Western fiction

One could argue, in an attempt to legitimise India’s need for colonial intervention, the British invented Thuggee to be a ‘traditional Indian evil’. Illustrating Thuggee as inherent in Indian society, their fiction of Thuggee was designed to justify the colonial extension of power, strength and superior morality. The invention of Thuggee can be seen here to be directly linked to providing justification for their extension of power and control. A credible argument…

Women in History: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting Surrounded by portraits of and by male artists, Artemisia Gentileschi’s (1593-1652) oil on canvas Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura) 1638-39 stands out in the midst of Vancouver Art Gallery’s “The Royal Collections: Portrait of the Artist” exhibition. As one of the only woman artist portraits, it pronounces itself in entirety to symbolise the prominence she has given females in history as she…

Pei Yun Wu Mr. Weinberger AP European History p. 4 June 8, 2017 Liberty Leading the People was a Romantic oil painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830. Liberty, symbolized by the woman leading the men would later become the symbol of the French Republic. The medium was oil on canvas, a very popular medium in the 1800’s. Romanticism was a movement of emotions as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution’s logical, machinery ways. France was particularly…

sufficient skills in ICT to propel with the pervasiveness of these technologies around the world. This also ensures that citizens will not be left behind with the advancements all over the world. With the Internet’s aggressive integration, popular western culture is easily depicted on multiple online platforms. There were not many Asian websites mainly due to accessibility constraints and lack of knowledge to operate ICT. Also, plenty of websites are produced with content in English as it is a…

principally, to examine the process of decolonisation. Postcolonial criticism’s origins can be traced to Said’s Orientalism according to Milner and Browitt (2002). Said portrays the Eurocentric universalism which admits the superiority of what is Western and the inferiority of what is not, he states that “there are Westerners, and there are non-westerners. The former dominate; the latter must be dominated” (Said 1994: 36). For him, Orientalism was a ‘discourse’ in the Foucauldian sense of the…

Photo Art Service Photo Art Service indicates that photographic painting of an image. Photographic painting is a work of art. An art is related to the topics of painting to describe its feature by an acrylic painting. It denotes the theme of something to understand it logically and physically. It is one kind of replica of an image as like as show the feature of an image. Art is different from capturing image; it is take by creative manner of his/her mind lowing feature. To describe something…

Francisco de Goya (1746 – 1828) was one of the famous Spanish court painters. His early artwork belongs to the genre painting, which he mastered through tapestry design for King Charles III. Influenced by the work of Velasquez, Goya developed more spontaneous painting technique. Simultaneously, his portraits became well-known among the Spanish aristocracy facilitating him to become a Court Painter of King Charles IV in the 1789. Goya’s Self-portrait before an Easel (1792-5) depicts him as a…

Colonialism is the imperial expansions with political, economic and military forces. Colonialism in 19th century is a period of territorial expansion which mainly led by European powers. In the late 19th century, because of the developed transportation, globalization grew fast. So far, it became a movement of people, information, goods, services, culture, and politics in world wide range. There are lots of similarities and differences between these two terms. While both Colonialism and…

to shop for groceries. Also, a Japanese company bought the stores from Walmart in 2006. For the identical reasons, Carrefour failed to run their business in those two countries. The key points of why these western companies failed to run their business are that they insisted on bringing western culture and management model. In addition, they ignored they way how people do shopping. Eventually, their arrogance and blind insistence led to the…

The identity conflicts in the characters of Santosh (Out of Many by V.S Naipul), Aziz (Perforated Sheet by Salman Rushdie), and Chike (Chike’s School Days by Chinua Achebe) is occasioned many things related to the effects of post-colonialism, essentially the American and European cultural image creating a culture shock as well as an economic factor. Both are uncomfortable in their setting and opt to adopt their new environment (Lacan 54). Although they think their new cultures they have settled…