Moralisée's Metamorphose

The halo looks to have been carved into the wood and then painted with a little bit of sun gold to heighten its appearance. The lesser portion of the painting has a dark brown color which might have being painted or made from a different type of wood. The base on which the painting stands is painted in dark brown and looks very firm. On the left and right of the arch there are blue colors meant to depict the skies filled with yellow stars. This depiction of the skies is said to be where God the Father resides. In the painting, there are three life like images that are clearly visible. The first one as illustrated in order of importance is God the Father who sits on his thrown that of a chair made from gold. His hair is long down to his shoulders; and he his fully garbed in a mixture of red, white and black being the dominant color. His garments are lined with gold colors and matches his long beard. God the Father hands are partially extended in front of him holding up a wooden cross which displays God the Son.

It displays the Virgin holding a child with her left hand, as he holds a goldfinch in his left hand. It was last seen on display on top of grey cube box in the corner of the living room with the rest of my religious statues. The statue might be old and is very faded in color including areas that are chipped off and broken but the value is extremely important. The Virgin is seen wearing a faded yellowish gray oversized robe with a circular neckline that drapes over her body covering her entire body shape.

What makes someone suffer? Does being tormented make you suffer? Is being made fun of by peers suffering? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set in an old Puritan society where many people are persecuted for not following religion in any way whether it is a small sin or a large sin. Hester Prynne is the greatest sufferer in the novel because she was publicly humiliated in front of the whole town and has been an outcast for most of her life in that town.

The work titled “Winged Protective Deity” hails from the Assyrian empire and was created sometime in the early to mid 800s BCE. The Assyrian empire was located in what is today known as Northern Iraq. Assyrians were recognized as fearsome and ruthless conquerors of the ancient near east. This relief sculpture features a winged male figure pollinating a sacred tree and it would have decorated the walls of Ashurnasirpal II’s Northwest Palace at Calakh. Assyrian kings often commissioned relief sculptures and paintings for their palace walls to show off their power to anyone that may enter the palace. This work would have originally been painted but the paint has faded over time and the original color has been lost, so this work can only be

    Byblis and Myrrha, two of Ovid's impassioned, transgressive heroines, confess incestuous passions. Byblis yearns for her brother, Caunus, and Myrrha lusts for her father, Cinyras. Mandelbaum translates these tales effectively, but sometimes a different translation by Crane brings new meaning to an argument. As Byblis and Myrrha realize the feelings at hand, they weigh the pros and cons of such emotions. Despite the appalling relationships in question, each young girl provides concrete support and speaks in such a way that provokes pity for her plight. Their paths of reasoning coincide, but Byblis starts where Myrrha's ends, and visa versa; Myrrha begins where Byblis' concludes.

The artwork that I selected is the Parthian Rhyton. It was created in Iran from the year 150 BC – AD 225. Its medium is made up of silver with mercury gilding. The Parthian Rhyton body structure includes half rampant goat and a half drinking horn. In the artwork, there is a separation mark or point of both the goat and the drinking horn this way it looks like the goat is laying down on its stomach. The artwork total dimension is approximately 535 cm.

Throughout time, man has feared the rise of women's power, and has taken great measures to avoid it. Whether it be not allowing them to vote, suppressing their calls for jobs, or even devaluing the significance of women in many religious groups. In literature we witness the same fear, reading between the lines at how the author created a character and the reaction of the public to her. The woman, in Sophocles' Antigone, is considered powerful but noble, and is met with fierce opposition from men in power, and even fellow women who feel she has fallen from her rightful place. It is difficult, however, to determine who is right and who is wrong, when it is all said and done.

In Kant’s book, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant talks about the three formulations of the categorical imperative. By these formulations, he describes his idea of organizing the moral principle for all rational beings. Kant also talks about the principles of humanity, rational ends, and the “realm of ends” which are constituted by the autonomous freedom of rational beings.

A parable is a story used to tell a lesson. The lesson that is being taught in The Metamorphosis is to respect your family members and to always be there for them no matter what. Gregor’s family does not really care about him as a bug the same way that they did when he was a person. Towards the end of the book, Grete says, “It’s got to go, that’s the only way Father. You’ve got to get rid of the idea that that’s Gregor.” This shows that she does not think of Gregor as family anymore.

In the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Emmanuel Kant, we are presented with this conception of Kant’s called “the Form of Law.” With the discussion of the Form of Law, we will also come to encounter both moral law and the categorical imperative. Kant’s notion of the Form of Law, we will later see has a great deal of significance within the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Within the discussion of the Form of Law’s significance in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant also provides us with a response to a claim offered by David Hume. Also, provided in this paper will be both a discussion of correctness of action and the normative requirement. In this paper, I will present Kant’s conception of the Form of Law, as well as its significance in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, and finally I will conclude the paper by evaluating this analysis of the structure of correctness in action and the normatively required.

Frank Kafka’s style is to have the story revolve around horrific and bizarre events with an apathetic and objective narrator. The narrator does not show emotion, no matter how terrible the situation is. The tone of the narrator conflicts with the events in the story, making the situation seem more natural than it is, generating uncertainty for the reader..

Frank Kafka is considered one of the most influential writers of all time. Helmut Richter would agree with this statement. Richter agreed that Kafka was a very prominent figure in world literature and was amazed by his mechanics and word usage. I feel that his essay is supportive of Kafka’s writing, but also leaves out many important details in its brevity. Richter did not include Kafka’s flaws and tendencies in his essay.

The Metamorphosis is a novel written by Franz Kafka in the year 1912 and published in 1915. Kafka was born in Prague, Czech Republic in 1883 and died in 1924 in Klosterneuburg, Austria. He worked as an employee but eventually turned his focus into writing. Franz Kafka was one of the most prominent writers of the last century, writing books in German language which were translated to English. The Metamorphosis is considered as one of Kafka’s most important works.

When do we develop our sense of self? “Metamorphosis” is a tragic tale of humanity and change that forces us to look deeper at what makes us human and what defines who we are. Whether it be circumstance or adversity that shapes us, it’s easy to see that adversity shapes you deeper. We go about our lives hoping to find meaning in ourselves, as many have said before they go on a journey to ‘find themselves’. Many of us think we have the whole of our personal identity hammered out by the time we reach adulthood. “Metamorphosis” shows us another facet of the journey to actualized personal identity, in that it cannot be achieved without change and adversity. The transformation Gregor undergoes not only narrows and defines Gregor’s personal identity, but forces his sister to change and define herself.

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Ovid quotes, “My mind is bent to tell your bodies changed into new forms.” In other words, he claims that the body can be modified into different forms, shapes, and structures. His usage of the terms “bent”, “changed”, and “forms” all in the one sentence depicts his perception of the body and how it relates to the mind. Unlike Plato, Ovid believes that the mind can be “bent” and altered. The body, in his perception, is the physical notion of creation itself: the creation of the human body through first clay and then rocks and stones, the creation of the land, the creation of sea, the creation of heaven, and the creation of the underworld (Ovid 5-6).