Essays Tagged: "puppets"

Interpreting Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

e prisoners. He also utilizes the term "marionette players" which should create a peaceful image of puppets moving on string. Instead he creates a feeling of captivity for the puppets being controlled ... usual punishment with materials found in the real world. Plato also speaks a fire that "throws" the puppets shadows on the cave wall. The use of puppets should bring the reader happy childhood memorie ...

(2 pages) 266 0 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Interpreting the first 5 lines in Plato's Allegory of the cave

e prisoners. He also utilizes the term "marionette players" which should create a peaceful image of puppets moving on string. Instead he creates a feeling of captivity for the puppets being controlled ... usual punishment with materials found in the real world. Plato also speaks a fire that "throws" the puppets shadows on the cave wall. The use of puppets should bring the reader happy childhood memorie ...

(2 pages) 107 0 5.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, Italy, and Germany.

alue their bodies more than their minds, thus creating a politically languid mass of law-conforming puppets. Its ultimate goal is to establish a perfect society based upon its own idealistic aspiratio ...

(2 pages) 106 0 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Manipulation in 1984.

eir minds, and conditioning their bodies, Big Brother is able to undermine citizens and use them as puppets. Though American government isn't as austere as the fictitious one in 1984, there are defini ...

(4 pages) 34 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Allegory of the Cave

s a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners, hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners are unable to see these puppets, th ...

(2 pages) 125 1 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

After WWII and the Berlin Blockade --- 'War and Peace' Cold War and Dètente

uperpowers, due to the risk of a nuclear war, but rather they jockeyed for power using countries as puppets.An example is Czechoslovakia, which was liberated by the Russians in 1945. The Russians set ...

(3 pages) 63 0 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Great expectations

ader how both characters have emerged to make their own decisions about their future. No longer the puppets of others Pip and Estella are able to create new expectations built from past experiences.Gr ... ll in love with Estella only so Estella can reject him and break his heart.Pip and Estella are both puppets at the hands of two very controlling individuals. Neither of who took into consideration how ...

(8 pages) 50 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

A compare and contrast of Ibsen and Strindberg and their view on women

nd in Strindberg's Miss Julie it looks as if the women are mere objects. The women appear more like puppets or toys to the men. The men use the women to satisfy their needs and not much else. There do ...

(3 pages) 85 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Graphic Arts / Contextual Studies Essay: 'Punch and Judy' hand puppet

t which I found at the Museum of Liverpool Life at the Albert Dock.Probably the most famous form of puppets in the world, Punch, Judy and a host of other hand puppet characters have been enjoyed by ch ... tte to glove puppet shaped Punch and the whole show. A single puppeteer could now operate two glove puppets with ease keeping the audiences attention with his characters performing fast paced action, ...

(5 pages) 46 0 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

xample of this egotism. Lt. Scheisskopf does not see the soldiers as individual men, but instead as puppets that he can manipulate and control. At one point, he even expresses his desire to "wire the ... en together so that their movements will be precisely in sync, just as if they really were mindless puppets." This theme also appears through Colonel Cathcart and his ever-increasing demand on the num ...

(1 pages) 62 1 3.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Reader reponse to the Aeneid

er conflict in the heavens. It is obvious in this epic, and other Homeric epics that the humans are puppets to the arrogant and omnipotent gods. The mortals are victims of a struggle between the godde ... attacks one another. By using humans through the means of disguises and tricks, they use humans as puppets or an extra weapon to their own struggle. In this case, the victim is Aeneas. Through these ...

(2 pages) 55 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

The heroes journey in relation to Jim Hensen's "The Dark Crystal."

eness" and "full individuation" (220). At the formal level, by concealing puppet strings, providing puppets with exceptionally life-like and fluid motions, and creating convincingly vital puppets, Hen ...

(4 pages) 31 0 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Allegory of the Cave

oves to say that there is also a fire behind them along with a puppet theater that is unseen. These puppets cast shadows on the dark cave wall throughout the entire lifetime of the inhabitants causing ...

(5 pages) 125 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

How does Iago manipulate Othello in Act 3?

acters so skilfully that they seem to be acting simultaneously of their own free will and as Iago's puppets. For example, it takes only the slightest prompting on Iago's part to put Othello into the p ...

(7 pages) 54 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Everything that happens is inevitable.

ean that the course of our lives isn't influenced by our actions; that we're mere mindless helpless puppets, mechanically going through the motions of a playscript written by someone else.But the idea ... d", but the major controlling forces are our own desires, thoughts and feelings. We're not mindless puppets controlled by someone else. We are doing the controlling.We know exactly what it feels like ...

(16 pages) 60 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

What If We Were All Green?

Sesame Street is an educational television show aimed towards preschool aged children. Puppets, called Muppets, are the prime educators on the program. They teach kids everything from the ...

(5 pages) 32 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"Othello" and use of persuasive language

e play so skilfully that they seem to be acting simultaneously of their own free will and as Iago's puppets. The most predominant persuasive techniques used by Iago are: appealing to humour, repetitio ...

(5 pages) 83 0 2.8 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Human Nature and George Orwell's "Animal Farm"

he story is a much more in depth analysis of the human nature and behavior. The animals are used as puppets to illustrate how humans operate, how propaganda was used by early powerful leaders such as ...

(2 pages) 12 1 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Celebrity World (celebrities are like puppets)

Aside from that, one fascinating fact about them is that celebrities, in some ways, are similar to puppets.First similarity is that celebrities are also created, just like puppets created by puppet-m ... the same time, catches the attention of the public and makes them famous.Another, celebrities, like puppets, give entertainment to the people. Of course, these celebrities amuse us through their works ...

(4 pages) 26 0 5.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Shakespeare vs. Prospero

gh his writing of this play. The actors and the words that are written down in the play are his own puppets and expressions. He is able to use each character and put them into a role in which he sees ...

(1 pages) 10 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare