Ambiguities

describing Carmilla is as a Victorian lesbian vampire novel. This tends to raise a couple eyebrows in the room, so let me take a deep breath and explain that Carmilla is a gothic novel written during the Victorian era that addresses issues like ambiguity, memory, transgressive sexuality, and gives insight into the tensions that existed between Catholicism and Protestantism, Ireland and England. At face value, the novel hardly makes any mention of the political and social turmoil that was present

ordinary meaning of “companion” and put the word into inverted commas. By doing this he or she crated ambiguity: who should the reader abandon, the drugs or the people? What is more, in the light of the semantic and visual antonymy above analysed, what is now the illocution? Is it “get engaged and do not take drugs because they reduce you fertility” or “be like this good happy white

incomprehensible. Any reader of Hamlet will notice that this play evokes a lot of endless questions, and the issue of the certainty of Prince Hamlet’s madness is one of these questions. Therefore, Shakespeare puts us as an audience in an endless circle of ambiguity through reading his play. The mad role Prince Hamlet plays in Hamlet creates a confusion about whether his madness

Strategic ambiguity is used by people, normally in a business setting, to communicate a message to others in a way that is either unclear or intellectual. It does not matter in depth how the message is delivered because the desired goal is accomplished either way. I think strategic ambiguity is more than just sugarcoating or being brutally honest, it’s choosing your words carefully in order to keep harmony among employees in the workplace. One way strategic ambiguity could be beneficial in a business

reach Kane’s deathbed, images of falling snow is superimposed on top of images of Kane and the snow globe. We do not know if this snow is the snow inside the globe or if the snow is the last image running through Kane’s mind before he dies. This ambiguity between literality and psychology empowers the viewer in determining what it means, but it also

newest album comprises five homogeneous pieces executed by the same trio with Jim Baker on piano and John Tate on acoustic bass. The latter sets immediately the groove on “Convulsive”, an unhurried, impeccably harmonized piece that boasts a certain ambiguity in its thoughtful splendor, making us search throughout. It’s all about color and texture and almost never

1. In at least 100 words, explain the ambiguity at work in “Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?” 28) Ambiguity is uncertainty or inexactness of the meaning in language. This can be seen in the text because it is only shown through the woman’s frightened perspective. In the story you read that a rugged man is following the lady. The lady is filled with fear and she starts to panic. At the end she is picking the blackjacks from her stockings. It is unclear if he attacks her or if he was just

Ambiguity in English Ambiguity refers to the ambiguous meanings of certain sentence or word in the written form or in the verbal form. Ambiguity is common in the natural language and is also one of the most important subjects for the investigation on language. It may hinder people from conducting a smooth communication since different people would interpret the sentence or word in different ways because of ambiguity. With the development and diversification of language, ambiguity is inevitable in

disregards all morality and is ruthless in order to get what he wants. He lacks balance, and has became demented as a result of his power. Thus, the reader is often conflicted to confirm whether Kurtz is good or evil. Through Conrad’s use of moral ambiguity, the underlying theme of imperialism is revealed, which is highlighted through

The Aphrodite of early Greece is a maelstrom of ambiguity. This ambiguity stems from the fact that the Greek Aphrodite evolved in Eastern religions and entered Greek tradition with an amalgam of characteristics and foreign traditions behind her. She manifests the traits and actions of a plethora of pre-Homeric Eastern deities including the Mesopotamian Ishtar and Astarte, Avestan Mithras, and the Vedic goddess Uṣas. In Homeric epic, although Aphrodite is a singular goddess, she appears to be