Julia Kristeva Essays

The feminist theory is based on finding and exposing negative attitudes toward women in literature. Their goal is to reveal the reality of how women get portrayed in literature due to the fact that most literature presents an inaccurate view of women and are most of the time minimized. In the Catcher in the Rye there is a few female characters such as Sunny, the girls at the club, and Sally who are put in situations that show nothing but stereotypes and puts them in a bad spot throughout the novel

Hungry for power. Querulous. Weak. The Commander is the representation of male insecurity. This character is derived from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood’s novel reveals that hunger for control can lead to the oppression of women, this is demonstrated through the Commander’s characterization, the Aunts attitudes, and some of the Gileadean rules/laws. Having the world at the tip of your fingers, and still feeling as if that is not enough, is the reason for the oppression

INTRODUCTION A symbol is a rock dropped into a pool: it sends out ripples in all directions, and the ripples are in mot ------ John Ciardi, in Kennedy and Gioia (2007:238). Ciardi’s standpoint above not only encapsulates what a literary symbol denotes but also its multiple functions in literature. The metaphor ‘rock’ delineates the conspicuous disposition of symbol, as well as its inherent literary power. The ‘ripples’ or avalanche of significations are the direct result of its presence within

It could be argued that abjection is incapable of existing without orifices – if that is the case then one need look no further than the full title of Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey. Like Dr. Vaughan, Rant similarly avoids direct narration; Palahniuk puts the novel in an interview style, including dozens of individuals’ perspectives on Buster “Rant” Casey’s life – from lone genocidaire and menace to hero of nighttimers and venom addict. Devotees and adversaries alike note

Las Vegas is where I was born and raised. That doesn’t mean that I just gave up on my Mexican culture. Like many others, I have a culture that is both American and Mexican. My culture has shaped my values, perceptions, and behaviors. The culture of my family, community, and society has made who I am as a person in numerous ways. Culture impacted my personality and how I act and feel. To me, culture is a very important part of every person’s life. Culture can influence my different types of

In the film 'Mona Lisa Smile', the topic of women the way in which they are different to men is identified. The director portrays the women in the film as obedient and worthless through a variety of uses of camera shots and angles. Body language is also used to convey this characteristic. All of the students wear the same color sequence and same makeup, which is a sign that women follow tradition in attempt to be individual. In this film we see how Katherine Watson shows the many students at Wellesley

Julia child once stated, “Find something you 're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” Julia was always looking for ways to encourage people to stay passionate about what they love to do, especially women. Child constantly wanted to make sure women knew what they were capable of doing. Julia was always passionate about becoming a writer, but then found that she had a love for cooking. She tied both of them together and began to write cookbooks. Julia Child’s compassion and love

On analyzing the novel "The Hunger Games", we would be able to understand that it is clever satire of Western manias like fashion, reality television shows and the cult of celebrity. The main source of power that has been dealt in the novel is the authorities of the totalitarian government of the Capitol, though Capitol holds almost all the wealth of Panem and was able to control the lives of the people in all the districts. The Hunger Games had been designed in such a way as an ultimate display

Julia child- Cooking is like love it should be entered into without abandon. Julia Child was a french cuisine chef master. Her love for cooking didn 't start until she was 32 actually! Julia Carolyn McWilliams was born August 15th 1912 in Pasadena, California. Some of her nicknames were Jukie, Juke, and Juju. Her parents were John McWilliams Jr. and Julia Carolyn Weston. She was the oldest of three children. Her father was an early investor in the California real estate and her mother was a paper

People vs. Tuner Case Analysis Background Brock Allen Turner was a nineteen-year-old star athlete, a freshmen swimmer at Stanford University who was admitted in the fall of 2014 on a swimming scholarship. On January 17, 2015, he attended a party at Kappa Alpha fraternity house where he met the victim, twenty-year-old women who later identified as Emily Doe, her sister and their friends. Turner and the victim both consumed alcohol at the party. Shortly after the midnight of January 18, 2015

Dear Mr. Barney and Mrs. Rachel Gottstein, How are you? It's been a long time since the last letter, I am sorry it's been a long time since I wrote to you. Summer is about to start here in Israel, it's getting hot already and all you want to do is go to the beach and relax, but before that there are many assignments that need to be done. This semester will soon be over. I took two courses: a lab in supplier's electronics, and communication foundations. The exam period will start in a month and

Have you ever looked a gorgon in the eye? Connie Lionheart did and survived. Connie Lionheart is a courageous young girl who just so happens to be the main character in Julia Golding’s second book, The Gorgon’s Gaze in her enviromental, fantasy series, The Companions Quartet. Connie, her aunt and friends are in a rush against humanity to save mythical creatures and the environment from extinction. They are in a never ending war to stop the shape shifting creature Kullervo's from wiping out humanity

I thought, I do love croissants...So I decided why don 't I do my project on French baking? I love talking about baking, even just saying the word ‘cupcake’ will get my mouth watering! In this paper I will be talking about: My person of interest (Julia Child) The people I interviewed Croissants Tarts Macarons The difference between Macarons and Macaroons (Macarons vs. Macaroons)

Erin is one of those people that come in to your life for a reason, and that reason is usually to get you into strange situations like being stranded in a Spanish church or going to drum circle in the middle of a Walmart parking lot on a Tuesday night. Let the record show that Erin is neither of Latin decent or a person possessing the power to stay on rhythm. She is a white, self-proclaimed ‘granola child’ who currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. She has medium length brunette hair occasionally

Julia “Butterfly” Hill and her act of Civil Disobedience Julia “Butterfly” Hill, an environmental activist and author once said, “What happens on the planet is the outward reflection of what’s happening inside of us.” (Sacred.) Hill’s involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences, she chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest against the clear cutting of redwood trees, and she achieved success using the controversial method of standing up for what she thoroughly believes

1.) Introduction Renowned American author Stephen King is famous for taking the horror genre out of its typical Gothic environment, and bringing it to our everyday life, proving that about anything can be a source of terror. By exploring the dark side of human society and breaching moral codes and taboos King manages to create the distinct feeling of uneasiness and revulsion which is a characteristic feature of his works. Although King himself generally does not mind being pigeon-holed (503) his

This research is essentially guided by the psychoanalytic concepts of Abjection and The Uncanny propounded by Julia Kristeva (1982) and Sigmund Freud (1919) respectively. These concepts complement each other on the different analytical aspects of the texts under study. In some stages of the study, the analysis is reinforced by Propp (1968)’s narratological functions to examine the textual narrative processes that generate a horror world. An overview of these concepts is therefore necessary in order

In The Powers of Horror Kristeva provides a definition of the abject ex-negativo, asserting that the abject is “neither subject nor object” (135), implying that it is a state which exists in-between, when the subject is directed towards its boundaries. (10). The nature of the abject is diffuse(d?), since it constitutes an ambiguous mixture of “judgement and affect, condemnation and yarning” (10). Kristeva argues that the abject strives towards “the place where meaning

A Monstrous Vermin: (A? The? No article?) Reading of Franz Kafka’s Novella The Metamorphosis Through the Lens of Julia Kristeva’s Abject. Franz Kafka, a son of an affluent merchant, was born and raised in a Jewish German family in Austria-Hungary. Even though composing (right word?) was Kafka’s “sole desire and sole vocation” (Marill-Albérès and de Boisdeffre 13), the recognition of his legacy came two decades after his death, after the Second World War. Kafka’s fragile health, as well as delicacy

Julia Kristeva is a psychoanalyst and feminist writer who talks about what she calls the “semiotic” and the “symbolic”; for her, all signification is made up of these two elements. On the one hand, the semiotic element can be associated with Lacan’s pre-mirror stage, understanding the “mirror-stage” as the moment when the child starts to “see himself, to find himself” in the mirror. So according to Kristeva, the semiotic element comes before this moment