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Revealing the Invisible and the Paradox of Genuine Self-Expression: A Critical Analysis of Véronique Doisneau by Jérôme Bel
By Candice Wang, VI Form
Commissioned by Opera National de Paris in 2004, Jerome Bel’s dance Veronique Doisneau contrasts an individual, the ballet dancer Veronique Doisneau, with an institution, the world of classical ballet and the dance company. The performance is named after the dancer Veronique Doisneau, who has years of experience working for the Ballet of the Opera de Paris as both a soloist and a member of the Corps de Ballet. By highlighting Doisneau, the dance exposes the touch of humanity and reality hidden behind the balletic illusion of effortlessness and perfection. As the choreographer Jerome Bel declares in an interview, the dance lays bare the language and (more…)
Two IV Form Othello Essays: “Iago the Gardner” & “Emilia: Feminist Wisdom
By Allegra Forbes, IV Form, and Claudia Chung, IV Form
Allegra–“Iago the Gardener”:
A true villain invests time and care into his work, tending to his malevolent deeds tirelessly from whence they bloom in his mind to when they grow to be ripe and succulent. A true villain is as diligent as a gardener, scattering seeds of suspicion where he finds fertile soil, ripping out hindering weeds, irrigating his fields periodically, and even patiently waiting for nature to contribute its share. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, the scheming and fickle Iago proves to be a brilliant gardener, using the entire stage and cast as his plowed field. (more…)
Three Two-Minute Speeches About Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
By V Formers Alex von Campe, Luke Chiasson, and William D’Angelo
Alex–
You’re at the hospital. Your mother, lying on her deathbed. She’s been sick for over a week now. The doctor went in to treat her just moments ago. He comes out, and his face says it all. The treatment didn’t work. She’s dead. Well, she was dying anyways. It wasn’t the treatment that killed her, right? She would not have lasted much longer, at least the good doctor tried. But your mother is dead and you can’t help but place some (more…)
The Fantastic Books That We Don’t Read in School
By William D’Angelo, V Form
Imagine you were Batman, or had the abilities of a great and powerful sorcerer, or a divine being who granted you powers each day. You could rule the world with this magic, or save it, or grow your hair back. You could escape your way of life and create a new one. This is fantasy: a world in which everyone is his or her own hero. In Berserk, the protagonist, Guts, fights an impossible battle against the god of causality and fate: The Idea of Evil. It might be difficult to call Guts a traditional hero. He is motivated by rage and hatred and the burning desire for revenge against his former comrade-turned-devil named Griffith. However, this (more…)
Dream Failures: Both Gatz and Gatsby
By Jack Gorman, V Form
The American Dream is an imperfect concept. It is also individual. James Gatz and Jay Gatsby had different American Dreams in the novel The Great Gatsby. While James Gatz wanted to be rich, famous, and among the elite, Jay Gatsby discovered a new journey. His heart was set on Daisy. But, while Jay Gatsby was lusting after his would-be lover, Gatz fell into the shadows. What about his American Dream? Gatsby let his new persona’s dreams overpower his original dreams and in doing so makes a terrible mistake. He took a successful concept and shattered it. He took the prizes of his effort and devalues them. So who really lived their American Dream, Jay Gatz? Or James Gatsby? (more…)
Stereotypes Are All Bad, and They Always Have Been
By Daniel Kimmick, VI Form
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in part as a commentary on the Middle Ages and a satire to expose the behavior of society in that period. The way that he made this commentary, because of its blunt attitudes, evinces a lot about the culture of the period. In this way, Chaucer’s work can be easily examined through the lens of modern thought and culture. Chaucer has a number of interesting comparisons which he is able to emphasize easily due to the inclusion of multiple stories and the social dynamic he was able to insert using his general prologue, story prologues, and interjections[i]. One of (more…)
Mothers’ Love for Animals Leads to Children’s Rage Against Them
by Mikaela Karlsson, VI Form
Loving pets is human nature. Pets love unconditionally and make someone feel needed, as these domesticated, helpless animals are unable to survive without the care of humans. However, according to society, animals are not meant to take the place of a child in one’s heart and household. A mother’s love is supposed to be unequaled and unconditional, and an animal challenging this law of nature often results in psychological repercussions and an emotional response from the child. Geraldine’s love for her cat in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is similar toChantal’s mother’s love for her rabbit in Jessica Penzias’ “Death By Oboe,” and animals are abused in both stories (more…)
Learning How To Read, Again
by Finnegan Schick, VI Form
Can you remember what it was like to be illiterate? That was an individual dark age, sometime before your fifth or sixth birthday, which was filled with strange symbols: black and white icons sprawled across book pages, on shop windows, and on the sides of trucks. The world of words was the world of your parents, mysterious, silent…and agonizingly boring. Young Alice Liddell, just before her famous journey to Wonderland, asks herself, “What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” The answer, for young children, is simple. Such lackluster books, full of meaningless words and dry chapter-headings, are useless. (more…)
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