Essays on Human Imagination

Dreams have always inspired artists to produce real visual images. Paintings in pre-historic walls are evidence that human beings have been representing their dreams since time immemorial. Artists in all generations since man’s civilization have been using dreams as inspiration for their works (Barrett 7). Artists such William Blake, Salvador Dali and Edward Burne-Jones, are among those painters that have used dreams as their inspiration. William Blake Jacob’s ladder (1800) William Blake was an English painter, poet, and printmaker in the Romantic Age. Blake was talented in expressiveness and creativity. Most of his works lack the influence ...

Annotated Bibliography: Definition of a Monster

Introduction Considering that particular focus of this research is defining what a monster is. The sources incorporated herein essentially work to define the term monster in relation to film literature, and personal perceptions. In a bid to accomplish this, sources that are to be used in the research establishes the chronology of the term monster, culture perception of the term monster, and finally the relation of monstrous characteristics to human behaviour. The most important ideas in understanding the subject of the research evident from the sources below include myths, history of monsters, magic and believes. Asma, Stephen T. On ...

The article “Dream Machines”, by Will Wright deals with how video games are unbridling human imagination and creativity. He says that video games are shaping the way in which the current generation interacts with others by treating the world “as a place for creation, not consumption” (Wright 1). Wright further opines that society mostly sees the negative aspects of technological breakthroughs like video games by ignoring the positive side. In this respect, he is in line with a part of the present article’s main thesis: YouTube’s most important advantage is that anyone can unleash their imagination through videos uploaded ...

Use one of the following quotes from Northrop Frye's The Educated Imagination to consider how literary criticism can help us unpack a creative text. For example, how can the study of literature help us better understand, think more clearly or feel more sensitively about children or childhood? “Imagination gives us both a better and a worse world than the one we usually live with, and demands that we keep looking steadily at them bothLiterature gives us an experience that stretches us vertically to the heights and depths of what the human mind can conceive, to what corresponds to the conceptions of ...

German romanticism is a cultural movement that emerged in the 1790’s. The historical background which is rooted in the scientific, philosophical and literary theories of German romanticism illustrates a poet’s struggle with his inner self. From the literary theory perspective Hoffmann’s longing to fulfill his romantic ego is infinite. The young generation of writers and thinkers broke away from the established traditional norms in the German culture. The new signs of Romantics brought in uniqueness and inner experiences of individuals as they became the main focus of the middle age opposition. The literature and art that were ...

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Strongly influenced by Freud’s theories about the structure and the workings of the human psyche, the surrealist movement dived deeply into the exploration of the unconscious – hoping to find the essence of the human mind and spirit in an alternative reality. Salvador Dali is one of the main representatives of this movement – his works constantly defied the boundaries of reality and imagination. He was a prolific artist, always in search of new ways of creative expression. Due to his personal background, he was always attracted to the world of fantasy, which made him very suitable for the surrealist movement. ...