Imitation

Transcendentalism can be found in the song “ Hall Of Fame” by The Script in the following lines, and throughout the song. ““Yeah, You could be the greatest. You can be the best. You can be the King Kong banging on your chest. You could beat the world… Dedicate yourself and you can find yourself. Standing in the hall of fame This connects to the transcendentalist idea of self confidence. The song is telling the reader that they can basically do anything that they put their mind to and dedicate…

The necklace is a short story written by Maupassant to present the mentality of people in France during its golden ages. He did that through the use of more familiar characters to the reader who have positives and negatives, following the guidelines of literary realism to give the reader a closer perspective to the life during those days. It is based on a middle class woman who married to a junior clerk in the Ministry of Education. She had an honorable life but always felt that ‘’she was…

Should stories change their readers or inform them? Is there no value in false tales or does this literature serve a greater purpose? While these questions have no definitive answer, they have long been examined by writers and philosophers, both by Plato around 380 BCE and by A.K. Ramanujan in the late 20th century. In “Book X” of The Republic, Plato examines what is true and what is not, including stories and how the truthfulness is connected to the value of the stories. Similarly, in “Three…

confirm convergent invention. “Incomplete parallelism or partial convergence” might occur; a root source, definitely. “To stage an ethereal battle two opposing sides was unproductive”, stated Kroeber, as both “complimented” each other. “Dispersion and imitation indeed occur” and “autonomous developments are varyingly propagated”. Dispersal lead to “modifications”, i.e invention, and “autonomous starts” were often “assimilated or fused by dispersal” (1923, Kroeber:…

it has come to light that culture can be seen in numerous different species, ranging from birds to fish and to chimpanzees. The main distinction of which species have culture comes from the definition of culture itself. At the base of culture, is imitation which continues to lead into social learning, which finally creates tradition. This process can be seen not only in human interaction, but in wild chimpanzees as well. In anthropology, culture is an important definition that changes the way…

real thing because he has seen how the shadow is a mere imitation of the original object. This shows how the prisoner believes in what he has seen, but has yet to completely perceive reality outside of the cave. In this part of Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’, he discusses his belief on the problem with representation in art. Plato theorizes that art is just an imitation of true reality. However, I believe that art is much more than just ‘imitation’, it is expression, imagination, and creativity…

important concept known as mimesis. This Greek word -meaning imitation- is the basic and broad notion for the reasoning and explanations of every piece of artwork throughout time. The history of this word delves into some religious concepts from the ancient Greek time period. According to Plato, every single piece of artwork is an imitation of the world that is created by God. He even goes as far as to say that art is an imitation of an imitation, because what we humans see is almost always a…

However, worth imitation and blindly imitates are different. In blindly imitates, people will imitates all of the action regardless what and how the action is. For example, a couple of years ago, 12-year-old Scott Buckle accidentally killed himself as he tried to imitate the character of Johnny Depp in the Hollywood blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean. According to BBC, Scott apparently hanged himself as he copied a scene in which Depp’s character escapes the noose. This kind of imitation is…

In the article, How Brains Model Minds the author Frith talks about internal factors which contribute to perception as well evolutionary bases of why people perceive things the way they do. Imitation is like perception. People automatically without having to think too much about it. At first, it seems easy to imitate any movement, but until people try to do it and realize how difficult can be to imitate the action. When we imitate someone’s moves, we watch the person’s movements closely.…

Art is a very broad topic. There are a lot of things that can be considered art. Everything from paintings to carpentry can be considered art. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines art as, “Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings.” Some people may not agree with this definition. There can be good art and bad art, but at the end of the day if it is an expression of somebody’s emotions or thoughts, it’s art, whether…