Afronosky's Black Swan

The author uses tone and images throughout to compare and contrast the concepts of “black wealth” and a “hard life”. The author combines the use of images with blunt word combinations to make her point; for example, “you always remember things like living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet”. This image evokes the warmth of remembering a special community with the negative, have to use outdoor facilities. Another example of this combination of tone and imagery is “how good the water felt when you got your bath from one of those big tubs that folk in Chicago barbecue in”. Again the author’s positive memory is of feeling fresh after her bath combined with a negative, the fact that it was a barbecue drum.

Emily Bronte’s novel captures and portrays the essence of damaging passion through illustrative writing to ultimately exemplify details of her character's inner feelings and reality. The 2010 interpretation is embellished in artistic camera angles as its focuses on the novels connection to nature. Although both mediums are an expression of Bronte’s imagination, Arnold individually articulates her version creatively and expressively. However both narratives manipulate diverse devices to produce a haunting result. The film adaptation and the book exploit the devices that the other cant as they offer audiences with unique approaches of the same events.

And the vacancy of any real emotion (save that of love and grief, which are here more action than feeling) lends an air of superficiality to the story. For even Emily and Palamon, in the resolving conclusion, are reactionless, serving as mere instruments for the advancement of the plot. The only passionate portraits depicted are those of the theater/arena and the funeral pyre‹inanimate objects whose symbolic importance seemingly takes precedence over the players involved. All these qualities united together paint the picture of a man out of touch with reality, direly in need of truth.

Oscar Wilde’s novella, The Picture of Dorian Gray explores how submission to poor influences and a hedonistic attitude can lead to an immoral life. As Dorian learns the impact that pursuing a life of pleasure has on the soul, my cautionary story subverts this main theme of the novella, to explore the consequences of Mr. Smith pursuing the pleasure of having an influence on others.

The film, Black Swan, by Darren Aronofsky is one of the most unsettling psychological thrillers of recent years. The film is about a young ballerina, Nina, whom strives for perfection as a dancer and dreams of becoming the Swan Queen in her company’s new staging of Black Swan. Throughout the film, Nina struggles with many of her own psychoanalytical problems. These most specifically start after Nina is cast at the Swan Queen. A Freudian analysis of this film can bring out all of Freud’s biggest theories while at the same time follow the main themes and symbols of Aronofsky and Natalie Portman’s masterpiece.

Black Swan is a psychological thriller set in New York City, featuring a ballerina named Nina Sayers. She is a young dancer working in a prestigious ballet company and is seen to be consumed by it in the movie. All she does is dance at the company, come home and prepare for the next day. The competitive atmosphere at the dance company conveys the tension which Nina experiences every day. As the ballet company opens for a new season, the artistic director, Thomas Leroy, decides to replace his prima ballerina, Beth Macintyre, with Nina for their production of “Swan Lake”. In the movie, Nina is portrayed as a girl who is innocent and reserved, making her perfect for the role of the white swan. However, she has troubles getting into the character

In the film, Black Swan, the plot centers on Nina Sayers, a ballerina whose only goal is to play the role of the Black and White Swan in her company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet. While she easily embodies into the innocence and grace of the White Swan, her shy and fragile personality does not fit the seductiveness and mysteriousness of the Black Swan. As a result, she struggles to become the opposite of who she is, worsening her issues with depression and anorexia.

The picture of Oscar Wilde is still fuzzy and incomplete but in the popular imagination, he remains an iconic, larger-than-life figure - largely because of his public persona and modus vivendi: He was a flamboyant dandy and a brilliant wit; a refined, decadent aesthete. Profes-sionally, he produced excellent prose pieces and composed arguably only mediocre poetry and he vociferously proposed unconventional theories about art and aesthetics. Yet, Wilde continues to be shrouded in this heavy fog of mystery. He is above all an inscrutable enigma. While he may at times give away the real and authentic nature of his complex self, at other times this self cunningly conceals itself behind a mask. In this sense, Wilde

In his essay “When Home Fails to Nurture the Self: Tragedy of Being Homeless at Home”, Leester Thomas argues that, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, is split into four sections; the first section Thomas titles “Outdoors: The Meaning of Such Wretchedness” (53), which is followed by “The First Eviction: Rejection of Self by Mainstream Society” (53), “ The Second Eviction: Rejection of Self by the Black Community” (54) and lastly, “The Final Eviction Notice: Rejection of self by the biological family” (55). I agree with Thomas’ analysis of The Bluest Eye and Morrison herself, along with the more direct analysis of Pecola herself, I will argue that much like the conditions for marigolds to grow, the conditions that Pecola was immersed in didn’t allow for her to grow, and ultimately lead to her destruction.

The story of the Titanic is well known: the unsinkable ship that sank, with it taking thousands of lives. A story like this begs for the silver screen, and it has seen a few adaptations but by far the most famous and successful was James Cameron’s high-budget motion picture, suitably named ‘Titanic’. Cameron’s adaptation is a film that at times makes the audience forget about the ships inevitable fate as they are invited to focus on the relationship between the two main characters: Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet). The relationship between these two characters personifies the differences between the classes on the ship, and the sequence that I will be focusing on in this essay shows these differences using the microfeature of mise-en-scené. Cinematography is also used not only to place the audience inside the ship, but also to let them know which class they should be sympathising with. This scene sees Rose taken by Jack down into the 3rd class for music, drinking and dancing, after an awkward dinner with Rose’s first class family.

The story also maintains the impact of Aristotle’s theory--- “Catharsis” as by the catastrophic end of Kadambini, the audience is purged of the emotions of ‘pity’ and ‘fear’.

“Black Swan” is an intense psychological thriller describing a ballet dancer’s metamorphosis into the “Black Swan”. Black Swan is about a ballet dancer who wins the lead role of the swan queen that requires to dance as both the sweet white and evil black swans. Though she wants to dance as the black swan, it is a challenge to her because it requires dark passion that is beyond her technique. The protagonist, Nina Sayers, slowly loses her mind as the black swan torments her for control, in which then she becomes

Walking towards the entrance of the museum, a Jazz singer sings the tunes of the Harlem Renaissance, signifying political figures’ strengths and empowerment for communities to commemorate. Undeniably, Countee Cullen contributes a fourth note to the paradigm for future generations to employ as an prominent source. Continuing forward into the facility, an exhibits secures pictures of a male, ranging from a newborn to a man in a suit. Sharon Olds mourns a mature son in the last picture. Stepping into the final exhibit, feathers crowd the floor and walls, wailing chaos from all perspectives. What do these timeframes all have in common? In brief, they contain pain. The burning and longing sensation arises from poetically speaking about society’s unjust ways based on the color delicately placed on a person’s body. Another sensation of pain stems from memories tied to one’s own son peaking at the age of maturity. Equally important, the last painful sensation announces indignation with the everlasting touch of abusive power. The allusions in “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen, “My Son the Man” by Sharon Olds, and “Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats revive the sensation of pain into a deeper and more contorting level. The poets’ backgrounds present logic for the endearing effects they create as each stanza communicates a message associated with the torturous feeling.

The nature of discovery entails a journey that is transformative and concerns an individual’s relationship with them selves or their world. Discoveries can be either pursued or unexpected through the motivation of need, curiosity and wonder and can lead to good or bad consequences, but ultimately they are all concerned with the gaining of greater knowledge and a new perspective. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero comes to realise not only the limitations of his power, but also the importance of love and redemption in redefining one’s place in the world, as well as one’s view of it. Theodore Melfi’s film Hidden Figures represents the importance of new perspectives on the familiar in order to realise the self, in the face of

“Anna Karenina” and “Out of Africa” are two films that can be compared to a roller coaster ride at a carnival. A roller coaster ride excites and thrills us but at the very same time we feel anxiety and fear. The roller coaster rises, falls, twists and turns. This defines the journey of the characters as they embark upon their travels which are filled with peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, sorrow and death. The characters are vulnerable and impressionable as they face the dangers of adultery, self-discovery and feministic resistance. Perceptions, assumptions, fantasy and opinions are formed by the characters as they embark on their roller coaster ride. This adds to the intrigue and suspense on their epic journey to uncover their inner truths.