Aestheticism

After the Germans lost World War One there was a world-wide great depression. Adolf Hitler had many thoughts of making a new socialist nation and used the depression to show people the current government was not working and change was required. Hitler outlined his plan for a change in government in his book Mein Kampf. In his book he speaks of the evils created by the Jewish religion and its people. He used his anti-sematic views as a scapegoat, in which to fuel his change. Hitler was very…

According to Nardin, “He flaunts his aestheticism, telling his teachers, for example, that he has ‘no time to fool with theorems’, because his involvement with the arts is so demanding (Nardin 39). Paul found his love for art more important than his daily studies in school. The teachers at Paul’s…

The organization of the article “Walt Disney”, from Contemporary Heroes and Heroines helps give readers a clear look at Walt Disney’s astounding success with the Walt Disney Company. It starts by providing some general information about Disney and his career, such as that he was an animator and producer. The article then goes into detail about the early stage of his career, which took off with the creation of Mickey Mouse. It leads into the next part of his career by stating, “But Disney's…

Introduction The quote, “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” is a case in point of Dorian Gray’s portrait. Dorian’s image reflects his inner self, and mirrors his soul. The Picture of Dorian Gray highlights the idea of aestheticism and challenges influence of art over an individual instead of the realities of life. This essay will discuss the evidence in the novel that supports Oscar Wilde’s quote. It will consist of two parts: Dorian Gray’s perception of his own…

society about the importance of not succumbing to superficiality. The idea presented to Dorian that there is little to no difference between morals and one’s appearance is exactly what the writer is trying tell society is untrue. The influence that aestheticism and Hedonism…

“Black Is Beautiful”: Social Politics Surrounding the Afro Research Question: To what extent did the ‘Black-Is-Beautiful’ Movement of the 1960’s promote black expression and further debates regarding ‘natural hair’? Background In order to facilitate an understanding of the perspective of George S. Schuyler, the “skeptical Negro” who “debunks natural hair” and criticizes “Black is Beautiful” in the project’s main Special Collections source, it is first important to establish key information…

By championing modernity, Tanizaki’s Joji also facetiously contradicts the heroic subject invented by modernity. The conventional narrative wherein the protagonist rejects the modern world he was born into in favour of an identification with the past is transposed by Tanizaki who portrays Joji choosing to engage with the spaces of modernisation, by frequenting the cafes, dance halls and department stores with Naomi. In doing so, Tanizaki has created an embodiment of the restless youth of Japan,…

This is a quotation taken from Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘’The Voyage’’. The story is about a young girl called Fenella, after the death of her mother she went with her grandmother to move in her Grandparent’s house in Picton, which is inspired from Mansfield’s personal life when she had to move out from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to London, England. Mansfield uses imageries, metaphors, and the setting to convey the two main ideas of darkness and light and the transformation of…

The key ideas of British romanticism and how Frost’s poetry is similar or different from that. The romantic age of England ranged between 1780 and 1830. The Age of Romanticism or the very ideology of romanticism was a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment emphasizing upon the significance of reason and logical faculty of human mind. Romanticism primarily emotion and imagination which play an instrumental role in creation of art and poetry. Romantic poetries were essentially subjective as…

Analysis of the Major Conflict in Chapter Twenty of The Picture of Dorian Gray Among numerous of conflicts in the novel that involves the protagonist, Dorian Gray, the most important and crucial one ceases in the last chapter. Many analyze the conflict only on the superficial level and view it as the struggle between Dorian and his decaying Portrait. However, I found that the conflict could be interpreted more deeply and it actually contains multiple level of concepts that the author wants to…