evolution of literature and the changes to which this has led can serve as a great example to realise that there is not a specific way of writing. On the contrary, the way in which a literary work is written says a lot about it. If we go back to the Victorian period, one of the elements which did not go unnoticed in gothic literature was the narrative structure and the different techniques the authors used to apply to it. According to the literature of that time, it could be said that the fact of choosing
Jashiel Singh 21513201 Final Essay This essay will critique the work of Margot Winer, namely her paper, ‘Landscapes, Fear and Land Loss on the Nineteenth-Century South African Colonial Frontier’. It will start by looking at the structural word technique, or lack thereof. The essay will then proceed to look at her opinions and research on the architecture of Coping, Identity, Affluence and Fear. Although the majority of the essay agrees with the work of Margot, there are some points that differ in
that you can actually see how many hours a day you spend on a certain app.If you where to look at your history right now, would you believe that your smartphone has a negative effect on your life? Jean M. Twenge’s essay, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” gives multiple reasons why smartphones cause negative effects on teen lives: behavior, communication with parents, depression, less sleep, cyberbullying, and suicide. Twenge proves the negative effects through personal interviews with young
they inevitably change over time. In fact, the definition will change. Concepts of what is literature change over time as well.” The formalistic definition is that the history of “literature” foregrounds peotic effects: it is the literariness or poeticity of literature that distinguishes it from ordinary speech or other kinds of writings e.g. journalism. According to Thomas Hardy, Literature means “Times changes everything except something within us which is always surprise by change”. Many considered
realization that she is a lesbian. Interestingly, Alison Bechdel uses this novel to recount her experience of events that helped to shape her personal identity, which resulted in a transformation of the way she sees herself. In the end, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a wonderful narrative that shows its readers the complexity of personal identity, and how things like sexual orientation, love, the values of society, and politics can all play a part in the shaping of one’s character. Fun Home: A
traits. Throughout this essay, I will explain and demonstrate why all three men, Santiago from The Alchemist, Edmond Dantes from
comparing its value and impact to the culture and fashion. The essay explores how the fatal side of femininity is depicted in media, how and why fashion exploits the femme fatale image and the term definition. The essay concentrates at femme fatale image in the 20th century as the necessary part of the feminism evolution. The work is based on the bodies of work by Mulvey, Elizabeth Wilson Adorned in Dreams (1985). The aim of the essay is to explore the phenomenon of the femme fatale image idolization
The narrative of violence in South African communities with regard to social action as it applies to the case study of the violent strike and killing of mine workers at Marikana in August 2012. On the 16th August 2012, there was a massacre of 34 workers by the South African state police at Lonmim Marikana. This essay aims to explain how the Social Identity Theory accounts for the violence in South African communities, with particular reference to the Marikana massacre. I am going to explain the
this class is the desire to go deep within ourselves and explore how we can artistically and critically materialize the intimate relationship between our body/mind and the arts. Some of the situated questions we will raise are, for example: What aesthetic principles underlie and inform our practices? How do we see the boundaries between Design, Art, Photography and our lives? What is our relation to light, darkness, and color? How do we acknowledge our construction of reality through our senses and
helps people to remember the events and to relate the relationships and lessons within the story to real life (Carter-Black, 2007:33). In this essay I uses Yael Farber’s play, Molora, as a reference example to explain three common elements found