Imagery is used to show Plath as an aggressive person, such as through the line “smash it into kindling”. The emotive line “The bloody end of the skein” creates the sense of abandonment and eternal suffering that by no means that one could be aware of. It suggests that Plath’s mind, the labyrinth, was something that Hughes struggled to understand, and propose that her psyche was beyond his control. He also utilises speech in The Minotaur, creating a sense of truth in Hughes’ part. While he is not seen as a saint within the poem (he remarks in a sarcastic matter to Plath in the poem), he positions the reader to empathise with him, painting the image that he is the placid one in the relationship, and the one who encourages her to embark on her creative pursuits “Get that shoulder under your stanzas/ And we’ll be away.”.
The theme of disruption refers to the unbalancing of what is natural, a theme which is explored and opinionated in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1817) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (Director’s cut), where ‘disruptive’ actions of individuals, involving the exploitation of nature, bring about [ironically] the character’s own downfall, and more importantly, an undesired outcome whilst playing god. The critical theme outlined in both texts is humanity’s desire for power which leads to the rejection of our natural world, and this, by extension, means turning to technology and other unconventional methods in order to gain knowledge and distinction. Shelley specifically cautions against scientific advancement and the obsession which follows
Bruce Dawes ‘Homo Suburbiensis’ conveys a strict contradiction between nature and the suburban lifestyle. A man alone acting as one constant against a changing world representing a need to escape to nature to regain his natural essence. There is a sense of honesty and somber in the tone; this is illustrated by the use of visual imagery throughout the poem, depicting a series of unpleasant sensory experiences, which come from the unwanted interference's’ in life. The poem is narrative in its free verse, portraying the worlds natural cycle. Dawe has created the title ‘Homo Suburbiensis’ which is like a parody of scientific classification, as it sounds like the term’ Homosapien’ which refers to a modernized man who dwells in the suburbs.
The portrayal of nature in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, shows the contrasts of society as people strive to be perfect and fit in while also struggling to remain individualistic. The director, Milos Forman, uses various sounds to explain the oppressions of the ward while symbolizing the nature as freedom in the first party aftermath scene. He uses certain low shots combined with close ups to establish an order for which the viewer perceives certain characters, explaining the contrast between the leader against followers through power exchange. The use of mise-en-scene supports the difference between original behaviors versus forced behavior, regulations against free will. Through the use of nature sounds and machine sounds, low and high shot types and
Blade runner & Frankenstein NOTES: • Both focus on the “eyes being the windows to the soul” • Both show the importance of nature • Both questions that we as humans should be asking ourselves such a “what is social justice” and “should humans play god” • The power of nature depicted in Frankenstein is juxtaposed with the dystopian world of BR and the lack of nature. • Many of the characters find peace in nature for example, victor Frankenstein says “These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving”. • There are parallels to victor FS, his greed for knowledge and the creation of his monster. Greed without consideration of the consequence of one’s actions is a key concern raised in BR and FS. • The meaning of what it is to be human is raised greatly in both texts.
“So long as we keep to the body and our soul is contaminated with this imperfection, there is no chance of our ever attaining satisfactorily to our object, which we assert to be Truth.” (Phaedo 66b) The human is so completely enslaved by their bodily needs that their sense of goodness and justice is off. Another significant argument that was thought was the belief that there is a dreadful disease of Misology. This is the hatred of reasoning and contaminates the mind and the man and causes one to stop questioning the world around him and to stagnate within the world of purpose. “…When one believes that an argument is true
Such violence is really only the cause of Roy’s pain, his emotions controlling his actions conflicts with our prejudice. Frankenstein's Monster's anguish comes from the rejection he feels from society “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”. Posing this Rhetorical question highlights the Irony of how the monster while innocent has been judged just as the reader has. Influenced by her father Mary Shelley's story of a monster portrays the idea that to be human goes beyond that of the body. The Monsters vulgarity and the Replicants perfection does not define them their reaction and action and the ability to think morally and ethically makes them human.
In Huxley’s world of the World State, humanity is conditioned to reject the nature as the natural rhythms of birth and ageing as well as emotions that are evolved when in contact with nature are considered to threaten the stability of civilization. Huxley predicts that if conditioning humanity is continued, the very featured that define what it means to be human will be abolished, such as in this case compassion and individual freedom. The contrast in the characterisation between Lenina and John the Savage demonstrates this. When is contact with such elements of the natural world such as breast-feeding, Lenina quotes hypnopaedia taught slogans such as “cleanliness in next to Fordliness”, demonstrating her conditioning to reject the natural. John the savage on the other hand who has not been conditioned is disgusted by the control
It is human nature to deem the unnatural and irregular as immoral, as articulated in the declaration, “Humans use language, their visual and verbal constructions of reality, to name or image the human and the nonhuman and thus to fix the boundaries between us and them” (Mellor 124). Through continually demoralizing the creature by considering him evil, the characters in the novel ultimately cause the creature to behave monstrously. The reader never essentially gets to meet the creature, but the reader formulates an impression of the creature in his/her head, centered on the creature’s physical descriptions, and by reading about the creatures environment, and by the circumstances under which the readers get acquainted with the
If we do violate natural laws, we will suffer from everything that is against the nature. In this essay, I will discuss Epictetus’s arguments about what to do to be happy and will give my personal opinion about the given excerpt. First of all, according to Epictetus, the violation of any natural laws always leads to being upset. This is due to dominance of Nature over human-beings and therefore, we have to live with the correspondence to the