Summary Of The Metamorphosis Of Narcissus

This same quality would be seen if a reader could enter the mind of the narrator in “The Raven” because he has been emotionally stripped bare by his inextinguishable grief. In The Persistence of Memory the arid desert is essentially empty, save for the melting clocks, which closely parallels “The Raven” because the clocks can represent the narrator’s extremely weakened emotional state. The feelings that have become the feeblest are those of positivity and alacrity. In the simplest terms he has been stripped away of willingness and been exposed to the strongest forms of grief and anguish. Overall, the desert setting in The Persistence of Memory can represent the mind of the narrator and how stripped of feeling it has become and the few melting clocks show the numbed and weak emotion he has

From afar, it appears as if he simply cut the canvas down the middle and

I HAVE DONE ALL THAT I CAN DO UP TO THIS POINT. IF ANY OF YOU WHO LIVE IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA NEAR JACKSON PARISH, LOUISIANA COULD GO TO THE COURT HOUSE WERE ALL RECORDS ARE KEPT IN THEIR ARCHIVES

Persistence of Memory [See Appendix 4] and Edge of the Trees [See Appendix 1] are two examples of artworks that both aim to communicate a social comment that is relevant to the artist’s background and beliefs. Persistence of Memory was painted by Salvador Dali who was a Spanish artist, celebrated for his surrealistic dreamscapes. Since his birth in 1904, Dali was an eccentric individual with limitless creativity. His fiercely technical yet highly unusual paintings, sculptures, films and life-size interactive art pieces were achieved by pouring his boldness and creativity in to each one. Edge of the Trees was collaboratively created by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley; two Australian artists of completely different backgrounds. Janet Laurence (1947) is a Sydney based artist and architect of more than 25 years. Fiona Foley (1964) is another contemporary Australian painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor, installation artist, writer and community activist, whose work is greatly influenced by her heritage and history. Foley’s work often discusses the hidden histories of Australia's colonial past and its interface with Aboriginal people.

In the time of Kafka the division between Czech and German speaking people in Czechoslovakia was big.

In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Gregory Samsa is transformed into a giant bug. He wakes and wonders what has happened to him. As he is trying to get out of bed his mother comes to his door reminding him that he has to be at work. This alarmed others in the home so his father comes to check on him, then his sister, she whispered ‘“Gregory, open the door, please”’ (Kafka, 2006, p.1968). He is trying every way he can to get himself together to get out of bed but is finding it difficult as he doesn’t know what to do with this body. As he is trying to make his way out of bed his boss the chief clerk has shown up at his house wondering why he has not left for work. All of these people are standing outside his bedroom door wondering why it is

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a critically-acclaimed novella for the bizarre manner it is written in. Gregor Samsa, the protagonist, awakens from his slumber one morning only to discover he is no longer a human being. Strangely enough, he is now a grotesque insect. Although some may see this as an author not taking their literary work earnestly, Gregor’s transformation to an insect is symbolic in many ways to the society he is living in. In addition, his drastic change in appearance serves as a metaphor to key themes that are essential to an adolescent’s life. The Metamorphosis should be a required high school reading because it involves themes such as identity, family, and alienation that any high school student can relate to and acquire moral lessons.

Orpheus’ Modern Metamorphasis Key sentences: 1. Marcel Camus’ 1959 film Black Orpheus departs from the ancient Orpheus tradition in the details, but remains true to the key point of the story, Orpheus and Eurydice’s true love being defeated by Orpheus’ doubt. 2. Camus’ 1959 film kept the traditional characters, Orpheus and Eurydice, with their appropriate names and traits to retain a sense of originality from the old myth while adding more characters to intrigue and suspend the audience in the newer story 3. By introducing the new, modernized characters, the film Black Orpheus is forced to depart from the traditional myth.

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.

In the words of Henry David Thoreau, “This world is but a canvas to our imagination”. This statement speaks to all of mankind, in that, art can be traced back to thousands of years ago. For centuries people have put their whole lives into creating art, hoping that they would pass on their views while still creating something different, interesting, and unique. Generating from these ideas was as artist named Ivan Albright. Though his pieces appeared to depict a world of decay and corruption, Albright showed his love for art through his morbid emotional intensity. In this paper I will discuss the history of the artist, compare and contrast the subject matter and technique of two of his paintings, as acknowledge his approach to color, texture, balance, and space.

When the painting first was completed by Dali, experts tried to explain what did it mean, why these watches are melting and why they are in the middle of the desert.

The construct of narcissism finds its origins in ancient Greece and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with the proud and vain figure of Narcissus, cursed by the goddess, Nemesis, to fall in love with his own reflection. However, conceptualizations of pathological narcissism did not became a part of psychological theory until the late nineteenth century with Freud’s eminent essay: On Narcissism (Ronningstam, 2005). As Freud theorized on narcissism and, ironically, experimented with cocaine, the formal diagnosis of addiction was precipitously incorporated into the medical literature in response to increasing uncontrolled narcotic use and growing public health concern (Markel, 2012). Perhaps predictably, theorizing on the possible association between narcissism and addiction, particularly in the psychoanalytic tradition, has been addressed by theorists since. The term narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) was first introduced by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and saw inclusion in formal diagnostic literature in 1980 as a part of the significant revisions to personality disorders in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 1980).

The Persistence of Memory is an incredibly iconic piece of art. I, as well as many others, have seen it many times, yet never really took the time to actually look at it and try to understand what Dalí was trying to convey within this painting. That’s why I decided to choose this painting to analyze. Dalí’s realistic, yet dreamlike painting, shows something as simple as time, and portrays it in ways that one would never really think

Dali employs a “concrete irrationality” surrealist style giving us the illusion of realism. Design is precise, using symmetrical perspective employing a geometrical figure’s composition. The painting is well balanced. Presence of the light coming from the northeast gives a sense of a natural landscape. The light and shadow relationship “pops the elements out” and creates contrast. The pain of war is expressed by the grotesque mutating human body ripping itself apart with the anguishing facial expression.

The deeper meaning of “The Metamorphosis”, by Frank Kafka, can be interpreted in many ways depending on critical theory is used to examine it. From a feminist criticism, one can observe how Gregor’s dominance as a male diminishes after he becomes a bug as his sister’s strength and role in the family grows stronger. From a biographical criticism, one can compare and contrast the traits of Gregor and the people around him with that of Kafka’s own life and his relationships. However, the focus of this essay will be applying a psychoanalytical criticism to the characters in “The Metamorphosis”, using the studies of Sigmund Freud to approach