Signifier

Corpuz, Raymundo, Sediaren Oct. 16, 2014 COM101: Synthesis Mrs. Cheryl Nasol The Road to Stardom The 21st century is a world where human life revolves around technology. This is most likely because technology has become and is continuing to become more portable and accessible as time passes-- from personal computers to laptops, landline telephones to…

and politics. As a biographical text, the play cannot be separated from history as “history is a story in itself” (Angus 2) and there are multiple historical constructs within it. Henry V is both a signifier and signified. It is a reconstruction of past events from an Elizabethan point of view (signifier) and, from a modern perspective is a consideration of the past determined by the current political and religious stage (signified) (Angus 6); a view which is tempered by portrayals of history…

The Internalisation of Ugliness Postcolonial criticism aims to teach us to read ourselves, revealing our psychological ‘inheritance’ of racial discrimination; the product of a society in which we are constantly subjected to images of whiteness. It addresses the subconscious influence of the media in shaping us to be racist, and indoctrinating victims of racism with the belief that whiteness is the paragon of beauty. Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ and Alice Walker’s ‘The Colour Purple’ reveal…

at authorship because “a sort of epistemological crisis” made her anxious over whether or not what she wrote was “absolutely, objectively true” (141). She began to include “I think” between phrases as “gossamer sutures in that gaping rift between signifier and signified” and crossing out entire entries (142). This concept of truth versus how it is represented connects to Alison’s struggle against appearance and reality she faces throughout her life. When she finds out about her father’s…

In Mary Ann Doane’s article “The Clinical Eye: Medical Discourses in the ‘Woman’s Film’ of the 1940s,” Freud is addressed in order to understand female sexuality. Freud states, “The cat is the signifier of a female sexuality which is self-enclosed, self-sufficient, and above all, objectless. This sexuality in its inaccessibility, forecloses the possibility of knowledge, thus generating a string of metaphors - cat, criminal, child, humorist” (Doane, 216). In this statement, it is shown that…

Set in Venice and Cyprus in the early 1600s, the play focuses on Othello, the protagonist who is a Christian Moor and a general. Othello is characterized as a respected, powerful figure who falls prey to insecurities such as his status and race. Iago, the play’s villain, manipulates Othello’s insecurities and his love for his wife, Desdemona, to stimulate the green eyed monster out of Othello. The death of the protagonist and his wife can be traced back to the primary motives of Iago fueled by…

In the third installment of Hogarth’s series A Rake’s Progress, Hogarth uses the act of Tom’s watch being stolen as a signifier of the rake’s imminent demise. Tom is seen cuddling with a prostitute whom he hired and appears to be enjoying his time. Unbeknownst to him, this prostitute stealthly took his watch earlier and is depicted handing it over to her accomplice, another one of Tom’s hired prostitutes. Hogarth intended for his viewers to see the irony behind this situation as two people who…

Patel 1 Aditi Patel Dr. D’ Angiolini English 101 12/2/15. The culture of American Film Back to the year 2000, most of the top-grossing movies are, in some way, fantasy or science fiction films, featuring super heroes, vampires, wizards, and villains. In the 1960s, the fantasy genre was virtually nonexistent in the box office bonanza sweepstakes. We find an ever-increasing share of Hollywood movie production devoted to fantasy, and, as is so often the case in semiotic analysis, such a shift, or…

century, ideas of repetition, order, disorder and fiction. Tuncer’s primordial awareness in his paintings is the duality between good and evil inherent in all cultures. However, during our visit to Levent Tuncer’s house, he showed us many specials signifiers called codes that are part of the deconstruction…

Often referred as the master of suspense by many critics, Alfred Hitchcock is known for his suspense and psychological thriller in his movies. The movie crafted by Hitchcock “The man who knew too much.” is an absolute masterpiece containing Mystery, suspense and drama. There are two versions of the movie one released in 1934 and the other released in 1956 and both the remakes were directed by Hitchcock himself. Even though the original movie was remade after 22 years, both original and the…