Puppeteer

Guide to the Light In the past, education has been, at the simplest form, the deliverance of one-sided information, and whether or not the students learns it or accepts it, it will be presented. This is like the shadows in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave casted on the cave walls being the only reality the prisoners know. Technology allows everyone, especially students, to see the same information, most likely more, and most likely from different angles. This is like the ascent of a prisoner into…

Manufacturing Happiness Utopianism is a place where peace and reality happens, where stability is maintained by society’s role, having negativity be eradicated. Although as in today’s reality it is dysfunctional in the other words dis-utopia, from the words of a British writer Aldous Huxley, whom he wrote the phenomenal novel, “The Brave New World”. In the series, the author queries the distinctive values of 1931 generation, by the use of satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which…

It was a simple day in a dark theater, my father had left me alone with a friend in this weird booth with a lot of buttons, switches, sliders and dials. It seemed really cool to me and he had even left me with my favorite of his friends, Paul Riopelle. My father walked out of the booth and into the lobby and he didn’t come back before the show started but Paul assured me that my father would be back soon. So we sat and watched the play and it was really funny actually, I don’t remember much of…

he’s married the veriest nymphet. But a woman’s season’s is brief: it slips, and she’ll have no husband but sit out her life groping at omens—and finding no men” (Aristophanes 73). Seemingly, men are the valued members of society, the leaders, and puppeteers of social standards. The social norms are definite, the status quo of male supremacy is strongly set, and the power that comes from both genders makes one thing clear: it is anything but equal and patriarchy feeds off of female submission.…

In what ways is the reader challenged or alienated by the ideas in the works studied? Refer to the two literary works you have studied. Literary works have often come under criticism from audiences and critics alike as they often challenge commonly held societal beliefs that support the perception of how a ‘proper’ society should function. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen in 1879 and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams in 1947 are two examples of two such literary works written by…

While power was once centralized, throughout time, it has become scattered, allowing for several organizations to have a voice in society. Years ago, women were interlaced by the patriarchic power, in which a man puppeteers the woman, and molds her into his idealistic beauty (Hesse-Biber, 1991, p.176). In the nineteenth century, women were merely a shadow in the eyes of a man. They fell to a man’s feet, as he was the income producer, and she was obligated to be the…

The Lady of Shalott: Tantalus’s Daughter Alfred Lord Tennyson is a Victorian poet who seldom strays out of narrative territory. His poems are stories, and “The Lady of Shalott” is no exception. The Lady of Shalott, for whom the poem is titled after, is a heartbreaking heroine who spends most of her life locked away in a tower, only to finally emerge and softly depart from the world. In the short span of four parts, her tale spans the themes of dreams, imprisonment, misogyny, and death. Not only…

Inquiry Paper “Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web.…

Predecessor to the 80’s cult classic, The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal was legendary puppeteer Jim Henson’s first attempt at creating a fantasy motion picture filmed entirely with intricate animatronics and puppets. The film is complete with heroes, villains and the other main elements of fantastical narratives as described by Russian scholar and folklorist Vladimir Propp in his breakthrough work, Morphology of the Folktale, which states that there is a sequence of 31 functions — certain actions…

wired to have these same thoughts and emotions like machines, we do as we are expected and supposed to, as though everything we experience throughout life is already predetermined and decided by some higher being. We are to do and be what this “puppeteer” wants, and there’s no escaping it; we’re prisoners. To be honest, I can’t say I thoroughly disagree with this theory. As I mentioned before, our society is only allowed to view certain news stories, television shows, books…everything. And…