One of the interesting things is that at the beginning, it is not really known what the problem is. The narrator notes that it has something to do with the house repeating that, "there is something queer about it" (Gilman 541)
One of the major ways the play makes its point is by showing how men act and how they view women. This is seen when the sheriff is looking in the kitchen and states that there is "nothing here but kitchen things" (Glaspell 997)
" Like Glaspell, she presents woman as they are viewed. This is seen in the first five lines of the poem (Millay 895): I, being born a woman, and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast In this case, however, Millay is focusing on how women are seen as sexual beings, with this their primary purpose
In this painting, Chardin provides a scene of a simple room in which a mother and her small daughters are about eat supper. The mood of this painting is highlighted by "quiet attention with hushed lighting, mellow colors and still life kitchen accessories, all placed within a humble domestic atmosphere" (Andersen, 1969, p
Many so-called enlightened monarchs made it possible for men like Voltaire to attack old European systems and call for limitations related to the privileges of the monarchy, the aristocracy and the clergy. The period between the death of King Louis XIV of France in 1715 and the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 served as a time of great social change in most of Europe and the ruling aristocracies, obviously fully aware of their decreasing importance in society, "gradually abandoned their societal positions in favor of men belonging to the "Third Estate," being the increasingly wealthy and influential middle class" (Conisbee, 2007, p
Another painting from a later period of the Rococo is known as the Return of the Prodigal Son (1777 to 1778), rendered by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725 to 1805), a painter who became widely popular with the French middle classes and whose artistic approach to genre painting bordered on pure sentimentality. In this painting, Greuze "expresses perfectly the transition of taste from the Rococo to nineteenth-century Romanticism which is sometimes referred to as the "Age of Sensibility" (Smith & Cheal, 2003, p
Most assuredly, the greatest painter most closely linked to Neoclassicism and regarded as the father of neoclassical artistic expression in painting is Jacques Louis David (1748 to 1825) who "rebelled against the Rococo as an artificial taste and exalted classical art as the imitation of nature in her most beautiful and perfect form." David's artistic doctrine of the superiority of classical art was based upon the idea that art must "contribute forcefully to the education of the public and must at all times reflect the social conscience of a nation in the form of nationalistic propaganda" (Thompson, 1988, p
Compared to paintings rendered during the early years of the Baroque, those done during the Rococo period exhibited a relatively new type of artistic expression known as genre painting. Basically speaking, genre painting, as opposed to painting styles, may include still life, landscapes, seascapes and portraits, but during the Rococo period, genre painting came to be understood as "paintings which illustrate common, everyday activities of common men and women and at times royalty or the nobility" (Walker, 1994, p
An outsider's view also helps to provide police, and the reader, with new information. Sherlock Holmes understood how he contributed to ongoing police investigations, once informing Watson, "You see, but you do not observe" (Doyle)
Between World War I and World War II, the detective fiction genre thrived and helped to establish what is known as "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction." Building upon Poe's fictional elements, "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction" witnessed a mass introduction of new detectives, a strong emphasis on puzzles and solutions, and "classical complicated plots" (Mansfield-Kelly and Marchino 6)
Poe states that the analytical man "derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, or hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural" (Poe 141)
Once again, Sherlock Holmes's quip of seeing, but not observing comes into play. Like Dupin, Holmes is able to explain what clues led him to unravel the mystery of the story, which allows readers to understand why the author chose to reveal certain details even though they may have seemed irrelevant at the time (Wilson 216)
The genre-work, because of its pre-existing forms, explores the world more slowly. Its hallmark is less flash of inspiration than the deep exploration of craft" (Braudy, 438)
The genres used in the modern world film industry have also significantly undergone transformation and modification to obtain what seems to be acceptable by most audiences of the films. The film industry has evolved from the use of a single genre to a combination of various genres to make films that are more interesting and captivating to the audience (Tolette 35)
The genre in both films presents the heroes as having a fatal flaw. This is presented in 'Iron man 2' when finally Tony Stark dies (Ebert 296)
The genre also increases entertainment, as the superheroes can do activities and actions beyond the human abilities. Using the superhero genre, the films can bring light to the public on how the law can at times act as a hindrance to social justice, and it requires an ability to go beyond the law to portray the truth (MacGowan 51)
This paper will analyze the crime film and the variety of perspectives from which it has engaged American audiences since its inception; showing how, through its various influences and inspirations -- from Germany's Fritz Lang (M) to Hong Kong cinema and British, Russian, and American literature -- it has revealed the American consciousness as one in which the battle between good and evil is fought, as Dostoevsky said, in every human heart. Influences and Inspirations: the Heroic Paradigm The crime film and film noir genres, though dating in American cinema back to the very beginning of the twentieth century with the one-reel shorts that depicted cops against robbers and other notorious or fringe-characters (Dirks), really found their inspiration in the classic novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (the Underground Man figuring as the prototype for all modern anti-heroes) (White)
But Chow's Kung Fu looks beyond Asia to find its true heritage: Hollywood. No other film in modern cinema has crossed cultures or genres so well or even come close to accomplishing what Hustle has -- as Bill Murray said, calling it "the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy…That movie is just AHHHHHH!" (Fierman 2010)
One of O'Connor's most iconic characters is The Misfit, an escaped convict who (anticipating the nation's coming slew of murder-sprees) fails to bat an eye at the thought of murdering an entire family in broad daylight. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" dwells, however, not on the Misfit's wrong-doings, but on the fact that he makes more metaphysical sense than the "good people" he slaughters in the woods, expressing the truth of American malaise and spiritual mediocrity: "She would of been a good woman,' The Misfit said, 'if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life'" (O'Connor)
¶ … Crime Film Genre and the Heroic Paradigm The American crime film genre has been used throughout the 20th century as a vehicle for a variety of themes: from explorations of social degradation (White Heat) to social injustice and Christian allegory (On the Waterfront) to moral ambiguity (The Maltese Falcon, Touch of Evil) to action spectacle and car chases (The French Connection, Bullitt) to analyses of lost innocence and media corruption (Badlands, Natural Born Killers) to the film noir homage (Miller's Crossing). But primarily, the crime film genre has been used to represent a dual mentality in the American social fabric: "The first gangster cycle condemned and glorified the brutality of the underworld" (Mast 270)