...Love is a prominent motif in 1984. It is portrayed as a restriction; a law in which to love is to commit a crime. This restriction arouses the concept of forbidden love, where two people in love are prohibited to meet each other or be with each other. Forbidden love is seen primarily as thought-crime in Big Brother's empire Oceania. Thought-crime is basically when a person simply thinks of committing an action that would cause harm to the society or lead to the start of the revolution. The best example of forbidden love is seen when Julia wanted to meet Winston. For them to communicate out of work would have been thought-crime so to cope with it they meet in Victory Square. There, without any eye contact, Julia informs Winston where they can meet secretively. This sort of meeting is forbidden love because previously Julia had given Winston a note saying "I love you" which directly shows the love and thought-crime is the equivalent of forbidden (Orwell 108). The fact that Julia and Winston met in Victory Square also hints forbidden love because two lovers had to inform each other as to where they could meet in secrecy thus showing the restrictions of Oceania. Another example where forbidden love is seen is in Mr. Charrington's house. He is a prole, people of Oceania who are said to be equal to animals and have no contact with the real working class of Oceania, and his house supposedly has no telescreen. This poses as a great opportunity for Julia and Winston to meet...
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...Forbidden Love Felicia Bell English 125:Introduction to Literature Instructor Kamisha Kirby July 10, 2012 In “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer the reader is told the tragic love story of Paulus and Thebedi. We follow the seemingly innocent beginnings of their mutual attraction to the incomprehensible ending that leaves an infant dead. Although the ending is unexpected it is not shocking because from the start of the story it is foreshadowed that Paulus and Thebedi will not live happily ever-after together. The main theme of the story is forbidden love. The setting, race and class of the main characters makes it impossible for the reader to imagine the story ending in any other way then those characters being separated. The story is told from the point of view of an omniscient third person narrator. This allows us to know how the main characters feelings for each other build and diminish. In the first line of the story the narrator tells us that,” The farm children play together when they are small, but once the white children go away to school they don't play together anymore, even at holiday(N. Gordimer,1975).”.The line signifies that although the characters themselves are not aware of what awaits them in the future the narrator is aware. The narrator also gives the reader insight into the social formalities of the time. The reader learns from the narrator that the story is set in a society where someones position in life is largely determined...
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...A Story of Race and a Forbidden Love Kevin Michael Albeck (KEABEC2492) ENG125 Prof. Danielle Slaughter November 16, 2012 The story “Country Lovers was written in 1975 when times were different then they are today. This story was written about a farmer’s son and one of the children of the farm’s help. There are many aspects of this story that are wrong but the most pronounced one is the racial segregation. Even though certain races are perceived as inferior to some, there should be no such thing because we all need to work together to make the planet a better place and lives are ruined over racial this segregation. The theme of this story is about tough choices and racial divides. Throughout the story you have mention of how segregated they are. The white boy lives in the farm house while the black girl and the rest of the help live in a kraal. The boy goes off to boarding school to learn while the black children get a second rate education if any. This story is all about racial segregation, something that is still very prominent in Africa today. The story is set in Africa where segregation and racial inequality are the country’s way of life. The story is set on a farm were the children will play together during early childhood and then they start going to school. The white kids will be given a better education while the black kids are given a much lower education and by the age of thirteen the divide between them is pretty large. Two...
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...We all know that Romeo and Juliet has countless remakes, but why? Because Romeo and Juliet is considered a classic. Many people of all ages love this play because they can relate to some of the themes, or make connections to the story line. Between the years 1591 and 1596, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, along with many other plays. Directors have been writing and directing plays and movies that are all based off of Romeo and Juliet, including Twilight and Titanic. West Side Story is a musical that is more modern example of a Romeo and Juliet, because it has the forbidden love, the feud between both sides, and the most of the main characters sacrifice themselves. Evidently, in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo comes off as a smart, passionate,...
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...On first glance, Forbidden Planet can easily be seen to parallel many other works relating to technology, nature, or both. One of the most obvious parallels is, of course, to Shakespeare's The Tempest, the story of a man stranded on an island which he has single-handedly brought under his control through the use of magic. Indeed, the characters, plot, and lesson of Forbidden Planet mirror almost exactly those of The Tempest, with the exception that where The Tempest employs magic, Forbidden Planet utilizes technology. At this point, it is useful to recall one of Arthur C. Clarke's more famous ideas, which is that any technology, when sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. Indeed, the technology presented in Forbidden Planet is not meant to be understood by the audience, but rather is, for all intents and purposes, magic. This is undoubtedly in part because the technology doesn't exist and therefore cannot be explained to us. What is more important, however, is that how the technology works is irrelevant for the purpose of the movie, which is to entertain and to teach us a lesson about man's control over the elements and over his own technological creations. At this point a brief synopsis of the movie would seem to be in order, with special attention as to how it relates to The Tempest. In The Tempest, a man named Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been exiled to a remote...
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...Charlotte Temple is a novel about the seduction of an innocent English girl and the down fall of those who betrayed her. It tells how Charlotte’s innocence prevents her from seeing the true evil intentions of Mademoiselle La Rue and the evil nature of Belcour. Her naïve and innocence also prevents her to think rationally when it came to love and Montraville. Throughout the novel, there are many aspects of this story that makes it uniquely American. The American dream, importance of education and religion and the fact that nature always win are some of the qualities that makes a novel American. All these American qualities are introduced and presented in this tale of Charlotte Temple. Many immigrants risk their lives by crossing the treacherous ocean to come to America in hopes to pursue the American dream for themselves and their future generations. To obtain the American dream of success, fame, status and fortune, some are even willing to achieve it at any cost. In the novel of Charlotte Temple, there are many examples where the characters are willing to pursue this dream even if it means to do evil. Montraville is a prime example of someone who came to America in hopes of achieving the American dream. He was a soldier from England that came to America in hopes to further advance his career as a soldier. Not long after Montraville arrives to New York with Charlotte, he meets a Miss Julia Franklin. Though Montraville himself comes from a wealthy family, he was told by his...
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...George Orwell's essay 'Shooting an Elephant' gives remarkable insight into the human psyche. The essay presents a powerful theme of inner conflict. Orwell feels strong inner conflict between what he believes as a human being, and what he believes and should do as an imperial police officer. The author is amazingly effective in illustrating this conflict by providing specific examples of contradictory feelings, by providing an anecdote that exemplified his feelings about his situation, and by using vivid imagery to describe his circumstances. A police officer in the British Raj, the supposedly 'unbreakable'; ruling force, was afraid. With his gun aimed at an elephant's head, he was faced with the decision to pull the trigger. That officer was George Orwell, and he writes about his experience in his short essay “Shooting an Elephant” to save face, he shrugged it off as his desire to “avoid looking the fool” (George Orwell, 77). In truth, the atmosphere of fear and pressure overwhelmed him. His inner struggle over the guilt of being involved in the subjugation of a people added to this strain, and he made a decision he would later regret enough to write this story. In his essay, Orwell describes how the abuses and treatment he witnessed oppressed him with an intolerable sense of guilt, (Orwell, 72). This is not some minor pang, or nagging worry. The shame pressed down on his shoulders with an unbearable weight. He also describes the injustices in detail...
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...metaphysical conceit for life. The blast, or pop, of the bubble, alludes that a popped bubble is akin to death. The Narrator questions how long the bubble will last, because the bubbles will always pop. The Author suggests that life is a bubble; a bubble may float freely and may even cover a great distance before the pop of the bubble, but the pop is imminent so no matter the distance travelled by the bubble it will always just pop in the end. This is the Author’s statement about how we exist to die, so why fight it when it is easier to accept the unavoidable just like the narrator does. Bradstreet alludes to a introduction of the end when she references Adam from the biblical anecdote of Adam and Eve, specifically when Adam consumed the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.”For Adam’s sake this Word God spake / when he so high provoked” (lines 7,8). These two lines represent when Adam ate this fruit of knowledge in the Garden of Eden and the subsequent reaction of God when he awards Adam with mortality. This entails the transition from life as something that would be linear and forever into something that now has a circularity, that life is now a bubble. When the Poet mentions God in the poem, not only is it a characteristic of the new found relationship between science and religion, but the usage of terms such as “salvation” aids the narrator finds peace in an idea that is sure to occur, unlike all that is unsure when the pop of the bubble is concerned. That the narrator...
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...Case Analysis: DMG- Shanghai GM598ON Spring A 1. It is obvious why guanxi and guanxiwang are so important in China. The people are very focused on connections, and building relationships with people. When you have a culture that is that focused on that, it would be illogical not to. I was always brought up to never burn bridges and build good professional relationships, because you never know when you might need a favor. By building the relationships they did, they were able to film in the Forbidden City. That was all due to the fact that the company respected the Chinese culture and religious beliefs. That would have never happened, had they not been sensitive to those aspects. Building relationships is essential to operating a successful business. I know when I sold advertising I would have never had repeat clients had I not taken the time to build good respectful relationships with them. 2. If a company was to go in to China and try to obey all of the rules and regulations they would be eaten alive. There is no way they would be successful. It seems like the only real rule that has to be followed is guanxi. Rules and regulations can be bent when there is a great working relationship and respect from both parties. Obviously, the company is very attentive to that and takes it very seriously. If a company came in worried only about the rules and not the people they are interacting with, they would essentially be booted out of the country. 3. I would think that...
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...Dong Won Moon Ms. Jana Russ World Civilizations: China 23 July 2009 What were the reasons which caused Qing Dynasty to fall? And why is that important? What was the opportunity that does China got a foothold in modernization? What is the last Kingdom of the history of China? The Qing dynasty was the last kingdom ever lasted in Chinese history. In fact, the fall of the Qing dynasty facilitated modernization of China, however there were three main reasons which caused collapse of Qing dynasty: Empress Dowager Cixi, Opium war and rebellions during Qing period. First, who is Empress Dowager Cixi? As the textbook “CHINA: A Cultural, Social, and Political History” by Patricia Buckley Ebrey said the Cixi was most powerful person during the self-strengthening period. To maintain her authority, she chose her four years old cousin after her son’s death. The record also said that Cixi was a skillful political operator (p.223). However, Cixi was sided with conservative parts which caused French fleet attack on China (p.224). So this was the reason why Qing got attacked from foreign forces which the dynasty gradually got weakened, so Cixi was one of the reason why Qing dynasty got perished. This was also pretty interesting issue that it was kind of opposite view comparing to Kangxi who lived to perceive the Qing Empire firmly established (p.190). Another big issue that caused Qing dynasty to fall was the Opium War. As the textbook by Ebrey, it said that by the late 18th century...
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...The author of this document is Emperor Qianlong, ruler of China from 1735 to 1795. He ruled longer than any other ruler of the Qian dynasty. He was an excellent military tactician and under his command, the Manchu empire expanded its territory. This letter was written as a response to requests from King George III. King George III sent Lord McCartney to improve trade relations with China. He was seeking trading restrictions to be more relaxed, the procurement of a small island for British traders to reside and store their goods, and for the establishment of a permanent British Embassy in Beijing. Qian Long, did not like the British diplomat Lord McCartney because he would not perform the kowtow. “Lord McCartney told the Chinese legate...
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...SE2421 Contemporary Women’s Writing Week 5: 1 November 2011 Dr Becky Munford (munfordr@cardiff.ac.uk) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) Language, bodies, desire [pic] Word games (1) ‘I didn’t know what it meant, or even what language it was in….Still, it was a message, and it was in writing, forbidden by that very fact, and it hadn’t yet been discovered. Except by me, for whom it was intended.’ (chapter 9, p. 62) (2) ‘So that’s what’s in the forbidden room! Scrabble!...Now it’s forbidden, for us. Now it’s dangerous. Now it’s indecent. Not it’s something he can’t do with his Wife. Now it’s desirable…We play two games. Larynx, I spell. Valance. Quince. Zygote. I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. The feeling is voluptuous. This is freedom, an eyeblink of it. Limp, I spell. Gorge. What a luxury. The counters are like candies, made of peppermint, cool like that. Humbugs, those were called. I would like to put them into my mouth. They would also taste of lime. The letter C. Crisp, slightly acid on the tongue, delicious.’ (chapter 23, p. 149) (3) Offred uses [scrabble] as a mirror for herself, as a way of hearing her own voice in an otherwise engulfing, enforced silence. Atwood uses it, I would suggest, as an image of the text, as a mise en abîme, in which one can see this autobiographical ‘tale’ as a Scrabble board on which we must also play. If we have trouble with the plotting of the narrative or the structure...
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...The Last Emperor: Truth and Misleading In 1987, a film came into theaters across the globe about China’s last emperor. The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, shows the life of Pu-Yi from when he enters the Forbidden City at age three to become emperor of China, to his final days as a reformed man. The film, although it showed how China was during the Qing Dynasty in a fairly honest light, also had its downfalls. Many problems plagues the last years of the Qing Dynasty, such as the Republic Revolutions, opium, warlords, and the confusing relationship with Japan and it’s government during this time. These issues were either not touched on or barely noticeable during the almost three hour long film. The story of Pu Yi, China’s last emperor, starts with him being taken to the Forbidden City at the age of three. The Dowager Empress “arranged once more for a boy emperor.” (Morton, 174) Pu Yi would not stay emperor long, as he would lose that title in 1912 because of the Republican Revolution. Formed by Sun Yat-Sen, it was a revolution against imperial rule. This revolution was also largely a military revolt and the beginnings of a fast changing government. In the film this Revolution seemed to hardly happen. Although the young emperor was being protected from the outside world, it would have made the film more historically clear if this event was explained more in depth. As an important event during that was part of Pu Yi’s loss of power, the Republic Revolution should...
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...artwork, which were pasted on a canvas. Size and scale: The canvas is 28x36. The apples are 150 in diameter size. FORMAL ELEMENTS OF ART 1. Lines: There are squiggly, curved, and diagonal lines. 2. Shape: The apples are round although they are bitten. 3. Form: The sculpture has squiggly, curved, and diagonal lines. 4. Space: Positive space: apples Negative space: canvas 5. It is three-dimensional. 6. Color: Hue: red, white, and yellow Value: warm Intensity: The sculpture may be warm-looking but it does not affect how people feel about it. 7. Texture: The apples are not good to look at, but we can see that it makes a person curious to touch them if they’re real or not. ICONOGRAPHIC ELEMENT Apple in religion is a forbidden fruit. This shows what Adam and Eve did when they listened to the snake in the garden of eden. DISTINCTIVE ELEMENTS Basically, the picture shows two frames and each frame contain apples that have bites. What makes them distinct is one frame is crowded with apples that there is no room left and the other frame is only filled with a few apples which still has a lot of room. Analysis of Principles The artwork is repetitious and chaotic. USE OF LIGHT The artwork has a warm tone due to the redness of the apple. Likewise shadowy, because the artwork looks dark and mysterious. SPACE AND LANDSCAPE For the right frame, the canvas was filled with apples leaving no negative space. On the other frame, it only shows a...
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...woman’s ability to bear children as “partly denied and partly devaluated” because Eve was cursed to bear children in sorrow and because she tempted Adam to take a bite of the forbidden apple they see women as sexual temptresses, “who plunge men into misery”. While I was reading the article the only thing I couldn’t stop thinking about was what happened between my best friend and I, and it wasn’t just because his name happens to be Adam. We were best friends all throughout high school until our senior year. He was and still is the only person who ever understood me better than I even understand myself; it was like he could read my mind. I can say with complete confidence that I never had one romantic thought about him our whole friendship; it was just like we were meant to be best friends. I can’t speak for him but I can guess that he never held any romantic feelings for me either. We did everything together, went everywhere together, and told each other everything. At the start of senior year things started to get a little weird, he started to avoid me and chose to hang out with his guy friends more often than me. When I confronted him about it he told me that people had been talking about us and spreading rumors that we were in a relationship and he couldn’t have people thinking that because he was in love with...
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