Signifier

Benjy Compson is the narrator of the first part of the novel entitled “On April 7, 1928” this date represents Benjy's thirty-third birthday. Throughout this section reader discover Benjy’s world and his innermost thoughts from the morning until night. The section reports only one day. Because of Benjy’s limited cognitive skills which render him unable to distinguish time, readers are guided throughout his narrative by the change of his servants: each one represents a particular moment in his…

Janet R. Jakobsen’s essay, Queers Are Like Jews, Aren’t They? Analogy and Alliance Politics, discusses in depth what it means to queer something and to do Jewish. Jakobsen explains the relationship between these two actions and encourages the process of “thinking through the possibilities of playing off multiple norms” (p 82). She is able to do this with the help of a reading by Stacy Wolf on Barbara Streisand’s queer performances. I will look closely at Jakobsen’s argument about Barbara…

POPULAR CULTURE Nuray ÖZTÜRK 110111041 Criticism of Capitalism and Patriarchy In Popular Culture ÖZTÜRK 2 The concept of culture and popular is need to be known in order to understand popular culture totally. Thus, the creator of these concepts should be taken into consideration. Undoubtedly this creator is human being. People live in society as communities and they create culture and it occurs both as material and intellectual (Erdoğan,1). Traditions, eating and wearing styles, religions,…

In the children’s book, Jamaica and Brianna, Jamaica’s parents give her a pair of boots that used to be her brother’s. Jamaica does not like the boots because they are “boy boots”, and although her parents try to explain to her that they are “unisex boots, for boys or girls”, Jamaica still dislikes them and tries to destroy them so that she can get a different pair of boots. With this exchange, this story highlights how young children perceive gender early on and ascribe it to clothing just as…

Semiotics in advertisements involve the distinction between denoted, or easily identifiable messages, and connoted, or subliminal messages. SKYY Vodka’s nuanced advertisements transmit both connotative and denotative messages regarding sexuality, gender, and class that can deconstruct on a semiotic level. The transmittal of these three themes in SKYY’s advertisements is used to market an idealized lifestyle that the consumer can aspire to achieve. Various messages can be interpreted from this…

curvy, straight, and such on, which create a theme in each panel as it is used to convey certain forms of emotions. Lines are similar to language as it sends a message to help better depict a story that simple phrases cannot do alone. Lines act as a signifier for the reader to examine these transitions between panels that words alone cannot do. For instances, thickly drawn lines can convey the sense of a loud or strong emotion, while thin and barely connected lines can convey the sense of…

Sharira. What is particularly interesting in this performance is that it being not only about the body and it’s corporeal contours within a given choreography but also the sexed body and it’s tussles, intimacies, desires mapped out in a performance space. The performance, in my opinion hinges largely towards a kind of choreographic shift in dance that prioritises the bodily over tradition and the traditional; as also contemporary and contemporariness. During the performance, the two bodies…

how it passes without notice with the changing of seasons and weather until death. In an article about the poem the line “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes” (Poetry for Students) helps bring both the poem and play together and shows the common theme of time. The recurring lines in the poem that talks about weather and seasons is closely reflected when in every section of the…

Blood Done Sign My Name Fifty-Three years it’s been since the Civil rights Act passed and just forty-seven since a man named Henry Marrow was murdered. People often think how did racial equality raise from segregated Southern towns? Timothy Tyson tells the story of murder that occurred in Oxford, North Carolina. Tyson shows the transformation of a town with a cruel death of a black man, Henry Marrow. Timothy Tyson’s, Blood Done Sign My Name, discussed racial conflict in North Carolina, as a…

Which means that Pearl represents more than just a burden but a blessing that Hester admires a lot. In society in those times, the people mistreated Hester and Pearl because of their situation. The embroidery letter A that is on Hester's chest “signifier of pride and shame, achievement and everly alludes to adultery’ (Egan). The letter A is viewed by the people as Hester identity, but it is view different to Hester. Hester does not think that the letter A is her identity but “the very passions…