Grotesque

presents to her readers with the creature version of events and it is revealed that the creature had a very tough beginning in his life. Upon being created his own creator had abandoned upon the realization that his own creation had turned out to be grotesque and hideous instead of beautiful and alluring as he wished, “ His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscle and arteries beneath ;his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances…

This is reflected through the juxtaposition between the decrepit ‘Valley of Ashes’ and the opulence of the Buchanan’s excessive and ostentatious home. The “fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke” are in contrast to the overbearing opulence of the Buchanan’s lavish lifestyle; the valley is also reminiscent of the Psalmist's ‘valley of the shadow of death’, and the…

entire drama is constructed around a group of contrasts and repetitions. Almost every feature presented in the play has its opposite: Helena is tall - Hermia is short; Pak is a jester – Bottom is a victim of the joke; Titania is beautiful – Bottom is grotesque. Moreover, the three main character groups (derived from Greek mythology, English folklore, and classical literature) are designed to firmly oppose each other: fairies are graceful and magical, craftsmen are clumsy and down-to-earth,…

MANY DIFF VERSIONS, ETC. Carter breaks new ground regarding adaptations of Beaumont’s version of The Beauty and the Beast. In her tale The Tiger’s Bride, Carter reworks the story, featuring evidently more androgynous and animalistic characters and a more somber, wintery setting. In the end, however, she flips both the traditional tale and the genre she is writing in on their heads, resulting in a story which depicts a strong, intelligent, and liberated heroine-narrator by contrasting Beauty’s…

Dario Fo has distinguished himself as being the trailblazer of the modern grotesque theatre as we know it today. His plays have been characterized by a comic touch that stands out reminding us of the farce style. He once said “With comedy I search for the profound”. His witty atmosphere is omnipresent in “Ma Fina nedfa3, ma Rah Nedfa3”, one of his plays that has been adapted in colloquial Lebanese by Lina el Abyad who also took the responsibility of directing. It has been recently performed in…

refers to as “sad movies” better known as Melodrama and “kissy movies” better known as Romance. These movies hold no true form of discomfort to a mature audience. The audiences may experience some form of uncultured actions but nothing extremely grotesque that can be compared to severed body part or blood-spattered scene in horror and thriller films. In David Lynch’s psychological horror Blue Velvet, viewers are introduced to the character Jeffrey Beaumont who is a young man who helps a young…

In Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage, the main character--the youth, also known as Henry Fleming--deals with many different themes including: warfare, courage, and isolation. The conflicts included in this essay, written with excessive amounts of imagery, establish examinable themes. Henry handles each theme during his battles bravely; however, during his four-day war experience, he struggles with coming to terms with his fears and fighting for his beliefs. He is literally battling…

R. Giger’s well known artworks was the Necronom V. It was a 39” x 27” airbrushed work included in his Necronomicon book published in 1977. It was done on heavy archival quintessence paper. The artwork is a surreal image of 3 grotesque alien looking beings intertwined in what could be seen as a sexual position. The center creature has female like features on its body. This is seen along the hips and thighs. It has a monster like head, face, and hands. It appears to be riding another…

and other fundamental structures upholding the larger structure of our Euro-American societies in the face of post-agricultural failures, grotesque alimentary delinquency is all about a ‘top down’ enactment of terror—an exercise of those who are in power (Dwyer 265). Rather than being a nightmare wrapped in a hopeful dream of revolt, films displaying grotesque and cruel alimentary delinquency do not provide us with new hopeful structural societies. Instead, we are shown aspects of our society in…

pursuance to enslave him and victimize his fellow mates in the squadron for their own ego-centric aspirations. What impresses one most about Heller's novel is its balanced interweaving and skillful juxtaposition of realism and satire, witty humor and grotesque, bitter cynicism and sheer fantasy along with conscious irony and apparent paradox. Technically, Catch-22 exhibits Heller's virtuosity and dexterity in adroitly applying/utilizing a mixture of the most appropriate stylistic techniques…