their cradle, their safe haven, to be rocking above an abyss. That's where the monsters are, ready to snatch you up and swallow you into eternal darkness. That darkness, however, is the difference between living and not living, and the cradle, as Vladimir Nabokov depicts it, "is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness" (303). In his essay "Perfect Past", Nabokov describes in a beautifully poetic account of what it means to exist as a human in our most transitory state: life---,
Essay Question: Literary works are representative of their genre and period, to adapt them will always be detrimental to the original. Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement using reference to texts you have studied in class. Literature have existed for millions of year and have undergone countless transformations through the ages. Each genre of literature is unique in their own way and bears their own form and style. A play would not be the same as a poem, even less so a novel. There
people. Our ideas on Evil and innocence are mostly derived from the bible with the original sin and Satan at the heart of it, by using Milton’s Paradise Lost to compare to Henry James Turn of the Screw I wanted to explore the use of narrative voice through Innocence, Evil, Sympathy, Appearance and Author. In Milton’s Paradise Lost the narrator wants to shape preconceived ideas of Satan being evil by indicating the ambiguity of the situation. By portraying him as both innocent and evil; it convinces
In order for the light to shine bright, darkness must be present (Bacon, F, 2013), this is exactly what both Caravaggio and Vermeer understood that other artists of their time did not and what made them such reputable artists known today. This essay will discuss key similarities and differences in Caravaggio’s and Vermeer’s paintings in terms of subject matter, technique and use of light. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist based in many areas such as Rome, Malta, Maples and
William Shakespeare’s Othello can be interpreted through many critical lenses, including gender theories, feminist theories, and class structure theories; however, the most prevalent ideas included in Othello allude to race and race theory principles. Through the syntax and imagery Shakespeare utilizes, the motifs of light and dark are painted to emphasize not only the difference between races, but also to emphasize the goodness of white and the badness of black, and to create tension and conflict
I was put into a jail once on this account for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones to be locked up.2 (127)
cry out a warning The girl never hears As with a loud ping, the gun fires. The girl drops to her knees, She breathes very rapidly. Her last breaths die in the breeze. At last, her spirit was freed. The image fades from the mirror, A shiver runs through me as I try to comprehend. I clutch my arms nearer, And pray that, someday, this horror will end. Kayla seeks challenges and has great learning potential. She is thirteen years old, and has lived in Waterloo, ON, her whole life. Kayla has an interest
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin