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college in 1977, Cindy Sherman and her fellow student Robert Longo moved to Manhattan, New York together. She continued with her interest in role-playing and dressing up as different characters, and began to photograph herself in these different guises among different locations such as her apartment Untitled Film Still #10, in the Southwest in Untitled Film Still #43, and in Long Island in Untitled Film Still # 9. Sherman's manipulation of lighting, makeup, and dress make it difficult to believe

Girish Karnad is one of such committed Indian performing artists of the present times. As he is a socio-politically most sensitive and mature citizen, apart from being an artist, though he does not adhere to any political ideology, he has fearlessly expressed his views on different occasions at different platforms. As a responsible artist, he has given vent to the concerns over the contemporary religious and communal tensions. Parvathi Menon stated that Karnad has been a bitter

The Subtle Truth of Jane Eyre       The role of a woman in Victorian England was an unenviable one. Social demands and personal desires were often at cross-purposes. This predicament was nothing new in the 19th century, yet it was this period that would see the waters begin to stir in anticipation of the cascading changes about to shake the very foundation of an empire on the brink of global colonization and industrialization. The question of what role women would play in this transformation

As a modern audience, we must remember to be mindful of the society in which Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew when we analyze it. This was a time when marriages were made for the convenience of the fathers far more often than for a love already existing between the bride and groom; people often were married without having known each other for very long, and sometimes without ever having met. Instead, one hoped to find love within the marriage once it was in place, to learn to love one's

Humankind as the Balance of Rationality and Passion “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms” Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels takes place in four parts, each of which describe Gulliver’s adventures with fantastical species of foreign nations. The search for Swift’s meaning has been a controversial one; the novel has been interpreted along a wide spectrum ranging from children’s story to a satire of human nature. The greatest debate lies within the realm of satire, and Part Four of Gulliver’s

Introduction In recent years, due to the church sex abuse scandal, childhood sexual abuse has become one of the most highly publicized crimes in the United States. Unfortunately, despite this newfound interest in the scandalous topic of abuse, incest and more common sexual abuse cases involving family continue to be overlooked by society and the media. Understandably, intra-familial sexual abuse is a delicate and complex subject to acknowledge and dissect. Yet, by ignoring the subject entirely,

considered to be between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, however there is nothing in the Play to indicate this other than the societal norms presented throughout. Shakespeare’s treatment of love in the play is complex. He uses love in its many guises to thread together many key relationships in the play. Fickle love is the first to be introduced into the play, Romeo is said to be in love with ‘Fair Rosaline ’ a lady sworn to

Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures Introduction More than three-quarters of the people living in the world today have had their lives shaped by the experience of colonialism. It is easy to see how important this has been in the political and economic spheres, but its general influence on the perceptual frameworks of contemporary peoples is often less evident. Literature offers one of the most important ways in which these new perceptions are expressed and it is in their

considered to be between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, however there is nothing in the Play to indicate this other than the societal norms presented throughout. Shakespeare’s treatment of love in the play is complex. He uses love in its many guises to thread together many key relationships in the play. Fickle love is the first to be introduced into the play, Romeo is said to be in love with ‘Fair Rosaline ’ a lady sworn to

mother tells the truth. “…I too had been in the presence of great power, my mother talking-story…she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan.I would have to grow up a warrior woman.”But Maxine’s fantasy about the warrior wearing the male guise consigns her to the “master’s tools”. Maxine attests to the tenacity of patriarchal norms. Maxine –as-warrior becomes a tormentor to herself and in a harrowing scene tortures a “mute” Chinese girl—her alter ego who refuses to “speak”. However when