Art Movements Essays

Numerous other authors use the concept of people being stuck on an empty island. It symbolizes that the characters on the island have no way of leaving, do not have extra supplies, and have no outside influence and are completely free from law and order. Golding takes advantage of this …

“The Lord of the Flies” was first published in 1954 by Faber and Faber Limited. It was written by William Golding (1911-93), who decided to write it because he wanted people to know the true nature of human beings. It is significant that it was published in the post war …

Born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, Alice Malsenior Walker was the eighth and youngest child of poor sharecroppers. Her father’s great-great-great grandmother, Mary Poole was a slave, forced to walk from Virginia to Georgia with a baby in each arm. Walker is deeply proud of her cultural heritage. …

Although generally called a movement, it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and by radical formal experimentation. Several literary movements and styles, notably Imagism and Vorticism, were fostered within modernism, which flourished from around 1890 until 1940. …

One of the most influential and independent artists of the 19th Century was Frank Stella. In this essay I will discuss and analyse one of Stella’s most intricate and precise artworks, Hyena Stomp (Stella, 1962). Stella’s use of line and neat brushstrokes were a reaction to the dominant abstract expressionist …

Imagery in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner” plays a significant role: it helps us to feel the atmosphere and sustain the willing suspension of disbelief. The imagery has also been complemented by the effective use of symbol of albatross.             From the outset the  strong and …

Symbolism is an integral part of literature. The use of symbols provides greater meaning and depth to a story. In three chosen stories, “A&P”, “Story of an Hour”, and “Guest of the Nation,” several prominent symbols are utilized that bring about the message of the story. In “A&P,” John Updike …

For a reader, Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s 1922 short story In a Grove gives more questions than answers as the last sentence ends.  Within the story Akutagawa presents seven accounts surrounding the murder of a samurai named Kanazawa no Takehiro in a bamboo grove.  Three of the seven accounts clearly contradict each …

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological school that remains less politically radical than conflict theory and sheds the restraints of the idea of structure that is the core of the structural functionalist school.  Reality and the social processes that create rational action is the basic premise of the study done within …

Introduction The long standing challenge to contemporary Korean art is to establish a historical claim for itself as it developed in the implicit absence of a time-honored norm of modern Korean art. The job of Korean artists now is to distinguish Korean art from those of other countries. This is …