Sublime

In the eighteenth century, romanticism bloomed from men’s love towards nature. To capture its beauty, romanticists often wrote novels stressing emotions and portraying nature as a pure soul. While nature represented an innocent girl, science imitated a reaper that violates nature’s boundaries. Romantic novels then recorded the battles between logic and feelings. These novels, for example, Frankenstein, a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley, exposes the unethicality of knowledge by describing…

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the different.” (“The Road Not Taken”) The road symbolizes how the individual had to evaluate and determine his decisions. Making his decision was a major decisive and extensive moment during his life span. He wrote just about ten books in his lifetime that many people admired. American poet and journalist Robert Frost depicts aspects of his life and philosophy on man’s choices, truth in nature, and…

and helplessness" (Raskauskien 50). Characteristic of the Gothic castle are mazy, over- and undergrounded corridors, creaking doors, shuttered windows, trapdoors, darkened rooms, vaults, and dungeons. The architecture of a Gothic castle evokes a sublime and a scary atmosphere as the fort-like edifice is always a sign of the villain's power but also decaying and mysterious (Raskauskien 50-59) Above we discussed the Gothic aspects in fiction which were characterized by the age in which it was…

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always,” states Rainer Marie Rilke, one of the German language’s greatest twentieth century poets. Rilke was born in 1875 as an only child. His childhood was rather unpleasant; his parents placed him in a military school, hoping that he would become an officer, something unlikely to occur. Rilke’s uncle recognized that he was a highly gifted individual and had Rilke enrolled into a German preparatory school. In 1895 when Rilke enrolled…

During the 1950’s and 60’s in the United States, the quest for equal rights was unfortunately just growing out of its infancy. Spearheading this effort was the renowned minister Martin Luther King Junior. While protesting in Birmingham, Alabama, King was arrested on the charge of parading without a permit and detained in the local jail. During his less than luxurious stay, he wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. The purpose of this message was to clearly lay out the process, display the…

Wright captures sublime eloquence tragicomic plight of the black existential struggle. This poem articulates the African American dialectal struggle to attain self-conscious personhood while traversing a landscape littered with the remnants of chattel slavery and darkened…

Our world is divided by many different social issues. The diversity over the issue of abortion is loud and glaring. This highly debated matter courses through the populace around the world. There are so many aspects concerning abortion. Many of the main arguments include; the physical and mental effects, the morality of the situation, the preventive measures, and possible options besides abortion. Pro-life and Pro-choice are the main groups associated with this topic. They are each the…

Since America’s earliest days, religion and technology have played major roles in how society has functioned. Religious beliefs and advancements in technology have been used to justify society’s actions since America was founded. David Nye and W. Scott Poole both presented clear evidence of this in their respective books. By using both religion and technology Americans have been able to explain why certain changes should or should not take place and have been able to derive some type of…

illuminate Arbus’s subject even further than her intense focusing is capable of doing. Additionally, the burned section causes the subject’s shoulder to disappear, orienting the print around the subject’s peculiarities. These details- the composition, sublime focusing, and tonal range- all aim at representing Arbus’s subject as a unique…

There may be 10 games on the board tonight, but there’s really only two contests that DFSers should really study in order to find some value. We found a ton of value in Memphis and Sacramento. So much value in fact, that we had euros not dollars left over in our FantasyDraft budget. We’re still trying to figure out how best to spend that money, so if you have any suggestions, ship them our way. Nothing high tech though. Euros can only get us electronics with those weird Euro outlet sockets.…