Babel

point, while he's sick in bed he imagines statues of the Seven Deadly Sins coming to life and advancing out from a wall in a cathedral. When Maria preaches her message of peace and understanding to the workers, she tells them the story of the Tower of Babel of a management vs. labor parable, and Lang gives us spectacular images…

was that in order for Weimar Germany to provide peace for it’s citizens, unity was essential. The allegory of the Tower of Babel is introduced by Maria who is a symbol of hope for the oppressed workers. The enlightening non-diegetic music is immediately juxtaposed with the smooth transition to loud and urgent non-diegetic music, suggesting the nuanced nature of the Tower of Babel. The dreary and monotonous non-diegetic sounds accompanies the high angle shot of half-naked workers trudging towards…

One day I was talking to my friend and we were in the middle of a conversation and he just left me on read so I felt a little worried. He always answer so, I started blowing up his phone and he still wasn’t replying, so I took matters into my own hands and called the military. It was the first thing that popped into my head, I was so worried. The military gets to my house I told them what was going on and what he looked like. We started on the hunt for him. We were running through New Madrid…

The Torah, or the Old Testament, is a collection of stories of the Hebrew people. It was a part of their oral tradition for generations, until, per tradition, it was written down by Moses in the 14th Century BCE. The Torah is essentially the foundation of Judaism; it is not just the story of the Hebrews, it is the story of their relationship with God, the divine, ultimate, all-knowing creator of the Universe. To the Hebrews, and by extension the Jews, the Torah is not just their most important…

What is in a word? Language shapes the very backbone of every community. It enables communication between one person and another. Without it nations would crumble like the tower of Babel. Shakespeare not only knew the language well for anyone’s sake, even though he received an official education. He brought us a wonder of new vocabulary and sayings that make the modern English language what it is today. “Lie low”, “comparisons are odorous”, and “as merry as the day is long” originates from just…

Quickly following the end of the Enlightenment came the anti-Semitic movement. The anti-Semitic movement sought not only unification against a common threat, but also a full and total unity within the states themselves. Some countries believed this return to the Old Regime would solidify and strengthen the countries. While others believed that by once again limiting the citizens it would cause great strife and destruction. The Enlightenment brought about freedom of equality and acceptance…

God is in control of kings and kingdoms and He has a master plan that will be fulfilled. Babylon was built on the plane of Shinar. It was built in the same plane that the tower of Babel was built. This is ironic because the meaning of word Babel and the word Babylon are the same. They both mean confusion. In fact, Babel is the Hebrew word for Babylon. Confusion is not the only meaning for Babylon though. In Akkadian it means “Gate of the Gods”. This goes to show that the Babylonians had a great…

pretense that the evolution of language could have some underlying effect on religion seems absurd. On the contrary, even in Christianity the imminent influence of language has been illustrated. In Genesis 11:1-9, the story of the Tower of Babel is introduced. At Babel, all of the inhabitants of the world spoke one language, and they told themselves, “ ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city,…

he could paint them in their natural environment of everyday life without disturbing them to act differently and the second because that is what he painted, peasants. Pieter Bruegel is a flexible painter of arts such as landscapes, the Tower of Babel, and groups of people like in The Wedding Dance. The Wedding Dance stands out to the reader because here is a lot of detail and rustic coloring that makes the detail stand out just right. It was painted in the year…

Lang and Orwell’s seminal texts both express their concerns of the imbalance of power in totalitarian regimes. In Fritz Lang’s German expressionist film Metropolis (1927) the totalitarian control is from the industry. Whereas, the novel 1984 (1948) by George Orwell focuses on the extremes of political power. The dystopian worlds Lang and Orwell create through a range of literary and film techniques though, differ in response to their respective contexts. Both composers are critical the way…