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Money, diamonds, gold, high end products. For many people, that is the definition of happiness and success. Mathilde Loisel was one of those people. Mathilde Loisel, the protagonist, from the short story, “The Necklace”, is a dynamic character because she changes from being materialistic to hardworking throughout the story. Mathilde Loisel changes throughout the story from being materialistic to hardworking. In the beginning she was believed she needed to be rich in order to be happy. “She…

Ana Baletskaya Ms. Jemar ENGL1302AN01 30 March 2017 Ignorance is Bliss “The Jewelry” is a short story that makes you question all you know about human nature. It requires you to examine all relationships with those close and wonder about the agendas of the heart, the depth of a person’s love and their promise of devotion. This story is particularly interesting because of the irony it casts over the reader by providing such realistic descriptions of a married pair. The couple in this story seemed…

GE2112 Representations of the Gothic Final Essay
 Ko Tong Tong (53056992) 28th November 2015 Topic 1: “Evil is a Point of View” “Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.” (Rice 69) Lestat told Louis this in Interview with the Vampire. It raised a very good concern for people to think. How can evil be defined? For a vampire, blood consumption is a necessity to maintain their life. (Wolf 28)…

Mathilide Loisel deserves readers’ pity because she is just a poor peasant who just wanted to impress everyone at a party full of rich people. In his short story “The Necklace” (1884), French writer Guy De Maupassant portrays Mathilide as this girl who just wants to impress people, and states: “She would so have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after” (1)”. Mathilide was basically born poor and her determination to impress would ultimately be her downfall. Mathilide…

The first is explained as semiotics and the second, as psychoanalysis. Wells explains that the study of ‘semiology’, a term coined by Ferdinand de Saussure, was broadened and adjusted into another later term: ‘semiotics’. Wells continues by referencing the works of Roland Barthes and notes that through semiotics, our culture could ultimately be evaluated and analysed through visual language. (Wells…

Woman I, an abstract oil painting, painted by Willem de Kooning between 1950 and 1952 which is now located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The painting is a woman who is disfigured and is not what women would normally look like. He emphasizes and distorts different aspects of her body, so it is less about her looks and more about what women represent entirely. Willem de Kooning uses color, emphasis, different proportions, and through the organization, he conveys his interpretation of…

era by wearing low cut corsets. Rotari wanted his painting to represent the beautiful women of the Rococo period. Maurice-Quentin de La Tour showed Madame de Pompadour an arbiter of good taste and beauty. The artists show their women to be smart by giving a distant look in both of the women faces. It shows that both women is seeking out something or someone. Madame de Pompadour could be waiting for Louis XV and the woman in Rotari’s painting could be waiting for her man. She is shown as a pin-up…

She is mostly focused on France and also other parts of Europe. There two primary sources for this case, and they are a book by Judge Jean de Coras and another one by a lawyer, whose name is Guillaume La Sueur and his book called "the Admirable History of the Pseudo-Martin". Natalie Davis author also uses different secondary sources to find out the descriptive and detailed parts of the story…

In the story Time and Again by the author, Breece D’J Pancake recounts the story of a veteran murderer who killed many in France, a farmer that feeds slop to his hogs and a snow plower who lost his wife and kid. The narrator transmits clues to create a suspenseful tone, in order to recall his story without completely telling it all. These uses clues to evoke the reader to question the content to be drawn into the story. Lastly, the author uses the clues also expose how the narrator is as a…

I've been really enjoying this thread and your discussion of swan Lake convinced me to sign up. I'm not usually this negative, but here's a bit I wrote about the NYCB costume gala... I saw the NYCB costume gala program (not on the gala night). I thought Justin Peck's Pulcinella was very well crafted. It's great to see him tackling Stravinsky, classicism and tutu ballets. In my opinion, the costume gala is always a gamble. One example is Liam Scarlett's duet where the woman is so dwarfed by…