The Aesthetics of Passion and Betrayal Essay

Lust is having a self-indulgent sexual desire. Susan Minot portrayed the mind of a promiscuous high school female perfectly. Lust is powerful and seductive, but it's inherently selfish and opposed to love. For many girls who are having sex with different boys they can identify with the desire to be needed. The characters in "Lust" are written in a way to highlight the dysfunction and disconnection of everyone involved. The narrator herself is nameless and faceless, making the reader believe that she has already somehow disappeared, just as the men in her life have made her disappear after having sex. Similarly, the men are listed in a brief and are identified only by their sexual acts or by other, easily objectified characteristics. What

Judas Iscariot, the disciple, hanged himself from a tree after betraying Jesus Christ and giving him a kiss. The tree in which Judas hanged himself is known as “Judas Tree” mainly found in Southern Europe and Western Asia. In the short story “Flowering Judas” written by Katherine Anne Porter the title is related to this religious event of betrayal, murder, and denial. “‘Flowering Judas’ is possibly her most remarkable story of tension, sustained, threatened, and reestablished” (Gottfried 134). The two main characters in this short story are Braggioni and Laura. Braggoni is a cruel, powerful leader of Marxist revolutionaries in and around Mexico City. Laura a beautiful American women, age 22, who took up residence in Mexico. The most known

How would someone feel if they have known someone their entire life and all of a sudden they turn their back on them? Tally Youngblood managed to hurt Shay, Corey, and Paris’s feelings in the book, Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. Tally struggles to decide what to do when faced with difficult decisions and this causes her to have a weaker relationship with her friends. Being betrayed is what many characters experience throughout Uglies.

Judas Iscariot, the disciple, hanged himself from a tree after betraying Jesus Christ and giving him a kiss. The tree in which Judas hanged himself is known as “Judas Tree,” mainly found in Southern Europe and Western Asia. In the short story “Flowering Judas” written by Katherine Anne Porter the title is related to this religious event of betrayal, murder, and denial. The two main characters in this short story are Braggioni and Laura. Braggioni is a cruel, powerful leader of Marxist revolutionaries in and around Mexico City. Laura is a beautiful American women, age 22, who took up residence in Mexico. Braggioni, Braggioni’s wife, and Eugenio also perform certain actions that make them betrayers, however Laura is Judas the betrayer in

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, with its unique style that attracts the attention of the reader from the very beginning is a good example of self reflexive fiction. Self reflexive fiction, improving and changing from the time of Tristram Shandy has found a new life at the hands of Dave Eggers. He offers the reader to take an active role in his reading. "The Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book" section addresses directly to the reader saying "if you have already read the preface and wish you had not, we apologize"or he begins the second part saying "Please look. Can you see us?"At the end, the book becomes very much self reflexive as he addresses to the millions who are reading him in nearly two full pages. When

Some people go to the theater for the story. Others go for the actors. In the case of the 2013 Broadway production of "Betrayal" I, along with countless of other individuals, are guilty of the latter. Having not seen the play prior to the performance, I was intrigued knowing that Daniel Craig and Rachel Weiz, who are married in real life, were to play an on-stage married couple. Such a casting decision does wonders for publicity, but now having read the text, I question if it does any justice for the play and how it affects the way that the audience views Emma and Robert's relationship. In what Ben Brantley of the New York Times calls a "sexed-up" version of Pinter's play, the 2013 Broadway revival reveled in presenting alternative views of the text which ultimately left little room for personal interpretation.

The title also shows his appreciation for Joan’s morals. He portrays Joan as the small part of her being. She was guided by angels and religion, and that explains why she is not the focal point of the painting. She’s a mere asset to the painting which is focused on the three angels. With the angels as the focal point of the image, it creates a different atmosphere which also changes how the painting is interpreted.

This is a representation of McTeigue presenting a realist style to the audience through elements and characters within the film through

On restless nights I have the best memory. The memory of unadulterated betrayal. A betrayal that cuts deep like an oil drill. Slowly edging deeper and deeper into the soil. Cutting through the thickest layer, until at last, the drill is fully submerged in the ground. Then, the worst. It begins by sucking every ounce of oil from the well until, nothing remains. Just a barren cell, that once, had so much to offer. It's sort of like a memory I recall. Have you ever watched an incoming storm? I have. You see the signs, the darkness encroaching on all light, the wall of steady droplets plummeting to the ground. You see so many warning signs, yet, the darkness is inviting, almost sensational. It drags you in regardless of better judgment, and you

The entire film avoids all sorts of realism by avoiding any strait or perpendicular lines, as well as distorting many objects, buildings, and backgrounds to invoke certain moods, such as anxiety and confusion. The expressionist form of this film represents the movement as a whole because, with every scene, the film is attempting more to create a feeling in the viewer, rather than simply tell a message. The expressionist movement is about feeling without being told what to feel, which is exactly what this film

Additionally, Lange was able to use framing to set up an optimal method to secure her audience attention. She was capable of this by using the rule of thirds where to aline the photograph into sections allowing one to flow into another (CITE). In this form of organization she captured and presented the feeling and action within the photograph. Lange placed Thompson just off center to make her a device to detect the reader's eye (Watkins, 2011, p. 300). Consequently, by following this pattern through distinct sections that draw attention to details within the photograph. In particular Lang brought awareness to Thompson's eyes, hands, and the baby's face. Furthermore, each box captures a section of detail while giving detail for the viewer to

There was a point in time when I was hurt. It was emotional so there weren't any physical marks for evidence. I had been hurt by the words and actions of those close to me. There was a quote I saw that said, "The saddest part about betrayal is that is always comes from the ones you believe were loyal." That quote lived true for me. Betrayal comes around but only from the ones you thought were loyal. It's hard for me to trust anyone, but the pain should wear off in the night. By morning, I'll forget there was ever pain in the first place.

11.Give evidence from the film (cite concrete scenes) that Joan addressed the 7 themes of

Annie Ernaux wrote Passion Simple in 1991 drawing from excerpts of the personal diaries she kept from 1988-1989, while engaged in an affair with a married man, known only as ‘A’. The subject Ernaux chose to write about differed from her previous novels, where abortion (Les Armoires vides, 1974), a woman’s position in family life (La Femme gelée, 1981), and parental relationships (Une Femme, 1989, La Place, 1990) were central. Instead, Ernaux chose to record an affair, and gave particular attention to the passion and desire she felt throughout. What this essay will examine is how female writing, specifically Ernaux’s writing, was permitted to represent a woman’s passion and desire. Firstly, by looking at language, and how it is used by the patriarchal

Agnes Varda, ‘the grandmother of the French New Wave’ is known for her quirky, documentary-styled cinematography. The title sequence of her second major film, Cloe 5 à 7, let’s the viewer glimpse upon this highly-stylized cinematography she would go on to perfect. Quoting Varda, she ‘wanted to make a very violent sequence that confronts the film within its contrast’. The film opens with Cléo (the main character the viewer follows for the rest of the film) getting her tarot card’s read. The scene is cluttered with small adornments (like a decorated table cloth and small clocks) and is punctuated with animated typography. Varda choses to open the film in highly saturated colors but cuts sharply to black and white when we first see Cléo. This uniquely constructed title sequence forebodes the common motifs seen throughout Cléo de 5 à 7 like the use of pseudoscience’s, themes of death, and Cloe’s highly emotional character.