Imitation

The word ‘mimemis’ comes from the Greek ‘mimeisthai’ which means ‘to imitate’. The mimetic school of consideration evaluates any work of art or literature in terms of imitation. The mimetic approach is one of the oldest way of evaluating works of art in relation to reality. A work, under this approach, is treated as a photographic reproduction. The mimetic theory in literary criticism began with its pioneer, the great Greek philosopher, Plato. Some critical thinkers believe that the external…

“Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide” (Emerson 370-372). In the novel A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles, is set during World War II at a boy’s school in New Hampshire. Gene, the main character and a student at the school, is a jealous-conformist that thrives academically. A Separate Peace demonstrates how Gene’s envy and imitation affects Gene and their friendship, but also shows Gene’s achievement of peace. Gene’s imitation of Finny affects him internally and externally. For…

Similar to the martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Perpetua, and Felicity, Saint Polycarp exemplified themes of Liturgy, veneration of the martyrs, and imitation of Christ. However, the narrative of Polycarp’s martyrdom…

In The Republic, Plato creates a dialogue of Socrates, in which he seeks to uncover truths about what constitutes justice in an ideal society. In this version of an ideal society, Socrates decides there must be a censorship of anything deemed inappropriate or unwholesome. Although it is superficially reasonable to protect the populace from unseemly content in religious myths, literature, and music, it is impossible to create an ideal society based on ignorance. The most prominent of…

Behaviorists believe that language acquisition in children occurs through three methods simultaneously; imitation, operant conditioning and classical conditioning. All three of these methods rely on language being acquired as a way of gaining approval from adults due to the way that they communicate. In imitation, the simplest method, the adult or fellow child will say a word or phrase and the child will be asked to repeat what was said. If they do this, the adult will reward them with a…

rise of celebrity culture, the Internet, and mass media. The natures of self-reflection, inquiry, and critical reasoning are important to understanding. It is very difficult to unravel imitation since conditioning commenced from the beginning of school and continued on throughout life. Thus, from a young age imitation learned forms a self-image and sense of integrity, which possibly be in conflict. Furthermore, our goals and expectations and sense of morality have been deeply influenced by…

mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” (Moore xi). Many of the points the author addresses relate back to themes from class. In this book, I identified three events that I could link back to class discussion: nurture vs nature, imitation, and self-esteem. In this paper, I will address Wes Moore, the author, as Wes 1, and I will address the other Wes Moore as Wes 2. Nature vs nurture, an obvious issue in the book, was discussed in class, and seen many times in the Santrock book…

pleased because of the rule about poetry, which is the rejection of imitative poetry. He argues that he feels this way because the imitation that is poetry, damages the understanding of its readers and the only way to reverse that damage is to educate the readers of the true nature of poetical imitations. As a result of Glaucon questioning him, Socrates explains imitation using a bed as an example. He claims there is only one idea, or Form, of the bed and then the maker of the bed uses the idea…

Cedrica Sims In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are three settings. The impact of the setting of West Egg in The Great Gatsby is to create a setting where it seems the characters have all worked hard for their money and is living a life that is too good to be true. West Egg is said to be “less fashionable” of the two eggs. It consists of all the new wealthy people. The setting behind West Egg different with the background of the people that live there. They weren’t born into…

Wilson the concepts of self and the other are relative because it depends from which perspective you are watching. Moreover, William Wilson introduce besides the idea of double the problem of imitation or mimesis. The double of William Wilson started to look more like the narrator after a process of imitation, which was the former’s…