Signifier

conceptual template for Avatar. They become a way of correlating the reality of human experience to the seemingly surreal world of Pandora and its featured humanoid natives, the Na’vi. Furthermore, the dream state evolves into a medium, a sort of signifier as the humans transition their consciousnesses into that of their respective “avatars”. The echo of a foreign human psyche in an avatar vessel, resembling a native Na’vi, is trivial when considering that the case is actually inverted; the…

Symbolism in literature is one in every of the many tools that writers use to get not solely interest in one's work however conjointly to make another level of that means (Nair, 2010). In literature, symbolism uses to grant to the written material that means that goes on the far side what is manifest to the reader (ibid.). Symbolism helps in giving the piece of writing feeling and mood while not the author having to really spell out it. Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration; it…

In “The Colour out of Space” the first-person narrator arrives at a place described as “West Arkham” where he discovers five acres desolated and covered in ash and dust. There he asks an old man nearby, Ammi Pierce, what had happened there. From then on the narrator retells what Ammi tells him. Back in his earlier days there lived a family, the Gardners, on the farm there and Ammi was a close friend of the father, Nahum. Then someday a meteor fell onto their property close to their well and was…

Many Americans assume that jeans have always been a fashion statement. However, in the book Signs of Life in the USA written by Sonia Massik and Jack Solomon, the progression of how jeans originated as clothing for blue collar workers and gradually evolved into a fashion statement in the 1980’s. For example, ripped jeans in the 1960’s expressed defiance of the establishment and dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. At this point in time, consumer culture leads us to believe that jeans no longer…

an extremely basic shading plan, the overwhelming colors are red, white, and blue the shades of the American flag. Therefore, this essay will focus on the image utilizing semiotic analysis to consider how this iconic image turned into the notable signifier for Obama's campaign and why it turned into a cultural text. During the 2008 campaign, this writer can still remember how excited he felt, it was quite riveting, to say the least.…

economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women,” (Tyson 81) and by encouraging the dissolution of male and female binary gender roles, the achievement of gender equality through a fusion of feminine language with patriarchal signifiers, and .…

Today we use certain colours to identify the gender of a baby, however although it is a norm in society it has only recently been introduced. Pink and blue were not promoted as gender signifiers until shortly before WW1. Up until then children would wear gender neutral clothing. For example, the picture below shows a little boy in 1884 in a white dress - this was common clothing for children up to the age of 6 during this time. Up until the 1940s boys were associated with pink as it was seen as…

Morality as a Common Signifier Ambedkar believed that a religion should treat every individual equal on the grounds of social relationship, cultural history; so that one can acquire desirable profits out of his/her labor. In India, Hindu religion did not provide this equality for all individuals, especially for dalits, though the modern constitution granted it for all individuals. This is why Ambedkar respected western modernity for its commitment to individual liberty, human rights and…

George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

to represent significance making: Words are (relatively) empty entities-in a semiotic account they are signifiers to be filled with meaning rather than signs full of meaning, and the task of the reader is to fill these relatively vacant entities with her or his meaning. This is the task we call interpretation, namely interpreting what sign the writer may have intended to make with this signifier (Kress, G. 2005). The most important here, and somewhere else in his illustrations is that importance…