Apocalypse

Directors of movies can each tell the same story a different way. Using numerous film strategies, directors are able to evoke whatever emotions they want from the audience. In this way, the viewer’s emotions are out of their control allowing the movie to take on whole new meanings, simply by the way the movie is put together. Benjamin’s essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” observes the way humans interact and interpret film. In the quote assigned, Benjamin is saying…

apocalyptic world that continually tests their morality. However, the contrasting perspectives between these characters illustrates how life experiences can affect a person’s level of compassion. The man’s divided life experiences, pre and post apocalypse, allows him to more fully grasp the degradation of society, which makes him much less compassionate towards strangers. As the man visits his childhood home, experiences from the past cloud his mind with a dangerous fantasy that only worsens…

According to psychological studies, the closer people get into death the stronger their instinct desires to be survival. And when human’s desire goes over extreme point, do they care about what wrong or right - their ethic – to behave as a human? The true answer has been remained mysterious for thousands years, however, the history shows that people behave differently in circumstances regarding to their belief system. That means the definition of good or bad ethic is neither absolute nor…

only one god. The god of the Christian religion is Jesus. Jesus is the creator of the world as shown in John 1:1-4. Another view of Jesus is as the judge and punisher of human. kind. The judgement will occur during the apocalypse, also known as the second coming. The apocalypse is the day that Jesus will return to earth to judge the evil people and reward those who have been faithful. This is shown in Matthew 25 in the sheep and goat story. In the story, the sheep were placed on the right and…

themes, such as the duality between abstraction and illustration, by making many international and art historical references. The painting I chose to write about is called the Pavilion of Perpetual Present by Bill Rutherfoord and is part of the Apocalypse series. This oil on linen work of art is 70 x 74” and was made between 2008 and 2013. Rutherfoord draws inspiration from Winslow Homer’s The Briarwood Pipe and depicts two soldiers sitting in front of pavilion; however, in Rutherfoord’s…

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.” The famous final line of T.S. Elliots poem, The Hollow Men. For a long time, the end of the world has been on the mind millions. With many possible variations of the apocalypse, ranging from zombies, nuclear fallout, robot takeover, alien invasion, and natural disasters, it’s hard for the topic to not cross the mind at least once. But how has the media affected the general population's perception of the end? Some claim that the…

Beowulf’s funeral is represented in the poem with strong Christian values connecting the hero with the story of Jesus Christ by ties seen between the burial of both characters, their twelve followers, and their dedication to God; however the film’s adaptation of the scene narrows in on pagan concepts and ideals, more specifically the culture and religion of the Vikings as well as the degradation of Christianity through Unferth’s position as a Christian figure. In the poem, Beowulf…

whole time. “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you” (McCarthy 54). McCarthy’s wasteland of the post apocalypse indicates his son is without a doubt the reason to stay alive. The father says all of that because he already has a sense that the son is special and worthy of something. The father has already lost hope in life and he doesn’t want his son to…

White; who becomes diagnosed with cancer, and decides to become partners in cooking meth with former student, Jessie Pinkman. The Walking Dead is set initially in King County, Georgia; revolves around the main character, Rick Grimes, in a zombie apocalypse aftermath. Despite the fact both of these protagonists share similar development patterns, they still have quite a bit of contrasts. In Breaking Bad, Walter White leads a life as an overqualified chemistry teacher with a pregnant wife and…

The hopeful “dawn” the Magi witness where “an old white horse galloped away in the meadow” foreshadows an apocalypse commanded by religion and hope, where modern society will be cleansed of all transgressions of “pieces of silver” and “empty wineskins”, inspired by humility and grace as opposed to greed and lust. This transformation embodies the experiences of…