The Grotesque

Think about the last time you had a family dinner celebrating a newborn in the family, a party for a one year old baby, or maybe a baptismal ceremony. How did you feel about the precious baby? Think about the last time you were watching an old family video on an archaic cassette from 10 to 20 years ago. There you were jolly as you could possibly be, playing in the park on the swings, or messing around with pots and pans on the kitchen floor. Life was utterly fascinating, adventurous, and…

The story of Proteus, the “Prophetic old man of the sea”, describes the said subject as omniscient and supernatural, possessing seemingly unlimited knowledge, including all forms of time, including past, present, and future. Various Knowledge seekers, notably Menelaus in Homer’s interpretation, and Aristaeus in Virgil’s, would seek Proteus for enlightenment. He would Grant the knowledge in question if and only if, the requester was able to restrain Proteus. The trick is, Proteus has complete…

“Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea, while the organization achieves victory by the persistent, organic, and militant union of those supporters who seem willing and able to carry on the fight for victory.” Adolf Hitler wrote these words in his book Mein Kampf (1926) in which he advocated the use of propaganda to spread the ideals of National Socialism, such as racism and anti-Semitism. After Germany being…

Laykyn Rainbolt Mr. Domino Art Appreciation 04 October 2017 Otto Dix: The Skat Players Krieg hat uns alle verändert. German for “the war changed us all”. I think that sentence was very illustrative of the surprising artwork from Otto Dix. I loved the piece The Skat Players. I think this piece represented so much more than just the authors style or the war. Using his personal events and knowledge he gave the world a chance to experience the things he did in his life. All those events…

affluent areas of West and East Egg are located on opposite sides of a lake, symbolizing the opposing relationship of old and new money. In contrast to these prosperous areas, the Valley of Ashes is poor and industrialized. It is introduced as grey and grotesque region where the people who live there seem lifeless and unimportant. The triangle that is created between these three locations is similar to the conflict of the characters in the book: Gatsby, Tom the Wilsons, all at the vertices of…

this novel is gray, which is closely associated with the Valley of Ashes, and the Wilsons. It represents hopelessness, depression and affliction. “This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (Fitzgerald 279). The color white is yet another color…

science fiction works of art, despite the difference in time periods, can parallel one another. The science fiction novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly in 1818, exhibited a young scientist who diverts from the natural world and creates a grotesque yet conscious monster. Succeeding the novel, there was a rise of the various Frankenstein films including the 1931 version. This version differed from the novel on countless aspects yet both depicted the concept of a monster and how the world…

Southern Gothic Essay The American Literature is shaped in parts by how the authors use Southern Gothic Genre to explore social issues and reveal the cultural of the South. The traits of this genre are, Macabre, Social Class, and Outsiders. The stories we read as a class are “ A Rose For Emily” ( William Faulkner). “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” ( Flannery O'Connor) . ¨ The Possibility Of Evil¨ ( Shirley Jackson).The traits of the southern gothic clearly portrayed to represent the moral…

I racked my brain, repeatedly, trying to find ways to improve this. The conflict was definitely lacking. In our Character Creation class, we were told to think more about our antagonist, and I didn’t really do that. Snail is a cool senior, but his skills in class are lacking. This is why his relationship with Lyla originally formed. I took this into consideration during my final revision. She is leaving and Snail knows that. He is paranoid and insecure about his life without her, so he lashes…

Antonius (Temptation of St. Anthony) Last movement is a movement of explosive forces. Wholly symphonic creation using music from the extended climactic scene in the opera. One can almost hear the subject St. Anthony being musically tormented by the grotesque demons depicted in Grunewald’s panel painting. The piece closes with a tumultuous contrapuntal sprint to the…