"Black as my soul." (158) was Lang's response to the interviewer's question when the interviewer Power asked him in 1973, "How do you take your coffee?" (158). This response is characteristic of the dark underlying tone that is prevalent in many Lang's films. According to Professor Polan, many Lang's films share a recurring theme - destiny, a destiny which is typically random and uncaring. ...
These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... William Golding uses religious allegory to unveil the truth about evil within all humans and bases the idea off of the struggle between Christ and the Devil, otherwise understood as good and evil. ... The evil within man is shown through Jack who is quickest to bare his animalistic and savage ways and untie his strings with civilization. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. They leave the sow's...
Stoker also employs juxtaposing colour imagery, initially with 'white teeth'; a colour often associated with the motif of innocence and purity, against 'ruby... burning... red' which are common symbols of lust, warning and foreshadowed death. ... Here the temptation of Geraldine's wild and supernatural appearance unsettles Christabel, and as Gabriele Cocco writes, it leads her 'innocence and purity' to be 'violated by sin'20, the temptation of evil being the antithetical force to pure virtue. ... Unlike Dracula and Christabel, in The Rime of the Anc...
Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns one back toward God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist and summon man to spiritual battle. ... Rosetta's rape signifies the loss of virginity and innocence, but can also be seen as a symbol of Italy's fate during the war. ...
As Victor recounts this event to Walton, Victor shares "when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences" (50). Does Victor see Elizabeth as the evil that took his mother away permanently now? ... Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. ... Light, the avenger of evil forces, symbolizes the source of goodness; and the ultimate reality, purity, and morality. ... Victor struggles with his mother's death and the evil forces, wh...
She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... Expanding on the representation of Jesus or God in The Bluest Eye, Alexander understands the problem of how a supposedly omnipotent and loving God can allow the existence of evil and suffering to still take place. ... I don't see Alexander's argument as a problem with the novel in comparison to my understanding that evil and suffering must still take place under the control of a loving God to make the word revolve correctly. I believe differently that ever...
Kurtz resembles the archetypal "evil genius": the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. ... Kurtz can be criticized in the same terms that Heart of Darkness is sometimes criticized: style entirely overrules substance, providing a justification for amorality and evil. ... His perverse honesty leads to his downfall, as his success threatens to expose the evil practices behind European activity in Africa. ...
American exceptionalism framed our response to terror in the simplistic, emotionally satisfying context of good vs. evil, where Americans are righteous crusaders for the ideals of democracy, freedom and the capitalist way, and radical Islamists are "a barbaric and unholy evil a malevolence that must be destroyed for the nation to cleans itself" (224). ... And second, we see how what Ivie calls the "rhetoric of evil" reduces terrorists to simplistic caricatures of pure evil. ...
In a close reading of the two texts it is clear that Revelation and Enoch draw from a shared pool of apocalyptic symbols and numerological concepts. ... In this paper, a review of the literature regarding Enoch's influence on Revelation will be followed by an analysis of the similarities and differences in the symbols and themes of Enoch and the Revelation of St. ... (Malina & Pilch 2000) Although both Revelation and 1 Enoch clearly share a monster motif, the beasts in Enoch function as a reward for the righteous, while the beasts in Revelation serve as a kind of political commentary...
Furthermore, this paper examines the psychological themes, motifs and symbols available in the story. ... And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter.... Regarding these explanations it can also create an innate "Oedipus complex" in Poe himself later strengthened by the evidences in his writing as his portrayal of other women as evil and not having the ideality of his beloved mother. ...
Marcoin's concept was of dual gods, one of a good thing and one of evils. ... Creating Jesus was the symbol of showing how a man can attain the purpose for which he has been created, and thus Jesus was created with only the spirit of goodness and not evil (Osborn). ...
Questions I and II What are the central concerns illustrated in the article "The Crisis of Belief"?" How does this show symbolically in the poem "Dover Beach,"" by Arnold? Response The central concern is the despair of the modern man who loses the certainty that belief gave him, the inner conflict ...
American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from...
The narrative of Christianity presented a story of salvation accomplished through the life of a Savior who was both human and divine, but individuals had to embrace this salvation by going through a ritual process where they are led through the darkness of evil demons to gain soteria or salvation (Haase, 1978). Consequently, Christianity was not only turned native in Graeco-Roman cities, but also helped to shape the Graeco-Roman world; conversely the Graeco-Roman world helped to shape Christianity giving it the language and all other creative symbols at its disposal to produce what we practic...
This fact plus the fact that the Allied nations needed to find a way to punish the Nazi aggressors and redress the evils they inflicted upon Europe forced them to invent a trial format which they deemed would appear as fair as could be constructed given the post-war circumstances (www.courttv.com/nuremberg/legacy.html). ... Using a trial format, which the majority of the world perceives as a symbol of justice, seemed the correct venue to obtain this closure. "The acts of Nazi Germany left no doubt that massive evil could emanate from the very summit of a nation state such a case called for an...
During his years at Harrow, Byron fell madly for his cousin, Mary Chaworth, who later turned him down and became his muse; Mary became the symbol of idealized and unattainable love in Byron's poetry (West 12). ... These extremes focus on the capability of good and evil: "the mortal interacts with the supernatural; pleasure is only found in the acceptance of suffering; there is an unsteady balance between responsibility and resilience against consequences" (West 57). ...
The purpose of this essay is to look at how the media is a source of 'knowledge' to present crime and victimisation and how the media invokes 'moral panics' about crime and lawless behaviour. There are a number of individuals who think when a person commits a crime they are punished for that crime. ...
Heroic tradition in literature Heroism cannot be discussed detached from a hero. "Heroes originate in the mists of time and myth" (Jokinen 1996). The quote could not be more true, heroes and their valorous deeds are wrapped in the mists of time and myth. The deeds are so valorous as to seem...
Everyone has encountered a "freak" at one time or another, whether at the mall or on the street or at a family function. They are most everywhere. When I use the term "freak" I don't mean it in any demeaning manner. I am referring to the outrageously dressed people in black ill-matched clothing, ...
Introduction I have chosen 19th century art and the Aesthetic Movement to consider What is an aesthetic? I chose this period because the aesthetic movement of the 19th century celebrated beauty for its own sake, not just in painting but also in furniture, textiles, ceramics, fashion and architecture. Beauty in the Victorian period was very much linked to lifestyle. It was also the period where photography first started to be widely used. Charles Baudelaire sums up the idea of beauty and aesthetics for me, he said: All beauties contain, like all possible phenomena, something eternal and somet...
Tom Pain's Common Sense (1776) delivered the first bold argument for independence in words any fairly literate person could understand: "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil". ...
The wars fought between the forces of good and evil are depicted on these walls flanking the largest gopura at Angkor. ... It should be noted that the forces of good are positioned on the outer most sections of these carvings, flanking the forces of evil that are trapped in the middle, seemingly pushing them towards the gopura entrance. ...
Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...
