On Overgrown Paths

The scene under study, from the film A Passage to India, depicts the Englishwoman Adela Quested exploring the local Indian area surrounding Chandrapore and discovering ruins of a native temple. While no words are uttered during this scene, it is crucial for understanding the full scope of the cultural conflict between the native Indians and the English colonisers. It is also worth noting that parallels and comparisons can be formed between the imperialism found in this film and that which can be…

Sunshine, weeds, a brook, and leaves all belong to nature, yet one does not fit in with the others. In most Romantic works, nature radiates a positive vibe. Characters immerse themselves in nature as an escape from the expectations of the towns people and to have a place with freedom. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne uses positivity with the forest where Hester and Dimmesdale can interact without the people of the town watching them. However, Hawthorne also explores negativity…

bird hanging off the cliff side. We watched the birds flying around without a care in the world. We could tell it had been a while since people had been where we were. Nature was untouched and overgrown. Venturing further back into the woods we noticed a cabin. It turned out we had found out way off the path onto private military property. We ended up running into an officer and he showed us the way back to the trail. He said they used the terrain to simulate harsh…

find our way out of the labyrinth that we brought upon ourselves. The further we adventured into the unknown, the more our once unscathed gleaming shoes became soiled. We kept dredging through the dense, and sticky mud that now engulfed the path. The same path that was once created with the type of gravel that crunches and crackles like pop rocks in water. Every dreadful step lead us out of familiarity, inching into an unfamiliar landscape. Furthermore, the probability of returning to the…

They didn 't know if their parents had pursued them to the base of the mountain or not, but one thing was certain; they didn 't follow up the rugged path. The child collapsed partway up the mountain, choking up and coughing violently into the dirt as they let out some horrific noise between a cry and a laugh. Free. They were free! No one could stop them up here, away from humans and fully in control…

XXXX “Shit, shit, shit, shit!” growled Ulrich as he made his way to Perceval’s chamber. He didn’t know where else to turn for advice. There was no way he would see his Knight Commander, as the man would probably chastise Ulrich until sunrise. Even though it was late and Percival likely sleeping, Ulrich turned up anyway. Perceval turned up in his doorway, shirtless and sleepy-looking. “It’s never good news when someone shows up at my door at this hour. Dare I ask what’s happening?” “It’s the…

pianist Katelyn Bouska. There was a wide range of contemporary music played by the duo including “Cello Sonata, op. 6)by Samuel Barber, “Pohadka” by Leos Janacek, “Klid Lesa, op. 68” and “Rondo for Cello and Piano, op. 94” by Antonin Dvorak, “On an Overgrown Path” by Leos Janacek, “Dos sonetos de amor” by Jeremy Gill, and “Cello Sonata” by Miloslav Istvan. For the most part, the performed pieces were a mixture of both extremely uplifting pieces and rather serious somber pieces. Together, these…

emotions. As with any work of this scale, a mosaic of themes and motifs riddles the production, but I wish to discuss one of the major “paths” we, as the audience, can follow and extrapolate from: the process of maturity. The movie begins with the heroine, Chihiro, screaming and kicking to attract her father’s attention as he drives recklessly down an overgrown road. Clearly, this is the stage of childhood in…

This explanation of setting conveys images of brutal and unjust conditions, showing the complete disregard for Burmese life felt by the English. This shows just how much imperialism robbed them of their humanity. The gallows themselves are “overgrown with tall prickly leaves”, making them seem as harsh and ugly as the events that take place there. Another impactful element of fiction is characterization. The prisoner is “a puny wisp of a man”, with a mustache like the one of “a comic man on…

mountains.” Clearly mountains are important to the people of China. To this day, monks live in isolation on mountains to become one with nature by isolating themselves from the material world. Mountains are also a place in which humans could find a path towards immortality. According to Ronnie Littlejohn, “The Daoists did not think of immortality as… an achievement in the religious sense…It was the result of finding harmony with the dao, expressed through wisdom, meditation, and wu wei.…