Evocation

In the time of Sophocles, Aristotle and Socrates Greece was populated mostly by the illiterate and slaves. With such a large uneducated and illiterate population, mainstream social and moral education was difficult. Plays were used as the main method of teaching the moral code of society in a way that everyone could access. In order to teach this moral message, the tragedy was used. Inspired by Sophocles’ many plays, Aristotle wrote The Poetics as a teaching outline for what makes a good…

China Night (1940) is a wartime propaganda film made by Osamu Fushimizu. Widely-known as one of the three “continental goodwill films”, China Night features “a romance between a Japanese man and a young Chinese woman played by Li Xianglan” in an attempt to show “how…cultural differences and misunderstandings between different ethnicities and languages could be overcome” (Li, p. 83). This response will examine the tropes of romance and marriage in China Night to highlight how its depiction of an…

liberty by describing the freedom he feels when out with his friends. History is certainly evoked for American readers since the story takes place in the past and contains allusions to notable events, such as the Vietnam and Korean wars. All of these evocations are ways he connects with his audience. God is also evoked, specifically when the boys hear a scream during the night, and Vern earnestly pleads that he will “be a good boy” (388) if God keeps whatever is screaming from getting him.…

The Watch The story selected for the discussion is The Watch by author Rick Bass. It has been identified that Rick Bass is the American short fiction writer, novelist and essayist who use the knowledge of geography expertly in order to provide the readers unique form of fiction and short tales. With the story of the Watch, the author presents the tale of imagination, excitement and promise that harbors the standard material for the short story. Rick Bass utilize the knowledge of the geography…

In this article, Roger Rees addresses the senses in Poem 64 and Catullus’ use of the senses in an occasionally nonsensical fashion. Sight and the eye motif are woven throughout the poem in the arrival of the wedding guests, the song of the Parcae, the ekphrasis describing Ariadne and Theseus, and in the conclusion of the poem. Vision is often juxtaposed with hearing in the ekphrasis and in the song of the Parcae. Smell is also involved, and linked to both sight and sound. Rees argues the…

While many relate Dark Romanticism with Gothic Literature, they may seem alike but are surprisingly different. Including the origin, the style, and the scenic backgrounds. They both hold dark and mystic themes, but have completely different ways of carrying it out. Dark Romantics is in definition the literary feature of Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was idealized in the 19th century, and lead to the creation of other types of writing genres still used today. This philosophical movement,…

Moraes uses this stanza as an evocation of his own experiences, even though he addresses Sinbad. He refers to Sinbad’s second voyage as said before. Remarkably, he uses the metaphor of a vulture instead of the Roc. The vultures are not circling over dead animals, but over defunct countries…

Undergraduate Learning Outcome Reflection Analyzing an article and reciprocating a counterargument which supports or refutes the author’s original argument was an assignment exceedingly familiar. High schools emphasize the fundamentals of formulating an effective argument, but this guidance loses relevance once college begins. Teachers’ and professors’ concepts contradict one another; the concepts that one teaches, the other does not necessarily invalidate, but goes about explaining in a…

Ghost Stories, edited by Martin Munro, is a collection of short stories written by contemporary writers of the Caribbean, as well as others from Canada and the Unites States. The book of fifteen tales explores the main supernatural theme with the evocation of ghosts, dead, undead or dying, that haunt the experiences of the characters in each story. In his introduction Munro wrote "every island of the Caribbean is the site of a deep haunting" (vii). The anthology proves this point as throughout…

The world was a place where you had to interact with one another. A place where letters had to be written, and if you wanted to talk to your friends it had to be at a public place. However, with technology advancing so much there is little to no communication between people. Everything is now done online, there is no more social skills, only technology skills. In Ian Bremmer’s “Democracy in Technology”, he wrote about how technology has helped us bring the world together as one. However, in…