Juxtaposing the endocentric paradigm of the play with the promiscuous atmosphere in Venetian society, reveals how women become the centre of suspicion and the object of not only male desire, but male obsession with the threat of adultery. ... The characters of Bianca and Emilia give a holistic view of the spaces occupied by women in Venice at this point of time. ... The theme of adultery, which drives the plot progression to tragedy, is expanded upon by the role of Othello's handkerchief. Besides being Iago's manipulative tool, the handkerchief introduces the themes of marriage, fide...

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However, the theme of suppression and domestic violence is developed very soon within the tale. ... There is a strong binary opposition of the masculine large and feminine small threading throughout the story, demonstrated in this scene, by Herr Brechenmacher not having enough room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in there with her daughter and no sense of it being too small. ... Until this point, the reader is offered a subjective and relatively narrow view of one relationship. ... As the wedding scene unfolds, the theme of oppression is quite bla...

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(e.g. the tempo, mood, character of each movement and each theme contrasts from the previous and the following movement or theme). ... He even leaves room in between the themes within a movement such as fermatas, long held notes, and cadences - which creates a false illusion for the listeners that the movement is coming to an end though it has merely only reached its halfway point. ... For instance, in movement II, Schumann starts out with a very lyrical and introspective theme that can be interpreted as the personalities of Eusebius and Murr. ... Likewise, in Schumann's Kreisleriana, t...

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Moreover, these themes and motifs offer insight into America's involvement in WWI and WWII. ... His overly active hands help and hinder his ability to communicate with others. ... This story gives us a closer view of George Willard's family: his mother, Elizabeth, and father, Tom. ... At that moment, George enters the room, her fury abates, and she casually tells George to go for a walk. ... The themes and motifs in Winesburg, Ohio offer a form of rebuke to 20th century America. ...

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The language used is simplistic, with little use of metaphors or even similes. ... The use of free indirect discourse allows the narrator to express events from Winston's point of view, sometimes echoing his thoughts, "And yet he was in the right!" ... If one assumes that, the narrator's voice is that of Orwell's then, the reader must also assume that his view is the one being expressed throughout the book. ... He sets out in the book the themes of the totalitarian society, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, and importantly language as a form of control. ... In the end, the narrator i...

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Hence, the theme of guilt emerges; the audiences feel a prick in their conscience as they behold the secret meeting between the two lovers. ... Prior to the stabbing of Arbogast, the birds-eye-view (perhaps coinciding with the bird motif) one gets from the extreme high angle grounds a helpless and shocking effect on the audience in which Hitchcock had intended. ... In fact, he toys with the audiences with elements of surveillance being imposed onto them in return. ... The use of the sunglasses complements the theme of unknown dark forces and succeeds in pulling off the effect of looking th...

• Word Count: 1889
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Within the films Glory and Django Unchained, there are several depictions of how whites viewed blacks during the time of the Civil War. ... This notion is exemplified in the scene where Django and Schultz enter a room in Calvin Candie's mansion where "Mandingo fighting" is taking place. ... We see this same theme of racial divide in the novel The March by E.L Doctorow. ... Whites attitudes towards blacks are a significant theme throughout the films Glory and Django Unchained. ... This same theme a racial sentiment is depicted in Django Unchained, as Django is continually charact...

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Kafka's The Metamorphosis presents the reader with many different themes throughout the story, including the significance of entrapment versus escape, as well as dependence. ... She was "no longer considering what she could do to give Gregor a special treat [but instead] hurriedly shoved any old food into Gregor's room with her foot" (43). ... He can provide good fun for himself daily simply in his own room. ... The theme of dependence also reversed with Gregor's metamorphosis into a vermin, as now his family cannot freely do their own thing, but most think about Gregor and ...

• Word Count: 1920
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This story of human survival highlights the themes of gender and class among many others that introduced the exploration of epic theatre. ... Finally there is human's coexistence with the land and nature that deals with perhaps the most challenging issue in the play, the drowning of Fish Lamb. ... Having an understanding of the style and context, the themes of gender and class can now be readily understood. ... Yet my fellow group members were considerably lucky in having clothes that catered to them easily found in the drama room where a few costumes could be of use. Our costumes themed ...

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A central theme in Protestantism is the belief of the calling, or one's duty. ... Marx and Weber's views on the origin of capitalism are strikingly different, but their views on the dynamics caused by capitalism are very similar. ... Weber seems to agree with much of what Marx has to say about the estrangement of man to his labor. ... Weber's estimation of the future of capitalism is less optimistic than the view Marx has. ... Unlike Weber, Marx did not believe any outside influences created or continued to run capitalism, so he saw more room for change than Weber did. ...

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Ibsen's use of symbolism in Hedda Gabler is able to dramatically represent psychological states of individuals and give power to the delivery of key themes. ... Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... All of the action as viewed by the audience takes place inside the drawing room, an indoor and private place. ... This use of a fourth wall realism works to mimic the appearance of a culturally recognizable space, in this case a family drawing room. ... You with your curly hair." ...

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Kafka uses this method to convey the ambiguity related to the theme of political, religious and philosophical law. ... The self is therefore denied the freedom to access knowledge and cannot ignore it – trapped with no answers. ... But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other" (Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories, page 197). ... But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other"). ... Interestingly, the only aspect of the story that is described in detail is the gatekeeper's appearance seen from the man's poi...

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The artists are reacting to traditional art movements with the aim to create something to engage with the audience. ... This image is reminiscent of a delivery room; the creature appears to have just been born, the doctor is showing it to those beyond the glass, and this also has connotations of a Frankenstein styled development of technology. ... Here Piccinini has presented her view of what these 'Perfect' babies would look like, the exaggeration of the form expressing her views. ... In our modern society, it is not the purpose of art to merely cause the audience discomfort in its...

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This surface view of the film indicates that, as with many other films produced during the height of the "Hollywood Era," one of the aims of the film was to entertain and earn money. ... The performance "Broadway Melody," exemplifies the movies themes and message through a self-conscious portrayal of the movie as a whole in song and dance. ... This message, associated with happiness and joy, is juxtaposed with the movie's second message that the fame has distorted and blinded the Hoofer to his original joy for performance. ... The Hoofer then begins a solo dance, dancing all around the ro...

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It was the era of the Great Depression and movie producers found it necessary to attract audiences with the lure of sexual themes and immoral topics on the screen. ... It was during a time when sex and crime were frequent themes in films and any evidence of virtue on the silver screen was diminishing. ... The accusation is that Arbuckle took advantage of Rappe while they were alone in a room, consequently crushing Rappe and resulting in her death at a hospital shortly thereafter. ... The Great Depression led to a downturn in the success of the motion picture industry, while the introduction o...

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A key theme in virtue ethics is the recognition of moral complexity. Within virtue ethics, the idea that a straightforward set of rules or definitive method of outlining our moral duty in each situation is clearly rejected for a different, less precise set of rules with much more room for situational exceptions. ... Another key theme in virtue ethics is moral understanding. ... The last key theme in virtue ethics is moral education. ... This outlines the theme of moral complexity in virtue ethics. ...

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The parents viewed the baby as "a fiend hid in the cloud" (Line 4), which shows the ingratitude of the parents towards the life of the newborn. ... On the contrary, the illustrations in Blake's original plate for "Infant Sorrow" are contrastingly in a dark room. ... This pessimistic point of view creates a bitter, cynical, scathing tone towards the social and religious structure that allows parents to pray in church while their children are sold into slavery. In this particular set of poems, Blake once again puts on different masks and disguises himself as different ch...

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This topic held true to his many themes such as, the eternal recurrence of the same, redemption myths, teleological narratives, the death of God, genealogies of God, Perspectivism, and the path to the Overhuman. ... In concurrence with this Romanticized view people begin to create redemption myths, the way their life is versus the way it should be, they begin to feel that the world they are in is not where they want to be. ... An example with Christianity, would state that in a community with intense suffering a group of people made an attempt to turn that suffering into a virtue, and then th...

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" Additionally, Hull House provided its members with a lifelong family. ... The family was provided with room, employment and childcare. ... Another similar theme within these two articles is the autonomy and independence from men that these women desired. ... This provided the group with a more effective political power, which was one of Hull House's main goals. ... Ultimately, these two articles in Women, Families and Communities supplemented the main themes in American History that occurred during these time periods and provided different views from women and other minorities that...

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Etant Donnes by Marcel Duchamp is an interactive sculpture where viewers firstly face a rustic and antiquated looking wooden door (figure 1) with a peephole (figure 2) in an empty room within the Philadelphia museum. ... The view is seen through a deliberately made hole which gives a feeling of distance and looking into another world (figure 4). ... Le Violin d'Ingres (figure 5) by Man Ray is a monochromatic photograph of a woman with a violin shaped body with f holes painted on her back to resemble a string instrument. ... The artwork incorporates the "male gaze theory", which...

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The theme of clandestine goings-on in the household has particular resonance for Dutch culture because it suggests the potential breakdown of the domestic order, an issue that dominated the didactic literature so prevalent in seventeenth-century Holland. ... In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... (p.63) Maes was also experimenting with vistas and adjoining paintings of women at household tasks. ... The young woman bending over her work is poised between two contagious spaces showing oblique views, one to the outdoo...

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Eva was able to gather large crowds of workers and families with a lot of enthusiasm to Perón in order to display his common views and give support to the people. ... Perón won with 54 % of the votes. ... There was no room or tolerance for others states to participate or even rebel against the disposition since it was all backed by the support of the armed forces. ... Vargas's leftist views brought him down in 1945, which then brought his efforts to rebuild Brazil to a halt. ... Unfortunately this is a common theme in Latin America for which the government takes advantage of its hard...

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The Swiss-born psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) worked closely with Freud between 1909 and 1913, but found himself distanced by Freud's views (Wad 120). ... The collective unconscious is a genetically inherited level of the mind containing what Jung called the "vast historical storehouse of the human race", a mental reservoir of ideas, symbols, themes, and archetypes (Jones 132). Archetypes are the common themes, or in Jung's words "mythological motifs", that emerge from the collective unconscious and reappear in symbolic form again and again in myths, symbol systems, and dream...

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Our legal system has increasingly become less concerned with the victim. Focus is no longer on who is most affected by a crime, instead it is put on the state and victim satisfaction with the outcome is ignored. ... Christie identifies two recurring themes in our legal system. ... There is no reason to think that Christie's view would resolve all the problems with the criminal justice system, nor would it bring about any sudden improvement. ... The consensus view of law holds that crimes are unacceptable to all elements of society. ...

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This is evident in the funeral home at his mother's wake and subsequent funeral, ˜the whiteness of the room seemed even more dazzling than before.' The room is intensely visual to him, ˜it was painful to the eyes.' ... Every one of us on the planet, in some way or form has connections and relationships with other forms of life, most commonly in humans, but others bond with animals and other aspects of nature which appeal to their personalities most. ... This quotation is very important as it highlights the cyclical nature of the novel and the theme of routines but ...

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