Magnum opus

Kanye Omari West is a Chicago based rapper. West got his start producing hit singles for Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, and Ludacris. Soon after, he began producing records including Purple Haze by Cam’ron. Kanye West’s unique sound stood up to the popular “gangsta rap” beats. He became known for his “chipmunk soul” sound in which he sampled 70’s and 80’s soul songs and tuned up the pitch. After producing enough albums, he decided to make one of his own. In 2004, West debuted with The College Dropout.…

Extensively considered as the Magnum Opus of Shakespeare’s enthralling work, Romeo and Juliet is intrinsic to the collection of the greatest literary works in the history of literature itself. A veritably true account of a tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is a play concerning the ill-fated tale of love between two hapless, star-crossed teenagers, with their love curtailed by the incessant blood feud between their families. Romeo and Juliet’s ardent advocates for love engenders a series of profoundly…

The world is a vast and scary place, filled with people and experiences that terrify us. But sometimes, the most frightening thing to a human is themselves. Alfred Hitchcock masterfully explores this in Psycho, the magnum opus of his career. By delving into the human psyche during such a volatile time in history, Hitchcock manipulates the audience into reflecting on the morally grey truths lurking within them. In doing so, he proves that unsettling the masses may be the only way to educate them.…

Apart from humans, who are predominantly present in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; animal imagery is brilliantly used by Emily Bronte in this magnum opus with deep symbolic and metaphorical meanings attached to it, and having psychological underpinning. In this study, Psychoanalysis of novel, Wuthering Heights is undertaken, which has further explained Primitivism in Healthcliff’s personality, and the regression of dog into wolf, hence going from partial…

Often times in society, people place more importance on aspects of lesser value. Instead of focusing on the impactful matters, certain people allow the mere opinions and objects of physical worth to dictate their lives and actions. This idea can be visualized in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where those dominated by public opinion are only capable of viewing a far removed, inaccurate version of reality. While this allegorical image acts as a critical reflection of civilization and various…

moments of American history, Thomas Paine, a British man, was one of the main influences for the founding and reasoning behind the document. Every student who has taken United States history in school has heard of Thomas Paine or Common Sense, his magnum opus, but the way he influenced the American masses remains a mystery. Scholars today question how Paine was so convincing with to the people with his works. They also wonder why Paine was the main propagandist of the movement and not someone…

1963 – 1973 A Decade of Disillusion The era that I chose to write about was from 1963 to 1973. I felt that this was the decisively time period in America history. The 60’s were ushered in riding on the coattails of the 1950’s and was felt would carry on the hopes and dreams of the post-WWII economic growth which America was enjoying . The 1950’s ideas of bliss in suburbia with dinner promptly at 6 and of a mother doing housework in pearls were about to be shattered by the events of the…

a wide literary range which included philosophical works, parliamentary speeches, and political reports. Furthermore, Delia Bacon, a Shakespearean scholar in the 1800s, while searching for an answer as to why the fourth part of Francis Bacon’s magnum opus, Instauratio Magna, was incomplete and presumed lost found the answer in the works of Shakespeare. The missing work had in fact been there the whole time under a different name, William Shakespeare. She found the idea of one incredible mind as…

Ayn Rand’s (1905 – 1982) personal philosophy, Objectivism, was directly impacted by the political influences she was exposed to throughout her upbringing, namely Russian socialism and, as an adult, American capitalism. Objectivism holds that: reality exists as an objective absolute, man is an end to himself and his purpose in life lies within satisfying rational self-interests, and laissez-faire capitalism reigns supreme over any other form of economy. She preaches that one must live a “selfish”…

In his magnum opus, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman attempts to fulfill the duties of the American Bard and tell the story of the American people. The American Bard is, according to Whitman, “the equalizer of his age and land” (1012), who speaks for all without bias or exclusions. In the preface to Leaves of Grass, he says, “The American bards… shall be kosmos… hungry for equals night and day” (1016). The Bard will not express bias towards a certain class, topic, or region. Whitman declares, “What…