Spectacle

In a society that prizes the accumulation of wealth, there is a reliance upon materialistic possessions as a representation of an individual’s worth. Money becomes a measure of accomplishment and has the ability to alter a person’s sense of reality. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the elite characters in The Great Gatsby as a reckless population who construct an illusion based upon the capabilities of the wealth that blinds them. By deserting morality and shifting their focus on the acquisition of…

In Act One, Scene One, in Lauren Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, a short scene holds many clues about Aristotle’s six elements, which include: character, action, ideas, music/sound, spectacle and language. The scene that is most important to the development of the play is when Mama slaps Beneatha over her views on God. The scene includes Ruth, Beneatha and Mama and it takes place in their tiny South-Side apartment. Instantly it is obvious that this family lives in tight corners. It begins…

The Vatican post the release of La Dolce Vita condemned the film as being pornographic and an insult to the traditional Italian Catholic church. The film with its play on the Italian essence of Hollywood was extravagant and not what could be considered as following the practices of the Catholic Church. But, why then did some believe that aspects of the film point to false spirituality? This falsity was seen in the opening scene as a statue of Jesus Christ was flown over the city, symbolizing…

of no face, but… from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles… his eyes, dimmed… by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground” (Fitzgerald 24). Nick’s description has two major implications. First, “The eyes,” though “enormous yellow spectacles,” look on and appear to judge the “dumping ground.” Second, “The paintless days” temper the eyes, symbolizing a person’s experience. Eckleberg exemplifies how both spectacles, a lense, and paintless days, experiences,…

Philadelphia’s Daily News. Authors such as Michael Oriard, also credit the rise of sports with newspapers. Oriard is the author of several books about football such as Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle in 1993 and King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press in 2003. He has direct…

is all about through thick description about the process of amende honorable, a violent torture in front of the public experienced by Damiens the regicide on 1757. He has brought us back to that time when the act of punishment is still a public spectacle and is ‘horrifying’. One crime could automatically be equaled to death in a prolonged suffering of consequently cruel methods of execution; contrary to Leon Faucher’s rules for the House of young prisoners in Paris in which rules are highly…

Certain underlying motifs such as the subjective point of view, social and moral critiques, involvement of the audience, or the not ego ideal male protagonist can be used to characterize the Hitchcock film. His 1954 film Rear Window operates by implicating the viewer in the narrative as it presents a visual analysis on the nature of human curiosity and interactions. Throughout the film, L.B. Jeffries, played by James Stewart, is bound to his wheelchair and finds himself peering into the lives of…

The Age of Enlightenment was a period of tremendous intellectual changes. The rational ideas of the Scientific Revolution several decades prior led Enlightenment thinkers to have new perspectives on humanity. Philosophers all across Europe worked to complete their worldviews, many of which were directly incompatible with one another. As such, people would attempt to further their own philosophical agenda through various media. An example was Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novel Candide, in which…

element that dramas can incorporate. It allows plays to have depth and similarities to historical literature. One drama that has these qualities is the play “Trifles”. “Trifles” includes a complex plot, a constant protagonist, thought, diction, and spectacle which therefore, allows it to fall under Aristotle’s theory of poetics. By incorporating elements of this theory, including both Mythos and ethos, the play forms an experience of catharsis permitting pity and fear form the audience. However…

eventually adapted this filmic practice as a tool for documenting cultures for scientific purposes, founding the field of visual anthropology. Flaherty and Mead’s influence can be tracked to filmmaker John Marshall, who challenged the paradigms of spectacle and science by developing his own distinct style of film throughout his prolonged career. This transitional arch can be tracked through his films The Hunters, A Marriage Argument, and N!ai, A story of a !Kung Woman, where his distinct style…