Catherine Breillat is another filmmaker that criticizes the aesthetics and societal demands to fit into the norms of femininity and the burden it brings to the female sex. In her film, Anatomy of Hell, she indulges in taboos and the society's indifference towards the female sex to shine a light on the traditional and oppressive views of the female body and human sexuality. She explicitly explores the depths of the female’s sex and indulges in the men’s view of the female body and the feelings it brings about. The film follows a man and a woman in a four day exploration of women's sexuality in a secluded home where the woman is in her most vulnerable stage (nudity) in hopes of understanding how men view women. The film opens up with her in a gay club where she is openly isolated as the only woman and excluded in her otherness. She is surrounded by men on men sexual activity through kissing, dancing, and oral stimulation. The scene overwhelming indulges in the isolation of women in their femininity and thus becomes a metaphor for women’s place in the world and society. Their appearance is viewed as that of Other where they can not appear and move in the same way as men and this scene explicitly shows how excluded women feel from public space in a society dominated by man. The woman enters this scene and feels overwhelmed by the masculinity surrounding her and the inferiority imposed on her through their immense presence, so she goes to the bathroom where she brushes past a man who actually sees her. She sees him the way he sees her and goes to commit suicide. In an interview with Breillat, she states “More than desire, she is looking for her sexual identity, for her ‘self.’ For her, he is a kind of image. It’s not a club for homosexuals, it’s a club where men come together, men who don’t like women, and there are many places on the planet where men don’t like women. It’s an allegory” (Kevin Murphy, Hell’s Angels: An Interview with Catherine Breillat on Anatomy of Hell). Being in a room surrounded by men that hate her, she goes to end her life. She slits her wrist and the man walks in and stops the bleeding. He asked “Why did you do that?” in which she replied “Because I’m a woman” (Catherine Breillat, Anatomy of
“Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America” is a book written by Lee Standiford. The text focuses on the prolific partnership between Carnegie and Frick that created an empire in the steel industry, but later soured and created tension between the two as well as several other parties. America's industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth century had an effect on almost everyone in the country. The workplace became consistently unique as machines became more common than before. The demand for unskilled workers led to the emergence of new types of workforce in the economy. The workers
Love, generations, cultures, and family are the main theme to talk about in shorts stories, and in the story of “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri, that is not the exception. However, it is an unusual and very enjoyable story where readers can identify themselves with it because the main characters are common people who have the same problems as many of us. If I have to summarize the story in one sentence, I can say that it describes the experiences of people who come from other cultures to the USA, and it is nuanced with an impossible love to make it more interesting and real. Also, the author divided the different parts of it with four important events which mark the transition
Toward the beginning of book, Artie touches base at his father, Vladek’s home keeping in mind that his goal is to record his dad’s Holocaust recollections for a book he is writing. Artie’s mother died from suicide and as Artie was going through with her funeral. Artie and Vladek enter a dark and depressing phase, Artie lets his feelings out by drawing it out and making a comic. As the reader, it shows how effortlessly it is to find out about the amount Arties endured amid this time of his life. In a way it speaks to his parents hardships during the holocaust as his dad had explained to him through the book. It discovered a lot of opinions and how painful to his father as he reads it, and Mala purposely keeping this comic.
Hell has been described in many different texts, all explaining how Hell may be organized. There have been many examples in the Bible, myths, folktales, and music through out time. One example in particular is in Dante's, The Inferno, where hell is described as having many layers, which are categorized by individual sins, such as thievery, and are punished for an eternity. In Dante's model, more sin centered, a soul would be sent to a certain layer of hell for one sin that he had committed. However, perhaps a more personalized Hell, sinner-centered, that deals with each sinner individually for each sin committed and its severity, would allow for people to be punished more effectively.
In Dante’s Inferno, Dante presents the different levels of hell. According to Dante, there are nine levels in hell. It was not considered a good thing to be put in hell. You are sentenced to a hell according to your sin you committed. While he is in hell, Dante explores all the soul 's sin on Earth and the punishment he or she receives while in Hell.
In Dante's Inferno, God is depicted as a cruel God that encourages torture as punishment.Even The Archbishop acknowledges the wrong of torture and also admits that "The deliberate torture of one human being by another is a sin against our Creator, in whose image we all have been created”(Archbishop Demetrio's).One that allows torture to humans to an extent is violating Gods rule .But in Hell God changes his perspective, its seems torture is the key to everything.
I think Dante’s description of Hell is a wonderful work of literature. Dante uses numerous literary techniques to describe his vision of Hell to the reader. In my opinion, one of the most affective techniques used by Dante is symbolism. It would be a very difficult task to compile a brief list of significant symbols from the Cantos that we read in class. Dante utilized many symbols throughout each canto. Some of the symbols that Dante used in Inferno are well defined and easy to interpret, while other symbols are much more difficult to recognize and understand. For this paper, I will be analyzing multiple symbols from Dante’s Inferno. Some of the symbols came from the Canto’s that were included in class
In the story of The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter attacks the conventional gender roles of women. The conventional Gothic plot revolves around pursuit. A young heroine’s virtuous virginity, purity and innocence is sexually threatened. Thus, what Carter does in “The Bloody Chamber” is redefine female desire and sexuality which are rendered passive and repressed through traditional Gothic texts. Where the mother exemplifies the heroic woman, the “girl” is the traditional damsel in distress. Maria Makinen’s assessment of Carters feminine characters is both truthful and incorrect. Carter uses traditional female stereotypes as well as her unique women to make a contrast between these perceptions of women.
The book, The Divine Comedy 1: Hell, tells the story of Dante Alighieri who has lost his way. Virgil, a great poet, guides Dante through the many Circles of Hell. As they travel through the circles, they learn the stories of many sinners. The sinners are constantly being punished for their defiance of God. The punishments become more severe as Dante goes deeper into Hell. In the beginning, Dante empathizes with the occupants of Hell, but as he travels deeper, he becomes desensitized to the tormented souls because he realizes that they earned the torture. The punishments reflect elements of the sinners’ actions against God. In other words, a person’s punishment should fit the person’s crime. God sentences the sinners to an eternity of
Regarding to the essay question “Is Hell exothermic or endothermic,” though the answer that the student gave was not exactly “logical” per se, but was certainly well-deserved for the grade that he got due to his creative and innovative way of thinking.
Hell. The four lettered word that trembles in the throats of men and children alike; The images of suffering, flame pits and blood, the smell of burning flesh, the shrieking of those who have fallen from grace. For centuries man has sought out ways to cleanse his soul, to repent for his sins and possibly secure his passage into paradise, all evoked by the fear of eternal damnation and pain. The early 20th century philosopher and existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre saw life as an endless realm of suffering and a complete void of nothingness. His pessimistic ideals of life followed through to his beliefs on death, as death for him was a final nothingness. If death was a final nothingness, Sartre's view of hell was really a final
The idea of making up a "Hell", or inferno, is not an experience in which I, even in my wildest thoughts, had started to imagine. Call me an optimist, but the idea of imagining Hell never appealed to me. However, as I read through the Bible, I have come across many images of hell and will now attempt to create a partial picture.
In the movie, From Hell the plot is based around the strategic string of murders of women in a prostitution ring. The success of this movie is accredited to the usage of dramatization, music, and its transitional cut scenes. “From Hell” is an intriguing, suspenseful, thriller that plays off of the audience's perceptions of horror due to their previous patterns of fascination. This movie effectively keeping their interest and builds suspense throughout the movie.
Around 1314, Dante Alighieri completed the Inferno, the first section of what would make up The Divine Comedy, a collection of three poems reflecting Dante’s imaginative journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. In these poems, Dante the poet describes the pilgrimage that Dante the pilgrim must complete to attain salvation. With the Roman poet Virgil as his guide, Dante the pilgrim must purge himself of his own sinful nature, which can only be achieved by observing and learning from those that have landed themselves in either Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven. Described in Inferno, his excursion begins in Hell where Dante learns about the stories and the sufferings of many sinners. As Dante the pilgrim progresses through Hell it is clear that he assumes different personas. In some instances, Dante the pilgrim is portrayed as an empathetic man who pities the sinners while on other occasions, Dante the pilgrim is portrayed as a callous and indignant being in regard to the sinners. While Dante the pilgrim is depicted in these two completely different ways, it is the insensitive portrayal that more precisely depicts Dante the pilgrim, as that is his true identity when he leaves Hell. His journey affected him so greatly that by the end of his pilgrimage, Dante the pilgrim has transformed from a compassionate man into an impervious and even cruel individual.
In Dante’s Inferno, we followed Dante as he narrates his decent and observations of hell. A wonderful part of that depiction is his descriptions of the creative yet cruel punishments that each of the different sinners receive. This story is an integral part of literary history, and even if I were to have the imagination and ability of Dante Alighieri, I don’t believe I would change this tried and true version known universally.