Characteristics Of Expressionism In Sophie Treadwell's Machinal

From the very beginning, the reader notices the psychological and verbal abuse that Sykes puts on Delia. It was a Sunday and Delia decided to get ahead on her work for the week by separating piles of clothes by color. Fear then came

Bradbury gives a description of Mildred with the employment of metaphors to characterize Mildred as entranced by technology in order to establish a norm in Bradbury’s dystopian society. The technology seen, the Seashells, obtain full control over Mildred, keeping her up through the night and day. Montag visualizes his wife lying on the bed, with the Seashells on, describes the Seashells as “an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind”(Bradbury 12). The ocean overtakes Mildred’s mind, keeping her awake and constantly

Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is a strangely riveting play so filled with unlikable characters that it makes one want to scream and throttle which ever one is closest to hand without prejudice as to which persona it might be as they are all equally detestable in their own way. Unfortunately, the infuriating characters are exactly what make the play so fascinating. Each of the characters in the play, originally intended to display that life is an inescapable machine, exhibits many disturbing psychological qualities, and the main character suffers a slew of near textbook psychological misfortune. Whether Sophie Treadwell created her play with this facet intentionally or not is unknown, but the examples are so perfect it is difficult to think

In the story, “On the subway”, the author Sharon Olds uses literary devices to help the reader get a clearer understanding of the theme of the passage. This devices are seen on the style and grammar being used in the story such as symbolism and imagery which illustrate the point of view the protagonist has towards society.

In the story “Marigolds,” the author, Eugenia Collier, uses voice elements to support the poignant tone of the story. In the story, Collier includes a metaphor that evokes a feeling of sadness when her father cried. Lizabeth heard “[her] father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child,” (Collier 404). This reveals that Lizabeth’s father is the strong foundation that built the family and gave it confidence, love, encouragement, and a role model. Although was the foundation of the family, his wife worked every day making her the breadwinner. The metaphor eventually destroys Lizabeth confidence because her dad is crying and that gives her insecurities that something is going wrong. This relates to the poignant tone because the metaphor evokes the feeling of sadness.

Have you ever noticed the use of machines in the Western genre before? If so, wasn’t it violent? Whether it is not being able to capture essence in photographs, visually describing the use of guns, or referencing to pencils in the text, poets are able to effectively communicate their ideas and central messages to readers by incorporating all necessary elements. These aspects allow the reader to be drawn in and view society from a different perspective. Michael Ondaatje’s use of imagery in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid explores and demonstrates how machines affect the way readers view and interpret Western society.

Everybody works. Everybody has their own job. It doesn’t matter what you do specifically, but you do it. Your quality of production is controlled by many things, but above all, your emotions determine how you operate; if you’re having a bad day, it can pretty safely be said that your craft will see a drop in notability. With artists, their work doesn’t necessarily get worse as much as it does change. It seems that artists tend to change their work based on emotion; if they aren’t ‘feeling it’ they can capture that feeling and morph it into a darker, scarier piece of art. This is especially true with the main character in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The story is about a Freshman girl named Melinda Sordino who is having the worst

‘How I Learned to Drive’ is a play by Paula Vogel that concern the protagonist Li'l Bit and her affair relationship with uncle Peck.Uncle Peck sexually assaulted his niece Li'l Bit and the facts of this case label the play as a drama, more generally a tragedy. This relationship with uncle Peck has affected Li'l Bit from age eleven to eighteen before she puts a conclusion to it. In this essay, I will analyse the three speeches of Uncle Peck in the play ‘How I Learned to Dive’ when he uses language and power to empower the others because he is a man and has all the power against others. I will analyse the first speech of how uncle Peck has the same power on Bobby using them on him the same way he used on Li'l Bit. The second speech that will be analysing that how he teaches Li'l Bit how to drive and have control of her life the same way that he has on her. The last speech of uncle Peck showed that he is interested in all women and he teaches her how to stand like a woman

One of the most important aspects that Sharon Sullivan highlights in her article about the play is how its surrealism allows for the focus to be on the women, and not the killings. “Clements decentres the act of murder by focusing on the experiences and actions of the women before and after death, emphasizing their individuality and the possibility of redemption.” (Sullivan, 68) The film, however, nullifies any attempt by the play to humanize these women, for it cuts out the witty dialogues between the women, portraying them only as they are represented in the media, as alcoholics, prostitutes, and victims. The movie places the murder and Rebecca, Aunt Shadie’s Daughter, at the center of the plot line and completely erases the side stories of the murdered aboriginal women. While the screenplay is also written by Marie Clements, it dehumanizes the women by stripping them of their identity and turning their stories back into a classic Hollywood horror

My research project is on Machinal by Sophie Treadwell. I will be focusing on the struggles that the Young Woman faces in the play, and how her behavior relates to mental illnesses. My approach is to create a scenario where half of the play seems like it is not real. I want to make the audience really think about what is real and what is being made up in the Young Woman’s mind.

Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is a strangely riveting play so filled with unlikable characters that it makes one want to scream and throttle whichever character is closest at hand, without prejudice as to which persona it might be, as they are all equally detestable in their own way. Unfortunately, the infuriating characters are exactly what make the play so fascinating. Each of the characters in the play, originally intended to display that life is an inescapable machine, exhibit many disturbing psychological qualities, and the main character suffers a slew of near textbook psychological misfortune. Whether Sophie Treadwell created her play with this facet intentionally or not is unknown, but the examples are so

The most effective symbol in this work is in fact the artist herself. Moffatt appears in this work as the centre character, a young woman seemingly looking longingly into the distance. This symbol and use of subject matter improves to the expression of the work and makes gives a closer insight into the artists' background. To help contribute to the viewer’s understanding of the work, Moffatt has used the media of photography. The artist is able to effectively portray a realist style and show the viewer how real and current the meaning of her work is. Moffartt has been able to demonstrate a dynamic combination of media and methods by creating the movie-like setting of her scene and photographing it. This further symbolises the influence of media had on her ideal of the big city

In the late 1900’s the art world became even more evolved from Impressionism, Fauvism, Futurism, and Abstract styles of art. Neo-Expressionism, a style of painting, and some sculpture, which emerged in the early 1980s, usually characterized by a return to figuration in expressive, gestural, and sometimes brashly aggressive works. This art movement was mostly associated with artist from New York like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Eric Fischl (Artsy.com). Of these artist there was one African-American, by the name of Jean-Michel Basquiat, genius of his time, and currently one of the world’s most renounced artist. His shaky upbringing along with his feelings towards situations in his personal life and cultural issues during is time,

The world is thriving in a miscellaneous collection of well-known types of media that allow people to indulge in new societies, sophistications, and stories they have never known before. Correspondingly, there is an assortment of ways to analyze this media to further understand the reason behind having meaning in literature in addition to the recipients’ responses to these specific meanings. In particular, one method used to examine media, as well as its ongoing objective in both classic and contemporary society, is Kenneth Burke’s dramatic pentad. In response to evaluating narratives from divergent perspectives, the pentadic analysis is composed of five parts: agent, scene, act, agency, and purpose. For instance, by applying this analyzation technique to the 1991 Howard Zieff film My Girl it can be illustrated through which means these five elements create value in a fictional composition. Specifically, My Girl is primarily an agent-based film focusing on Vada's Sultenfuss' exploration of life through the means of death. However, Vada's circumstances of her mother's passing during childbirth and father's house-run funeral parlour creates a narrative focused on purpose by being the initial reason Vada has an obsession with demise and disease.

This effect is demonstrated through the protagonist’s dislocation of being a father, and husband. The narrator’s perspective of being a parent has deteriorated, resulting in his perception that he’s merely become a financial lifeline for his children and spouse. Yet this allows them to live life in comfort, and not undergo what he must. The protagonist’s desire to fulfill the role of a father has become an unattainable concept due to the incapability to express his emotional or mental struggles. Macleods protagonist at face first is resilient too the challenges of his isolated work life. Yet the deep desire to express himself to another has become forgotten. This is understood due being surrounded by other workers who have also forgotten to express themselves, making self-expression a forgotten skill. If the need for communication in the workplace arises, it is done with “a nod, grunt or reading of familiar lips”. In which Macleod narrator literally forgets how to express himself to his family, yet finds the means of self expression through his ancestral culture, which is contrary to Thiens, where culture pushes