Michael Landy's "Scrapheap Services" is a 3D sculpture on display in the Tate Modern Gallery. It shows 3 men in boiler suits, their heads bent, as they are intent on their work in the disposing of `people who no longer play a useful role in society'. The room is scattered with little people cut out of discarded material such as aluminium cans, cigarette boxes and fast food wrappers. Uniformed mannequins are in the process of sweeping up the figures, gathering them into bins, and consigning them to a shredding machine called "The Vulture", as vultures clear aware rotten carcasses the machine will do similar. The company's logo `Scrapheap Services' appears throughout the installation as a written notice of what is happening. My initial feelings of the model are ones of curiosity. How long have they been working? How do they feel about the work? And will they ever totally dispose of `people who no longer play a useful role in life'? I like this piece because it is very thought evoking regarding the survival of the fittest. I think that the disposal men could also replicate world leaders trying to dispose of something in their endeavour to better the world i.e. Adolf Hitler's ethnic cleansing in order to create the perfect human race. I think that Landy made the disposal men wear red because the colour is often associated with danger, and he could be trying to warn us that this is what society will do to those who's role has been fulfilled and no longer have a use. The white in the room could represent the nothingness or pureness that is left after the work is done. After everyone has fulfilled their main role and been cleared up (including the cleaners) there is nothing left to achieve so there is nothing in the landscape and nothing left in the world. Posters displaying landscape pictures in the room could be an incentive to show the workers what they are working towards, what they are trying to achieve is a perfect world by cleaning away the debris (the people that have no more use). The colour created by the waste people on the floor is dark and that could be an indication of the future that is in store for them when they reach the `vulture'. The men cleaning up are manikins and this could have the meaning (with them fulfilling there role) that whilst you have a role in life you are set to that one thing, not moving to another place or role, they are also much bigger than the people on the floor adding to the insignificance and helplessness of those being disposed of.
The hands of the men are personified as working men. The work of the men requires skillful hands. The men’s hands are doing all of the work.
This article talks about the growing movement of hiring maids for household work. This article starts off as being about gender inequality, but then turns into an issue of class and moral standards. The author explains her own experiences of house cleaning. She also describes how “wealthier class’s children are being raised with the attitude”. (Barbara Ehrenreich) That the people that clean up after them are “lower” than everyone else. Additionally she talks about how the hiring of house hold workers will increase and eventually move on to the middle class homes.
The color red has many significant meanings. It often symbolizes passion and desire but also anger and violence. In the novel Ethan Frome the color red represents not only the desire Ethan and Mattie have toward each other but the anger and stress his current marriage with Zeena is under. It also represents enthusiasm and confidence but in this case the lack of these qualities in the marriage.
Although colors are usually represented and used for the recollection of joyful experiences, Death uses the colors of the spectrum to enhance the experience of the Book Thief and as well as him own life too. In Death’s narration, his use of the colors illustrate the great ordeal of suffering and pain throughout the book’s setting. As an example Death says “The day was grey, the color of Europe. For me, the sky was the color of Jews” (Zusak, 349). This quote effectively describes Death’s use of the colors by relating it to the events taking place. The colors give perspective to the agony and painful hardships going on in the life of WWII. In a regular setting, colors are used to describe happy memories and any basic descriptions of a setting. Death says “Whatever the hour or color…” (Zusak, 5). By saying this quote, Death establishes the colors a...
“The old man isn’t there anymore,” she replied back, letting her know the old man died. The author states she realized the color white is associated with Chinese death, after arriving
Lars Eighner uses the appeal of ethos the most prominently in his book to prove he is credible, followed by an appeal logos by applying logic and pathos using stories.
The run down atmosphere at Red Sammy's gives the reader an eerie and ominous feeling of what is to end up of the family. The first bit of description that is given about Red Sammy's is that it is a tower. Towers are seen as being large and intimidating, and inside is described as being "a long dark room" (661). This gives the impression of Red Sammy's as being dark, dingy, empty, and neglected. This impression is then reinforced by June Star, saying that she "wouldn't live in a broken down place like this for a million bucks!" (661).Everything about this place is run down. Even Red Sammy's car, which he is seen fixing upon their arrival, is broken. This provides a foreshadowing to the family's car, which will also soon break down after their accident. The color red is also brought up, in Red Sammy's name, bringing to mind what the colour red symbolizes, such things as fire, blood, death, and the devil.
The colors of the rooms range from light to dark. The first room is blue, symbolizing "truth or insight," "spiritual values, wisdom or healing," (Todeshi, 71) giving the reader a feeling of peace and tranquility like a clear blue sky. The rooms go on leading to a deeper and somewhat darker feeling ending with the last or seventh room. This room is mostly black in color symbolizing an association "with negativity, sin, or evil," and representing "depression, illness, or disease." (Todeschi, 71).
Step 3: 1. Eighner introduces his arguments through the use of narrative stories and his own personal experiences. He uses this technique to let the reader see firsthand how some people are able to survive off what is carelessly thrown away by others who take what they own for granted. Eighner illustrates this point on page 1, “The necessities of daily life I began to extract from Dumpsters. Yes, we ate from Dumpsters. Except for jeans, all my clothes can from Dumpsters. Boom boxes, candles, bedding, toilet paper, medicine, books, a typewriter… I acquired many things from the Dumpsters.”
Her withdrawal from the world is also presented in this passage. She chooses to move into the white room, now no longer decorated by the previous inhabitant. White can be a very cold, sterile color, and it serves to illustrate her lack of attachment to the room or to her own home.
...n that something bad is going to happen. That becomes clear when Gatsby’s yellow car stops in the valley of ashes it is those two colors next to each other. Especially because it is Gatsby’s car we know something is going to happen to him.
Johnson goes into detail about those who made a living dealing with waste by depicting those who gathered human waste as “rakers”.
There is a distinct contrast between the white walls and the darkly tiled flooring. The white background represents purity and innocence, while the black tiles represent the negativity and corruptive nature of the HIV disease. However, it is notable that due to the shadowing, the white walls become less pure, or tainted, in places. The concept of innocence being tainted can be further linked to sex and sexuality.
First of all, setting and use of language in this play employs existentialist concepts of despair and anxiety. The setting of the play looks like a partially underground bomb shelter, possibly after the occurrence of a nuclear holocaust and depicts nothingness. Room with bare interior serves as a shelter for the four characters: Hamm, Clov, Nagg and Nell. There are two windows that are used for nothing because Clov opens it on Hamm's request. He repeatedly searches the horizon with a telescope only to report about waves and sun, but he pronounces, "Zero. . . Gray"(Beckett 778). Zero means nothing, but its deeper meaning is nonexistence or absence and in this play it represents the absence of life. Similarly, gray symbolizes gloominess; it is unemotional, bori...
...ck of motivation. It is easy to fall victim to a lack of motivation upon seeing the collapse of the dream that was once the main driving force for people to work at all. The most powerful example of an ingredient missing in the wasteland is love. Love is the ultimate truth and the ultimate motivation, so when Frome has no love at all in his life and is left without any escape from his moral isolation, the wasteland cannot be denied. Likewise, when there is no love for what someone does and he only does it for the sake of living up to the ideal, such as the Lomans', the demise of the fantastic facade, and thus the onset of the wasteland, cannot be stopped. The wasteland inhabits all aspects of society today. It is a dark, gloomy cloud that hovers over the earth, blocking all hope-all life-from making its way into the reality of the world in which we live.