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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German Film Director who has worked on several short films before this movie. The Lives of Others is the first film that Donnersmarck had written, directed and won an oscar in 2006 for being the best foreign-language film. This film works in Germany, around 1984, while Germany was still split into 2 parts; East Germany and West Germany. The film depicts how the environment was like in Germany at this point of time and how one side is better than the other…

Within the realm of communication there are five contexts of communication which we utilize regularly to effectively relay the messages we intend for others to receive. These five contexts are referred to in Business Communication for Success (2012) as intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, public and mass communication. As each context is examined we will explore examples of each one as they present themselves in everyday life in addition to the appeal of intrapersonal communication and the not…

Romanticism is an artistic movement that began after the Enlightenment that focused on the genre of literature, music and the arts during the late 1750s well through the mid-1800s. It is said that the era of Romanticism is the historical period in which individuals began to visualize themselves as well as their modern conflicts and desires. To put the idea simply, due to Romanticism’s stylistic diversity, it is uncanny to believe that there was more than one category for this art movement, but…

he becomes the duplicitous, mad individual he has feigned. Hamlet, though sane in the beginning, becomes mad due predominantly to the immense burden of ambition. His internal struggle tears both his morale and his morals to shreds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe proposes that Shakespeare means to "represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance…

Frankenstein’s Monster Bibliotherapy In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, the education of Frankenstein’s Creature comes chiefly from the four books he read: Milton’s Paradise Lost, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, and Volney’s The Ruins. Reading these books, though increasing the Creature’s knowledge base, has a negative impact on his personality, making him despise the vices of mankind. There are other works that may have changed the…

Twain the Romantic Twain was many things as a writer- a satirist, a truth-teller, a critic- but he was not a romantic. The romantic era, in its heydey, was a time of literature dominated by grand ideas and mystic visions. Though many others joined this fantasy-ridden trend, many authors were critical of the romantic ideas that often lacked realistic properties. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was one of these critical authors. Through that particular piece of…

Friedrich Schlegel, a German poet, defined romanticism as, “literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form”. Romanticism was a movement in literature that was popular during the 18th century that primarily focused on the individual through imagination, freedom and emotion; feeling was valued over emotion. Edgar Allen Poe and Longfellow are two well-known writers who incorporated romanticism in their works. The romanticism traits of imagination and awe of nature are depicted in…

Regarding Romanticism and Transcendentalism within human nature, it’s ways of thinking, feeling, and acting are bound to have positive and negative aspects. Combining knowledge from each spiritual movement, one can compare the differences and practicalities. To begin, Romanticism’s outlook on ways of thinking is to follow the heart. This can mean knowing what’s better for one’s being, but ultimately choosing the hearts thoughts. Though the idea of listening to the heart protrudes images of…

Nostalgia of the past, individual uniqueness, whispers of wisdom on the wind, and horrible nightmares. These characteristics describe the Romantic time period. Romanticism distinguishes itself as an intellectual and artistic movement differentiated by a deeper interest in nature, the stress of emotional and imaginative expression of the individual, and the withdrawal of classicism. Whether the overall message appears as one of peace and prosper, or one of dark, devilish musings, the goal was to…

19th-century Romanticism was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement characterized by its emphasis on emotion, individualism, and the love of life. The Romantic hero is a literary archetype that serves as a personification of these ideals. The protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is a prime example of this archetype. Throughout the book Holden is strongly portrayed as an isolated individual, caring more for his own personal views than the paradigm.…