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Japan’s Art, although sometimes over looked has evolved through many
different periods. Its simplest forms in the Archaic period and last on its more complex
period the Ego Period. Even though some skeptics believe that Japanese art can not
compare to the art of the Greeks or Romans. Japanese Art yet simple is refreshing and
has left Japan with wonderful shrines, paintings and traditions. The periods of Japanese
art are the Archaic, Ask, Heian, Kamakura, Askikaga and the Ego periods. Each
Period has taken Japan to a new level of art.
Starting with the Archaic period, Japan was a prehistoric society where its art
consisted of well crafted vessels, vases, and tools. Most vessels and vases were
constructed to look like they were surrounded in rope but in reality it was part of the
ceramic and clay pieces. They lived in pit dwellings with thatched roofs on bamboo
stilts. The Japanese did however build shrines in this period. These shrines were
consisted of many buildings and were concentrated around a central axis. The
symmetrical system was off set by a gate and a building were only the deity could dwell.
The most famous of these Shrines is the Ise Shrine. This shrine is 55 yards by 127 yards and is completely fenced in. The Shrine is also made entirely out of wood! With the building of shrines the Japanese moved into a new period, the Asuka period. The
religion of the people changed to Buddhism which also cha...
At the beginning of the play Macbeth is seen as a courageous soldier who is loyal to the King but is corrupted from the witches prophecies and by his and Lady Macbeth’s ambition. Their marriage is of convenience for Lady Macbeth, but for Macbeth it is more than that. He loves his wife, and she takes advantage of that. She is continuously making him feel guilty, for being weak, and challenges his manhood, with these words "When you durst do it, then you were a man, and, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man." (I,vi,50-52), which means, Be a man, and I will love you as one.
Macbeth is a hero to Scotland, and a strong person.. He is a Lord under the rule of King Duncan, and he has no reason to feel unhappy with where he is in life. It's after the meeting with the witches, that he begins to desire the throne, but he still needs Lady Macbeth to convince him to commit the murder, when he questions the consenquences and asks "If we should fail?"(I,vi,59). Lady Macbeth comes back with a quick answear "We fail', But screw your courage to the sticking-place And we'll not fail."(I,vi,60-61), what shes saying is that if he stops being afraid and pulls himself togehter they will not fail.
When Macbeth hears the prophesies of his future, he appears to disregard them, but when he is made Thane of Cawdor (as foretold by the witches), he already is thinking about killing the king when he says these words to himself "The Princ...
The literary character that I most readily identify with would be
Dostoevsky's Alexei, The Gambler. I can relate to him because like me, he is a
man of many passions. He is also all but helpless against his addiction to
gambling. I have also felt helpless to certain circumstances in my life, as
have we all. He is capable of much more than what his society allows him to be.
That is to say he may be a lowly tutor, but he care's about justice and the
atrocities committed by the "high-born" class. I, through faults of my own and
Injustices of my school's administration, also was limited, as Alexei was as to
what people thought of me and how they treated me.
Alexei was torn between his love of gambling and his love of a woman who
did not return his love. He felt passionately about things that he did, even if
he got into trouble over them. He knew that what he thought was right was often
in stark contrast to what his society deemed proper. He disagreed with the
social hierarchy of Russia and paid the penalty. He may have paid a penalty
for standing by what he thought was right, but he knew inside that he was doing
the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He
was relatively miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish
himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had
Peter Barry identifies as one of the major aims of Postcolonial criticism the rejection of "the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical Western literature" and more specifically "to show its limitations of outlook, especially its general inability to empathize across boundaries of cultural and ethnic difference" (198). Although Bâ's intentions are not primarily anti-colonial, her novel So Long a Letter exemplifies how African literature provides a different perspective of their culture, and despite not fitting the model of the English canon, is valuable and significant on its own terms. Bâ is not writing in defence of Africa. She is writing about Africa, and gender and class are much more fundamental to her work than race. It can be argued that rather than writing back to Empire, she is writing back to African male authors on behalf of African women, reclaiming the voice that has been previously denied to them.
