another; she then encourages the idea of pushing our personal frameworks of people and the world into accepting others. As with any philosophical theory, there are counter-arguments to Butler’s claims. In her book, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, Butler discusses Mona Baker’s claim that there is no way to distinguish between individuals and institutions, thus arguing against Butler’s framework proposition. In terms of the homelessness that LGBT youths face in America, a…
The appearance of the bird is meaningful. In many powerful pieces of art, a Dove is pictured. A Mourning dove’s soft feathers are brown, allowing it to blend in, unlike the Barn swallow. The Barn swallow has stand-out colors, like blue, yellow, orange, and brown. Because it relatively blends in, the Mourning dove is more stealthy and elegant. Another comparison is the way the dove finds its food. Like the swallow, the dove mostly eats bugs and other…
in many aspects the process of mourning through unification of mourners both geographically and collectively, by creating ‘deathwork mediators’ through online support networks and changing whom the deathworkers are. The Internet has also aided the way individuals communicate with the deceased through continued dialogue. The Internet has additionally has had some impact on the development of the death-denying thesis within western culture. Framing grief, mourning and the Internet in modern…
Rose offers the Holocaust piety to examine the dangers of private, individual mourning. She does this by drawing on Goethe’s story, Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship and ‘the beautiful soul’. ‘The beautiful soul’ is ‘a learned but sickly female,’ who ‘retires from the world to cultivate her deepening religious piety, but … fails to find any means of public expression, or any bridge back into ethical and political life,’ and thus, she ‘pines away in consumption and dies’ (Rose, 1993: 178).…
the deceased to others, whilst other reciprocate with their own stories about the deceased. Social networking creates this cyclic process of deathwork by the mourner and the other mourners; it changes the narrative that has been seen in previous mourning practices in the western world. As seen in figure 1 above friends are commenting on Rich’s memorailised page, by commenting for his birthday on August 19th and linking photos to his page his friends Jennifer and Brittni are interacting and…
discusses memory originating in individual reflection. In Mourning Becomes the Law (1996) Rose weaves two strands of thought: the Holocaust piety which highlights the ineffable trauma of war, and a melancholic, abberated mourning which highlights the impossibility of ‘working through’. Public forms of remembrance and mourning, Rose suggests, divert our attention from the difficult work of the middle. Instead, Rose encourages inaugurated mourning which highlights the possibility of ‘working…
many options in the wake of bereavement; deny its reality or consciously find a way to get through it; commonly termed mourning. However having some understanding…
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the narrator is mourning and coping with the loss of his love, Elenore. In the midst of drifting into sleep, the narrator is awoken by a sound coming from the other side of his chamber door. Upon opening it, the narrator is befuddled to see nothing before him and no evidence as to where the sounds came from. Again he hears the noise, this time coming from the window. As he opens it, in swoops a large raven that perches upon a bust that looms over the chamber…
grief because the feeling of mourning had already been worked through in the period of anticipating her death. Mourning refers to the feeling before loss in this case study. However, there is a disagreement about the scope of the meaning of mourning in literature. According to the definition by Rando (1986), anticipatory grief encompasses the processes of mourning, coping, interacting, planning, and psychosocial reorganization. Grief refers to a reaction, but mourning reveals the complexities of…
Throwing off Her Weeds, a painting by Richard Redgrave depicted the scene which a seamstress was showing a widow a lilac-coloured dress in front of a scrap screen. This piece was painted in 1846, Britain. This oil-on-panel piece is currently located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Britain. Redgrave uses colours to illustrate unity and variety. The whole background and the dressing table are composed of yellow, red and brown. This massive use of warm-toned colour creates unity.…