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Film Analysis of Parasite in the Light of Marxism
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
1-4
Received:
2 October 2022
Accepted:
18 November 2022
Published:
13 January 2023
Abstract: The media text chosen for this research is the film “Parasite”. The purpose of the study is to correlate the film with Marxism. Marxism can be defined as the political, social, and economic philosophy. It was invented by Karl Marx that highlights the struggle between two classes of society; the bourgeoisie or capitalists, and the proletariat or working class. A critical analysis of the film has been done to distinguish where Marxist theory was observable. The findings showed that the film Parasite is a perfect illustration of Marxism. It gracefully depicts the class system, which can also be correlated to the real world. On one side, it showed an elite class, so, on the flip side, it exposed the lower class. Hence, both are standard social classes in today’s society. The film doesn't only depict Marxism but also shows the dark side of humanity. On one point, it gives hope to the Proletariat class by delivering a message that upward mobility is possible. So, on the next point, it also alerts the Bourgeoisie class that if the working class tries to become rich, they struggle for it, and are ready to cross all limits to achieve it. Henceforth, a powerful and substantial connection was observed between the film Parasite, Marxism, and the society.
Abstract: The media text chosen for this research is the film “Parasite”. The purpose of the study is to correlate the film with Marxism. Marxism can be defined as the political, social, and economic philosophy. It was invented by Karl Marx that highlights the struggle between two classes of society; the bourgeoisie or capitalists, and the proletariat or wor...
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Characteristics of Animals in Picture Books of the Fantastic There and Back Again Stories
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
5-12
Received:
11 December 2022
Accepted:
25 December 2022
Published:
13 January 2023
Abstract: This study quantitatively examines the characteristics of depictions of animals in 189 picture books of fantastic there and back again stories in which humans are the protagonists, and explores the interactions between humans and animals. While many animals are involved in protagonists’ movement to other worlds, far more animals are uninvolved. The animals are often portrayed as having unclear age and sex. Various species have been identified, and cats are the most popular animals that assist the protagonists’ movement and they may or may not opt to participate in their movement; meanwhile, crows tend to trigger the movement. Animals that are uninvolved in the protagonists’ movement are characterized by their location depending on whether they are domestic animals, which tend to be shown in the world before the protagonists’ movement; feral animals tend to be seen in the world after the protagonists’ movement. Many animals in picture books give children a sense of security while reading from the standpoint of biophilia and promoting understanding of the story. The vagueness of animals’ age, sex, and appearance can expand the imaginations of child readers. Cats, in particular, can attract humans from the inside to the outside of their living sphere with their fantastical nature associated with their ecology and history of relationships with humans as companion animals. Crows are described as having the ability to cross the real world and other realms due to their history of being worshiped by humans and their ability to fly. Fantastic there and back again stories in picture books provide opportunities for children to form perceptions of animals. Further, depictions of animals in picture books may expand children’s cognition when they understand the world and form their own perspectives.
Abstract: This study quantitatively examines the characteristics of depictions of animals in 189 picture books of fantastic there and back again stories in which humans are the protagonists, and explores the interactions between humans and animals. While many animals are involved in protagonists’ movement to other worlds, far more animals are uninvolved. The...
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The Antithetical Tincture, Spiritual Discovery and Absorption in God: Yeats’ Cycle Derived from Noh Theatre in The Cat and the Moon
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
13-19
Received:
9 September 2022
Accepted:
3 January 2023
Published:
31 January 2023
Abstract: As the Noh drama concerns itself with a moment of intensity of a single action, human emotion or experience, Yeats presented his conception of moment of intensity to be instilled in the depth of the mind and to lessen all other irrelevant elements that distract attention. Therefore, Yeats looked for a new, unconventional and non-narrative form. He searched for a workable precedent in myth, Celtic and Gaelic tradition besides experimenting with theoretical techniques, traditional as well as revolutionary. Personality and passion are key concepts in the plays of Yeats. They reflect an intensely passionate moment experienced by a character in their lives. Such experience pours dramatic quality and power on those rituals. Characters face situations of conflict or they lack harmony with the forces around them, so they pursue a more favorable or attainable manner of living in this world i.e. a better mode of existence. The solution to the conflict, or the choice of a way out, or the making of a decisive decision may require conscious intervention or action or it is suddenly and strongly pushed upon them by universal or spiritual forces manifested in the physical world. Within the realm of the antithetical tincture that is emotional and aesthetic and the primary tincture that is reasonable and moral the four faculties are formed: Will and Mask, Creative Mind and Body of Fate. Will and Mask are the will and its object, the Is and the Ought, while Creative Mind and Body of Fate are the thought and its object or the Knower and the Known. The first two are lunar, antithetical or natural and the second two are solar, primary and reasonable. “Will” represents all what is desired, resisted or accepted, and Creative Mind represents facts. So the will of an individual can be the mask of the other and the Creative Mind of a human being is the Body of Fate of the other. The Cat and the Moon displays a conflict between a blind man and a lame man. The blind man represents the body and the lame man represents the soul. Yeats chooses the cat as a representative of an ordinary man and the moon as the opposite. Finally when the lame man carries the blind man on his back, he unites with his opposite.
Abstract: As the Noh drama concerns itself with a moment of intensity of a single action, human emotion or experience, Yeats presented his conception of moment of intensity to be instilled in the depth of the mind and to lessen all other irrelevant elements that distract attention. Therefore, Yeats looked for a new, unconventional and non-narrative form. He ...
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The Revenant and Such a Long Letter: Novels of a Society of Excess and Opportunism Through Some Family Ceremonies
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
20-25
Received:
20 December 2022
Accepted:
12 January 2023
Published:
31 January 2023
Abstract: If literature feeds on social realities, it is accepted that literary works scroll the image of their emerging environment. Based on this premise, we will agree that the novel is a credible lever for the representation and analysis of community practices and values. In this respect, if birth, death, among other realities, are consubstantial with human life, these events are differently appreciated by human societies. When the organization of these ceremonies is polluted by excesses and / or diversion of objectives, the writer makes food for thought. From then on, the texts took on a pamphleteering orientation and their authors covered themselves with the cloth of militancy to mock the many vices. As attentive observers of people's daily lives, the novelists of this corpus walk their gaze through the dark corridors of repugnant social practices of which they render the smallest details. The materialist logic of actors of all stripes, outrageous opportunism and excesses that no morality or law justifies are the main sources that feed the imagination of Aminata Sow Fall and Mariama Ba. With the sensibilities of women highly aware of societal issues and concerned with the idea of progress, they make no secret of their indignation at the unproductive finality of the morality of waste, exhibitionism and hypocrisy. As a result, the novels in our corpus of study are sufficiently revealing the Senegalese society, whose characteristics they deal with.
Abstract: If literature feeds on social realities, it is accepted that literary works scroll the image of their emerging environment. Based on this premise, we will agree that the novel is a credible lever for the representation and analysis of community practices and values. In this respect, if birth, death, among other realities, are consubstantial with hu...
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The Constitution of Sanjak-Montenegrin Bosniak’s History Within Husein Bašić’s Pentalogy “Replacements”
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
34-40
Received:
2 January 2023
Accepted:
1 February 2023
Published:
16 February 2023
Abstract: The paper analyzes the novels of symbolic titles: Other Nests, A Gate Without a Key, Bones and Crows, Barren Turkish, White Asians, integrated in the roman-fleuve Replacements (2000). The key starting point of this confessional chronicle’s chronotope are the decisions in Berlin regarding the withdrawal of Turkish troops and the changes of borders in the Balkans. Being led to tragic consequences, Bosniaks, the Islamic Slavic population, were given the burden of “Turkish guilt”. Confronted with stigmatization, Bosniaks experienced persecution, ethnic cleansing, mass and individual murders, and emigration to Turkey. Their name, national and cultural identity, homeland, state, and existence were called into question. Questioning his life as a clerk in the Imperial Archives, Ibrahim Žioc, the narrator, recounts little stories of great significance concerning human life and destiny. He produces panoramic, temporal sections which pose as compensation for the taboo subject of historical discourse regarding the Sanjak- Montenegrin Bosniaks’ destiny. Documenting the violence and the exodus of the people forced to face numerous forms of terror, the narration rhythmically accents wondrous stories, extraordinary portraits, and characters, remarkable examples of human kindliness, compassion, and humorous remarks. Employing his poetic talent, Husein Bašić introduces a lyrical component to the fictional world. The use of sophisticated narrative methods aestheticizes the evil destiny of one nation. The novels represent a literary testimony about a period of historical processes and epochal changes in the Balkans, deeply entrenched within the layered and complex contexts of Bosniak culture and history. With authentic artistic speech, the representation and interpretation of historical dramas and traumas, Bašić constituted the unwritten history of Sanjak-Montenegrin Bosniaks and awakened the identity crushed by existential crises that the wars of the 20th century had brought.
Abstract: The paper analyzes the novels of symbolic titles: Other Nests, A Gate Without a Key, Bones and Crows, Barren Turkish, White Asians, integrated in the roman-fleuve Replacements (2000). The key starting point of this confessional chronicle’s chronotope are the decisions in Berlin regarding the withdrawal of Turkish troops and the changes of borders i...
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A Systematic Literature Review of Art Therapy on Depression Recovery
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
41-43
Received:
5 January 2023
Accepted:
7 February 2023
Published:
16 February 2023
Abstract: While there is increasing interest in the use of art therapy for psychiatric conditions, there have been few systematic reviews completed on the subject. As a result, this review sought to investigate current research and bring to light its efficacy in the treatment of depression. Art therapy can be used as a therapeutic intervention for depression by using art as a medium through which to explore and express emotions, symbols, and thoughts. Furthermore, art therapy can be used in conjunction with other therapies for depression, such as psychotherapy or medication. The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the current research into art therapy conducted on depressive disorders and to discover whether it is effective in the treatment of depression. Art therapy targets individuals with a variety of issues (e.g., anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and grief). The therapeutic value, therefore, lies within the cathartic process one undergoes while creating and exploring their artwork from which these issues are explored and identified. The psychology of art therapy, both from a theoretical and practical perspective, is central to the theories of art therapy. Art therapists use art as the medium through which to act out the client's mental states and emotions. The systemic literature review identifies art therapy as an effective intervention for depression.
Abstract: While there is increasing interest in the use of art therapy for psychiatric conditions, there have been few systematic reviews completed on the subject. As a result, this review sought to investigate current research and bring to light its efficacy in the treatment of depression. Art therapy can be used as a therapeutic intervention for depression...
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Contestations, Conflicts and Corollaries of Sociohistorical Conditions in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2023
Pages:
44-55
Received:
5 May 2022
Accepted:
23 May 2022
Published:
27 February 2023
Abstract: The nineteen sixties were a historical era largely characterised by intense sociopolitical contestations and conflicts on the African continent. Although historians, historiographers, political scientists and even sociologists have, over the years, interpreted and analysed these challenging conditions with divergent academic lenses, Chimamanda Adichie’s artistic representations and creative interpretations in Half of a Yellow Sun have thrown up enormous fresh insights. The research, therefore, aims to trace and identify the diverse sociohistorical conditions from which certain sociopolitical contestations and conflicts represented or alluded to in the fiction are derived from, and consequently evaluate them. Applying the critical tenets of New Historicism and qualitative research method, the study unveils that quite a number of the sociopolitical contestations and conflicts represented in the novel still subsist in various forms despite the multiplicity of their dire corollaries, mainly on account of the fact that their precursors have not been decisively dealt with. This implies that efforts directed so far to annihilate the ugly trees of incessant sociopolotical contestations and bloody conflicts on the terrain can be said to have been targeted at the branches and not at the roots. The study maintains that for a level of sustainable peace, stability and development to be attained on the continent, the sociohistorical and political conditions that birth and nourish the contestations and conflicts, with their associated corollaries, should be decisively mitigated.
Abstract: The nineteen sixties were a historical era largely characterised by intense sociopolitical contestations and conflicts on the African continent. Although historians, historiographers, political scientists and even sociologists have, over the years, interpreted and analysed these challenging conditions with divergent academic lenses, Chimamanda Adic...
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