The modern world is highly intricate and complex. Advanced technologies bring changes to the way we live and observe the reality around us. But why in this age of innovation and science, is art still regarded as an important part of humanity's development? Well, while science shows us the way ...Read More
The modern world is highly intricate and complex. Advanced technologies bring changes to the way we live and observe the reality around us. But why in this age of innovation and science, is art still regarded as an important part of humanity's development? Well, while science shows us the way to investigate how the universe functions, art is a way to show how we perceive the universe as a human species. Art mirrors the world we live in today, and it is an important part of our development as conscious and social beings. If you want to write works on art and culture essay topics, it is a good idea to study relevant academic papers and essays on the same topic. Examine some samples on art and culture essay topics and develop a clear outline, with an introduction, comprehensive body, and satisfying conclusion.
Introduction Aeschylus poses two impossible tasks for his heroes Eteocles in Seven Against Thebes and Agamemnon in Agamemnon. Their decisions in these moral dilemmas rest on the split between family and politics. Aeschylus presents a vision in which politics and family cannot be separated, leading...
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama is a book about a young man, Stephen, who is faced with tuberculosis changing the course of his life by taking him to a small peaceful village, Tarumi. When he first arrives at Tarumi, he meets Matsu, Sachi, and...
Harry T. Moore, in the afterword to William Dean Howellsâs The Rise of Silas Lapham, says, âMuch of the criticism of Silas Lapham has been directed at the love-story subplotâ (345). Critics of Howells are quick to point out the Romantic elements in this otherwise...
In the stichic passage from William Wordsworthâs autobiographical poem The Prelude, the speaker, who represents Wordsworth himself, encounters unfamiliar aspects of the natural world. The passage is a bildungsroman in verse, a coming-of-age poem that chronicles the psychological growth of the speaker. In the passage,...
Writing on nineteenth-century London poetry, William Sharpe comments that âRegardless of shared reference to sublimity, fog, of Babylonian blindness, each poetâs London is different. Each time we read âLondonâ we have to begin again.â For poets in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, London...
Author Philip K. Dick once said, âIt is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.â The theme of the source of madness is explored in all three stories that form Paul Auster’s novel The New York Trilogy. The three relatively short detective stories...
Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong is quoted as having said that a Chinese man has three mountains on his back. The first is colonial oppression, the second is the oppression of tradition, and the third is his own backwardness. A woman, however, has a fourth mountain...
In exploring the intersection of literature and visual art, the works of Luigi Pirandello and Pablo Picasso emerge as significant reflections of subjective reality and truth. Both artists challenge the concept of a singular, absolute truth through their respective mediums. In Pirandello’s play Right You...
As The Red Scare infiltrated American culture and consciousness in the 1940âs and 50âs, few prominent players within the Hollywood film industry dared to challenge the accusations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC); the fear of losing credibility and being blacklisted even ruffled...
Modern Theatre is a revolutionary period in theatrical history in which different theorists and practitioners of theatre experimented with ideas that were hitherto unexplored. One of these movements, and pivotal to the anti-realistic theatre that revolted against realism and naturalism is symbolism. Symbolism was a...
Cultural divides are difficult to overcome in storytelling, because readers must both re-orient their largest cultural assumptions and understand the ideas of specific, unique characters. However, in The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan effectively makes much of Chinese culture comprehensible to American readers. In describing...
The quote âSilence is Goldenâ is extremely subjective in its interpretation and heavily dependent on the context of the situation it is applied to. Is it always right to keep silent, without giving voice to ones innermost thoughts and feelings? Or is it always the...
Theodore Roosevelt once stated that âIn any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.â Often, illusions of comfort blockade the mind and sway an individualâs ability to clearly see the moral...
Dorothy Wordsworth, a poet, diarist, and sister of the esteemed Romantic poet William Wordsworth, remains an underappreciated figure in literary history. Despite her integral role within the Romantic literary community, her work was largely kept private during her lifetime, with only a handful of her...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the whirlwind lives of the 1920s New York upper class. In the novel, Fitzgerald criticizes the unattainability of the American Dream as well as the shallow nature of the upper class. From this novel, several movie adaptations...
Throughout both Roman and Greek ancient literature, well-renowned writers ranging from Aeschylus to Thucydides have demonstrated the major character flaws of mortals and the effects of their failings on their life and well-being. Although the outcome of each protagonist is different in each of these...
In October 1937, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molinaâone of Latin Americaâs most brutal dictatorsâdirectly ordered the execution of all Haitians then living in the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic. People suspected of being Haitian were asked to pronounce the Spanish word for parsley (âperejilâ). If the suspect failed...
In Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49, the concept of entropy is intricately woven into the narrative through the experiences of the protagonist, Oedipa Maas. Entropy, in this context, can be defined as both a measure of the efficiency of a system in...
Near the end of Thomas Pynchonâs 1965 novel The Crying of Lot 49, the protagonist Oedipa finds herself at a crossroads after trying to unravel the mystery of W.A.S.T.E., a conspiratorial underground postal system, without finding many tangible results. âIt was now like walking among...