Postmodernism

Oedipus the King and Memento Meet the Sophists Halfway “You don’t know who you are … maybe it’s time you started investigating yourself,” says Teddy to Leonard in the critically acclaimed neo-noir film Memento (C. Nolan, 2000). As a result of anterograde amnesia, Leonard does not know that he himself is the very culprit he seeks to punish for killing his wife. The multiple and seemingly conflicting roles of Leonard as detective, criminal, and avenger correspond to those of Oedipus in Sophocles’…

students were involved, the students were learning about art like I had in the past, but the difference was that this time they were active participants. They did not appear to be bored and they were doing the activities. Though hesitant at first. Postmodernism has challenged the role of the museum visitor in relation to the methods of interactivity and interpretation (Mayer, 2005). Interactivity is defined as the…

Commodification of Women and the Oppression of Feminism Forms of literature which centered around postmodernism and the preceding modernism arose mainly during the 20th century. Such forms of literature were there to criticize the classical way of thinking and also critique aspects of what is wrong in the 20th century. “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, and “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood are respectively modernist and postmodernist forms of literature. They are both novels, which…

In the first seconds of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, 2 definitions of “pulp” are shown on the screen. “1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper,” and both describe the movie well. The movie is shapeless, being told non-linearly, and is a mass of pop culture references and imitation of movie genres. The movie is stylistically the latter definition by being rough around the…

Thank you for letting me to be your peer to review your Final Essay, I will try my best to point out and making suggestion as far as my knowledge serves me. I will look over paragraph by paragraph, from page one to the last page of your essay. You have not put title for the essay and I have some difficulty to grasp the main idea. I find it very helpful if we start to state the title and start writing, although later on we may change the title or adjust it as the story develops. In MLA format,…

One way to truly understand the definition of success is to consider what success is not. The underlying question is how does culture define success? In the article, “How to Succeed the Biblical Way,” Ron Jenson states cultures success can be defined by the five P’s: power, position, prestige, pleasure, and prosperity.” Though these can be considered as important, these five P’s are not the measurement of success according to God’s standards placed on us through His Word. Today’s culture…

Dorothy Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry further explain this idea in their book Feminism Unfinished! by explaining that the earlier generations of feminists focused on identifying the political and social inequalities they dealt with. Whereas the third wave of feminists sought out to address these inequalities. In further explanation, these authors stated, “While connected to earlier movements to advance gender equality and social justice, this new feminism was not a mass-based movement…

she was at one point excluded from the exclusive group. Her initial exclusion comes from her racial and gender identification. Hooks writes: “The failure to recognize a critical black presence in the culture and most scholarship and writing on postmodernism compels a black reader, particularly a black female reader, to interrogate an interest in subject where those who discuss and write about it seem not to know that black women exist or even to consider the possibility that we might be…

First of all, woodworms or similar insects play an important role since they are present in nearly every story. After the first chapter, which is narrated by a woodworm, woodworms are prosecuted for having destroyed the Bishop’s throne in chapter 3 (62f). Ironically, a piece of the parchment containing the verdict was eaten by termites, causing the disappearance of the closing words (79f.). The fifth chapter concludes with the remark that woodworms are living in the frame of Géricault’s painting…

Functionalism The Functionalists looks at the family like a nuclear family structure, which usually is a mother, a father and one child, in some cases two children. The family meets the needs of the society by socializing norms and values leading to social stability. Murdock believed that there is a nuclear family in every society. Murdock's defined the nuclear family as a universal human social grouping. Either as the sole prevailing form of the family or as the basic unit from which more…