Month: July 2024

War Is Not A Luxury1 The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it […]

The proposal that poetry’s a substitute for war as a source of artistic inspiration relies on the relative aesthetic value of politics to the populations that these notions are applied to. Both Audre Lorde in her essay, “Poetry Is Not A Luxury”, and Walter Benjamin in his essay, “The Work of Art in the Age […]

There are three theories of personal identity presented in the third chapter of Mary Lich’s, “Philosophy Through Film”, that include The Physical Continuity Theory, The Same-soul Theory and The Psychological Continuity theory1. This essay will cover what these conjured terms mean, and their application toward describing the problems related to personal identity found in Christopher […]

In the French Rococo period, Jean-Honoré Fragonard created one of the more wonderful pieces of art that captured a powerful and enduring representation of the general milieu present in 1767 in his painting, “The Swing”. Gertrude Stein’s since offered a powerful tool of critical analysis in her discussion of, “What Are Master-pieces and Why Are […]

This movie is largely about the various personal accounts of the memories people have of other people. In this story, the various recollections of people are used to reconstruct an image of Mr. Kane who, himself appearing at the center of the story, doesn’t have his own personal account of himself accounted for in this […]

In discussing T.S. Eliots’ notions on conformity, where in his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” he writes, “to conform merely would be for the new work not really to conform at all; it would not be new, and would therefore not be a work of art,” much can be said in discussing its relation […]

The Truman Show serves as a contemporary cinematic version of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” because the allegory had presented many ideological symbols that manifest in the movie. These ideas are also present in the characters and events in the film. Truman’s reaction to the life he was living was more a result of him […]

I chose to analyze a film scene from The Matrix, specifically the wonderful scene where Neo enters the kitchen of The Oracle and a key point in the movie takes place. There were a lot of good scenes in this movie, and certainly many others, and I could go into writing each one of them […]