Feminist Analysis on The Virgin

The Virgin is one of the Philippine literary piece to earn some highest recognition. "The Quest of Being a Woman" of Kerima Polotan Tuvera's The Virgin is a perfect title that shows the same meaning of what feminist criticism is all about. It aims to expose the patriarchal premises resulting to the prejudices and discovery of the story or any kind of literary piece using character analysis. This paper would give the readers a clearer view on how does feminist criticism applies its characteristics to a well-known short story called The Virgin.

The story rolls over the main character Miss Mijares. The woman leads the feminist in the story. Despite her being a responsible daughter of her family, she also wished to be loved by others, especially, she has always been dreaming to have a man in her life. But her duties as a daughter and as a member of the society hindered her in fulfilling her dreams. The following lines show her desire to have a man:

However, when she got know that the man or the carpenter had a child, she felt angry. She felt betrayed, but when it was revealed to her that he wan’t married to the son’s mother, she felt relieved. In this scenario, it’s shown that Miss MIjares had really something for the man. Even the weather - all the lightning and thunders - told it so.

Since the woman was so responsible and attached to her own family, she got not to develop herself of becoming an individual, a woman. Thus, this made her crave for a man to love her and to make her a woman.

In the society, women are the ones responsible of taking care of the people in the family. This was the case of Miss Mijares, when she was the only one left to take care of her sick and old mother. She did all the responsibility that she forgot her own life. Miss Mijares in the story can be characterized as the old maid.

Miss Mijares didn't protest explicitly or politically but there is an inner protest within her. Her experiences of being lost and the rainy days symbolize her inner protest that she has to go beyond what is expected to her. This symbolic protest actually created confusion within her, because she is torn between the social dictates and her own self. The last stage was which is the female stage can be described as the phase of self-discovery, a search for identity. The last part of the short story shows that Miss Mijares has undergone the female stage. The proceeding lines really imply that she was freed from the societal roles being dictated around her: http://EzineArticles.com/8416683

Indeed, virginity is dignity. Finally, Miss Mijares proved that she had feelings. It shows that she is now capable of going beyond her social roles as she reveals that she is ready to surrender her virginity.

Post-modern Analysis on Moulin Rouge

The movie revolves on the story of a poet who falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in his stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources.

Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.

Post-modernly, Moulin Pouge is of the music of 40’s. Also, the character does with postmodern events such as intersexuality, multiple narrative levels and the self-reflexivity of other people in the story and the story itself.

It’s all energetic and creative the way the entire movie develops. Any kind of emotions is given the most focus, so does the musical thing. The movie is way too expressive but very operatic and whelming.

Post-colonialism Analysis on Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is written about life in Nigeria at the beginning of the twentieth century. It portrays the colonial encounter between Africa and Europe.

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

     In this poem — ironically, a product of European thought — Yeats describes an apocalyptic vision in which the world collapses into anarchy because of an internal flaw in humanity." (Cliffnotes)

     The novel illustrates the view of what happened in the society of Nigeria at the time of its colonizatiion under the British. Mainly, its purpose was to present a complex, dynamic society to a Western audience who perceived African society as primitive, simple, and backward. (Cliffnotes) Furthermore, it focused on showing how religiously unstable the society was. Even its foundation in technology, commerce, and government were also the reasons fot the country's downfall.

     "This ominous tone gradually emerges in Things Fall Apart as an intrusive religious presence and an insensitive government together cause the traditional Umuofian world to fall apart."

Psycological Analysis on Hands

Id: Unconscious state is clearly seen on the particular situation wherein impulse and reflex are just halfly hidden and senses are being emphasized. "One summer afternoon he is on the verge of doing so when Wing is telling him he tries to be too much like other people in the town. You are destroying yourself," he cried. "You have the inclination to be alone and to dream and you are afraid of dreams. Laying his hands on George's shoulders, Wing tells him what the old man said: You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices. His hands would touch their shoulders or tousle their hair. His voice was soft. His voice and hands were instruments of kindness. " 

Ego: Wing, in this situation were being triggered by his subconscious and were driven by his reaction and reflex. "Suddenly Wing puts his hands in his pockets. Tears well in his eyes, and he says he must go home. He thinks his hands are responsible for his timidity, his fear of everyone. George is right, and the narrator tells the story of Wing's hands. " 

Superego: The response of Wing can be considered as the 'other-side' reaction of an individual when the highest emotion are being carried out. "Sometimes, when talking with George, Wing beats his fists on a wall or table or even on a stump or a fence if they are outdoors. Doing so makes him feel more at ease. To help him make his point, Wing beats on a grass bank."

Marxist Analysis of A Telenovela

The Bridges of Love

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This is a story about a complicated love around a system where money rules. Mia and Gael were the first seen lead actors as lovers. Their situation will trigger the inequality among rich and poor people and those who are unable to 'buy' their justice. Mia was a daytime waitress and nightime club dancer. She was also an adopted daughter of a gay with a serious state of diabetes. While Gael, is a working student of architecture. A man of many dreams and yet, he was taken so hard just to be away from it. The two was then joined by Carlos, a powerful man who can almost buy people's life. The chaos was created because it was discovered that the latter was Gael's long lost and "thought-dead" brother. The story continued as Carlos habits were to get all his wants through money. Gael then was being abused and tortured by being an average person despite that he was a hindrance for being such a principled man. Mia was being bought and 'tossed' by business partners which shows the degree of insult and maltreatment from the higher class. The whole story showed the real state of many people between the world of hypocrisy and the world of injustice. It also showed what a person can do just to gain money and have a higher purpose of power.

Deconstructing Robert Frost's Design (REPORTER)

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,

On a white heal-all, holding up a moth

Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --

Assorted characters of death and blight

Mixed ready to begin the morning right,

Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --

A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,

And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,

The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?

What brought the kindred spider to that height,

Then steered the white moth thither in the night?

What but design of darkness to appall?--

If design govern in a thing so small. 

Structural Analysis of a Print Ad

In this advertisement of the corporation of the world’s best and worst recorder, how gadgets especially phones take over the human in us is to be depicted.

As recorded by the census, most of the households world over possesses mobile phones. However, not only phones are used as an emergence retreat, they are also served as a source of enjoyment. Games are just download away, so are the songs, books, movies, and other stuffs.

Anything could be done now by a mobile phone, especially the smartphone or the mini-computer in your palm. Even PC’s are already been disregarded. In this information age, everything about us is starting to move down because eventually, the thing that’s going up is just the value of materails around. The importance of phones and other machines are given a highly praise better than the maker themselves.

It seems like things are getting virtual. The information we are getting is  now  immeasurable; on the other hand, we get overloaded. Thus, we start to prefer to live in an easy way where anything is just a “demand and you get it.” The fun of learning in an active way, the essence of discovering by yourself, the fact that living is to enjoy - these are turning into just a mirage while the only clear thing we see are the shadow of our hands on screens and our own happiness with it.

We get very dependent on technology, that’s what. And GUINNESS is trying to help us realize that.