The instincts of the peasants to self-interest, indifference and greed occur in the extreme times of war. ... 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. ...
This, in reality, also led to a horrid war, industrial squalor, the breakdown of traditional rural society, loss of faith, exploitation of other cultures and races, and a society built on power and greed. ... He interchanges the biblical symbols with predatory images: Christian dove for falcon; lamb for cannibal sphinx; and the Holy Spirit for the spiritus mundi, the spirit of this world. ...
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. ... The Christian allusion to the cross shaped bird, a symbol of good fortune, continues with a change of pace in the poem, seen through an internal rhyme in stanza 19, 'in mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, it perched for vespers nine; whiles all the night, through fog smoke white, glimmered the white moonshine'26. ...
The artworks included in this exhibition portray various artists' beliefs on human identity and what makes up their own personal and cultural identity, with human mutation being the key symbol and theme within the artworks. ... In fact, the figure walking down the path in the painting can be interpreted as Booth being forced to begin a journey into an apocalyptic world as a consequence of humankind's self-destructive violence and greed. ... Painting 1977 portrays what makes up Booth's personal and cultural identity: his childhood involving him growing up in a war torn country m...
India, Cambodia, and Indonesia are home to some of the most religiously influential megalithic structures of ancient Southeast Asia. These monuments stand before us in the present as faint remnants of the ancient civilizations that aspired to build towards the heavens. Each of the Hindu temples discussed in the coming pages were chosen because, while they were separated by hundreds of years and thousands of miles, each of the societies played a pivotal role in perpetuating the telling of the Hindu epic; the Ramayana as they observed in their own time. Many of the world's most elaboratel...
Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...
