Nina Sayers Essay

Although the daughter’s shame in her mother is evident, she is also prideful of her as well. The strong love that the mother and daughter share is pervasive throughout the story. The story is being told by the daughter after she is all grown up. The fact that Jones uses such vivid detail on the mother’s preparation for her daughters first day of school shows that the daughter loved her mom and all that she did for her. The daughter recalls that her mother spent a lot of time preparing her when she says, “My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.” (Jones) She also remembers that her “pale green slip and underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little girl on the front who appears to be dancing.” (Jones) The daughter having remembered details like these illustrate that she has an immense love and takes pride

Some theories of the movie are that Lily and Nina’s mother are two of Nina’s multiple personalities. The movie does not mention anything of Nina’s child hood or any trauma she had in her life so I think there is little to prove it could be Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Elena Kagan was born April 28, 1960 in the city of New York. A daughter of a housing attorney and a schoolteacher, Kagan grew up in an intellectually rich environment that would later shape her career.

Night Swan is initially an outcast because she is a “half breed” but her frivolous behavior pushes her even further as a disgrace to women. Night Swan discusses the real reason her and Tayo are outcasts, “they are afraid, Tayo. They feel something happening, they can see something happening around them, and it scares them. Indians or Mexicans or whites—most people are afraid of change.” (Silko 92). Night Swan teaches Tayo about miscegenation and how the people do not physically fear them, but rather fear the concept of change occurring around them. Night Swan

“Black Swan Green” is a story about a highschool boy, named Jason Taylor. Jason has a stammer unlike his other peers at his horrible high school. He’s the kid that dreads talking in front of the class because he sees himself as different. He’s afraid to be judged for his flaws. Also, he has a love for poetry he must hide from everyone. He can’t express his feelings for poetry or anything because he's too scared to be himself. In this story, his mentor, Madame Crommelynck teaches him to accept himself and show the world the real Jason Taylor. Jason has many conflicts throughout the story, especially with himself. On the contrary, Madame Crommelynck relates Jason’s high school peers to hairy barbarians. She asks Jason, “So you want a double life. One Jason Taylor who seeks approval of hairy barbarians. Another Jason Taylor is Eliot Bolivar, who seeks approval of the literary world. Is that so impossible?” (Mitchell, 154). Jason wants to fit in at his school, while Eliot Bolivar wants to be accepted in the literary world. Jason thinks to become a good poet he needs to be accepted by his peers but poetry is for yourself. It’s your thoughts and feelings. Poetry is not for an audience to criticise. To be a poet, you need to be yourself and then you’ll truly be accepted.

Paper is a common material that the normal human sees in their day to day lives

Costarring in the film alongside Portman is Mila Kunis, who plays Lily. Nina’s life is completely consumed by dance ever since she was a little girl. All Nina does is eat, sleep and breathe dance. Nina lives with her overbearing and stage mother Erica who was once a former dancer herself but gave up her tutus and ballet shoes to have Nina. The dance teacher Thomas is looking for a ballerina who can play the swan queen.

This conflict between the ideal and the reality is consuming Nina Sayers. Nina seems to lose herself and become more ambitious. Those ambitions lead her to go deeper into her unconsciousness pushes her not only to practice but also to get more in touch with her dark side to complete her desire to be a perfect Swan Queen. The scene when her director (Thomas Leroy) tries to virginal Nina using the reason that Nina has to get the feeling of being sensual, Nina becomes the object of sexual abuse by Thomas. This scene becomes the important part when all of the confusion of reality and desire come together in a grand exhilaration of towering passion.

The swan is one of the best metaphorical comparisons as beauty and danger intertwine As shown in these two portions of the poem, “the neck of the great white swan,” (Dario 14) and “I only find the word that runs away” (Dario 9), he bridges the gap between the beauty of a swan and the reality of his inability to capture this image with the perfect words. The reference to the swan indicates words about love and beauty that can be seen, but not touched because as we all know touching a swan is very dangerous. Every time I reread this poem, I find a different perspective to look at. Dario as the writer is looking for words like inexperienced hunters try for the most impressive buck. The hunter knows what his prey looks like, but sometimes

October 11 was a picture perfect fall day; it was the first beautiful day I had seen in months it seemed. After losing my husband, the depression and the thought of raising my little girl alone were too much to bare. This day however, was bright and promising, this was the day, that I had my beautiful baby girl, Savannah Grace. Savannah was born 4 weeks early at 34 weeks into my pregnancy. She weighed 5 pounds 7 ounces and was 18 inches long. Savannah’s doctors believed that my depression caused Savannah to be born prematurely (Santrock, 2013). She had and APGAR score of 8 because her respiration and grimace were low. In normal respiration scores, the baby’s breathing would be regular and they would be crying but Savannah’s respiration was

However, introspection of the individual is not the only factor engendering a deepened of the human experience or the broader wold. As Afronosky’s Black Swan demonstrates, the persona’s quest for perfection at the expense of sanity validates self-enrichment as a means of attaining an elevated understanding of the human condition. Differing to both Nasht’s documentary and Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the catalyst in Afronosky’s film is apparent through Nina’s inability to evoke the “passion” of Black Swan is shown through the close up shots of her anxious facial expression while Thomas expresses his disappointment in her failure to metaphorically “seduce the world” highlights the persona’s lack of emotional capacity. Faced with the

Black Swan and Whiplash both feature intense practice sequences that build upon the narrative of obsessing over a craft. This intense and obsessive practice leads up to the conclusion of the films; where each character gives their absolute best performance. Nina’s final transformation into an impure and sinful character is completed when she grows black wings and slams her mother’s hand in her door. During the performance, Nina gets into an altercation with herself and stabs herself in the pure White Swan costume. Andrew transforms into “one of the greats” as he is embarrassed by Fletcher on stage. They both have their careers riding on their performances. They both fail to begin with; Andrew not knowing the chart the rest of the band is playing and Nina falling during act I of Swan Lake. Yet their greatness is proven when they give the final goodbye to their parental figures and former youth. Andrew runs off stage, hugs his dad and his former reality, as he knows his life will never be what it once was. Nina exchanges eye contact with her crying mother as she looks proudly onto her daughter dancing like she never could.

Black Swan is a psycho thriller film that narrates the life of a ballerina called Nina Sayers (played by Natalie Portman). She is a young, ambitious dancer working for a prestigious NYC ballet company. According to the movie, she was around twenty-some year old when the story begins. Even though the main point of the movie is how bad Nina wanted the lead role for a theater production called Swan Lake, the dark drama around the movie is built by the psychological illness of its protagonist. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate/mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. In the movie, the role that Nina always wanted requires her to play both the black and white swans. Her innocent, almost child-like personality makes her a perfect hite swan; however, she was having trouble getting into the character of the white swan’s dark and seductive counterpart. This film brilliantly captures the brutal physical and emotional demands that ballerinas face in their short-lived career span.

The Black Swan is a movie about a woman named Nina Sayers, who was a ballerina at an esteemed ballet company. The newest production the company was undertaking was a ballet called Swan Lake. Swan Lake was about a princess, the Swan Queen, who was turned into an evil Black Swan. In the movie, the role of the Swan Queen was highly sought after among the ballerinas, especially since the former principal dancer, Beth Macintyre, was recently let go from the company because of her age. Nina was also very interested in the role, and having been with the company for quite some time, auditioned for it. After she completed her audition, she received mixed feedback from the director, Thomas Leroy, about her performance. He told her that she was an excellent dancer, but she was also too rigid and stiff. He advised her to try to enjoy herself and add more personality in her dance instead of focusing, primarily, on her technique. His critique disappointed Nina because she desperately wanted to impress him. To make matters worse, she began to feel unsure of herself when a new dancer, Lily, arrived at the company. She especially felt threatened by Lily’s presence after Thomas compared Lily’s free and relaxed dance style with Nina’s controlled and technical style. Eventually, Nina attempted to become more bold, both in her dancing and personal life, in an effort to win him over. As all of this was taking place, Nina began to experience strange visions consisting of disturbing

The film the Black Swan (2010) focuses on Nina, a young ballerina with a sweet/childlike demeanour. She is employed at a New York ballet studio, and like many of her co-dancers, her life is consumed with dance. Nina lives in residence with her over controlling, obsessive former ballerina mother, who wields a claustrophobic control over Nina and blames her child as the reason why she was unable to ‘make it’ as a ballerina. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace the companies prima (veteran) ballerina, Beth, for the opening production of their new season production, Tchaikovsky 's ballet “Swan Lake”, Nina is determined to obtain the role. And to Nina’s excitement, she is Leroy’s first choice. However, a new dancer to the company, Lily, quickly impresses Leroy with her natural, playful, seductive nature as she dances (all of which Nina is not). The production of Swan Lake requires a single dancer who can play both roles of the White Swan and the Black Swan. The White Swan with its innocence, grace and perfection, while the Black Swan represents deviousness and sensuality. While Nina fits the profile of the graceful White Swan perfectly, she struggles with the role of the Black Swan. While in comparison Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry and friendship, Nina finds herself seeing and remembering events