Howards End and the Uncanny

Owen and Frost convey extreme experiences and feelings very powerfully and evoke it in a way for us the reader to imagine clearly. In Disabled, Owen conveys the image of death very vividly with immense use of imagery writing 'He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,' this darkness is referring to the sense that the soldier's life is interminable to him now. Owen is trying to tell us that this soldier's life has been cut short by the war and that he cannot be the same individual he was perhaps five to ten years earlier. Another example of strong imagery in Disabled which conveys extreme experiences and feelings is the good use of visual imagery where he writes 'Legless, sewn short at the elbow.' This powerful phrase gives us the reader an image of the soldier seated in a wheelchair with no legs as well as part of his arm 'deattached', this image being emphasised by the words 'Legless' and 'sewn short'.

Realism best represents the literary movement that America was facing at the time because the texts’ use detail that show how things really happened, how things really sounded, how they really looked, and used this literary style to get the reader more involved to see how the text will make them react while reading instead of just focusing on the narrator and the writer. While reading The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Twain says “ He never smiled, he never frowned, and he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key” (Twain 4). Twain uses these words to show real details that the other movements would never use in their

The theme death has always played a crucial role in literature. Death surrounds us and our everyday life, something that we must adapt and accept. Whether its on television or newpaper, you'll probobly hear about the death of an individual or even a group. Most people have their own ideas and attitude towards it, but many consider this to be a tragic event due to many reasons. For those who suffered greatly from despair, living their life miserably and hopelessly, it could actually be a relief to them. Death effects not only you, but also those around you, while some people may stay unaffected depending on how they perceive it.

Realism wishes to “revolt against the exotic subject matter… and for this reason it is also commonly referred as bourgeois realism.” One finds this aspect of realism as well in “The Lady with the Dog” in which

“Anything with a highly human-like appearance can be subject to the uncanny valley effect, but the most common examples are androids, computer game characters, and life-like dolls”(Lay, Stephanie). In modern society the ongoing growth of artificial intelligence has skyrocketed like never before in history. While science continues to advance in greatness, media in form of film and television, has taken the thought of science to monstrous heights. Wether science try to replicate art or vice-versa is debatable. Irrational fears of inanimate objects could be perpetuated by media or can it be an underlying fear that dates further back. A significant amount of scientist have explored the thought of concluding wether uncanny valley exists at all. “Raised eyebrows and wrinkled foreheads are easy to spot and interpret, but the human ability to perceive nonverbal emotional is much more finely tuned […] the latest animation tools could not capture or replay the slight and subtle details […] and many other emotions” (Eberle Scott G.). Humans are afraid or phobic of robots and dolls arriving from inability to predict emotional response or intention. The furthering of technology enables the mechanic ingenuity, creating close to life artificial intelligence. The resemblance of human-like androids pushes the envelope. However, programming androids to experience and understand human emotion raises the questions for many of, what makes us human? Dolls, throughout history dolls have had a place in every home. The phobia of dolls still remains. Unlike androids, dolls which do not resemble human-likeness does not affect the fear they project. Studies have concluded childhood phobias are generated by three pathways; direct conditioning, vicarious conditioning, and information. Scientist and psychologist have also hypothesized in some children fears and phobias have always been

There are many perspectives and definitions on art, an abstract topic. In the world of books, nothing is considered art unless the novel can engage the readers through the author's use of emotions and stylistic syntax. Using Groen's essay “Books Still Win” tragic realism is seen in Joshua Ferris' novel “Then We Came to the End.” Tragic realism is evident in Ferris' novel through the fact there is both good and bad within a person, that life improves with struggles and that sadness is always evident.

Realism, a literary movement that depicts hard aspects of life, may or may not have much meaning when used. Instead of focusing on the supernatural and reversion to form as naturalism does, realism concentrates on what is actually occurring in the story and its real effects. Throughout Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, realism is used by the author to explicitly show the reader what is going on. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Hurston’s use of realism includes scenes in the novel when Leafy was raped by her school teacher, when Jody hit Janie, and when the floodgates of Lake Okeechobee burst open.

In these three literary pieces a prevalent theme is death. Death may be defined as the end-ing period of physical life. However, throughout the development of these stories, it was possible to distinguish plenty of physical but even non-physical death as well. This absolutely

Realism occurs everyday, one may not know but its the reason why know not everyone gets to live their lives to a happy ending, its the reason why sometimes you can't get everything you want in your life. Realism is the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly. Realism is a trend which takes place in the nineteenth century during which literature depicted life "as is," and focuses on real life. This literary movement frequently depicted everyday life; it follows the rule of a phenomenal world and that nothing is added to your life. It is the reverse job of what a filter would do to all the troubles that one may encounter later in life. Realism is

Realism is the artistic attempt to recreate life as it is in the context of an artistic medium. It began as a revolt against the conventions of the classic view of art in the late 1800s in America and Europe in the form of an artistic movement (McConnel, R. 1997). There are many themes involved with realism that shall be discussed. These include accuracy and independence.

Everyone could relate to realism because it was more realistic. Realism lasted through the mid 19th century and included writers such as Flaubert, Zola, and Dickens.

In The Uncanny, Freud discusses the different definitions and claims that various theorists have made regarding the feeling of uncanny. He defines the different factors that provoke the uncanny in humans and demonstrates how these factors elicit that strange and seemingly inexplicable feeling. Similarly, in Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, adopts the various factors that cause the uncanny to alter Scottie’s identity and beliefs. Ultimately, when Scottie is transformed from a rational being to a psychotic obsessive, it serves to indicate the severity of Scottie’s mental instability and his detachment from reality.

Realism was a huge movement in late 1800s to early 1900s. All art forms were influenced by it. Writers, artists, actors and more started taking a more simple direction and tried to depict life as it actually was. In visual art it was common to see ordinary people doing every day

Artistic authenticity is a pattern starting with mid nineteenth century French Literature. It stretched out to late nineteenth and early twentieth century creators. It is the delineation of contemporary life and the general public as it seems to be. Realist creators selected delineation of ordinary and hackneyed exercises and encounters, rather than a romanticized or comparatively adapted presentation. In authenticity the character is a result of social components and environment is the vital component in the emotional entanglements. It looks for a balanced relationship in the middle of representation and the subject. This structure is otherwise called mimesis. Realists are concerned with the impact of their work on the peruser and the peruser 's life, a down to earth view. Sober mindedness obliges the perusing of the work to have some irrefutable result for the perusers that will prompt have a finer life for the peruser. Authenticity plans to decipher the facts of any part of life, free from subjective partiality, optimism, or sentimental shade. It is contrary to concerns of the abnormal, the premise of Romanticism. Stresses the genuine over the awesome. Tries to treat the typical truthfully and utilized characters from regular life. This accentuation was brought on by societal changes, for example, the repercussions of the Civil War in the United States and the rise of Darwin 's Theory of Evolution and its impact upon bible based understanding. Authenticity emerged as a

Between the end of the civil war in 1865 to about 1910, two styles of literature dominated American literature: realism and naturalism. Realism presents the world as it really is. One of the well known writers of realism, William Dean Howell’s, wrote “realism in nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.” Realism in literature tends to be the plain and direct account of whatever is being written about. Writers of realism fill their work with facts to complement the readers’ feelings of the fact that these things can happen in their everyday lives. Realists are sure to write about normal, everyday people, living