Essays on Despondent

The Similarity Shared By “Kansha” (Observing Decapitation) and “Weiguan” (Join the Crowd of Onlookers)

The concepts of ‘Kansha’ and ‘Weiguan’ have surfaced in the works of art and literature in ancient China and China in the new millennium. Authors, journalists and influential individuals in China have held various events that depict these concepts. The instances of observing decapitation and joining the crowd of onlookers have a significant impact on the involved individuals.

Typical Scenes

There are various instances and typical scenes recorded by artists, journalists and authors throughout the modern eras that depict the elements of ‘Kansha’ and ‘Weiguan’. First, age-defying dancers chosen areas in China depict the public spectacle of on looking. Other scenes of ...

Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954): The Components of a Critical Essay on Film Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954): The Components of a Critical Essay on Film The goal of a filmmaker is to make use of narrative to match well with cinema’s natural formalistic techniques. Cinema, as André Bazin has noted has its own ontology of being both an objective representation of reality seeing through the subjective lens of the preserved image. It has a unique way of both representing reality, by preserving life through a representation of life (Bazin 2004, p. 10). Filmmakers not only communicate ...

Kate Chopin’s landmark novel The Awakening is often cited as one of the first modern feminist novels written about a woman’s plight and the difficulty of women’s choices. In the novel, Chopin fearlessly addresses issues that were previously considered distasteful or even inappropriate for a female author to consider; however, Chopin considers these issues thoughtfully, without prejudice, and with extreme empathy. The main character of the novel, Edna Pontellier, is faced with a variety of choices; however, in a move that was unprecedented for the time in which the novel was written, the protagonist takes charge of her fate and ...