Binary opposition

Commedia Dell'Arte, also known as comedy of artists is an Italian theatrical form that flourished throughout Europe from the 16th through the 18th century (Katritzky). Each commedia dell’arte company had a stock of scenarios and soliloquies, witty exchanges such as their lazzi, and about a dozen actors. The impact of the use of improvisation by travelling troupes inspired the tremendous use of grotesque poses and physicality. The use or lack of masks was very important on stock characters such…

Hamlet’s Foils A foil is a literary device, defined as someone or something that serves as a contrast to another. The play Hamlet is a brilliant example of how foils can be used to reveal the true nature of different characters throughout the play by comparison and contrast. It is very noticeable that there are many obvious character foils in the play that help the audience and readers show the reasons for Hamlet’s decision making, revealing his traits and also are used as parallels to Hamlet.…

If the society placed the female body within sociohistorical frameworks, then women could reclaim the view of their bodies which would refuse any traditional binary oppositions. (Notes, 10/6/15). The male and female bodies each have representations that relate to specific time-periods and cultures but, when people speak of the body, it is as if nothing changes about the views but this is not the case. Through Irigaray’s…

The entire Grounder culture takes aspects from real life cultures while also portraying them as savages. For example, tattoos are important to the Grounder culture, many characters have facial tattoos such as Emroi, introduced later but with a clear Maori tattoo. The Grounders are often portrayed with Tribal tattoos, clearly stolen from a variety of native cultures that use specific designs to create symbolic cultural meaning. Historically, Native people, with me concentrating on the Moari…

“The Lady of Shalott” expertly communicate the Victorian mindset of gender roles within the culture. In researching the gender roles within “The Lady of Shalott,” one writer states Tennyson’s use of characters, “reiterated gender definitions as binary oppositions which confined women’s subjectivity to these private, interiorized spaces” (Gill 111). As was per Victorian culture, a woman was removed from the normalcy of everyday life, forced to maintain the homestead, and expected to obey her…

Carolyn Heilbrun's work Toward a Recognition of Androgyny claims to be the first deep analysis of androgynous storytelling and symbolism in English literature. Essentially an extensive case study of stories and novels from Greek antiquity up to the 19th century, the essay argues that androgyny has existed as an ideal in storytelling for centuries, albeit as a “hidden river” (xx). More general statements on the androgynous ideal can often be inferred from the analysis of specific texts. Heilbrun…

The contemporary world is in a constant process of transforming and revising its previous ways of functioning. However, for much of the 20th century, contemporary anthropology was still highly effected by its colonial past. Despite various anthropologists making strides towards improvement of anthropological study, anthropology’s colonialist foundations still disseminated into contemporary work. Yet, in the late 20th century, numerous anthropologists made direct efforts to reject racialized…

2.2 The social constructedness of gender As pointed out before, gender is at the centre of feminist IR scholarship. Gender is also a term with varying definitions especially when considering positivist and postpositivist studies. A positivist approach considers gender as the natural division between men and women, focusing on biological differences. On the other hand, a postpositivist approach recognises gender as socially constructed, meaning that gender is learned, disseminated and created…

“Statement - All representations of people and politics are acts of manipulation” Every day as we step into the vast world of literature, we are constantly subjected to acts of manipulation. Our views are constantly shaped in a way the composers want it to be shaped. To put this more into perspective, we only need to look as far as the texts that I have been analysing in school of late – William Shakespeare’s dramatic play, ‘King Henry IV, Part 1’ and the RSC’s play within a play production.…

Qini Yang Professor Sanders ENC 1102 5 December 2016 “Big Brother is Watching You” The book, 1984, written by George Orwell, which describes the people 's living conditions and social status in a highly centralized political system. “Any time power is centralized in a government — be it economic or political power — individual freedom diminishes” (Orwell ln 20). In 1984, George Orwell to convey his point of views on power by the…