preview

How Does Imagery Shape Our Understanding Of Nature Of Discovery

Decent Essays
Open Document

Imagery? Shape understanding of nature of discovery? How does it cause us to see it? Explain the contrasting imagery quote really well (201 words) Dobson uses contrasting imagery to represent the reassessment of the perceptions that develop in the characters as a result of realising that true value lies in the subtle possibilities of human relations. In Painter of Antwerp, Breughel reflects on the listing of grand imageries of Padua’s Renaissance: “great plumed hats, ships and frescoes” where the lack of human touch carries a sense of isolation. In contrast, the rural landscape he chooses to paint, has only imageries of ordinary people “ploughman, fisherman and moon faced shepherd” going about their daily toil therefore symbolically showing his realisation of the importance of human relations over materialistic mysteries. Similarly in Cock Crow, …show more content…

Characterisation? Shape understanding of nature of discovery? How does it cause us to see it? Dobson uses characterisation of uncertain persona’s to highlight the lenient nature of discovery. The persona in Painter of Antwerp has an absolute and certain figure highlighted by her repetitive command phrase to Breughel to “plod homewards”. Yet when Breughel does reach home, there is a hint of uncertainty in the gesture of how Breughel “paused” and “looked backwards” towards where he came from. The persona uses qualifier “perhaps” she might have been wrong to have caused Breughel to reject the grand renaissance of “Padua” for the ordinary, rural countryside. Similarly, the persona in Cock Crow is the character who struggles between freedom and responsibility. Though she makes her final choice for family symbolised by her returning to her house door_, “thinking” acts as a qualifier in “Thinking I knew its meaning well” indicating her uncertainty of whether she made the correct

Get Access