Persona Essays

  • Medea, by Euripides - Constructing Medea’s Compelling Persona

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    Medea, by Euripides - Constructing Medea’s Compelling Persona In the play Medea, by Euripides, many techniques are incorporated to augment the compelling persona of the protagonist, Medea. She has an overpowering presence, which is fashioned through the use of imagery, offstage action and language. Dramatic suspense, employment of the chorus and Deus Ex Machina also serve to enhance the intense persona assumed by Medea. Medea is frequently associated with images of violence and rage. “She’s

  • Mise-en-scene in Citizen Kane and Persona

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    Mise-en-scene in Citizen Kane and Persona Mise-en-scene is the principle by which a piece of film will derive its meaning wholly from what happens in the single shot and not from the relationship between two shots. For example the director might include shots with various composition, angle, depth, movement, and lighting. Citizen Kane has many good examples to show Mise-on-scene usage. The scene that I believe is the most significant and powerful mise-en-scene that I have this seen this semester

  • Changes Made to the Draft of Strange Meeting

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    Changes Made to the Draft of Strange Meeting Reality in warfare and the painful truths that accompany war are skillfully presented in Wilfred Owen's war poem "Strange Meeting."  Owen's poem is more powerful thanks to revisions the poet made as he struggled to understand the devastating effects of war, both emotionally and socially.  "Strange Meeting" underwent changes during its composition that signify changes in Owen's understanding of warfare and human interactions.  As he

  • Essay on Adam's Curse - Everyone's Fate, Everyone's Tragedy

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    later having the speakers see "the last embers of daylight die" (29) when the conversation itself dies. Before the conversation dies, however, Yeats' persona begins the talk with the subject of poetry. What is interesting is that they are not composing lines together, but are discussing the end results of poems' lines. According to the persona, the process of creating poetry, including the hours spent in writing and rewriting the lines, or as Yeats states it, "stitching and unstitching" (6), ultimately

  • The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost

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    sees it is less worn and has more grass. The leaves are still untrodden so the paths remain fresh and exciting. It seems that he is the first traveller to pass this way for a while • ‘long I stood’ shows that he contemplated the decision • The persona begins to think about how he cannot take both paths and be the same “traveler” • “Oh, I kept the first for another day!” Despite this wish he realizes he can never come back and take the untaken path because his choice will lead him in a different

  • Persona Sparknotes

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    Yula Dos Santos Costa CINE 540 Prof. Persona In the film Persona, Ingmar Bergman reflects on the consequences of cinematic practice by constructing images from the experiences established between the two women, Alma and Elisabeth. Although nothing is real, everything “seems” to be, and the representation of the human being in fiction allows the characters to approach to themselves. In the film, Bergman experiences the place of creation as an opportunity for life at the moment it can be lived

  • Essay on the Tyrant in Richard III and Macbeth

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    Richard III and Macbeth In Richard III and Macbeth Shakespeare used the title characters to reveal the typical characteristics of the tyrant such as limited foresight, mental instability, paranoia, the alienation of allies, and a clearly defined persona of evilness. Both Richard III and Macbeth are noblemen that usurp the crown through treachery, deceitfulness, and murder. Their rule is short-lived, though, because the reign with fear and terror. This clearly sets them up as tyrants, however,

  • Compare 4 poems (1 Duffy/ 1 Armitage/ 2 Pre 1914) which you have found

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    other poems. Firstly, in "Stealing" Duffy has started off the poem with a rhetorical question, "The most unusual thing I ever stole? A snowman." (Line 1) This may illustrates to us either that the persona is responding the question that some one has asked in a conversation or the persona wanted to tell us what is the unusual thing she/he has stole. This makes us feel interesting to the poem, because the languages Duffy has used, to make we as a reader to interpret whatever way we like

  • William Cullen Bryant Examines Nature

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    happy. The persona describes this sight as an "early smile" (2675) and that is what kept a smile on his own face. Even the various blooms and colors that surface in May are not as joyful because when the violet blooms, it is the first color you see after a long winter of gray. This modesty of the meek flower is compared to that of a person. It's usually the poorer, less known people in the world that are the ones who really cheer you up. They will never let you down. As the persona in the poem

  • Gender-Bending in She's Come Undone

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    (De)Mystified: Resistance and Recuperation in Hard-Boiled Female Detective Fiction," by Timothy Shuker-Haines and Martha M. Umphrey, discussion is made of detective author Sue Grafton's ability to write in the male persona. Kinsey Millhone's [a female character in the book F Is for Fugitive] persona is gendered substantially as masculine. A woman who has few friends and lives for her work, she is self-consciously, almost parodically male-defined, as, for example, when she describes her tendency to amuse

  • Lovers' Quarrels in Love, 20 cents the First Quarter Mile

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    a lover's quarrel in which the persona, whom we can assume is male, struggles to resolve an argument during a taxi ride.  During his attempts to resolve the quarrel, the persona experiences a variety of emotions ranging from apologetic to accusatory to sarcastic to romantic.  In this poem, the reader gains a personal insight into the conflicting and rapidly changing feelings of the persona. The first stanza of the poem leads the reader to believe that the persona has been a less than perfect companion

  • My Magic Mirror

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    my case, though, mirrors seem to reflect my persona rather than my personality. This, thankfully, indicates that the mirror sees only what the rest of the world does; exactly what I want to be seen.The mirror in question in large, clear, and attractively decorated, signifying its importance in my life. This is not to say that most of my spare time is spent gazing lovingly into it, rather that it is with the help of my mirror that I adopt my outward persona every morning. While standing in front of

  • Las Relaciones Con El Narrador en Las Ruinas Circulares

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    también. El uso de la repetición, la tercera persona, y muchas descripciones durante del cuento son elementos que afectan la relación entre el narrador, el protagonista y incluso el lector. El narrador puede engañar al hombre y a los lectores durante del cuento porque solamente él sabe los sucesos que ocurren al final. La multiplicidad del cuento es un tema repetido. El narrador describe el cuento y usa una multitud de sucesos, palabras, ideas y personas repetidos. Durante del cuento, el hombre

  • Distress in The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

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    The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock - The Distress of J.Alfred Prufrock The human psyche is divided into three distinct aspects: the Persona, the Shadow, and the Anima/Animus; at least, it is according to Jungian Psychology. Drawing heavily on the theories developed by Freud, Jung's psychological concepts tell us that if these three facets are not properly integrated - that is, if one of the three is overly dominant, or repressed, or all three are in conflict with each other - then an individual's

  • Tender Is the Night Parallels Fitzgerald’s Life

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    subtitled the book)” (Fitzgerald ix). Tender Is the Night parallels Fitzgerald’s own struggles with his mentally ill Zelda, and the characters are carefully constructed from his interactions with the social elite of artists, composers and Hollywood personas on the French Riviera and Rome, among other settings. From the fall of 1925 to the spring of 1934, Fitzgerald revised his fourth novel seventeen times before it was published—he was still revising it when he died in 1940. Over those years he continually

  • Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

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    chronicle the adventures of a man, Lemuel Gulliver, on the four most incredible voyages imaginable. Primarily, however, Gulliver's Travels is a work of satire. "Gulliver is neither a fully developed character nor even an altogether distinguishable persona; rather, he is a satiric device enabling Swift to score satirical points" (Rodino 124). Indeed, whereas the work begins with more specific satire, attacking perhaps one political machine or aimed at one particular custom in each instance, it finishes

  • School of Rock: Selling it to the Man?

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    Jack Black is very funny. He steals movies where he has supporting parts like High Fidelity, and his performance with Will Ferrell at the Oscars was the highlight of a very predictable awards show. Black’s persona is a fascinating paradox; I like the oxymoron that Entertainment Weekly recently created for him: the frenetic slacker. Black’s characters seem to be very passionate, but that energy is reserved for activities that seem to serve little “productive” value in our current economic order. Hence

  • Crime And Punishment

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    Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky portrays the main character, Raskolnikov, in a complex and unique fashion. He could have been portrayed as the good guy, bad guy, or just your average man on the street, but Raskolnikov is displayed with more than one persona. "It would have been much easier for Raskolnikov to explain his weekness, but it was more pleasant for him to consider himself a strong man" (Chizhevsky 164). Raskolnikov’s dream reveals that his personality is complex and double sided.

  • Motivacion Y Recompensa

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    trabajo. Una persona satisfecha que estima su trabajo, lo transmite y disfruta de atender a sus clientes; si eso no es posible, al menos lo intentará. La motivación consiste fundamentalmente en mantener culturas y valores corporativos que conduzcan a un alto desempeño, por tal motivo se debe pensar ¿qué puede hacer para estimular a los individuos y a los grupos a dar lo mejor de ellos mismos?, en tal forma que favorezca tanto los intereses de la organización como los suyos propios. Las personas que trabajan

  • Miguel de Cervantes y Sigmund Freud

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    más conocidas, y estas son: el inconsciente (incluyendo los sueños) y la sublimación. Estos tres temas, aunque están presentados separados, tienen muchísimo en común. A causa de eso, a veces la discusión parecerá un poquito mezclado. “Hay más personas que creen en los milagros de la Virgen Bendecida que creen en la existencia del inconsciente.” --Sigmund Freud El inconsciente (o el subconsciente) refiere al aspecto o aspectos de la mente sobre que no estamos directamente conscientes . Por