Leitmotif

sudden change in tempo and dynamic; the music is full of loud chords and repeated phrases. The crowd goes wild as the artist’s beloved is brought center-stage in hell. A much shriller, E flat clarinet replaces the B flat and this version of the leitmotif includes all of the original elements from the first movement (the rising arpeggio, a fall, another rising arpeggio and another fall) but the…

Recently in class, we have been reading short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are many allusions, allegories, and symbols in his work, so we have been focusing on finding those. Two repeating leitmotifs in his work are the devil and evil. These reoccur in many of his pieces, including Minister’s Black Veil, Scarlet Letter, and Young Goodman Brown. After reading both Minister’s Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown, we can see that the devil is a very important reference that is found…

Pulp Fiction is Quentin Tarantino's most revered film, debuting in 1994. It features a series of disjointed stories surrounding a crime boss, Marsellus, and his hitmen, particularly, Vince Vega, a loyal, but sloppy and inept man who is assigned to various tasks ranging from taking care of Marsellus’ wife, to assassinating a boxer, Butch, who double crossed Marsellus. However, he is only one of many different fully flushed out characters in the film. The film aims to explore these different…

that chant dark and powerful dwarvish verses. "When they look down into the depth of Moria", Peter Jackson says "you want to hear all the lost souls that have been lost in those mines – thousands of Dwarves." Shore has been oriented towards the leitmotif principle . In this manner, the score centers on the heroic "Fellowship Theme," which occurs in many different facets throughout the entire movie. It slightly changes, depending on the characters' feelings and actions. The theme is slowly…

Culpability in The Crucible The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, possesses a strong theme of guilt. This leitmotif has the ability to make people act out both against each other and within themselves. This play exemplifies guilt from three main characters: John Proctor, Giles Corey, and Mary Warren. The play also portrays the impact each of these three characters all had on the mass hysteria occurring in Salem, Massachusetts, at the time. The centrality of the play follows John…

A majority of people seem to agree the Wagner was an anti-Semite. Among those people, a debate has emerged as to the place of Wagner’s music in our current society. Over the course of this essay I attempt to make sense of this debate and try come to a conclusion about what place Wagner’s music should have in the 21st Century. At the same time, I am to provide context by noting his impact on music and looking toward Israel where the topic of Wagner’s music seems to be most controversial. Despite…

Taming the Sensory Monster: A study of Patrick Suskinds NovelPerfume Writers over the ages have experimented with various forms of literature. Though sensory perception is central to any literary work, the act of sensory perception as the leitmotif of a work, especially a novel has been a very rare event in literature. Even in those works that deal with the senses, we see a general tendency towards marginalising the olfactory sense. One reason for this is the lack of vocabulary to describe…

thought of Christ and his mission in Earth. However, the most remarkable are his novel “Idiot”, where protagonist Myshkin is considered as image of Christ, he is kind-hearted person with exclusively good intentions. As we see from the mentioned the leitmotif of Eastern Christianity one way or another is present in all the literature heritage of Russian…

Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize with his work in economic science (REFRENCE). Kahneman along side Amos Tversky looked into solving the theory of human irrationality, but before they could finish looking into this research, Tversky died at the age of 59(REFRENCE). In the process of explaining human irrationality in their work, Khaneman and Tversky explained this concept of human irrationality using three stages in the process of their explanation (REFRENCE) The first stage…

something everyone will encounter during his life. Joyce manifests the notion of the epiphany through symbolic motifs that appear in the short stories, such as the references to circles, glasses, and the East in comparison to the West. An important leitmotif Joyce uses is the motif of circles. A circle is a constant loop that continues forever without a stopping point and no clear…