Mimicry

Authors are artists. They create worlds and can depict anything the imagination fancies, all with a pen and paper. However, is the role of an author that of ego or benevolence? This question is examined in both Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and Catharine Sedgwick’s Cacoethes Scribendi. Carwin’s confession to Clara and the emphasis on the act of writing, as demonstrated through the epistolary aspects of Wieland, reveal Brown’s own metaphorical commentary on the role of an author as one of both…

Mimicry is the appropriation of the culture of the colonizer in an attempt to gain the kind of power that the colonizer possesses. In Bhabha’s “Of Mimicry and Man,” he defines colonial mimicry as “the desire for a reformed recognizable Other, as a subject of difference that is almost the same, but not quite” (Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man”153). Annie yearns to resemble Jane Eyre and be a Brontë protagonist, but she…

“An Ant Enclosed in a Circle”: The function of space and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night “However, I cannot escape myself, and being a narrator who also existed on the periphery of the events, in am bound to be present. I have my own laments and much to tell about myself. It is my intent, however, to refrain from inserting myself too forcefully.” This is a quote from the character Tyler in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. This shows Tyler’s character in his conscious…

mythical veil shrouding the Stalinist regime; simultaneously, however, he was trying to renew what had been lost through this deception and to revive the original spirit of the Socialist movement” (132). Animal Farm when viewed through the discourse of mimicry, a liberated society appears to succumb to those leaders and their strategic invention of a copy of ideological metonymy of the same liberation that helped them imagine the very reality of animal farm in the first…

Beginning about 40,000 BCE, ancient people used drawing on cave walls to express their thoughts. Piled up stones represented directions and boundaries. People used smoke signals by day and beacon fires by night in ancient China, Egypt, and Greece. Drums also were employed in many parts of the world to extend the range of the human voice for communication. Pigeon post was a major method in traditional China to communicate between distant points; people used the speed of flight and easily…

to India but, there remain broader aspects of this novel that are yet to be explored, hoping that one such explorer finds the answer in his quest of reality through this article. References Bhabha, Homi. 2001. ‘Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse’, in Modern Literary Theory, ed. by Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. USA: Hodder Arnold. Childs, Peter. (ed.)1999. Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh…

of society. Both individual and group actions can impact several elements of a community in many ways. The numerous types of social influence can vary in effect and can have diverse pros and cons. Some major examples of social influence include mimicry, normative types, and conformity; these can be either nonconscious or conscious. In the video, Crash Course : Psychology “Episode 38 Social Influence” written by Kathleen Yale, Yale depicts an often recurring example of conformity, “other people…

colors perfectly, you can hide or hunt anything. This is an essential tool to have for the army or hunters. There are four types of camouflage that is used by animals and they are Concealing Coloration, Disruptive Coloration, Disguise, and Mimicry. Concealing Coloration is used by animals like the Snowy Owl and the Tree Frog. They both have appearances that blend in to…

The answer lies in the desire to feel concrete and stable. Mimicry is a specific form of comparison that allowed colonizers to maintain their position of power over the colonized according to Homi Bhabha in Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse. Colonized people, encouraged by colonizers, would mimic traits that they were shown and believed to be defining characteristics of a dominant white male. Mimicry allowed colonized people to participate in the very relationship that…

The game that I played and recorded a game log on was Diablo III. Diablo III is a popular action role-playing video game that was developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. The highly anticipated video game was first released for PC in 2012 and then rereleased on the major video game consoles in late 2013 and 2014. The lead designer of the game is Jay Wilson and he was assisted by other designers Josh Mosqueira and Leonard Boyarsky. This game exemplifies a lot of different aspects and…