Where is your hair, marcelled or carefully windblown, your eyebrows, the artfully painted lips? Put your face to the glass, you wretched snail, kiss me, you desecration of a man
I read this in the meaning of people are shopping, and looking at the image of the mannequin along with the products of the mannequin, to acquire that certain look. However, the mannequin is looking at those people back, judging them, for being so flawed
I like when a leg is kicked out of its socket or an arm flings back in some preposterous gesture as if to sa
Very uncanny
Manufacturers have time and again tried (and usually failed) to make girlish freckles or a manly stubble look like something other than acne on an immobile face.
They did not want any kind of imperfection on the mannequin. What does that say about society, business production, and the overall expectation of the model?
If social realism breaks through the physical borders of neck-up realism, a third stage strives for shock through anatomical real-ism, particularly in body parts about which tappable social sensitivity persists.
Not only did realism start on the facial construction, but a new era occurred on the mannequins when it came to distinctive body structures an genitalia. What was the motive to make mannequins more and more realistic? Did it have a factor in the selling of products?
The realism was effective not because the figure looked equally at ease in boxing, swimming, and tennis poses; but because it was essentially the same figure: it "lived."•
I can understand this. The fact that the same figure is being moved into various poses or attitudes, gives us the feeling that the figure is alive and moving periodically, even if we knew better. The notion of moving the figures gave it life even when there is no life.
They sported real human hair, meticulously inserted a few hairs at a time into their wax heads. Eyelashes and eyebrows were equally authentic, and teeth were supplied by manufacturers who did business with dentists.
This gave me an uncanny feeling.
. We look upon mannequins and models as different things. The first means to tcy on dresses before customers, but a model in France is a girl who shows her figure before evecybody, especially sculptors and paint-ers."7
I find it interesting that they were once meant as two different words back then. Mannequins were to show off the clothes to the elite, and models were to show themselves to artists. Nowadays, models are supposedly used to show off the clothes, which is seen in traditional fashion, but then there are models more often being exploited for their looks and their bodies instead of the clothes or products.
'Being a woman in the eighteenth century', she writes, 'was an intensely mimetic and mod-ern project, capturing not what women are, but what women are like'.
This reminds me of the gender roles women have to be accustomed to. Women are supposed to be delicate and polite, so we are. In the same instance, women in the eighteenth century started dressing up like the image women are "supposed" to look like, not dressing up in their own taste or fashion opinions, that truly capture their personalities.
seemed to be drawn up by some dreadful convulsive pain into an ugly, repulsiveSatanic mask.
Nathaniel now sees his father in a different light, now that he knows that his father works with someone so horrid to him. A disruption of trust?
Father treated him as if he were a being of somehigher race, whose ill-manners were to be tolerated, whilst no efforts ought to be spared to keep him ingood-humour.
why was that?
altogether true; nevertheless the Sand-man continued to be for me a fearful incubus,and I was always seized with terror-
I related to this. It reminds me of how I, and perhaps many other people, can be scared of scary movies, even though we know it isn't real. We may not believe in actual ghosts, yet we still get scared of them.
O mamma! but who is this nastySand-man who always sends us away from papa?
It is interesting that the son at first described the monster to be the reason why the children and papa do not have a strong relationship, or why they all don't spend enough time for each other. Not based on the fact that he seems absent, and is constantly working.
danger
Freud further explains the existence of the "uncanny" due to sensations of darkness, solitude, and quietness. Even though these sensations are ques that danger is to approach, it still brings the feelings of being uncertain and unsettled, therefore allowing one to hold "uncanny" feelings.
different
The author notes that uncertainty throughout the story holds success, and by allowing the uncanny effects to follow through, one can then re-introduce the main theme at the most critical point. This will result in the realization or the awe moment for the reader.
I have never thought of the term "civilized" to be due to the exposure of corruption, but now that it is brought up, it is so interesting. What is being civilized, and is it actually a real thing? Really, it is a word made up for society or the majority to enforce influence upon everyone else.
What a huge statement made, that Darian thought his own self portrait looked more horrible than the dead body right next to it. When a person's character is much worse than a physical horror, the person's soul must very much be lost.
. But this was not one of them. It was a thing to be driven out of the mind, to be drugged with poppies
Dorian is able to be not dragged down by his sins, due to the knowledge that it'll all sour the painting, and not his actual self, therefore, this allows Dorian to be able to do whatever he wants. Somehow live life without the consequences.
The friend who had painted the fatal portrait, the portrait to which all his misery had been due, had gone out of his life. That was enough.
How did Dorian become so deep into his selfishness, his flaws, and his state of lack of emotion? Starting off in the beginning of the plot, he was so curious about human nature, so in love with a woman, and so excited to seek out the wonders of the world. Now he doesn't care about his reputation, and now the death of a friend from his own doing? This is becoming alarming, and makes me wonder when his downfall will finally erupt.
But position and wealth are not everything.
Here lies the first time addressed, that beauty and wealth isn’t everything to people in society. There is a downfall.
curious indifference that is not incompatible
Dorian gray is so curious about all the elements of life, emotion, and society and wants to conquer the knowledge of all of it. He wants to understand all of these feelings, and then control it, so he’s under control. Many times, people lose themselves because of the emotions they are caught up in, in the moment. Perhaps, with dorians thinking, by being in control of it, nothing would ever take control of him. Like aging.
The picture had to be concealed. There was no help for it.
This quote connects to society itself. People always want to hide their flaws, concealing them as if the flaws do not exist. Maintaining a perfect image to outsiders is key.
Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry’s influence
Dorian Grey serves as a very indecisive character, who seems to be troubled with his identity. Perhaps foreshadowing on how this double comes into the story? He just defended how he has decided to be like Lord Henry while still maintaining friendships with Basil, yet now he confessed that he wishes that he confided in Basil.
. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
This brings up something I see in movies and shows all the time. Is it better to be emotionless and not care about things and people and to never get hurt? Or is it better to feel everything, embrace the process, and be as human as possible? Are emotions a weakness or a blessing?
It is very tragic,
How interesting that Dorian had laid eyes on her while she was playing the character Juliet, they instantly fell in love, and just like the role that she played, she died tragically. Truly, the author made a purpose in showing this kind of love between Dorian and her.
63luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us
Could it be that we can only hold so much responsibility due to human nature’s natural selfishness? Once we take responsibility for our actions, we then believe no one else should judge us.
t we live in an age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us;
Materialistic things have become such a huge importance to class and status now a days. Back then, it used to be about meeting basic needs, and then some, and now that’s not held as a priority but as a given.
You have killed my love,” he muttered.
This confirms my earlier suspicions of his love not being genuine, but just an obsessed infatuation.
Human life,—that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating.
Lord Henry is a very observant and intellectual character, however it seems that he cares more for entertainment than relationships. Basil and Darian Grey both seem like “projects” to him, and I can’t help but wonder if his notion of his own perspective of humanity gets him in the way of the capability of emotion? It’s also shown in his lack of relationship with his wife.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Why is it that Lord Henry seems to go against everything that keeps an order?
Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul.
I have never thought about influence like that. When one gives another ideas, ways of life, or a certain belief, and that person follows, it’s no longer his/her most authentic self. It turns into being a follower and thus, I guess it can be applied-no influence is good influence.
That is so interesting that the artist brings up the positive outlooks of not knowing victory brings not knowing defeat. Why does he believe that everyone should be indifferent, and to not give or take? Is the notion of not making a difference less harm I guess, than the power to make a difference with the chance of messing up?
Nowadays, it would seem completely absurd to advise to a patient to live a domestic live or to never touch a pen or pencil. Women were oppressed and thought to need no intellectual qualities. I wonder how that doctor during that period of time, would prescribe and help out his patient if it were a man instead. I appreciate the authors strive to make use and power out of her experience.
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.
Was this due to her highly creative mind as a kid, flowing with imagination, or was it a early sign of her madness?
he says the same thing.
why would both her husband and brother seem so unconcerned about her condition? what makes them not want to consider the narrator's condition to be serious?
sick
The author is sick and realizes that