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    The Binary Opposition Narrative in Life of Pi 李英 2012010285 Abstract: Ever since its publication in 2002, Life of Pi has gained great popularity and high critical acclaim from critical circle. It arose the study of Li of Pi from various angels. But most kinds of analysis about the novel are focus on existing doubts about the story, and the religious symbols in the novels. The binary opposition narrative in the novel discussed rarely. The novel is full of

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    Nietzsche wrote that language invents truths that do not have an actual reference to the outside world. One of the primary examples are binary oppositions: two terms that give each other meaning when they are compared. The conflicting terms serve to simplify concepts down to their most basic forms. In literary works, however, the binary oppositions that are presented are often deconstructed. In Heathers, the main drama of the story comes from the ideas of conformity and nonconformity. As the story

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    Binary Oppositions appear in multiple forms within this poem. We find the pairs of conflicting words and the readers are expected sort out which words have the ideal interpretation to the poem. Most of these pairs are descriptions about the pebble, the “coldness (line 9) and the “false warmth” (line 14) skew our interpretation of this pebble. Pebbles are naturally cold but the text tries to resolve this fact by presenting warmth to the pebble. Yet the pebble did not produce this warmth itself, a

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    Binary Oppositions

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    Factory emphasizes the binary oppositions “excitement” and “calm” through the verbs in which the characters—Charlie and Willy Wonka—explain. Nodelman and Reimer analyze binary oppositions in children’s literature as it “define[s] some of the most central thematic concerns of a surprising amount of children’s literature” (Nodelman and Reimer 199). Specifically, in the chapter 28 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl juxtaposes Willy Wonka from Charlie through the oppositions: excitement and calm

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    What Is Binary Opposition

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    This Essay will define binary opposition and then explain why nature and technology is generally considered as binary opposites but are not. It will further define nature, technology and humanity and then explain how they are related in reference to The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it Evolves by Arthur as well as Cyborgs: The body Information and Technology by Murphie and Potts. Thereafter it will use Neil Harbisson, The Cyborg to illustrate the close relationship between nature and technology

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    Binary Opposition in the Works of Euripides Binary opposition, as defined by Corey Marvin “simply describes a pair of theoretical opposites or thematic contrasts.” Euripides uses binary opposition as an effective literary device in both the Medea and the Bacchae. One of the overarching dichotomies in both works is masculinity versus femininity. In the Medea, the protagonist flips the gender roles, and in the Bacchae, Dionysus’ androgynous nature allows him to often adopt a feminine persona in the

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    narratives derive from the simple tales of myths, folktales and fairy tales. We can use Claude Lévi-Strauss’s binary opposition’s theory to break down an earlier bond film (Thunderball) and compare it to a modern one (Quantum of Solace). Doing so should help determine whether all narratives, old and new, keep to the same codes and conventions of these so called ‘prototypes’. Binary oppositions was a structuralism theory conceived in 1955 by Belgian anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. The theory demonstrated

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    Life and Death

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    of an American man and his girlfriend, Jig, who have a disagreement in the train station on the subject of whether to keep the unborn child or to abort. However, the author uses binary opposition of life and death to portray the polemic argument a couple encounters regarding abortion. As a symbol for the binary opposition of life and death, he represents the couple’s expressions,

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    According to principles explained by Jacques Derrida, binary opposition is the means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined in reciprocal determination with another term. Derrida adds that, “for each center, an opposing center exists” (Bressler, 110). For example, “we know truth, because we know deception; we know good because we know bad” (Bressler, 111). Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde’s use of the binary opposition of light/dark within The Picture of Dorian Gray and

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    extracts from the text, the angelic representation of Jane Eyre along with the demonic demonstration of Bertha Rochester, informed by the angel demon dichotomy, is not only significant in terms of the language and imagery used to portray the female binary, but the source from which the representation is derived, particularly Mr Rochester and Jane herself. Themes concerning the challenging of patriarchal oppression for the purpose of achieving female individualism, places the absolutism of the Victorian

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