Liminal being

is natural to sin. However, given the intense and extraordinarily lengthy antipathy that Hester received for sinning, it is clear that the Puritans that discriminated against Hester were insincere to their own religious beliefs, which allude to sin being a natural aspect of humanity. This insincerity exhibited by the Puritans is also present in the layout of the marketplace itself. Hawthorne includes a discrete peculiarity of Boston’s marketplace, when he describes Hester’s shameful march from…

Jesse Paner Religion & Popular Culture 3/1/17 EX Machina Analysis What archetypes are seen? - The orphan exemplified by Caleb. He enters into a liminal environment where he in comparison outside of his normal life, by doing this he shows that he is an ordinary person entering an unknown world. - The sage, the inventor and the ruler are portrayed by Nathan. Nathan is seen as wise and creative which are traits that directly relate to the sage and the inventor. Using his intellect, he is able to…

empower themselves. Miller made no attempt to physically restrain them when he first approached; he respected the youths’ autonomy but was compelled to guide their decisions. He sought to connect Mobley and Ward as individuals yet uncouple them from being appendages of the group’s discursive power. Miller’s ethics of critique was galvanised by his recognition of the youths’ inequities: “Those kids didn’t look like predators to me[,]” he says in response to the interviewer's question about the…

speak to the ancient subsistence practice, which can be used to construct everything from man-animal interactions to the ancient environment and trade that existed (Fillios and Blake, 2015: 134). The human-animal divide is also described as being permeable and liminal (McNiven 2015, 215). Structuralism is also used to point out dialect opposites in nature, particularly that of humans and animals in an ethnographic context. Hunting encounters are revealed through ethnographic research to almost…

Medieval texts portray a tension between chivalric ideals and Christianity. One way of examining how the intersection of these values occurs is by focusing on how characters with religious affiliation are described, and whether these attributes reflect on their ability to embody heroic behavior. Specifically, one can examine how Sir Isumbras, his wife, and Chaucer’s Absolon illustrate how dependence on God’s grace only renders a character heroic insofar as he or she has the ability to conflate…

A reading of Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’ raises some question. What is the purpose of violence? What does it mean for modernity in terms of coloniality or postcoloniality? Does mythical violence lead to divine violence? Are the two intersected? Who owns what property – including land among other things? And is Critique of Violence applicable in postcolonial study? These questions are what this paper is pursuing. The main argument in this paper is that violence is about power-making…

in common with the United States, in addition to the artificial internal regional borders, frame Canadian identity. Identity, however, is a notion both revealed and invented. The Canadian identity is composite and multifaceted to the point of not being easily understood even by those who would try to create or define it. A pan-Canadian identity has very often been countered by the panoply of attachments existing in the country: allegiances to regions, to ethnic groups, to religion, to outside…

This leaves Marji feeling displaced, something that William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson discuss in their essay (2015: 233). In Persepolis Marji moves from being an Iranian to being an Iranian exile in Austria. These two identities are very different even though Marji is able to maintain some sort of a link to her homeland – although even that is being questioned once when she claims to be from France in order to achieve a more desirable cultural identity. Then after Marji returns to Iran, she…

In the introduction Roberts states: “My inquiry aims to deepen our understanding of freedom not only by situating slavery as freedom’s opposite condition, but also by investigating the significance of equally important liminal and transitional social space between slavery and freedom” (Robert 21). Understanding the motive of this book, Robert studies the use of maroon communities mainly groups of slaves who vanished from plantations in the Americas to audit the idea of freedom and to break down…

memorialized, yet attributes that would signal her passing are almost nonexistent. The most glaring is the omission of the date of her death. This date alone is symbolic of the detachment from the ontological constraints that are tied to every social human being. Other features of the memorial account include the ability for friends to make posts to the deceased in various tenses such as “I’m a day late but happy birthday suds. I miss so much. I can’t wait to catch up with you” (Remembering…