Motif

“Why don’t you add the motif to your composition?” His voice echoed through the large, empty classroom. Dmitri Shostakovich, my tutorial partner, is critiquing my music! What a dream! Dmitri Shostakovich, a Russian composer and pianist, is my classmate at Williams College. He has been assigned as my partner in the Music Composition Tutorial. I am looking forward to learn more about why and how he composes music in the style that he chooses. His music represents curiosity and…

Through the use of motifs, character development, and archetypes, the creators of the movie Batman Begins convey the idea that everyone fears, but only those who have the courage to overcome it will thrive. The character development throughout the story relies in a big change in consequence of Rachel’s words. Bruce Wayne gives the impression of being an unmotivated slacker with an attitude problem. He even comments that Alfred hasn't "given up" on him yet. Rachel not only rebukes him for trying…

However, in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a portrait morphs into a catalyst of dual lives. Tempered through an impulsive desire, Dorian’s essence is divided between the seen and the discrete. Through the use of the portrait and opium motif, Oscar Wilde develops the theme of dual existence/true identity. Throughout Wilde’s novel, Dorian’s portrait and the narcotic opium are used to develop how dual existence becomes Dorian’s undoing with the aid of symbolism. The portrait which once…

In Riches’ sixth chapter, “The Bible in the Post-Colonial World,” the motif of this class of this class, that different people read the Bible in different ways for different reasons. People read the Bible to confirm their worldview, not to counter it. In a strange paradox, both the conquerors and the conquered find themes in the Bible to support their own truths; to conquerors, the Bible confirmed that they were superior to those that they had conquered, and the Bible deemed that they were…

In Brian Turner’s poem “Ashbah,” he focuses on the motif of ghosts, and uses it to describe the American soldiers that were victims of the war in Iraq. Turner describes both points of view of the war, the American soldiers and the Iraqi soldiers. The Americans and the Iraqi soldiers are not explained using the same voice. In fact the Americans are described as lower on the totem pole as and further away from home than the Iraqi’s. Therefore, Turner allows this poem to be read in different ways,…

a vivid depiction of The American Dream, where the desire for an unknown fate lies within a harsh reality. The use of striking imagery in Of Mice and Men contributes to the thematic focus around the American Dream. Steinbeck utilizes symbolism and motifs to convey the reality the characters face while on their journey to an unsettling future...their American Dream. Of Mice and Men takes place in a powerful, symbolic setting. The opening depiction of the isolated spot in the forest by the pool…

The CRISPR-Cas9 system is derived from a bacterial adaptive immune system. The acronym stands for clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats, which are sequences of DNA that read the same forward as backwards. In between these are sequences of DNA known as protospacers indicative of particular bacteriophages encountered by bacteria. These sequences are then used as a template for RNAs capable of recognizing viral DNA within a cell and as a means to bind the endonuclease CRISPR…

court. One character who displays these elements is Florizel, Polixenes’s only son and heir. Believing her to be a simple shepherdess, Florizel falls in love with Perdita. Through his action, language, and appearance, Florizel develops the pastoral motifs of romance, rebirth, and Providence. These pastoral themes impact the play in such a way that both the idealistic and realistic are portrayed, causing the play to take on a tragi-comedic…

class didn’t know is that after we had finished the story we would have to do our first big paper. The paper was to write about the motifs within the book and explain them and the paper had to be two pages long. This paper to me back then is if the teacher would assign a ten page paper now, and this really concerned me I had no clue how I could write two pages about motifs. I sat down at home to start it and this is the first time I can recall truly stressing over schoolwork. I looked at the…

century was not like that of before the renaissance. It was a ripe thought of religion. There was not a dominance of religion in art but they two were balanced. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner uses religious motifs and symbols. As an characteristic of 18th century, there were a great deal of motifs and symbols in the poem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has some gothic and religious symbolism. Religious symbolism in the poem shows the reader the atmosphere of the poem. Though Samuel Taylor…