Mannerism

In the early 1970’s, the world was completely shaken by a cult group known as “The Family”. Manson was born on November 12, 1934 to Kathleen Maddox and Walker Scott, and picked up the Manson surname from his stepfather William Manson. From an early age, sources say Manson had an unusual ability to dominate others.This claim was later supported by his assembly of “The Family”, and the influence he had over his followers. While this group did not have any immediate religious connections, they…

After reading The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, many people are left with unanswered questions about the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. What really provokes Lady Macbeth’s cruel actions? What is the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth? And lastly, is Macbeth really just a power-hungry, violent man? When one dissects the play scene by scene and analyzes every line, all of these questions are answered. In the play, Lady Macbeth’s actions are a result of a…

The Baroque artistic style came to fruition in the 15th and 16th centuries, and had a dominant presence in Europe. However, it did not surface in European countries in the same manner, and Baroque artists were not necessarily working with the same types of subjects or themes. That being said, overall, it was a movement focused on motion, and did its best to portray details and ideas that could be easily interpreted. Furthermore, while not every artist utilized religious themes, most were…

In The Odyssey, by Homer, Odysseus the King of Ithaca endures a long journey home after the Battle of Troy. While away from his palace, suitors wishing to marry his wife and disloyal servants infested the halls of his palace. The suitors and the disloyal in his kingdom deserved to die because of their inability to act as accepted by the Gods while their king Odysseus was away at war. In the Odyssey how people behave is a crucial part of how their fate is decided. Odysseus, his son Telemachus,…

Frank Abagnale shined because of his great capacity to cheat and elude authoritarian figures such as police officers, bankers, and corporations. Another of the requirements to be an outlaw hero is “the outlaw hero outwits, eludes, and escapes the authorities, usually with flair, often in disguise” (Seal, 74). Leonardo DiCaprio, who represented Frank Abagnale in the movie Catch Me If You Can have said “I was playing a great actor… But his stage was the real world. He's somebody that for whatever…

Technology is an ever changing construct in our society. It is something at this point, whether it being beneficial, it is detrimental to the way we communicate with others. Communication has evolved into a digital spectrum, and is embedded into our lives, whether we participate in social media or not. The fact that social media has become an integral part of the way that we communicate, it taints the experience of face-to-face communication, by being imbedded in a device. While having some…

Aysha Rathor Anthropology Nervous Condition Nervous Condition is an autobiographical novel written by a Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga that takes place in Rhodesia in early 1970s. The book focuses on themes of gender, class and race through the eyes of a young female(Tambu) protagonist. The title of the book references Jean Paul book The Wretched of the Earth in which he states, “status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among the…

Character Analysis of The Narrator's Mother The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man follows one man through his journey of finding his true self, finding who he wants to be. The story starts out with the narrator, who is unnamed, as a child and follows him through adulthood. Throughout the story, readers learn about all of the challenges the narrator faced while growing up as a child of mixed race shortly after the end of Civil War. He narrates his experiences of being raised by a single mother…

The Role of the Father There is an old saying that goes, "like father, like son." This describes the passing down of personality traits from generation to generation (in this case, father to son) in such a way that the mannerisms of a son almost directly mimic the mannerisms of his father. It is common that most children unknowingly inherit some of their parents ' idiosyncrasies, but it is not always clear why. In Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman, the character of Biff, although he is…

Though Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future is extremely successful in being a fun, blockbuster film, it does a very job in how it crafts the relationships between specific characters. Though Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is facing a struggle to get back home, there’s another struggle occurring in the movie between his father, George (Crispin Glover), and town bully, Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). By tracing their acting and relative staging of these two in certain shots, a narrative between them…