Metamorphoses

Through the use of symbolism, characterisation, allegorical depiction of sceptical archetypes. Animal Farm, a tale written by George Orwell and, The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck both explore the, dangers that are inherent in a totalitarian and socialist regime. Each texts demonstrates that hope for change is needed in a totalitarian society however come to different conclusions. Through these texts we see that the totalitarian government has no conscience about…

Although gender dysphoria is a new term, it is not a new concept. Feelings of ‘being in the wrong body’ have existed since ancient Greek times; as the Metamorphoses myth explains a woman, raised as a man, who falls in love with another woman. She is transformed into a man before their wedding day and they continue their lives as nothing was different. However, this sense of self was considered taboo until he 1950’s (Zasshi, 2012). Gender dysphoria has been documented in medical works since…

Every society has a culture that comes from the legacies of a community belonging to a distant past. As Chuck Palahniuk said, “it is important to create something that will [live forever]”, something such as culture, which is a result of the lives of people who are no longer in existence. An example of such communities can be seen in the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Even though they lived thousands of years ago, they heavily influenced the modern world. During the golden ages of each of these…

Many books, movies, and TV shows, depict love as passion, commitment, and intimacy, it helps people relate and connect to the story at hand. Love is an emotion that disregards any eternal traits like age, sex, class, ethnic, nation, and even species because of how accepting it is. Even though it possesses these qualities, it can blind people to what they really want or what is true. This emotion can cause people to go distant lengths to save their significant others from danger, such as…

Shakespeare’s writing, but he was deeply influenced by its later translations, especially the Geneva Bible and the Bishops’ Bible. All of Shakespeare’s plays contain important allusions to the Bible, just as they allude to classical works like Ovid’s Metamorphoses or Virgil’s Aeneid. The story is the old one of shipwreck on a desert island, like the later Robinson Crusoe or even Gilligan’s Island. Shakespeare’s interest in this plot has to do partly with exploring humanity in isolation from…

Quickening my breath, I felt my lungs stop accepting the air that I gave to them. Sadly, I was never going to survive the agony of continuing on; . Suddenly, a random blonde haired girl about my age rushed passed me and many more runners followed her. I was losing the battle. Weighed down by the grass that tugging at my feet, I struggled to hold my head high and focus. It was almost too much to handle. The anxiety of being left behind weighed on me like a rope fastened around my neck hooked to a…

Not many of Shakespeare’s plays contain a female character in the lead role position. Therefore, when female characters have a prominent role in plays it is something to pay attention to. For instance, in Measure for Measure, Isabella’s character serves to break down the patriarchy by using their own constructs to emphasize how outrageous their ideas are. Isabella does this by falling into one of the three categories that the patriarchy says women belong to. In this society, women are either…

it is therefore very important to note that In English, words, particularly adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. And once they are formed, they sometimes metamorphose over time. A common pattern is that two words will be joined together to form one or they are sometimes joined by a hyphen. This speaks to the three main forms that are often used, closed form (example notebook), hyphenated(example…

that is different from human vision. Bats use echolocation to navigate and perceive objects. Because this is not something we could subjectively experience we cannot say what it is like to be a bat. Nagel claims that even if humans were able to metamorphose gradually into bats, their brains would not have been wired as a bat's from birth, Therefore, they would only be able to experience the life and behaviors of a bat rather than the…

The first and most obvious symbol is the white butterfly. In many stories and in folklore, butterflies represent metamorphoses and change. Koreans believe that butterflies are a sign of hope and happiness. White is also an important color for Koreans as family members of the deceased wear it during funerals. During the film, whenever the tempo of a story changed or a discovery…