...How does guy de Maupassant present the character Mathilde in ‘the necklace’? Guy de Maupassant was a French writer in the 19th century, he is considered as one of the fathers of the short story. The necklace is a short story about a woman called Madame Matilde loisel and her husband Charles. Mathilde appears to be an unpleasant middle class woman who believes she was made for a rich life. Madame Matilde Loisel is lucky enough to obtain invitations to the Ministry of the Public Instruction party; because she is middle class and cannot afford jewellery to wear she borrows a necklace from her good friend Madame Jeanne Forestier. But whilst coming home from the party she loses the necklace. This leads her to start a new life of poverty. Through the use of indirect discourse, Maupassant shows the reader Mathilde’s innermost thoughts, “she was one of those pretty, delightful girls who, apparently be some error of fate, get themselves born the daughters of very minor civil servants.” By doing this he draws her attention to her vanity and her self-centred nature, “if she had noticed the substitution, what would she have thought? What would she have said would she have not concluded she was a thief?” the effect of the free indirect discourse is highlighted by Maupassant use of hyperbole, “she was unhappy all the time…the rundown apartment they lived in… was torture to her. ”Maupassant uses tricolons and other forms of repetition to exaggerate Mathilde’s emotions, making her seem incredibly...
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...wilderness. When Fossie pressured her to return to the states, Mary Anne decided to leave and escape into the jungles, describing in detail how she changed and wore a necklace made of human tongues. Kiley stopped there abruptly, which irritated Sanders as “it’s against the rules” to finish the story without an ending. Later resuming his tale and satisfying Sander’s curiosity, Kiley reminded him that the ending was not from personal experience but a speculation. In this chapter, the author had two purposes: prove how fiction and truth are often blended together...
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...In Tim O’Brien's novel, The Things They Carried, the character Mary Anne Bell is portrayed as a young, innocent girl who travels to Vietnam to be with her boyfriend, Mark Fossie, and ends up sacrificing her innocence in the war-torn country. Throughout the story, Mary Anne transforms from a nave, innocent girl to a fierce and bloodthirsty soldier reflecting what she values and how the war has changed her. Mary Anne is introduced as a sweet and innocent girl who initially brings a sense of normalcy and femininity to the soldiers' lives. She is described as having a "necklace of human tongues" and this image represents her transition from a sweet and innocent girl to a violent and ruthless fighter. As time passes, she becomes more involved in the war and embraces the violence and...
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...Feminist scholar Linda Nochlin explains that "art is not a free autonomous activity of a super-endowed individual…but rather… occurs in a social situation, is an integral element of social structure, and is mediated and determined by specific and definable social institutions".[1] While art functions as a gateway for personal creativity and expression, it inevitably carries the influence of a far greater context outside the artist himself. Across cultures, time periods, and movements, art has presented various patterns in style and subject matter inextricably linked to values of the larger society. Viewers do not simply witness these products of history, but engage in personal experiences and responses provoked by them. Thus, art has served as a powerful engine both reflecting and fueling political, social, and religious ideologies.[2] In particular, the subject of women has accumulated controversial discussion in the visual arts because of consistencies witnessed across all these constructs. In exploring female representations in art, feminist scholars have particularly noted the perpetual limitations set upon women not only as subjects but as spectators. While artistic movements progressed over the centuries, it appears the connotations of women have remained stagnant. Even in the early 20th century which saw a turn in traditional gender roles, painting continued to be dominated by the male experience demonstrated in the guises of the nude, despite aesthetic and conceptual differences...
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...In the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien it featured a character named Mary Anne Bell going through a transformation into a new character called the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. Mary Anne Bell was a very friendly girl, straight out of Cleveland Heights Senior High whereas the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, a character more determined and adapted to war decided to join the Green Berets because she loved the feel of the ambush and wore her human tongue trophies threaded along a copper wire necklace. When Mary Anne was introduced in the book she was described as being young and innocent. She didn’t know about all the aspects of life in the Vietnam war, but it was just like Eddie Diamond had said “This girl will most definitely learn” (92). After learning about how to treat wounded soldiers and how to use an M-16 she became more determined in what she wanted. She even said that everything she wanted was in Vietnam. This was when she began to transform into the Sweetheart because she was already determined in what she wanted, which was the surge of adrenaline that came with the Vietnam war. Mary Anne completely transforms into the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong after her first ambush with the Green Berets. Mary Anne stated “When i'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I...
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...First, Dunbar changed physically. Dunbar became so fond of the Sioux he began to live with them. He shared a tent with a savage, a person that anyone in the army would have shot down immediately. He also dressed like them. Dunbar gave up his army hat for an indian necklace which showed a huge change in what was really important to him at the time. In addition, Dunbar ate the raw buffalo heart, which can be seen as savage in a white mans view. However, in this case Dunbar saw it has a form of being accepted. Shortly after Dunbar had been staying with the indians he was even given a name. John Dunbar was...
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...the central government, and also happened to be a very good fit with the watch business as articles of adornment.The best known brand names in both Europe and America had watches and jewellery together, offering further proof that the two industries are intrinsically linked. It was a business with a huge wealth potential and it added a very feminine offering to Tata’s long line of products that appealed mostly to the opposite gender. It also called for an organization that inspired trust and had high order design, manufacturing, marketing and retailing skills, and Tata fit the bill on all accounts. A revolution in Gold Purity Standards across the country. Tanishq was coined from a combination of Tata/Tamil Nadu and Nishq (meaning a necklace of gold coins) and, again, from Tan, meaning body and Ishq, meaning love. It was launched in 1994 as a range of jewellery and jewellery watches meant for the European & American markets. But things began to change globally around this time, and the West entered a protracted period of slow economic growth followed by recession. Supplying jewellery to the Americans & Europeans...
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...The conflict between commercialization and socio-cultural deterioration : “Gamperaliya”, “Kaliyugaya” and “Yuganthaya” by Martin Wickramasinghe The noble trilogy of the Sinhalese literature “Gamperaliya”, “Kaliyugaya” and “Yuganthaya” by Martin Wickramasinghe, is an eminent manifestation of a real time conflict, which divulges socio-economic transformations from 18th to 19th century, during contemporary Sri Lanka. Therefore it’s needless to say that these three legendary fictions, prima facie, visualize the sequential impacts of alienation of commercialization in to the conservative social system of Sri Lanka. I would say the trilogy is, much more of commercial substance rather than for its literal importance. Nevertheless for ages, there has been a question whether the writer in his books is, merely insisting commercialisation as a big disaster, which utterly destructed the spectacular socio cultural system inherited to Sri Lankans. Through, reading between the lines one could clearly say that, he was not at all assaulting commercialization, but the snobbish affectation of the society, sculptured through westernization, who took wrong the purpose of commercialization. (Sarathchandra,E. 1997) Therefore my discussion intend to stress, commercialization is not the key of destruction but the key of success for a nation’s development. My theory is built upon two facts that question the validity of the arguments of ancient critics like Piyadasa Sirisena, who plainly renege economic...
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...Transformation, the inevitable progress of society, whether it be positive or negative, reflects clearly through many means. Towering Renaissance architecture and Victorian Palaces, different political systems and rulers, food and language and literature, each period consists its own uniqueness. Clothing is no exception. From the toga of the Romans to the gown of Elizabethans, clothing reflects on the taste and style of the people in that particular era. It is of relatively absolute truth to acknowledge that dress is more than an object of concealment. The physical body when dressed gave intimation about the personality of its wearer and the surrounding society as well. For example, Romans royals wore purple while its citizens garb in simple garments like tunic. In Renaissance era, men and women of noble births would wear satin, velvet decorative dresses, while the peasants would only drape in cheap clothes. The disparity in apparel between noble people and poor people is a quintessence of reflection on social orders. During these periods that segregate people according to their ranks, clothing is affected by the segregation as well. However, as we move into Colonial Period, the idea of ranks begin to dissolve. Instead, clothing is more synonymous with a person’s occupation and religious affiliation. Now in our contemporary society, a society of complete freedom and equality, clothing plays more a key role in expressing personality. From the roaring twenties with flapper’s...
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...Conservation a tool for Urban Regeneration Heritage Conservation in Tainan Submitted By: ANIQA SOUD NISHANT BHATEJA SABREENA ASHRAF SUDHAKAR CHAUDHARY Clockwise from top: Downtown Tainan, Statue of Yoichi Hatta, THSR Tainan Station , Dan zai noodles, Fort Provintia, Beehive firework in Yanshui. • Tainan is located in the south western part of Taiwan and in the north of Kaohsiung City. • Being the fourth largest city in Taiwan, Tainan has an area of about 174 square kilometer with population of 750,000. • It is one of Taiwan's cultural capitals, for its rich folk cultures including the famous local snack food, extensively preserved Taoist rites and other living local traditions. Country Taiwan Map Tainan city Map Overview of Fort Zeelandia in Tainan, Taiwan, painted around 1635 HISTORY Tainan gateway to the sea during Qing Dynasty • Tainan is the island’s oldest city which was settled in 1590, which was once under Dutch colonial rule from 1624 to 1661. • It became an ancient capital of Taiwan after Cheng Cheng-kung took over the island from Dutch. • In 1684, the Qing Empire conquered Taiwan • After 100 years, the Qing dynasty was defeated by Japan and Tainan was ceded to Japan Heritage Conservation in Tainan Tainan has a long historical development and thus there is a range of heritage found in the city including temples, forts, government office building and court. Fort Provintia By the end of 2004, there...
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...Nia Nguyen A Blame on Nothing and Nothingness Abject: A Rereading of Vertigo “In a male libidinal economy… the only good woman is a dead woman.” Slavoj Zizek, A Pervert’s Guide to Cinema Robin Wood began his landmark studies, Hitchcock’s Films (1965), with the rhetorical question, “Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?” Yet it was also Wood himself who revised the question in 1983. He asks, “Can Hitchcock be saved for feminism?” While there is no denying the brilliance of Hitchcock’s subjective camera and his skillful manipulation of identification processes, one cannot help but loathe the pungent misogyny prevalent in his works. Vertigo (1958) is arguably no exception. Laura Mulvey, a vocal and influential feminist film critic, contends that Vertigo elucidates an active sadistic voyeurism of the male gaze that subjects the woman, as object-of-desire, to realize his impossible fantasy, time and again at the cost of brutish violence against her body and psychological wellness.[1] Also exploiting Freud’s theory, Tania Modleski deciphers female suffering in Vertigo as a punishment for her inherently close relationship with the mother with which the men envy.[2] In drawing on the phallocentric models of Freud and Lacan, these criticisms bear a blind spot in that they assume certain essentialist sexual development characteristics to formulate the backbone of their analysis, such as Mulvey’s reading of object-of-desire or Modleski’s draw on bisexuality...
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...speche hym refte;unnethes myghte he seye, ‘O deth, allas, why nyltow do me deye? Acorsed be that day which that nature Shop me to ben a lyves creature!” (Page 237) This is an excellent example of the self pity expression of pain; he’s at war with himself, his loss and the overwhelming pain that the loss has caused him. He even says the pain may cause him to die, “O deth, allas, why nyltow do me deye?” which is a powerful sentence showing pain eating away at him and its increasing gains in the war against is mental health. Troilus has become victim to his pain and becomes a complaining sobbing and pathetic man for most rest of the book. Although he has yet to discover that she has found another lover. He discovers it later when he finds the necklace he gave Criseyde when they were laying together on Diamede’s armor that is recovered in battle. This makes him even more upset and he goes into...
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...TANISHQ Tanishq is the leading, prominent jewellery brand in India. It is the largest, most desirable and fastest growing jewellery brand. It pioneered the concept of branded jewellery in India. Being a division of Titan Industries Limited, a company promoted by TATA group, it is one of India’s largest conglomerates. The name was formed by combining ‘Tata’ and ‘Nishk’ (meaning necklace). Another combination is ‘Tan’ (body) and ‘Ishq’ (love). Located at Hosur, Tamil Nadu, the 135,000 sq. ft. factory is equipped with the latest and most modern machinery and equipment. Tanishq has an exquisite range of gold, gems and diamond jewellery system prevalent in the country. It has set up production and sourcing bases with thorough research of the jewellery crafts in India. It introduced innovations like karat-meter, the only non-destructive means to check the purity of gold. It also introduced professional retailing in the un-organized jewellery bazaar, where women can shop with comfort and peace, without worrying about the purity of the jewellery they are buying. It has successfully taken up the challenge of transforming this frontier into a reliable consumer space by bringing to it all the virtues and benefits that branding offers. HISTORY: The Tanishq saga began in the early 1990s, primarily fuelled by the fabled TATA entrepreneurial spirit and partly forced by circumstance. The splendid Titan watches success story was already up and running, and happened to need more foreign...
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...Mary Anne is shown as a nice bubbly girl. It is also brought up that people like her would never understand any of this. By displaying these characteristics Tim O’Brien is setting Mary Anne up for character development. Transition Phrase Further on in the book we see a psychologically changed Mary Anne, and she Context #2 is shown to have stopped talking to all of the soldiers, becoming secretive as she begins to sneak out at night, and losing her fun bubbly characteristic. Evidence #2 [Mary Anne] had crossed to the other side. She was part of the land. She was wearing her culottes, her pink sweater, and a necklace of human tongues. She was dangerous. She was ready for the kill. Analysis #2 Mary Anne is shown in her normal clothes but is said to have crossed over to “the other side” and she has the addition of a human tongue to her wardrobe. She is given this sense of innocence at the beginning of the text however, at the end of her story she has evolved into a nutcase with questionable taste in jewelry. This display of Mary Anne later on in the book shows her character development. Conclusion Mary Anne was driven insane after having spent just a few weeks in Vietnam, it seems as though Vietnam affects everyone...
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...Writing Assignment #2, Site Survey and Mapping: In our site we found artifacts clustered together in 5 different clusters. In the cluster of squares 7B,C we found the most artifacts of all the clusters with a total of 110 artifacts from the two squares. We found almost a hundred thin small shards of either rock or pottery. The pieces had unnaturally sharp edges that must have been man made, most likely by chipping off edges with another rock. These pieces could have been used either as scrappers, arrowheads, small axes or for the heads of small spears. The geometric shapes of the small rocks indicate the microburin technique may have been used to create these geometric microliths. Squares 9-10,A contained 12 small shards of rocks. They were mainly bifacial tools most likely made from pressure flaking judging by the sharpness. Most of the shards were made from rock, bone and pottery. There were also 2 pieces I was unsure what they were made of. They appeared to have possibly been made of mud, clay or maybe coal. The pieces of bone indicate possible hunting along with the many sharp artifacts that may have been used as weapons. We also found 1 isolated square that contained 2 artifacts, 1 oval and 1 spherical rock. The rocks are too smooth to not have been altered. They were both very worn down, possibly from being used as a food grinder or maybe a hammer due to the physical wear they had both received. It doesn’t seem to be from natural formation. Because these two stones...
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