Portrait of a Lady

“I am not afraid of death; if it means death, It will not be the worst of deaths -death without honor” (Sophocles). Such in the case in Sophocles’ play Antigone, Antigone 's older brothers Eteocles and Polyneices fought for who would rule Thebes. In result both Eteocles and Polyneices die fighting each other, causing Creon, the King of Thebes, to allow burying only Eteocles, thus leaving Polyneices to be unburied. Anyone in the city of Thebes to go against his rules shall be killed. Antigone…

Tuğrul Can Sümen Res. Assist. Seçil Erkoç IED 134 (02) – Study Skills and Research Techniques 08.04.17 Concealed Realism in “Clay” and Joyce’s True Purpose When we think of a kind and gentle old maid in a story, who is beloved by everyone, delighting her friends with a thoughtful present, playing with children or singing a moving song, we generally feel many eloquent emotions. We would approve her politeness and admire her personality. But what if, all of a sudden, we realize that…

she wants to be treated. As a result, Kusama produced and performed in The Walking Piece as a combat against critics’ accusations of her individuality and identity, and resistance to be categorized into any one modernist movement, which is similar to Lady Gaga in which they both try to “expose the limits of representation and meaning-making” (Lush, 2012, pg.…

It is through this educational approach that the work of Claude Monet is best viewed. Claude Monet is undoubtedly one of the most familiar and best loved of all Western artists. ‘His images of poppy fields, popular-trees, waterlilies and elegant ladies in blossoming gardens are familiar to people who have never seen the original paintings and may have never visited an art gallery; they have won a place in the…

American herself has faced many of these issues in her own life, which is what inspired her works of art. The images in this series are titled after what are supposed to be humorous stereotypes about black culture, which contrast tremendously with the portraits themselves. The work is a series of black and white photos…

By the end of volume two of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley laid out a thorough background of the Monster from his creation, to his life in the cottage and to confronting his creator. In the beginning, the reader views him as a poor abandoned being, trying to find his place in the world. Although the Monster is not negative to society at first, when he discovers that no man will accept him, he seeks revenge, making him no longer a victim but a monster. Yet, despite his murderous and hateful…

VIOLENCE AND THYRANY IN SOFI OKSANEN’S “PURGE” BÁNYAI BOTOND-PÉTER 11.12.2014 FINNISH LITERATURE SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES FACULTY OF HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY OF OULU Contents INTRODUCTION 3 THE PLOT(S) 3 TITLE 4 HYSTORICAL BACKGROUND 4 TORTURE AND FEAR 5 WHAT DOES BEING A SURVIVAR MEAN? 8 CONCLUSIONS 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES 9 INTRODUCTION Purge is the third novel written by the famous Finnish author, Sofi Oksanen. In the beginning she had written this masterpiece as a play. It was…

individuals with DID have a family history of the disorder (Kaplan, 2008). "The way that DID appears to keep running in families additionally proposes that there may be an acquired tendency to separate. DID has all the identifiers of being more basic in ladies than in men. This may be because of the higher rate of sexual abuse in females" (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2015). So as to survive extraordinary stress, the individual isolates their thoughts, emotions and recollections related to…

the best artists were showcased in 1906 at Alfred Stieglitz 291 Gallery, located on Fifth Avenue in New York (Wydeven). One of the featured artists was Alfred Maurer, and his work quickly became noteworthy and well-liked by many. He drew many portraits of women, but the subject and theme of these paintings was not the women themselves, but rather abstract ideas that these women represented. One example of this would be his painting titled An Arrangement (Maurer). The painting features a…

his lack of confidence, he believed his works could never be better than what mother nature has produced. Wilde is the artist creating something beautiful and hiding a deep meaning, but not revealing himself effusively. Although Basil painted the portrait of Dorian, it only captured the details he loved about him, but the painting truly mirrored, quite literally, Dorian’s decay, both mental and physical, throughout the novel. Dorian Gray and Basil Howard are a split that combines into the…