The Grotesque

He threatened Dussander into doing what he wanted or else Todd would go to the police and tell them everything about what he did in the past, and Dussander would not tell Todd's parents or anyone about what he did and what he’s doing. In the beginning you don’t see Todd as much as the monster considering all the things Dussander has done but the readers get a slight glimpse into Todds mind and what he likes and the things he thinks of that could consider him to be a monster “[H]e wanted to hear…

of the hand within Un Chien Andalou symbolises fetish; “what hands can do and how they can generate both intense pleasure and intolerable pain.” (Hutchinson, 2014) This relates back to the themes of subconscious desires which is emphasised by the grotesque imagery which dominates the film. Dali compared the slicing with “the tenderness of gentle cuts of a scalpel on the curves of her pupils” (Elder, 2012:619) which proposes that this imagery has erogenous suggestions and “those implications…

Defective of characteristics traditional to the protagonist, the antihero possesses an unscrupulous lack of morality and ardour to achieve the greater good; thus still a protagonist of the narrative, yet serves as a subversion of the traditional hero archetype. Although often the antithesis of the archetypal protagonist, the antihero gains begrudged sympathy and an extent of understanding from the reader that separates itself from the concept of the antagonist. Despite…

Welcome to Gervais Studios, I’m your host Ricky Gervais and tonight we’ll be experiencing comedy at its finest. Tonight we’ve invited the Australian dynamic duo of guests, the “iron lady” herself, and that isn’t a command as well as “Palmegeddon.” Tonight's show is going to be one of extremely enormous proportions, or as Michelle Bridges calls it “the morning session.” Personally, for the benefit of my tangerine and pearl striped floor, I wish to refrain from asking this, but I would like to…

The tectonic plates of society, technology, economy and environment are shifting beneath us every second, creating changes in our lives. Issues are rattling through our bones, forcing us to switch up what we believe and how we live. I personally believe that a huge issue that is changing this generation and one we will be dealing with more than other problems is learning how to shrink cynicism. There is so much information coming at us today it is hard to compute what is real, what is false,…

7. Joy is expressed among friends and lovers reunited on the eve of a holiday, which is of no use to Screwtape. 8. Fun is closely related to joy, which also of no use to Screwtape. "A sort of emotional froth aspiring from the play instinct" 9. They can easily be used to steer the patient to the wrong direction. With the the Joke Proper, Screwtape says "which turns on sudden perception of incongruity, is a much more promising field". Explains that the patient's perception on humor can be…

In this scene Tenessee Williams shows the inevitability and fatality of the rape as Blanche cannot escape it. Indeed, this scene reminds the audience of the first encounter between Blanche and Stanley, Blanche’s trunk is in “the center of the bedroom”, Stanley “remov[es] his shirt” and Blanche’s has been drinking alcohol and Stanley joins in. This similarity between the two scenes makes it appear as though this was always meant to be since the beginning, everything was leading up to this final…

and the speaker continues to decry Horace’s words. The speaker employs graphic imagery to describe a young man, the victim of a mustard gas attack, after he is throw into a wagon when the group of soldiers in marching. The dying or dead soldier is grotesque to behold, and it is not enough to wake the speaker from his nightmare of war. The speaker describes the man’s face as “His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;” (Owen 20), and he describes the horrible gargling and foam coming from the…

In Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve, Hunger and Suffering play prime characters in the story and are prevalent everywhere. One might argue that these central ideas in the novel are not characters and simply just ideas apparent in the novel, but characters can be defined by their actions, their importance to the story, and the way they develop. As the novel progresses, Hunger and Suffering begin to have a huge toll on the characters. Suffering, especially, plays a large role in Ruku’s…

Presently, vampires are trendy Halloween costumes, used in horror movies, or just used as good-looking characters. Even so, these creatures were not always seen that way. “Stories of these nocturnal blood-sucking monsters have fascinated and entranced our culture for years and years” (King). Vampires are all the rage. Especially around Halloween, vampires are seen everywhere. They are all over social-media and on the television. Recently, “vampires are becoming more of a fad than scary monsters.…