Liminal being

Victor Turner explains rituals in anthropology as actions with cultural purposes. There are three stages that represent Turner’s definition: the separation stage, the liminal stage, and the aggregate stage. The separation stage, the first stage, is an indication of the detachment of the individual or group. In the case of playing college softball at Transylvania University, this would be when a student in high school decides…

Christian Though at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each of these theologians are widely published in the field Christian thought and theology and each of them approach the study of Christology in different ways despite both being process theologians. Christology…

Throughout the stories of “The Monkey” by Stephen King and Dracula by Bram Stoker it is seen how there is an element of the uncanny at work. As each of these narratives is read, what we have become familiarized with as human beings becomes foreign and unsettling to us. What we thought we understood has been changed and has now become frightening. To better understand the uncanny I will first summarize how Sigmund Freud describes it, then I will argue that there is an element of the uncanny in…

attached with it and what offers them genuine bliss is to have and foster children. The gendered identity of women is also constructed through discourse while all women share a common understanding (maternal identity). They value the importance of being a “mother” and the mothering role not only makes women mature psychologically, for some,…

Italian Futurism and English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form,…

created by Victor Frankenstein and the community was inevitable due to the creature being the other, the only one of his kind. However, the difference in appearance is not a valid reason to dehumanize an individual who is striving to be a part of the community. Prior to the creature becoming alive, in no way was he considered hideous in appearance to his creator. Victor stated, “I began the creation of a human being” (Shelley 45) from his perspective, not only was the creature beautiful but it…

the protagonist’s mastery over death through immortality. However, Ovid effectively divorces himself from literary precedent with the defined fourth foot caesura on line 435. Indeed, rather than portraying the infernas…sedes through the eyes of a liminal narrator as Homer (11.50), Virgil (6.268) and even Dante, our implied author rejects the didactic characterisation of a protagonist, reducing our perspective to that of the umbrae…recentes. Immediately juxtaposing the apostrophe of the Damned,…

beast and gods: fire, religion, marriage, agriculture and civilization. This ambiguity embedded in the core of our liminal existence, Moving fluidly across boundaries – above/below, male/female, nature/culture…Prometheus consecration help established the human condition in a liminal, wounded, suspended state and offered a possibility of transcendental and transformation power of that liminal…

individuality. This detached outlook directly proves to the audience that the way the government has gone about treating these people is morally erroneous, at their core, people are not meant to conform, but to become their own individual. After his liminal experience, Winston comments that, “’What happens to you here is forever,’… There were things, your own acts, from which you could not recover. Something was killed in your breast; burnt out; cauterized out” (290). Using the word “killed”…

The most notable and the one discussed in this paper is one considering the Chalfens. Irie, being a young girl facing even then unattainable beauty standards, has an identity crisis. She sees herself as something undesirable by both Millat and the rest of the people around her. Before looking at the scene at the Chalfen home, it is helpful to look…