Liminal being

My first book for ABU was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In this book it starts out with a fifteen year old boy named Charlie who writes about his life in a letter format. In the beginning of the book Charlie talks about the first year of high school and his friend Michael who went suicide. He talks about how much he misses Michael and he was confused on why he didn’t tell him that he was depressed. Then he describes his family. In his family Charlie has a sister, a brother, a mother, a…

Zahwa Ezzelden Prof. Forman 12/01/2017 Gender Queer Theories In the short drama “The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde”, the story takes place in the Victorian Era. In the Victorian Era, it was very common for the Male to be in charge, and the one with the higher classes, versus the female, where the female is usually the one that would stay home, cook and clean and be the modest one. Oscar Wilde took a spin on the “proper” gender roles that are appropriate for that Era and he made…

In the passage from Act II “The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde, Wilde uses many sources of humor to show the comical way in which Ernest and Cecily meet for the very first time. Starting with a confusing engagement and ending with a phony name, this encounter took a different turn than expected as it developed. The first source of humor used in “The Importance of Being Ernest” is when Cecily has announced to Ernest, also known as Algernon, that they are engaged. Ernest has never met…

anthropology to describe a period of transition concerning social structure and understanding. Liminality consists of a pre-liminal state, a liminal period, and a communitas state. The pre-liminal state is characteristically defined as a time when events occur under specific conditions that start to press against an individual’s normal social structure and thought process. The liminal period is a time of “in-between” in which individuals no longer participate in their typical social structures…

Liminality Today Not much is similar across the globe in each and every human being. Hence, the few similar phenomena that do exist prove to be very important in the understanding of human beings. Liminality is such a phenomenon. First discussed and classified by Arnold van Gennep, liminality is an universal anthropological phenomenon that refers to the transition stage during a ritual. Liminality is an essential element of the human experience. However, liminality is not only confined to an…

place in a liminal space. Liminality is a space between boundaries. It is a constantly undefined space that allows for any social interaction that takes place within these spaces to be without the restrictions of defined societal restrictions. The majority of the complex discourses the characters have occur within these undefined spaces. For instance, in Crime and Punishment, discourse demonstrates key liminal spaces such as the stairs, bridges, and even hotels. St. Petersburg itself is liminal…

human sins; and that by faith in Jesus one may attain salvation and eternal life (infoplease.com, 2012). In Catholicism, the term scared means; The holy or divine. The sacred is that which pertains to God, as distinguished from what pertains to human beings (catholicculture.org, n.d). Ritual in the Catholic faith is essential as it provides stability, communication between God and participants and overall enhancement of religious life. Rituals such as Baptism, Confirmation, Communion,…

cultural meanings that exists within space. In addition, how rituals like rites of passage and liminal space are symbolic constructions surrounding different concepts and experiences of time. Space, and the meaning cultures give to it, is not static. Every culture defines space differently. To westerners it seems only natural that geography should define and divide up space by nations. But what…

experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany he invents a secret formula to place life into dead organics. Shelly portrays Frankenstein’s creature as a liminal being in both the natural and supernatural and is a being that is “on the brink of life and death, which appears…

of Ithaca, on his return trip from the Trojan War. Odysseus and his continually shrinking company of men face a sea voyage that should take weeks to complete. They quickly realize, however, the submissive nature of human-beings, as the Gods, half-gods, and other mythical beings, routinely hamper them, forcing a distraction from the ultimate goal. Notable instances of this hampering include: the Island of the Lotus Eaters, the lair of the Cyclops, and the suitors, scenarios infused with…