#key themes

Children who study the Ramayana grow mentally, intellectually, and spiritually. If you want to quickly understand its introduction and storyline, you're in the right place. This blog will help you review the key elements of the Ramayana and appreciate it.

Ramayana is an interesting epic we learn about from childhood. It teaches important lessons about being an ideal person, emphasizing loyalty, brotherhood, and respect for elders. Children who study the Ramayana grow mentally, intellectually, and spiritually. If you want to quickly understand its introduction and storyline, you’re in the right place. This lesson will help you review the key…

Key Themes and Directions in Illustration and Animation - Interpretation: Text

My slides from the presentation, beginning with an introduction to the album and it’s Romeo and Juliet concept.

Then going on to show visual similarities to the film and album visuals, analysing how hey each made the story personal to them.

Third slide looking at the single artworks for the album, and analysing how the use of tarot cards is similar to the structure of Romeo and Juliet itself.

Final slide going into a further analysis of the Bad at Love tarot card and how it interpreted the theme of judgement 

Key Themes and Directions in Illustration and Animation - Interpretation: Text

NEW POST: Our #Macbeth themed May madness continues with our latest post on THEME... #revision

by Katherine It’s not long now until you’ll be forced into an exam hall, told to write about words at length (usually with some preeeetty strict criteria) and try not to have a total meltdown when you realise the extract you’ve been given is horrible. I can hear you beginning to panic. But, in the words of Lizzie Bennet – Because we are back for another dose of Macbeth, complete with information…

In Buffy The Vampire Slayer Joss Whedon communicates important themes that are relevant in our society. The most prominent of the these is the topic of Feminism versus the Patriarchy and of teenage worries, both of which are evident through the interactions of the characters.

The Feminism versus Patriarchy theme is evident through the characters of  the show and how they are represented as either "feminist friendly" or "patriarchal friendly". The villains of the show, such as the vampires in "Welcome to the Hellmouth" and "The Harvest", represent patriarchal friendliness through their trying to take over the earth for themselves, and to infect others to become fellow vampires, or spread the patriarchal "virus".

The characters of Buffy provide evidence for the fact that Joss is presenting the topic of Feminism versus the Patriarchy through their attitudes, behaviour and actions. In the first two episodes Luke and Darla, the vampires, both represent patriarchy friendly gender models. Luke is shown as dominant, aggressive and overpowering. He does the Master's (who represents the Patriarchy as a whole) bidding as his Vessel and attacks others, killing or otherwise infecting them with the virus. Darla is portrayed as patriarchal friendly though her obedient, submissive behaviour. She also wishes to spread the virus, for example when she infected Jesse, who became a patriarchal friendly vampire. Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles are feminist friendly, which is evident through their actions to protect their friends and others from the dangers of the supernatural world, that represents the patriarchy, they are unaware of.

In addition to this, teenage worries, such as bullying and relationships with family and peers is a key theme through the Buffy series. This is shown through Buffy and her friend's interactions with others. Evidence for this is present in "The Pack" when the pack in question are walking around the Zoo on a field trip, making fun of other students and hassling them. They even take it as far as pushing another classmate up against the Hyena cage and threaten to push him into the pit.

For Buffy, the stress of relationships with her parents and with her peers comes with her being a Vampire Slayer, and not being able to tell them. It causes her peers to make judgements about her and look down on her, calling her "weird" and other things of the sort, as for lack of any other explanation for her odd behaviour. An example of how her being a Slayer affects her relationship with her parents is in "The Harvest" when Buffy's mother sees Buffy's urgency as a teenage phase, stating "Everything is life or death when you're a sixteen-year-old girl," which gives a sense of belittlement to Buffy and not taking her seriously, which adds to the strain of having a good relationship with her.

Like in any novel, there are themes, or lessons, to tell the reader what the story is about, keep the story organized, or to teach a hidden lesson that can relate to everyday life. The themes in The Great Gatsby are:

Honesty: The novel begins with our narrator, Nick Carraway, tell us where he comes from and how he was raised. Throughout the novel, it is suggested that Nick is not one to like people who lie. This is made evident because he does not like Tom Buchanan after finding out that he has a mistress in New York City. Nick still likes Gatsby despite it being rumored that he has lied and cheated his way to becoming wealthy. Nick also befriends a woman named Jordan Baker who is said to have cheated in a golf tournament.

Violence: There is quite a bit of violence that takes place in the story. The first sign of it is when Tom hits his mistress after she gets drunk and out of hand. Later, the violence escalates when Daisy kills Myrtle, Tom's mistress, with Gatsby's car. Later, the violence ends when George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, kills Gatsby and later himself.