Aesthetics of Shock in Wordsworth
What say you, then,
to times when half the city shall break out
Full of one passion, vengeance, rage, or fear?
To executions, to a street on fire,
Mobs, riots, or rejoicing? From those sights
Take one,--an annual festival, the Fair...
--William Wordsworth, The Prelude (7:644-49).
Walter Benjamin writes that, at the turn of the nineteenth century, "fear, revulsion and horror were the emotions which the big-city crowd aroused in those who first observed it" (174). Besides Baudelaire, Benjamin quotes Edgar Allan Poe and E.T.A. Hoffman. He could have mentioned Wordsworth who, early on, had confronted and then described, perhaps more explicitly than anybody else, what amounts to a traumatic encounter with the modern crowd.
According to Freud, the trauma must have compared to a shower of stimuli impinging upon the too young ego of the subject. What the mental apparatus of the individual could not possibly shield and protect itself against, Freud explains, was nothing in particular. It was, Lacan adds, Das Ding an sich, La Chose received from nowhere and everywhere at once. It was "quelque chose du réel" which could not stay tranquil (stay put) in the ordered space of pleasing perception, and beyond, of satisfying representation (71-86).1
I would like to show that the Freudian notion of the shock illuminates Wordsworth's experience of the urban crowd, "This Parliament of Monsters" dramatically represented in the celebrated pages of "Residence in London." In Book VII of The Prelude, the narrator magnifies his horror (and fascination) at the sight of the streets in the big city. While in solitude and from the midst of regained tranquillity, Wordsworth recalls the sho...
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Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1989, in Braunau-am Inn, located near the Austrian-German border. Hitler dropped out of school at age 16 with the hopes of becoming an artist in Vienna. However, his goal of becoming an artist failed and he spent time in Vienna listening to Karl Laagers ideas, especially his belief in anti-semitism. enlisted in the German Army at the Start of World War One. During this time, Hitler served in the Bavarian Regiment, achieved the rank of Corporal, was primarily a message runner, and narrowly escaped death on several occasions. When Germany surrendered, Hitler was outraged and wanted to keep fighting. In 1919, Hitler joined the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (later to become the Nazi Party) and was in Charge by 1921. In 1923, they attempted to overthrow the German government and Hitler served a 9 month jail term. By 1933, Hitler had the support of the German people and was named Chancellor by President Hindenburg and Nazis had the most power in Parliament.
...r something that has its source from Islam in their government. It can be seen from recent mosque protests that, even a place of worship comes to instill the fear of the sharia in people’s minds. Whereas sharia is something very complex and not a monolithic canon of law (it’s very flexible)—and most countries that say they practice it really don’t plus forget everyone else most Muslims don’t want a sharia themselves. Islam being such a controversial issue, it might not be possible to use zakat. However, the general idea was that society and individuals themselves are responsible for many aspects of poverty and it is their responsibility and duty to fix in the end for their own benefit.
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Wordsworth visualized scenes while he was away, a way for him to feel a spiritual connection until he was able to return. Wordsworth states, “As a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But opt, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them” (Wordsworth 25-27). Wordsworth gives a sense of conformity and loneliness while being in the towns and cities. That he had his memories of when he was younger to keep him hopeful to return to nature and all the memories he had grasped the memories of. As the society today focuses merely on what they can profit from cities, Wordsworth understood the true meaning of memories. Memories today are mostly captured through social media, and in return being taken for granted. Wordsworth had nostalgic bliss as he replayed his memories, and knowing that in the future he could look back on that day and have the same feeling again. Social media today is destroying our memories and what we can relive in our minds as memories. We can know that when things are posted within social media it will get likes and be shared. However, there are not many people in society today that will remember the true essence of what nature has given to
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Islamic finance is a financial system that operates according to Islamic law (which is called sharia) and is, therefore, sharia-compliant. Just like conventional financial systems, Islamic finance features banks, capital markets, fund managers, investment firms, and insurance companies. However, these entities are governed both by Islamic law and the finance industry rules and regulations that apply to their conventional counterparts. Therefore, islamic finance is to be assets based as oppose to the currency based whereby investment structured on exchange or ownership of assets, and money is simply mechanism for transaction process. It would based on two sources which are Al-Quran and As-Sunnah.
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First of all, let us outline how Islamic banks actually work and what their main differences are in comparison with conventional banks. In this banking system, banks are operated by Islamic laws (known as Sharia), so Islamic economic principles are considered as primary guidance. Two basic doctrines behind Islamic banking are the sharing of profit and loss and, significantly, the prohibition of the collection and payment of interest . Hence unlike conventional commercial banks, Islamic banks do not pay or charge interest on lending or borrowing of money. This is because the Sharia’s strictly prohibits, among other things, the receipt and payment of riba (interest) /. The interpretations to clarify the meaning behind this restriction suggests that earning or charging extra amount of money from debtor has to be seen something as immoral behavior, because making pressure on your borrower is actually unfair from the view point of Islam. To make it clear, the religion of Islam basically promote the principle of justic...
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