Liminal being

K. Sello Duiker’s initiative behind the unreliable narrator, Azure in Thirteen Cents, is too question whether not having an unreliable narration, would the novel’s message with the effect of magical realism still be as effective. With the novel being written in first person (character-narrator) and in present tense, a style which is not seen as conventional and efficient. Not seen as the normative structure of a novel. The novel is a magical realist novel; having elements of both realism more…

obsessed by the memories of home. He is set against the landscape of loneliness, on the seashore and beneath the vaulted vastness of the night sky, echoing similar landscape as in Edvard Munch’s Melancholia (1902) or Anselm Kiefer’s Sternenfall (1995). Liminal sites are thought to echo loneliness and longing (Bowring 2008: 72), and as seen in this example, the in between spaces of land – sea and land – sky emphasize the melancholy of the narrator. The narrator describes the desert as “vast…

The story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin (1957) explores the theme of suffering experienced by African Americans. It features the struggle of two brothers separated and caught in the entanglements of time, space and ideals. Both Sonny and his brother are surrounded by a world full of shadows and light, structure and antistructure. The narrator must understand his brother 's fall into drugs, while Sonny himself must recover and learn to stay afloat. Baldwin utilizes aspects of African culture…

Gennep’s rites of passage, Edmund Leach’s theory of rituals and repetition, Claude Levi-Strauss’ ritualistic symbolism, and Malcolm Ruel’s definition of beliefs being “weak” and “strong” to convey that the aspect of the character’s lives basically comes down to the forming…

The play ‘Macbeth’ predates the concept of feminism and therefore equality between the sexes both in the political and personal spheres was unheard of. As a result the women within the narrative are often marginalised and void of any power. In the cases where women do have influence they are either criticised and isolated or treated as strange, supernatural creatures. However, this would have conformed to the original audience’s expectations as women were seen as subordinate to men. Their…

Drama is a natural phenomenon that occurs in humanity. As an extremely social species conflict is a normal and frequent event that happens. It’s such a common theme that when depicting humanity in an accurate manner, it is nearly impossible to avoid showing extreme emotions and physicality. Jean Joseph Taillasson is a French neo-classicist painter who created a work of art that relies heavily on the emotionality within the painting. His painting “Seigneur! Voyez ces yeux” (Cleopatra Discovered…

classes through a young girl’s point of view. This achieves a sense of naïve innocence in the written voice that allows Mansfield to portray her real feelings on the social divide using devices like irony in the song Jose sings. This song talks of being weary of life, when the Sheridan girls have no…

Living in the United States known as the melting pot and the country of immigrants, many today do not feel the need to relate to them and instead look down upon the recent immigrants who happen to be minorities in this country even if they have families living or who have lived her for centuries. Coming to the United states as immigrants and trying to live the american dream that is known to be the goal of this country does not come easy. Various historical events and law cases have helped us…

and maintaining caring and productive relationships, which essentially measure the health of a relationship, as well as the level of intimacy between partners (Johnson, 2014, p.97). Johnson also argues that trust has a major impact on one’s well-being, interpersonal…

The documentary We Shall Remain- After the Mayflower presented contact and interactions between settlers and Native Americans in the early periods of English colonization. It used a familiar event; the Mayflower and the establishment of Plymouth as a colonial settlement to bring forth the information in a new way. Right from the beginning of the film, it clearly and quite drastically separated itself from other documentaries of its type. While other documentaries, and many have done so, would…