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In pieces of literature such as, The Yellow Wallpaper and A Room of One’s Own, authors use symbolism to provide a deeper meaning which enhances the purpose of the piece so that it is clear that femininity and the domestic treatment of women has led to subordination and a lack of autonomy (independency). One way…

Just as Impressionism played a key role in Modernism, another revolutionary art movement is Cubism. About 30 years after the first Modernist movement Impressionism begun, Cubism was slowly replacing it. “Since the Renaissance almost all paintings had obeyed a convention”, Pablo Picasso ditched this convention of three dimensionality illusions, rather creating an extreme demolished picture…

These days, there seems to be no shortage in site for franchises. Studios today take this approach to minimize expenditures and increase revenue, via ticket sales, merchandise sales, and product placement deals. Because of this, blockbuster films are often called “two and a half hour commercials”. Hollywood takes this approach because of past film franchise…

Kate Chopin’s controversial novel, The Awakening, presents the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, on a quest of self-questioning and fulfillment. Edna alienates herself from the flawed society of the Victorian Era that is her unfortunate reality. Her process of transforming from the imprisonment of her marriage to an individualistic woman highlights aspects of realism, specifically the social…

Derogatory language has a lengthy history in being used to demean people of certain minority populations. The way some words are defined by society can change. However, it takes much time and general acceptance by society for a meaning to amend. Marcus Schulzke explores the notion of meaning transformation in his scholarly article. Schulzke (2012)…

The narrator in The Scarlet Letter is the lens through which the reader interprets the narrative. A reading of the novel, however, becomes complicated since there are, possibly, different narrative perspectives. The novel is set in the seventeenth-century; therefore characters cannot see beyond the religious ideology of the time, Puritanism. Yet, The Scarlet Letter was…

In this story the main character “Gregor” who Kafka uses to reflect his own life of alienation and abandonment. Gregor is seen as a salesman who works day in and day out to support his family who has never given him a dime.” I agree with Robbie Batson Reality Through Symbolism, about the similarities between…

“The Breakfast Club” is the movie that I choose to analyze in views of the three sociology theories. This move directly relates to crime and deviance. I discovered a lot by analyzing and watching the film at the same time, a lot in which I did not know before. Doing these analyses really helps one…

For years woman have fought for an equal place in society. Long before the 1890’s, women were taught they had a domestic role in society. The social code in this time period consisted of all women getting married to soon starts a family at a young age. If a woman did not get married, they…

Selma, the 2014 film, encapsulates the heroic leadership of Martin Luther King Jr though the Civil Rights Movement. He gathers civil right activists from all over the globe to come to Selma, and march to Alabama in peaceful protests in a fight to give African Americans the right to vote. The movie pieces together the…