Cyclical Structure of Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus & Goldmund, by Herman Hess, contains a distinct cyclical structure. This structure is contributed to through characters, themes, ideas, times, and places. Each of these elements facilitate the development of an organized, creative work, delving deep into the human psyche to reveal that both Narcissus and Goldmund are players in the same game. There are three separate cycles present in the novel. The first cycle occurs during the first year or two after Goldmund has left Mariabronn. It concludes with Goldmund witnessing a woman giving birth. He sees in her face the face of all of the women he has ever been with, and this connection between love and birth purges him of the
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The characters Goldmund comes in contact in this cycle give a definite image of pain and death. This is exemplified in the plague scene, wherein Goldmund comes to terms with death, and understands how it transcends, as art does, the mother and father worlds. Ideas presented in this cycle concern the Eve-mother, whose face represents all of the women Goldmund has ever known, and the principle which unites them all together. There is a complete range of characteristics in this cycle, including moth love, bliss and birth as well as cruelty, decay, and death. Time and place play an important role in this scene, especially in the Plague episode where everything was hurried, and then Goldmund lived with Robert and Lene outside the city in a house together while the Plague killed many people that remained in the town. In the third and final cycle, Goldmund experiences a relationship with Agnes. On the first day he meets her, he experiences his greatest exctasy, but on the second day, her husband finds him and sentences him to death. Only through Narcissus does Goldmund escape with his life. He returns to Niklaus, but finds him to be dead. Characters in this section are more spiritual than
In the plays female sexuality is not expressed variously through courtship, pregnancy, childbearing, and remarriage, as it is in the period. Instead it is narrowly defined and contained by the conventions of Petrarchan love and cuckoldry. The first idealizes women as a catalyst to male virtue, insisting on their absolute purity. The second fears and mistrusts them for their (usually fantasized) infidelity, an infidelity that requires their actual or temporary elimination from the world of men, which then re-forms [sic] itself around the certainty of men’s shared victimization (Neely 127).
The Black Panther Party was the most influential revolutionary group during the Civil Rights movement era. The BPP became a very strong political power. It influenced many government decisions and attracted the mass media. Yet, due to a number of reasons the BPP eventually collapsed. The Black Panther Party came to its demise due to government operations against it, various mistakes by the Party itself, and by short comings by its own leaders.
Life and death are leaves us with an known and unknown that are unavoidable. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost symbolism, rhyme, and allusion are used to describe not only nature’s life cycle but the human life cycle as well. The allegory “Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys uses symbolism and motif to deliver a story of a woman who has died but is unaware that she has actually passed away. Even though both of these pieces of literature utilize similar elements that symbolize the human life cycle in their writings they are very different in nature, and the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” leaves you with an actual reality of all beings lifecycles and the allegory leaves you with imagination only.
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October 1966, in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Armed with sincerity, the words of revolutionaries such as Mao Tse-Tung and Malcolm X, law books, and rifles, the Black Panther Party fed the hungry, protected the weak from racist police, and presented a Ten Point Platform and Program of Black political and social activism. Its "survival programs"-such as food giveaways, free health clinics and free breakfast programs for children-were popular fixtures in Black neighborhoods in the early 1970s, but for the white power structure and the vast majority of the white public, the Panthers represented only anti-government militancy; a view which engendered the wrath of the police and FBI and led to the murder of several Party members by law enforcement.
In the 1960’s the new generations were growing up into this turmoil and an outlet for many African Americans who were tired of the abuse and civil and illegal injustice done to and against them was needed. Black Panther for Self Defense was created by Huey P. Newton in 1966 in the wake of Malcolm X assassination. Gathering close companion along with Bobby Seale and David Hilliard he created the outline of the organization. Their platform and its ideals
To achieve their goals, Newton and Seale had a ten-point platform that demanded full employment, exemption of black men from the military and an end to police brutality among other things. The last point, point number ten was a summary of all of the other points. One of the main goals was to protect Black citizens against police brutality. Their message was self-defense. The Party originally preached violent revolution as the only means of achieving black liberation. The party called on blacks to arm themselves for the liberation struggle. Huey Newton studied law and spoke up when the police violated the civil rights of Black people. He made sure the search warrants were legal. The Black Panther Party had their own patrols to monitor the activities of the police in Black nei...
The novel takes place during the victorian era, a period in history where women lacked suffrage aswell as many virtues of men. Nora is presented as a naive and immature wife, which in turn makes her a perfect protaganist as she is constantly chastised because of her nature. Through a road of self-doubt and confusion, Nora’s realization and ultimate growth occurs shortly after her confession of forgery. Upon witnessing Torvald’s reaction, Nora quickly realizes that Torvald is simply in love with the idea of being in love, thus rejecting the moral system of the time to amount on a journey of self-discovery.
THE US Organization and the Black Panther Party have some similarities as being nationalists, but they adopted different principles and beliefs. The Us Organization are Cultural Nationalist who promote black cultural identity, that originally focused on Malcolm X ideals but later focused on African culture. The Black Panther Party are Revolutionary Nationalist who core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality and then later focused on community social programs. Both groups were attacked by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program and pitted against each other to create friction in both organizations. The Black Panthers made an important contribution to the African American tradition
Smith successfully uses the periodic nature of the seasons to mirror her own emotions as she considers the hope of new life offered in spring and the fading of life in the autumn. However it is this cyclical nature that she wishes to prevent and she expresses this through her experimentation of sonnet form and by rejecting the regular cycle of a sonnet. Although the diction and alliteration employed by Smith enables the reader to imagine the force of the autumn as it destroys the life of the landscape, the speaker finds comfort in this and is able to relate it due to her own melancholy situation. Such imagery allows the reader to relate the loss and decay of autumn to the speakers own experiences of loss and her own life fading away.
The first major characteristic of society and Torvald that he attempts to castigate consist of the continuous preoccupation with beauty. For example, in act 3’s scene after the Tarantella dance, Ibsen questions “Why shouldn’t I look at my dearest treasure? —at all the beauty that is mine, all my very own?” (Ibsen 55). In this metaphor, Ibsen directly compares Torvald’s marriage with Nora to Torvald possessing some sort of wonderous treasure. This reveals to readers that in the eyes of Torvald he only sees Nora as some inanimate object with major importance on its beauty whereas, the character of Nora contains more traits and aspects passed her elegance. The audience can connect with this characteristic of Torvald as he conforms to the general cultural values of the time that women in marriage persisted as just “trophies” with most importance given to their physical appearance. Consequently, there persisted no pure relationship among a husband and wife. This leads to Ibsen expressing his opinion about this characteristic of society when he states, “This is what our marriage has been, Torvald.” (Ibsen 63). as he uses the character of Nora’s departure to expose Torvald for merely playing with her as if she was a “doll” and not containing a true relationship with her thus highlighting to readers relationships are
The two versions of Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr.Faustus” have similar storylines but different in the details, such as the university Faustus attended-Wittenberg in A-text, Württemberg in the B-text. In both texts, Faustus obnoxiously gains all of God’s knowledge within the universe by resorting to the Devil’s power. However, the A and B text versions of the play display a separation between radical Protestant and conservative Catholic views in the 1600’s. The most profound difference between the two versions of the play is Faustus’s dramatic death in the B-text versus his subtle exit with Mephistopheles and the Devil in the A-text. The divergence in the educational and astronomical references foreshadows Faustus’s punishment throughout each version of the play. It seems that Marlowe intended to provoke his audience by collectively developing a religious catharsis by utilizing blasphemy. English professor David Anderson explains how Marlowe achieves his audience’s reaction, “Marlowe works in a specifically religious register, playing upon religious difference, inflaming religious antagonism, and complicating the polarities and expectations of mainstream Protestant society” (Anderson 79). Does each version of Dr Faustus represent a response to a shift in religious ideology during the Elizabethan period? I may suggest that the differences between the A and B texts in the final scene reflect cultural tensions during the religious reformation in England.
Here the boy lay down, weary both from his zealous hunting and because of the heat, drawn to the beauty of the place and the fountain. While he was eager to slake his thirst, another thirst grew, and while he drank, he was seized by the image of a figure he saw, and he loved a discarnate dream. He thought that which is a shadow is a body. He was enthralled with himself, and, with his face still, he stared at that same face, just like a statue made of Parian marble. Seated on the ground he observed his eyes, twin stars, and his hair worthy of both Bacchus and Apollo, his youthful cheeks and ivory neck, the beauty of his face and its blushing mixed with snowy whiteness, and he marveled at everything for which he himself is remarkable: unsuspecting,
Faustus ' first great sin is pride but he doesn’t stop there. Pride isn’t always a good thing to have and can sometimes end badly in humiliation. “FAUSTUS: Was not that Lucifer an angel once? Yes Faustus, and most dearly loved of God. FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? O, by aspiring pride and insolence, for which God threw him from the face of heaven.” (Marlowe1136) In this quote it is stating pride and insolence. Those sins are a lot like the traits Faustus portrays and he should take into consideration and realize that those very same traits are what got the devil kicked out of heaven it could end badly for him as well. His exchange should be a warning to Faustus about the consequences of sin but instead he choices to ignore it. Pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins and Faustus wants more power and knowledge than he’s supposed to have and because of this, it all ends terribly wrong for
In literature, spring is often associated with growth, and here we can see that spring is the season present. Because of this the reader can link spring to both the growth of nature and to the growth of the children described in the poem. The growth of the children can be viewed as a positive aspect because of its link with spring; because winter is usually linked to de...
The character of Faustus is reasoning and very aware of the moral (or immoral) status of what he is undertaking. His opening speech is devoted to working out logically why he is willing to sacrifice both the road to honest knowledge and his soul in favor of more power. (I, 1-63) He exhibits, in his search for power, anything but animal passion; he indeed exhibits a chilling logic as he talks himself out of the possible delights of heaven. Not only is he intelligent, he also demonstrates a broad base of learning, another quality admired and upheld by humanists.