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Water imagery in Bombal’s The Final Mist (La última niebla) is also closely related to death and self-realization. The fog represents death while liquid water imagery represents the awakening of passion within the narrator. However, in confronting death and passion during her transformational journey, the narrator becomes resigned to living a live without passion, which, for the narrator represents an emotional death.
The nameless narrator of the novella marries her cousin, Daniel whose first wife died a year earlier. The two marry less out of love, and more out of necessity. Indeed, the narrator becomes so disillusioned with the marriage, and so keenly aware of the aura of death, also represented by the fog, which surrounds the house, that she constantly looks for ways to escape. She often goes into the woods, to bathe or commune with nature. Then, one night while they are in the city to pick up Daniel’s mother to come back to the house with them, she takes a walk where she encounters her lover. After consummating their love, the narrator returns home to Daniel and she, Daniel, and his mother go back to the house in the country. Here, the narrator is totally preoccupied with her lover. She thinks about him, writes about him, and seeks him constantly, until Daniel reveals to her that he never let her go for a walk that night in the city. The narrator returns to the city because Regina, Daniel’s sister, is in the hospital for attempting suicide while with her illicit lover. The narrator looks for the house where she and her lover slept together and cannot find it. By the end of the novel, she realizes that her ideal lover, is only imagined, and Daniel stops her from committing suicide. As a result, the narrator becomes resigned...
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...umplir con una infinidad de frivolidades amenas; para llorar por costumbre y sonreír por deber. Lo sigo para vivir correctamente, para morir correctamente, algún día. (95).)
The narrator accepts the fact that she must live the rest of her unfulfilling and undesirable life with Daniel. Finally, “Around us the fog settles over everything like a shroud.” (“Alrededor de nosotros, la niebla presta a las cosas un carácter de inmovilidad definitivo”; 47, 95). The narrator surrenders herself to the fog, the silence, and the death.
As a result of her transformational journey, the narrator has succumbed to madness because of her fantasies, death as a result of her confrontation with a life without passion, and resignation as a result of her acceptance of death. Water, the green-world token, leads her to passion and death, which for the narrator become one in the same.
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I learned about many significant artwork and artist in this class. This class provided me with a better understanding of the history of the world Art, but also helped me understand the development of art style. However, among all of these precious pieces of artwork, there are two special ones that caught my attention: The Chinese Qin Terracotta Warriors and The Haniwa. Each of them represents the artist’s stylistic characteristics and cultural context. Although they represented different art of rulers, historical values, and scenes, there were visible similarities.
...eisz. She can hear her playing the piano and thinks of her talking about art. She wonders if she is a real artist. She becomes exhausted and knows that she is too far out to return. The water that she was so mesmerized with throughout the novel and that was the beginning of her new life, was also the end.
...tity, Molina when he finds someone who accepts his true identity. In both cases, they find the affirmation that was previously denied to them as a result of an oppressive society. The death here is a death of the self, the repressed self.
With the final lines give us a better understanding of her situation, where her life has been devoured by the children. As she is nursing the youngest child, that sits staring at her feet, she murmurs into the wind the words “They have eaten me alive.” A hyperbolic statement symbolizing the entrapment she is experiencing in the depressing world of motherhood.
“Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her” as she swims in the sea. When Edna learns how to swim she feels the power that she has in controlling herself without obeying anyone. Her action of teaching herself how to swim and “want to swim where no woman swam before” symbolizes empowerment, independence and freedom. The sea represents baptizing and rebirth which baptized Edna and awakened her. Even though it was the sea who awakened Edna’s self-awareness, but it was also the sea where Edna commit suicide.
...was taken away so suddenly. And pain, for moving on. When Al got to the river the projected image of water is repeated. This recurring image from when Ramanujan dies in the past is brought forward into the present storyline making the link between the past and present even stronger. Because this is a repeated image, the water becomes a metaphor for death, the death of Ramanujan and the death of Ruth and her baby. This scene is a peaceful scene even with this metaphor attached. The audience gets to empathise with Al as he lets go of the past and moves on. Imagery is key in this final scene. The sand that each of the characters pour out from various objects, Al pouring from the cremation box and Ramanujan pouring from his tablet, shows the passing of time. A final connection between the two parts to the performance, the past and the present, the key to the whole play.
... sins, but she can’t take back what she did so she will forever have blood on her hands. This guilt and all of the lies she has told is giving her true trepidation and in the end she decided to end her terror by taking her life.
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I will discuss the similarities by which these poems explore themes of death and violence through the language, structure and imagery used. In some of the poems I will explore the characters’ motivation for targeting their anger and need to kill towards individuals they know personally whereas others take out their frustration on innocent strangers. On the other hand, the remaining poems I will consider view death in a completely different way by exploring the raw emotions that come with losing a loved one.
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