Arab Americans have maintained traditions that reify orientalist conceptions of Arab culture, focusing on the central role of gender and its intersections with race, religion and sexuality
Moreover, it is a story that causes extensive discussion regarding the symbolisms, which allows many interpretations. But the main message as social critique is presented by Márquez mainly on the characters. The angel serves as a representative of the unknown world and its treatment at the hands of the people shows its non-acceptance of the unknown. From my point of view, there is an analogy between this
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense. The Alfred Hitchcock film was very successful and very well-known in the 1960’s, and is still one of the greatest original horror films today. When he released the famous psychological thriller film ‘Psycho’, it endlessly changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. The film crew successfully distributed to make the film more thrilling, with all the different shot types and symbolism supports the thriller the
and nonviolence. Malcolm argued that more was at stake than the civil right to sit in a restaurant or even to vote—the most important issues were black identity, integrity, and independence. In contrast to King’s strategy of nonviolence, civil disobedience, and redemptive suffering, Malcolm urged his followers to defend themselves “by any means
In G.E.M. de Ste. Croix’s “Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted?” the author pursued to investigate the question by asking a subset of questions, “‘For what reasons did ordinary pagans demand persecution?’, and secondly, ‘Why did the government persecute?’”1 The author’s thesis is not firmly explicit, for it is broken in a couple parts since he posed these two questions. The purpose of posing these two questions was to help reveal Ste. Croix’s belief on why the early Christian persecution occurred