¶ … Women of Brewster Place The realistic artist's or novelist's job is to reflect the world around them and if the world around them is one in which gratuitousness, violence, bad language, and graphic sexuality are rampant, then the artist/novelist has some responsibly in accurately depicting the world in which he or she is situated. It does not necessarily mean that the author condones or supports such a world, merely that he knows it and is compelled to show it so that we, the viewer/reader, can see it and ourselves in it and reflect on our own lives, actions, impulses -- and even, if the artist/writer affords us the opportunity, on the "way out" -- a vision of something higher that can lead the world out of the mess in which it is situated. It does not have to be any overwhelming message or sign: in fact, it can be something as subtle as a simple depiction of a good action, or a change or turn in one's behavior -- a mere thought that elevates and points to the transcendent. In The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor depicts violence, sex, vulgarity, and explicit language -- but at the same time Naylor also shows a world of inner beauty inside the barbarous world of unfaithful men and women, cheating each other, fighting and being cruel. For instance, Mattie's devotion to Etta as she waits up all night for her to come home while Etta is sleeping with the Reverend is a moment that reveals the deep tenderness and charity that one soul has for another who is caught...
Against the backdrop of depravity and self-ruin, moments like these stand out and shine and give hope to anyone who has ever spent time in reality and knows what it is like to live in the world without hope. Therefore, while off-putting for some, the depiction of sex, violence and raw language has its place in stories, and can be helpful in acting as a relief of the good, true and beautiful transcendental moments that stand out from the backdrop.
Blade Runner: A Marriage of Noir and Sci-Fi Blade Runner is a 1982 film noir/science fiction film set in 2019 that depicts a world that is threatened by human advancements in technology. In the film, robotic humanoids become self-aware and decide that it is within their right to live past their predetermined expiration dates and set out to find a way to live among humans and defy scientists, whom arbitrarily decided
The fact that a novel in the sentimental and seduction genre attained such heights of popularity is, in the first instance, evidence its impact and effect on the psyche and minds of the female readers of the novel. As one critic cogently notes: Why a book which barely climbs above the lower limits of literacy, and which handles, without psychological acuteness or dramatic power, a handful of stereotyped characters in
Cold War dominated American culture, consciousness, politics and policy for most of the 20th century. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which symbolized the fall of the Iron Curtain and therefore finale of the Cold War, Cold War rhetoric and politics continued especially in the War on Terror. Depictions of the Cold War in American literature and film parallel the changes that took place in American ways
The overall literature available on this theory is more or less mixed as some studies claim that there is nor relation between the two concepts (Pelletier & Herold, 1988), whereas others state that rape fantasies are high where women are sexually suppressed (Hariton & Singer, 1974), yet another study concluded that the women who had higher ratio of rape fantasy were mentally more healthy towards the concept of sex (Gold
Clinical Psychology Dissertation - Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings An Abstract of a Dissertation Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings This study sets out to determine how dreams can be used in a therapeutic environment to discuss feelings from a dream, and how the therapist should engage the patient to discuss them to reveal the relevance of those feelings, in their present,
" The differences in these two lines seem to be only a matter of syntax but in actuality, it also differs in the meaning. The King James Bible version makes it seem like the Lord is making the individual do something, as if by force or obligation, while the Puritan version states that the Lord causes the individual to do something, as if out of their own will. This alone
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