Sentences with phrase «allegorical characters»

The feature - length work transforms the genre of the Western into a melodramatic story populated by allegorical characters.

the bible = fiction, not history yahweh, jesus, judas, simon, miriam = allegorical characters (names have symbolic meaning, coincidence?)

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

(Of course Jesus himself is also an allegorical character, equally fictional.

For example, the perceived traitor Judas is an allegorical character.

She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics and journalism, to explore new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the allegorical character of the present political moment.

Not exact matches

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

The reason this novel is successful is that it is the least allegorical of his works; there are few one - to - one relations between the characters and events of the novel and some outside structure or pattern of ideas.

Character names are also allegorical, some villainous examples being Bellatrix (war woman), Malfoy (bad faith) and Voldemort (flight of death).

This is not only an allegorical key to the character of this self - described «man of science» but a key to Mann's portrayal of him, which is partly chemical and partly alchemical, a mix of scientific scrutiny and sheer sorcery.

The allegorical stories that comprise the movie's fantasy world are also laid on a bit thick, and it doesn't do enough with its characters to maximize the emotional payoff.

It is the kind of allegorical, even spiritual, science fiction found in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker, or, more recently, in Natasha Kermani's Imitation Girl, in which characters are on a quest to find their identity in alterity, their self in otherness, and their innermost being in the alien.

One is free to contemplate the allegorical and satirical implications, but also free to enjoy the spectacle of self - imposed insecurity that plays out among these characters.

Jake is right to commend the allegorical power of these techniques, and I would also make mention of the Super-8 childhood flashbacks he uses to underscore a character's death, which is a welcome moment of Davies - like poignance amid such a brutal narrative.

A good cast of character actors and a refreshing, almost allegorical setting makes for a film that's worth watching more than once.

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

When these grubby characters are indoors and relatively stationary, the camera tends to weave intricate arabesques around them, all but spelling out the allegorical spiderweb that the offscreen narrator evokes when describing the ties between these people.

In addition, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations regarding the events of the chapters 5 and 6, (as Napoleon's dictatorship begins to emerge) and make appropriate links to individual characters and their allegorical relationship to context.

It's an exciting (albeit contrived) setup for a quirky JRPG, with plenty of moe female characters in skintight outfits, mixed with an allegorical adventure meant to represent the long - running console wars.

The erasure of any background field renders the faces and the bodies of the subjects in extraordinarily intimate detail, simultaneously capturing their unique character while often suggesting allegorical dimensions.

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

What / Why: «This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters, and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge concepts of otherness.

This paradox can be seen in Masriadi's new painting Not Bad, 2016, which is a mockery of an allegorical, narcissistic character that believes his looks are more important than skill.