reflection#9

Reflection #9

Marxist: Capitalist and worker

What make people in the society different?  I think the thing that makes people different is money which is the most important variable.  The society is inequality between the capitalists and working class.  Social classes are economic arrangement of groups in society.  Marx and Engels noted that, “On the ‘material conditions of life’ and the economic structure of society,’ Marx and Engels are sharp and compelling; on the subject of the creative and critical consciousness of persons and cultures, they falter” (650).  People are separate into two classes which are capitalists and working class.  They are placed in one of these class based on their wealth.  The gap between the capitalists and working class would just keep getting bigger and bigger.  The capitalists would be running the country, so they just getting richer and richer while the working class people keep getting poorer.  The working class people have no opportunity of getting richer because they all work for the rich capitalists.  Work is scary, wage is low, and the worker is resented, resisted, and repressed by the capitalists.  Marxist represents ideology of class society.  People each class relates to each other by reproduction.  Labor is the source of value.  The working class people must sell their labor in order to survive with exchanging of money.  Moreover, the capitalists are dependent on working class for production.  For the capitalists, it they are wealthy, they will more than likely have more power, and if you are very wealthy, you will have even more power. 

reflection#8

Reflection #8

“Why write”

I always wonder why we write.  I am not a person who good in writing, so I usually think about a person who can write a foot thick of book. How long they are taking to write?  What they are writing about?  Should I say they write about themselves or the situation they meet? 

First of all, how do we know about history?  People wanted to keep an important situations or places by writing and sent a message to the next generation.  People in the present world learn history via the letter from the people who were closed to the king or the people who were in the situations, and they recorded all the situations to be collateral evidence.  I am taking Middle age Literature which most of exquisite poems talk about long history of a king or a country.  At the same time, novelists write a story to entertain readers or announce satiric story or situation thru all the representative characters in their works of art.  I think all the situations in a novel, a play, and a drama makes from real life, but it is depend on which part of people life and which society they are.  On the other hand, the story can be made from an author’s imagination, but slightly based on real world.  According to Jean-Paul Sartre’s why write noted that, “But if ourselves produce the rules of production, the measures, the criteria, and if our creative drive comes from the very depths of our heart, then we never find anything but ourselves in our work” (P. 1200).  I always some readers slip off words “That’s possible”.  I think nothing can be impossible.  Everything can happen to other, but it may not happen to us.

Analysis#2

The Mulberry tree by Vincent Van Gogh : Formalism and Structuralism Painting

It is painted on canvas with an oil color. This painting was so important to van Gogh that he wrote about it three times in letters to his brother and sister, commenting that he believed it was the best of his mulberry tree paintings.  I have ever seen this art of work at Norton Simon Museum.  This painting caught my eyes becasue it attracted me very much.  The tree stands alond at the middle of a field with coil and curl relieves.  It gave me a feeling of chaos in the midst of confusion because the color of the painting was melancholy.  When I stepped back and shallow watched the picture, I felt relaxed, and I felt like I was watching the tree in the field.  However, when I saw the picture closely, I frowned, and it made me feel dazzled.

Van Gogh’s painting is formalism and structuralism because he used the principles of Impressionism and loosened up his brushwork Vincent's best of this series showed his expressive style and bold color choices, which were always imaginative but equally inspired.  The elements included color, line, shape and texture rather than realism, context, and content.  This painting is at once more somber and spiritual in mood.  Elements in the picture were so harmonious very well.  There were several differences of relieves.  A relief on the tree was coil and curl.  He wanted to express his feeling.  At the same time, he may also used of structuralism because the artist used his pieces of art to communicate, to fight against, or to express their feeling thru the hidden meaning in the picture itself.  The picture’s meaning may effect to political in his society at that time.  I think he tried to tell the audient that he was violently upset in mind, but he had to be in the world of tremendous changes.   

Marcel Duchamp's fountain; Ready made : porcelain urinal
 Is it fountain?

I found the good example of Structuralism which is Marcel Duchamp’s fountain.  He used of object to inform the idea behind the art.  I think Structuralism is more difficult to understand than Formalism.  A sculpture which is a man toilet and a name which is a stream of water that is forced up to the air do not associate with each other. 

reflection#7

Reflection #7

The Interpretation of dreams:  The Oedipus Complex

According to Sigmund Freud’s the Oedipus complex noted that “If Oedipus Rex moves a modern audience no less than it did the contemporary Greek one, the explanation can only be that its effect does not lie in the contrast between destiny and human will, but is to be looked for in the particular nature of the material on which that contrast is exemplified” (816).  Oedipus Hamlet, who is the son, wants to kill his own father to get his own.  The relationship between a son and a mother is deeply connected by blood lineage.  They both deeply tie of feeling since the mother knows that she has a baby.  I have had an experience when I was young.  I did not like the feeling when my father or my brother hugged my mother at all.  I thought my mother was only mine.  When I was offended by my father, I would cry.  I think it is about truly deeply feeling relationship between a mother and a child.  The child does not follow a custom because he or she cannot decide the situation and lack of experience.  The child wants to be the only one of his or her mother.  The idea of Freud is in the lines with the signification of the Phallus by Lacan.  The child wants to be the phallus for the mother.  In my opinion, I try not to be impolite, but a human has only one phallus.  Thus, the child wants to be only one or number one for the mother. 

Reflection#6

What is the meaning of a sign?

I drove a car on a main road at night in Thailand.  I saw a car at the corner was going to U turn.   Then I gave a winking sign because I would not stop for him.  He stopped for me.  On the other hand, when I got an opportunity to learn a new world, I drove a car on a main road at night in the USA two years later.  In the same situation, the car at a winding course fast made a U turn.  I stepped on a break without delay.  I learned that people in different country have a different understanding of sign.  The meaning of the sign depends on the period of time and part of the world, but it is in the same category.  In my understanding, sign is something in common that gives the meaning to people in the society have the same sense of understanding.  According to Bakhtin’s theory that language is never unity, sign is similar to the language.  It is flexible and depended on people’s idea in that society.  Some signs have the history background to be told by generation to generation such as religion sign.  Moreover, sign can be created by a small group of people to use in a specific point of view.  I have ever joined in the world scout.  Before I went there, I learn a sign of roaming about a forest.  I think if I had not participated in this camp, I would have had this kind of knowledge.   

Reflection#5

“Language is never unitary”

Imagine ten people stand in the line and whisper continually.  First person starts to whisper to the second person behind, the second person whisper the third, the third continually whisper, and go on to the last person in the line.  A sentence which the last person in the line speaks out loud always changes a form of sentence and meaning.  People in the same country and culture, but they have a different experience.  They can define the meaning of the sentence differently.  Every language changes all the time.  People in a new generation will continuously create a new vocabulary.  I try to compare adult’s conversation to teenager’s conversation.  Adults‘conversation is longer sentence but more meaningful than the teenagers is.  The teenagers will speak short but not thoroughly understand.  In the individual group of people will set up a new kind of words or slang, knowing between people in the group and enlarge to general society, and become common words.  Moreover, the feeling of the speaker has impact to the conversation.  A speaker speaks the same sentence but shows the different mood.  The meaning of the sentence can be changed.  Thus, I agree to Bakhtin’s theory that language is never unity.  I am the one who is not English native speaker.  I really cannot show my feeling very well when I speak English, but I really know what I want to say.  My face sometimes looks angry, but I do not mean that.  I cannot naturally show exact feeling because I do not really get into the language.

reflection#4

Sublimity

What does sublimity really mean to me?  I think it depends on an individual line of thought.  People who have different experience may have different feeling.   According to the class’s presentation, I felt every clip that our classmates brought up to the presentation was sublime.  While I was watching them, they made my hair stand on end.  Lord of the Ring was the most impressible clip for me because an arm of national defense was encouraged by his superior.  He did not talk much, but his tone, his action, his speech, and his innate feeling looked very powerful.  I have used almost the same kind of army clip, but on my clip, the leader was giving the speech about proclaiming peach.  I felt they were unity.  The superior fought with his people.  He did not overlook or abandon his army.  The superior and the soldiers collaborated to fight for their peace.  Also, the clips will be sublime or not is up on an audient’s experience and an attitude which I mean what he or she does like or does not like.  Moreover, does an audient get into or understand the point of view of the part of the story?  If an audient does not know what presenters are trying to tell, he or she may not feel about sublimity in that part. 

In my opinion, personal innate feeling and emotion are the most essential elements.  The situations that concern about human’s feeling are very sensitive.  In one clip ten people may have ten points of view.