Abstract This paper examines August Wilson play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" as symbolic of loss and redemption after the abolition of slavery. The author points out that Wilson uses Bynum's "binding song" as a main point of reference for the characterization of Bynum and Loomis.
From the Paper " In Joe Turner's "Come and Gone" the audience is faced with characters who are most certainly out of place in their surroundings. By setting his work during that period of American History known as The Great Migration, he opens our ..."
Tags: joe turner, august wilson, binding song, bynum, loomis
Abstract According to this paper, August Wilson wrote his plays in a non-sequential manner that set about depicting the lives of African Americans over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by decade. Yet, the paper shows how as Wilson wrote the plays, the ideas for the work became vivid in his imagination instead of through a planned and organized presentational manner. Like his manner of writing the ten cycles of plays, his work was often composed through a series of multiple changes that he made while the plays were in production.
Abstract This paper examines how, in August of 1789, the National Assembly, in response to peasant revolts, abolished the feudal system and created a declaration of rights. It looks at how the parish cahiers and the actions of the peasants suggest they were more concerned with subsistence than feudal issues, with anti-feudal riots being the result. It also looks at how the bourgeois class, in contrast, were more concerned with social mobility and the protection of property. It attempts to show how the decrees of August, 1789, while benefiting the peasants in some real ways, were essentially designed to promote the interests of the moneyed classes.
From the Paper "Less concerned with subsistence, the Third Estate was able to voice its grievances in the cahiers much more effectively than the peasantry. While the leaders of the Third Estate shared many demands with the peasants, particularly taxation, the frequency and emphasis of other specific concerns stands in contrast to the parish lists. It is often noted that the bourgeoisie of the Eighteenth Century generally aspired to join the nobility. This desire was fostered largely by a lack of social mobility available to the Third Estate16 and was a frequent issue in the cahiers. The Third Estate of Carcassonne, for example, suggested that "the general or particular regulations which exclude members of the Third Estate from certain positions, offices, and ranks which have hitherto been bestowed on nobles either for life or hereditarily [should be abolished]."17 Another major concern of the Third Estate was the payment of the franc-fief, a tax on land passing from a nobleman to a commoner. This tax, argued the bourgeoisie, interfered with the sale of property."
Tags: cahiers, citizen, declaration, feudalism, french, revolution, rights
Abstract This paper is an in-depth literary analysis and synopsis of "Light in August", the novel by William Faulkner. The author examines the themes of the book, contrasting between the old, pre-Civil War South and the new South. The paper specifically discusses the character Joe Christmas, how he represents Christ, and looks at the deep Christian undertones in the novel.
From the Paper "Joe Christmas is created by Faulkner to represent a twentieth century allegory of Christ that is in s is in some ways different from Christ. Another of the novel's central characters is the Reverend Gail Hightower, who is haunted by memories of his grandfather, who died fighting in the Confederate cavalry. Incidentally, Faulkner's great-grandfather, William Clark Faulkner, was also a Civil War veteran, who later wrote several books, including a popular romance "The White Rose of Memphis" in 1882. Light in August is a weave of many themes. The foremost of course is the theme of racism that is central to the novel. Joe Christmas? foremost dilemma is his ancestry and his identity. The people's attitude towards him depends on what they perceive of his race."
Abstract The following paper takes a look at the life of Friedrich August Kelule, known as the originator of the structure theory of benzene. This essay discusses Kelule's interest in chemistry, beginning with a trial concerning a charred woman's body.
From the Paper ?Kelule went to a trial about a woman's charred body. Many believed she had combustion because she drank too much alcohol. However, Justus von Liebig testified in this trial and ignited Kekule's interest in chemistry. He changed his studies from architecture to chemistry. Charles Gerhardt and Jean-Baptiste Dumas taught him the unitary theory of chemistry. From 1855 to 1858 Kekule debated with JFW von Baeyer until 1858 and was professor at Ghent and Bonn (Ulearntoday 1)."
Abstract The following paper discusses August Bournonville's family life, the way in which he got to be the principal for the Copenhagen Royal Theatre, as well as their ballet-master and dance teacher. It examines the way in which Bournonville took a very contrasting humanistic approach to dance ? he tended to focus on the beauty found in the ordinary things.
From the Paper ?His third daughter, Mathilde, was a teacher; his fourth daughter, Therese was a homemaker, and his son Edmond was a doctor with a successful practice in both Sweden and Denmark. Wilhelmine was the Bournonville's adopted daughter, who seemed to perhaps ease his guilt about his daughter whom he had abandoned so many years earlier in France. It is important to interject that Bournonville did keep in correspondence with the adoptive parents of his first-born daughter, and he even corresponded with her after she was on her own. He never revealed to her that he was her father, but he aided her economically at any chance that he had.?
This paper examines the contributions of Auguste Rodin to the world of art including his pieces "The Man with the Broken Nose", "The Thinker", "Adam and Eve" and "The Inner Voice".
Abstract This paper discusses the many works of art by the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. The author gives a brief biography of his contributions and feels that Rodin was responsible for the resurgence of the popularity of sculpture as an art form. According to this paper, the one common thread among all of his works was the realistic nature of his sculptures and the care he took in preserving this in all of his works.
From the Paper "The Kiss is another work created for The Gates of Hell project. The statue depicts Paolo and Fransesco, two lovers from Dante's The Inferno, who exchanged a stolen kiss and were seen and stabbed. The Kiss depicts the lovers and this first kiss. The Kiss was originally in bronze but later had copies made in marble, with three of the statues existing. Ugolino is a bronze statue depicting Ugolino della Gherardesca, a character in Dante's The Inferno. Ugolino was imprisoned in the Tower of Hunger with his children. Ugolino saw his children die of hunger and then ate their flesh before dying himself. The sculpture depicts Ugolino crawling over his children just after their death."
Abstract A paper which shows how the image of windows serves as a divide between the innocent and the not so innocent William Faulkner's "A Light in August". It shows that those who dare to go outside the windows through which they gaze, are subject to the gossip and hypocrisy of society and those who remain inside are subject to this same torture as well. It discusses the character Gail Hightower chooses to stay inside, while Lena Grove chooses to venture outside. Lena is innocent because she has not experienced the falsehood of society while Hightower is not.
From the Paper "Windows play a major role in the first seventy- six pages of William Faulkner's novel, A Light in August. Faulkner first mentions a window on page five. It is through this window that the young Lena Grove climbs through during the night in order to see her boyfriend, Lucas Burch. Faulkner again mentions a window on page fifty-seven, while describing the daily life of former minister, Gail Hightower. According to Faulkner, by staying inside windows people are just as likely to be victimized by society as those who venture outside. The only thing that separates those who stay inside or go outside, is experience."
This paper analyzes in detail a passage from ?A Light in August? by William Faulkner, the plight of Joe Christmas from what would have been his first sexual encounter.
Abstract The paper states that this selection relations to the novel as a whole and provides immense awareness of the character of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's ?A Light in August?. The paper examines the image of Christmas as an eternal outsider of mixed heritage with a conflicted self-image, which plays itself out in the novel through his relationships with others.
From the Paper "The selection begins with Christmas, once again, on the run. "He went down the road fast" when Bobbie tells him she has her period. He takes this as a sort of betrayal, that her menstruating was something that made her imperfect or unclean somehow. When Joe hears one of his more experienced peers describe the "physical ceremony" with nauseating detail he views it as some kind of dirty secret women use against men: ?They all want to,? the boy had said. "But sometimes they can"t.? "
Abstract This paper provide a thorough review of Faulkner's novel. It focuses on the theme of crises and shows how these are prevalent along most of the story line. The writer shows how in "Light in August" the main characters move through their individual crises and accompanying changes in their circumstances with no alterations in their personalities. The crises of each character is discussed while analyzing their personalities and how these were effected by the changes.
From the Paper This statement is especially curious when it is studied along side the main characters of Light of August, for though Faulkner has created in this novel a hero, a coward, someone tender and someone cruel, he forms their nature in them at birth or early childhood. He then allows them to pass through their lives more as a victim of their own nature than their circumstances. Tender Lena Grove, cruel Joe Christmas, cowardly Gail Hightower and heroic Byron Bunch are not "capable of almost anything" but are subject to the innate disposition with which they are disposed in early life, and not even in a crisis are they allowed to change."
Tags: crisis, character, leno, christmas, joe, grove, gail, byron
Abstract The paper examines how August Strindberg makes use of the form of the dream in the plays "A Dream Play" and "The Ghost Sonata," with varied results. "A Dream Play" was written in 1901, and "The Ghost Sonata" in 1907. The paper shows how the structure of both plays is dreamlike and the characters experience the world as if in a dream. The subject matter of the plays, though, is life itself, with a strong religious and moral tone.
From the Paper "Much of the dialogue also makes the action of the play seem dreamlike, for though the dialogue could be taken as metaphorical, it has the tone of something surrealistic when the daughter says that the "castle keeps on growing up out of the earth" (Strindberg, "A Dream Play" 199). The action as well has a surrealistic quality, as when the daughter of Indra goes on her dream journey to the opera house, where a mystical door opens to show the four learned representatives of different faculties busily arguing over their disciplines and the great problems of human knowledge. This leads to the great fire that consumes the castle, followed by a wall of questioning human faces as the roof turns into a giant chrysanthemum. Such transformations are of the sort that occur in a dream, carrying symbolic meaning on a deep level."
Abstract This paper will discuss the revelations of suffering and love that abound in the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. In this manner, we can analyze the different sculptures that he is known for, and show these themes in his work.
Abstract This paper discusses the work and life of Jacob August Riis. Riis devoted some time to pointing out ethnic divisions by way of color maps that referred to African-Americans in black, Jews in gray, red for areas of high Italian concentration, yellow for the Chinese Americans and so forth.
Abstract This paper examines how the novel, "Light in August," represents two groups of people who clearly hold different viewpoints on free will and the role of God in their lives. The religious fanatics, like Doc Hines and McEachern, see themselves constantly influenced by the will of God and, at times, guided by His very hand. It looks at how Faulkner projects existentialism's philosophy through the characters of Christmas and Hightower, who represent a dramatic transformation at the end of the novel.
From the Paper "Christmas' life is not without the influence left upon him by the essence before existence philosophy. The District Attorney, Gavin Stevens, states, "the black blood drove [Joe] first to the negro cabin. And then the white blood drove him out of there" (449). Stevens fully accepts the notion of the "one-drop rule," and represents the mindset of those who would have an influence upon Christmas in regard to his racial identity. During much of the novel Joe is following this rule and the notion of maintaining the purity of white women by telling the prostitutes he is with that he is part black and expects their disgust."
Abstract This paper discusses the beginnings of sociology and the role played by French philosopher, Auguste Comte. The paper attempts to answer the question of whether Comte really was the father of sociology or whether he was the father of the obscure philosophy of positivism.
From the Paper "The French philosopher Auguste Comte is often called the father of sociology. Although Comte cannot merit the status of such a title of intellectual founding father status in perhaps the way Freud delineated the vocabulary and discourse of analysis-after all, 'Comtian' is not a capitalized, adjective in the same way that 'Freudian' has come to be a common form of slang for all matters pertaining to repression and parental relations in psychology. Still, Comte certainly provided, through his founding of the philosophy of positivism, the theoretical structure that enabled the discipline of sociology to become 'possible.' Comte not only coined the phrases that became common to sociological discourse, and also the term of the study of human society itself, but was the first philosopher to place the human being in the context of a social element, rather than to view the self as a mere soul, apart from the rest of society."
