Eerie, Eldritch Erlkönig Essays -- Goya, Sleep of Reasons Produces Mon

Goyas The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is an ominous image of the dark vision of humanity. A man sleeps, apparently peacefully, even though he is besieged by creatures associated in Spanish folk tradition with mystery and evil. There is an unhomely feeling of darkness as the brutes seem to move in closer towards to the man that accomplishes a scary environment in the aquatint (a method of etching that creates a rough sketch). A mysterious creature sits at the center of the frame, staring not at the sleeping figure, but at us, the viewer. Goya forces the viewer to become an active participant in the painting the monsters of his dreams even venture us. This creates a blur between the dream and the real ground an obscure boundary between fantasy and reality. As Freud would claim, we are faced with the reality of something that we shake off until now considered imaginary. This negative quality of feeling, filled with dread and horror, repulsion and anxiety, where the supernatura l becomes a part of common reality, is one of the uncanny. It is a frightening feeling which leads congest to something forgotten and lost. Similar to The Sleep of Reason, there is a sense of ambivalence in what is real in Hoffmans tale The Sandman. The uncanniness attaches directly to the figure of the Sandman, which a boy believed to be true in his childhood. Hoffman exploits disturbances of the ego that involve regression to times when the ego had not yet clearly set itself off against the world outside and from others. Freud writes that the uncanny unheimlich is something which is secretly familiar heimlich, which has undergone repression and then returned from it. The music of Schuberts Erlknig dramatizes Goethes haunting poem in an uncann... .... It contained works (from 1800s and 1900s) that were dominated by themes of the uncanny, the hidden and the incomprehensible from the 1800 1900s. A spokesperson at the exhibition said, things that are mysterious or inexplicable will always evoke curiosity and interest.Works CitedFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 17461828) EtchingFreud, Sigmund, David McLintock, and Hugh Haughton. The Uncanny. New York Penguin, 2003. Print.Hoffmann, E. T. A., and Christopher Moncrieff. The Sandman, Surrey. N.p. n.p., n.d. Print.Kerman, Joseph, and Vivian Kerman. Listen. New York, NY Worth, 1980. Print.Gibbs, Christopher H. Komm, Geh Mit Mir Schuberts Uncanny Erlknig 19th-Century Music 19.2 (1995) 115-35. Print.Stein, Deborah. Schuberts Erlknig Motivic Parallelism and Motivic Transformation. 19th-Century Music 13.2 (1989) 145-58. Print.

Separation of Father and Son in Genesis Essay -- Holy Bible Genesis Es

Who is YHWH? However we interpret it, the Name of immortal means ultimate dominion He-Whom-There-Is-No-Escaping.Thomas Cahill,The Gifts of the Jews1 Ultimate dominion, that Gods determine is final, is the heart and soul of the Book of Genesis. In the beginning there was God later, God created military per boynel (Gen. 1.1, 1.27).2 But how does Gods ultimate dominion motivate the relationship that develops between God and man? Several times in Genesis God makes a covenant with man (Gen. 6.18, 17.2-8, 28.13-14). Explicit in this agreement, man is put in charge of perpetuating Gods covenant, or in essence perpetuating the Israelite race. On the one hand, then, it is the fathers job to impart companionship of this important relationship to his son. On the other hand, the son must also take an active role in learning about and connecting with God. To do so, however, the son is forced to separate himself from his father in order to establish a singular or individual relationship w ith God. Juggling the fathers role and the sons role in the passing of the faith from one generation to the next creates a tension that at first seems to put a strain on the ultimate dominion of God. It is this very tension, however, that reinforces God as the preeminent being. Examining this relationship of father and son for every male character passim Genesis would prove overly exhaustive and unnecessary. In fact, the characters themselves are not of singular importance to the doctrine of Genesis. Rather, it is the formula of separation that emerges as the larger lesson, so to speak, inherent in Genesis. This formula can be derived through an extensive comparison of two primary characters, which, of course, can then be extrapolated to incorporate othe... ... As we have seen, the separation of father from son in Genesis is necessary so that the son can develop an equally personal relationship with God and, in turn, sustain an equally living and vital knowledge of God as th e absolute provider and father. Further, the more radical the separation the more powerfully impressed in the sons mind becomes the separation and, in turn, the ultimate dominion of God. It is little wonder, then, that the Hebrew interpretation of God, YHWH, has been carried through hundreds of generations and survived great epochs later all, YHWH is He-Whom-There-Is-No-Escaping (Cahill 113). Works Cited 1. Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (New York Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1998), 113.2. The Holy Bible, Authorized (King James) Version.