...Disney animated film leaves the world frozen in amazement. Released in December 2013, the movie “Frozen” speaks on being different and of love. The main character, Anna, and her older sister, Elsa were extremely close until Elsa’s wintery powers of which she was born with almost got Anna killed. While Anna held on to that relationship, Elsa had shut herself out in fear of hurting someone. Things got worse as their parents, the king and the queen died in a shipwreck, leaving the sisters more alone than ever. Years later, Elsa is forced to interact with others during her coronation, the build up of emotions and feelings gave way. Her powers bursted out, trapping all of Arendelle in a winter wonderland and causing the townsmen to chase out their new queen. Seeing Elsa’s well intentions all these years, Anna goes on a perilous journey where she met many new friends and ultimately shows Elsa that love is the way. In regards to Groen and Franzen's artistic criteria, the movie Frozen would be considered quality art as it exhibits “real” characters, is considered tragic in the sense that it’s realistic, and is relatable. The main character, Anna carries a large diversity of personalities that reaches the standards set by Franzen, being "not either/or but both/and”. At the start of the movie, Anna is a fun-loving, energetic, impatient child who is in love with her sister. However, she doesn’t think much of her own safety as she instinctively hops from one tall snow pile to another leading...
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...the film, which is racial acceptance and alienation. This can be seen in the juxtaposition of two scenes that show Radio Raheem's acceptance of his Black friend Mookie and his rejection and disdain of the White Italian pizzeria owners. The story is told within the course of one day and scenes follow each other sequentially. This particular sequence begins with Mookie treading over the young girl's drawing of a harmonious scene with the sun shining and people smiling, implying to the viewer that such harmony does not exist. The scene then goes on to present Radio Raheem's new ring pieces, entitled "Love" and "Hate". Radio Raheem explains to Mookie how life is a constant battle between these conflicting emotions and that these emotions are determined and unchanging. This scene sees Radio Raheem, in the Black part of town, express his love for Mookie, saying, "I love you, man."...
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...Essay – ”The Rental Heart” Love. Love can be good and love can be bad, although love is the most important thing in the world. Love is something we can’t be without, because where there is love – there is life. You see love in many different connections. Everyone has their own point of view on love. No one really knows the actual meaning of love – which makes love a mystery that many creative souls are trying to solve. The story “The Rental Heart” written by Kirsty Logan in 2010 deals with the feelings of loving another person. During this essay, the science fiction and the symbolism in “The Rental Heart,” will be analyzed. Kirsty Logan, who is a writer of fiction and journalism, also wrote the short story “The Rental Heart.” The story is written from Kirsty Logan’s own experiences with love, as she many years ago dated different people. The first time she got hurt, she was shattered and felt like nothing. The many negative thoughts in her head gave her the idea of pretending as if she had a Rental Heart, as she says in one of her blog posts on her website, “I pretended that I had a rental heart. I pretended that I could use it to be with someone and then return it afterwards, that it would be like nothing ever happened. I made sure that no-one I went out with left a scratch on me.” Later on, she met a girl, Susie, who became her inspiration for her story, “The Rental Heart”, as she proved to her that true love exists. In the short story, we do not know the gender of the...
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...The love between Claudio and Hero is a partial idealistic and realistic love, as in the love between Benedick and Beatrice is a more realistic love. Although, Claudio and Hero's relationship has contrasts and similarities with Benedick and Beatrice's relationship, at the end it is an equally happy ending for both couples. From the beginning of the play, Claudio realizes, after returning from war, that he is deeply in love with Hero. It was love at first sight, Claudio refers to Hero as “the sweetest lady” he ever “looked on” (1.1.147). The attraction Claudio has for Leonato's daughter is purely the result of first, physical beauty, and second, the desire to marry a noble and virtuous woman. These qualities are very desiring therefore...
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...Convey the Ideas about Lust and Love Chaucer’s ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ is a medieval text set in a patriarchal society in which women were treated in an unequal manner. In contrast to the social factors in medieval society, Chaucer’s story is dominated by women, making this a matriarchal story which presents themes of women‘s independence. This idea is accentuated due to the fact that the Wife of Bath narrates the story. The main character of the knight who reflects the personality of promiscuous males in the medieval period who were mostly lustful towards woman and the roles between men and women showed inequality. Conversely, Duffy’s poems are contemporary in contrast to Chaucer’s patriarchal influence in his story, there is more of a sense of equality as she is a modern feminist author which presents the genders in the poems ‘Adultery’ and ‘Valentine’ in a quite ambiguous nature. The reader is unable to understand if the narrative voice is a male or a female. As a result the gender of the narrator in ‘Adultery’ and ‘Valentine is ambiguous. In addition, due to the ambiguity her poems, primarily ‘Valentine’ as she compares love to an onion and does this by using imagery, symbolism and choice of lexis. Both Chaucer and Duffy present ideas about lust and love in their work. However, Chaucer presents the idea of love in a medieval fairy tale which is more idealistic as the story ends on a happy note. By contrast Duffy presents the idea of lust and love in a modern setting and conveys...
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...all have emotions and that is why they should be considered as believable characters because emotions and feelings are what make those characters realistic. For example, Max Vandenburg, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, are believable from The Book Thief. Max with his anger and Hans and Rosa’s love toward their family are what make them especially believable. First of all, Max Vandenburg is a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in the Hubermann’s house because of what Hans owe from his father. “You find a small black room, in sits a scum. He is starving. He is afraid.” (Page 138) This part of the book explained how before Max moved into the Hubermann’s house, he used to hide in a small room waiting for his friend. It definitely showed how lonely Max was while hiding and waiting. This loneliness is a very realistic human feeling that makes Max a believable character. “In the blue corner, we have the champion of the world, The Fubhrer… and in the red corner, we have the Jewish, rat-faced challenger –Max Vandenburg.” (Page 251) Loneliness is not the only feeling Max has in the story but also the anger towards Hitler. As a Jewish who was constantly being hunted for at that time, he had furious feelings toward Hitler, the Nazi leader, which made him fantasize about being in a fight with him. Next, Hans Hubermann is Liesel’s foster father who shows loves toward Liesel as a father although she is not his born child. For example, when Liesel steals her first book, he asked, “do you want to read it...
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...The Symbolism Concepts in Chekhov’s The Seagull Introduction Anton Chekhov was categorised as a realistic writer. His drama scripts also are realistic. The plot in his scripts describes a short fragment of ordinary lives from ordinary people. But his realism is not completely as same as traditional realism, which contains a lot of symbolism concepts. The traditional realistic play sees life in terms of what it might be, as well as in terms of what it is through an objective view (Sprinchorn 1124). Also, the visual description of characters’ personality and plot details are necessary in realistic drama play. In Chekhov’s play, it is hard to easily judge the character good or bad. And the plots are not developed with strong conflict as tradition dramatic realism. Also, his play cannot be presented as the same method as traditional plays. Chekhov’s plays have transcended the definition of realism because he already achieved a series of symbolist concepts in them. His plays can be regard as combinational works of realism and symbolism, which is different to previous playwrights’. Tolstoy has commented that: He cannot even be compared with the old Russian writers — Turgenev, Dostoevsky, or myself. Chekhov has his own manner, like the Impressionists. You see a man daubing on whatever paint happens to be near at hand, apparently without selection, and it seems as though these paints bear no relation to one another. But if you step back a certain distance and look again, you...
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...humorous plots, which surround a love story or the search of a true love. Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977) and Marc Webb’s 500 Days of Summer (2009) are both movies that fall under the genre “Romantic Comedy”. These two movies are connected in many ways, for each film contains relatable characters and effective narrative techniques to portray a realistic relationship. Each film is also able to portray the differences between the reality and expectations of a relationship in humorous ways that allow them to be called a romantic comedy. Alvy and Tom are two different characters with separate mindsets. In 500 Days of Summer, Tom Hansen, despite his passion to be an architect is an unmotivated greeting card writer who deeply believes in the concept of true love and soul mates. Whereas in Annie Hall, Alvy Singer is a pessimistic comedian and control freak that is seen changing things to benefit him. Both characters due to their attitudes on life and relationships bring forth different aspects that make them such unique and likable characters. Tom strongly believes that he will never be happy until he meets the person that he believes is ‘the one’ for him. Whereas with Alvy he pushes Annie and doesn’t fully accept either Annie’s insecurities or support her as she finds ways to work through them. Summer and Annie, like their male counterparts, are two different types of heroine. Summer is portrayed as a character who at first denies that true love exists and isn’t sure what she...
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...long time ago. She doesn't reply, but deletes the mail and it was gone into ''infinite cyberspace''. The story only evolves around two characters: the female narrator and Jed Cunningham. They are at the same age and British. She is living somewhere in the UK in a suburban neighbourhood with her husband, two children and her dog Bramble. She writes articles for a newspaper or magazine and picks her daughter up from school every day. We actually just know a few facts about the middle aged Jim, that he is living alone in some remote place by the sea with his dog Roger. It's the only fact the narrator knows about him, and therefore the only fact we know about him. But in the story, our narrator describes the young Jim that she was in love with: He was the coolest of the cool with the fashion...
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...Abstract The movie “50 First Dates” is a comedy in which Drew Barrymore (Lucy) was in an automobile accident to where she lost her short term memory. Adam Sandler (Henry) falls in love in with Lucy but finds out the hard way that he has to start over every day to become her love interest. Lucy’s father and brother basically tries to keep her from knowing her condition by continuously covering up the fact that she has memory loss. Her father and brother reenact the same day over and over. They are very protective of her and will go through anything to keep her away from Henry until they feel like he could actually help her. After a police writes her a ticket at the café it is then she realized that the date was different from what she had expected and that’s when the game of charades was to come to an end...
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...Magic realist elements in ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by G.G. Marquez. Paradoxically enough, a reception of a book starts even before it is taken to reader’s hands and opened. When one only hears the name of the author or the title of the novel, some associations appear almost automatically. These associations can later on influence the reader’s impressions or even – to some degree – the analysis of a chosen literary work. Thus, when the name of Marquez is evoked, the very first thing to come to one’s mind is probably ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and – for some readers – the term of ‘magic realism’. Every other Marquez’s work must ‘take into an account’ such inevitable context. Then, the title also determines reader’s expectations. In the case of ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ – the subject of this essay – all enormous tradition of love literature passes in the background, due to the novel’s title. To what degree these associations help in the understanding of Marquez’s famous book it is to be discovered. To begin with, obviously not all of the Colombian writer’s works have been created in the magic realist mode. In ‘In Evil Hour’ (1961) or ‘The General in His Labyrinth” (1989) there are hardly any magic realist elements. On the other hand, ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ still functions as the main and most eminent example of magic realism in the world literature, and the one best recognised by an average reader, too. As to ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, it seems...
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... The shifting view of marriage and its relation to romantic love is the focus of “The Future of Love: Kiss Romance Goodbye, It’s Time for the Real Thing” by Barbara Graham. Graham argues that our mounting divorce and re-marriage rates show that our society is looking for something in marriages that it isn’t finding. Her argument states that today’s society tries to establish marriages on love, when history shows us that marriages are intended for social and economic reasons, not romantic reasons. According to Graham, we keep studying the biology and sociology of love in marriage, not giving attention to the fact that a successful love relationship and a successful marriage are two different things. Finally the author ends her essay by stating that the marriage relationships in our society are failing. After reading several articles regarding marriage, it has become apparent to me that marriage is failing within the United States. This is mainly due to the lack of realistic expectations, such as the assumption that romance and matrimony are synonymous. However, marriage is crucial for the foundation of a healthy society. Marriage provides several vital elements such as cultural prosperity, social order and the regulation of sexual activities. The concept of marriage as we know it can easily be remedied if we refrain from using classical love stories as a template and back to the idea of the original old fashioned families. ...
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...“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.” This saying can be tied with the relationship of Beatrice and Benedick. Most movies or plays can attempt to portray a sweet relationship between two people, but in the matter of sensibility there happens to be more bitterness. There can be ups; however, there will also be many more downs, such as many arguments that will have to be fought out. Alongside the duration and timing of a relationship and the willingness to do anything for each other. In William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick have the most realistic relationship compared to Hero and Claudio....
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...The word commitment can mean different things to different people. It can conjure up images of dedication to a task or mission, it can refer to an obligation to family, or it can relate to a person’s resolution to conform to what society expects of them. However, more frequently it is linked to the idea of love and relationships; and in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” that is certainly the translation that is examined. Act 2, Scene 2 of the play in question is where the famous “balcony” scene takes place. It is the location where both lovers declare their mutual love for eachother and their desire to commit to eachother. Very quickly Juliet commits to “… follow thee my lord throughout the world”. In short she falls in love with him so entirely that the instantly commits to conforming to the role of a woman that was expected by society in Verona during the Shakespearian era – to become her husband’s “servant”. Of course by 2015 standards that would seem awful to most people, however, in the 15th century this was very much the accepted view. Juliet refers to Romeo as her “lord” for his duty to her once married was to provide for her, and offer her the security that her father’s wealth did not as women were unable to inherit their father’s estate. In return married women were expected to be grateful for the opportunity of marriage and were required to show this by baring her husband’s children (heirs), maintaining the home her husband provided her with, and to obey her husband’s...
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...Film Review: Jane Eyre Review by: L. E. J. Target audience: 16+ Medium: Magazine Starring: Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens, Lorraine Ashbourne. Run time: 202 min 1 Introduction Inspired by the 1847 novel written by Charlotte Bronte, director Susanna White created this interesting adaptation in the form of a four-episode miniseries simply called “Jane Eyre”, released in 2006, starring actors Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens and Lorraine Ashbourne. 2 The story The story of Jane Eyre is one of hardship, jealousy and contempt, but also one of love, forgiveness, happiness and much, much more. Throughout the roughly three-and-a-half-hour plot we witness a woman’s journey from being an unwanted child left at an orphanage at an early age, into developing a far more interesting life than most would have expected. Jane Eyre never knew her parents. She spent her early years with her aunt and two cousins, all of whom despised and resented her. Little Jane is an intelligent child, but her stubbornness only adds to her aunts hatred of her. Her aunt is convinced that the child is “possessed by Satan”. Still a child, Jane is kicked out of her Aunts home and has to live in an orphanage for girls. The rule there is strict, and she is quite eager to get out, which she finally does eight years later when she is employed as a governess to the ward of a wealthy man named Edward Fairfax Rochester. It is here in Sir Rochester’s castle most of the plot plays out. For the first time in the...
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