Essays on binary oppositions

The author of the paper "Binary Oppositions in Our Life" will begin with the statement that the way we understand the world around us is often defined in our language through comparison or by what it is not. These ideas can be referred to as Binary Oppositions. ... The author argues in a well-organized manner that essentially, the concept of the binary opposition is engendered by the Western propensity to organize everything into a hierarchical structure; terms and concepts are related to positives...

nother tool used by films to focus social attention is the manipulation of Binary Oppositions.... It is through the philosopher Ferdinand de Saussure that we have the term ‘Binary Oppositions,' which became a major component of the Structuralist movement.... In addition to allowing no middle ground between terms, Binary Oppositions tend to elevate one term over the other, such that one becomes the desirable while the other becomes the opposite and undesirable....

These descriptions are effective because they are based on the principles of Binary Oppositions to help construct the suspense and horror of his tales.... Binary Oppositions are rhetorical terms that refer to concepts related as polar opposites such as dark and light, hot and cold or male and female.... In stories such as “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe employs Binary Oppositions to emphasize the irony he found existent in most human society....

She believes that by retaining binary models, it is possible to disrupt the Binary Oppositions.... The Binary Oppositions that Jacobs' used within her text allowed the reader to become engaged while understanding that the events may have been the reality of someone else's life, not necessarily of the author's.... The paper "binary Opposition in Analyzing Narratives" emphasized that understanding the narrative is not simple as the binary pairings of either-or....

This experience is often considered in terms of the Binary Oppositions we have all been raised with.... t is through the philosopher Ferdinand de Saussure that we have the term ‘Binary Oppositions,' which became a major component of the Structuralist movement.... In addition to allowing no middle ground between terms, Binary Oppositions tend to elevate one term over the other, such that one becomes the desirable while the other becomes the opposite and undesirable....

The author examines "The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'Ligeia' and poetry 'The Haunted Mansion', in which Poe employs Binary Oppositions and other techniques to illustrate his convictions regarding the fall of nobility in his society .... Frequently parodied for his dark personality and gloomy outlook, most of Poe's stories are memorable because of the way that he uses in-depth imagery and descriptions based on Binary Oppositions to help build the suspense and horror of his tales....

“Gooseberries” explores several Binary Oppositions.... One of the initial Binary Oppositions is between nature and modernity, where Chekhov proposes a paradoxical view of nature.... It has a binary structure, because it is divided into the story of the journey into Aliokhin's house and the story about Nicholai.... Furthermore, it dissects binary issues, particularly nature versus modernity, truth versus deception, and essence versus appearance....

The paper "The Wolf and Fox Hunt by Peter Paul Rubens" tells us about the following issues within the aforementioned painting: patterns, Binary Oppositions, and anomalies of the painting.... Here it will be attempted to address the following issues within the aforementioned painting: patterns, Binary Oppositions, and anomalies of the painting.... Binary Oppositions On the foreground, the composition is made up of two men and a woman riding on horses and a group of five men with spears in the groups....

This paper sought to analyse the master slave relationships in "The tempest" from the point of deconstructive critics that takes into account the fundamental Binary Oppositions in western culture such as man versus woman, native versus foreign, mater versus slave, or good versus evil.... As pointed out by Purchase deconstructive criticism takes into account the fundamental Binary Oppositions in western culture such as man versus woman, native versus foreign, mater versus slave, or good versus evil (Purchase 211)....

It is interesting to see that application, rather than use of such Binary Oppositions have been done both in the contexts of conflicting gender roles and their conventional attitude, quite in contradiction to general social perception.... The focus of the paper "Gender Roles in the Movie Angels in America " is on social construction, certain conventional outlook, Western social discourse, sufficient efforts, the 20th-century intellectual revolution, gender and rejection of a conventional sense of morality, American culture....

In the paper 'Women's Representation in the Media' the author analyzes modern day ideals expressed through the media.... These standards are taught and reinforced by television reality shows that illustrate how the 'common' woman might achieve these televised ideals.... ... ... ... The author proved that women's magazines have ten and one-half times more ads and articles promoting weight loss than men's magazines do, and over three-quarters of the covers of women's magazines include at least one message about how to change a woman's bodily appearance – by diet, exercise or cosmetic surgery....

As he tells the tale of the twin brother and sister, Roderick and Madeline, in the final days of their gloomy, mad-haunted world as they are witnessed by an unnamed narrator, Poe presents his readers with in-depth imagery and descriptions based on Binary Oppositions to help build the suspense and horror of his tale.... As Mowery explains, Binary Oppositions are things such as hot and cold, male and female, dark and light....

The strategy of deconstruction not only does tend to expose any literary or philosophical text, but by doing so it also does vehemently try to subvert it by exposing the varied Binary Oppositions that envelop the salient Western ways of thinking about and perceiving reality.... This essay aims to discover how do the three philosophers that are Derrida, Foucault and Rorty differ in their views....

Likewise, Binary Oppositions occur in nature and in the human mind.... The dominant manner to accomplish this goal is based on the use of the following concepts: a) surface and deep structure, b) Binary Oppositions Culture/Nature, and c) mediation.... Likewise, Binary Oppositions occur in nature and in the human mind.... This process may in itself create new Binary Oppositions in the story which need to be followed until one arrives to a final mediation for the story” (Glazer)....

Such an analysis would be extremely relevant to the field of literary analysis as it would enable critics to understand the politics of the signifier and the signified and the other Binary Oppositions that operate therein.... Such Binary Oppositions are often employed to create political hierarchies by privileging one half of the binary over the other.... Within this binary, he privileges the Western and sees in the African a common bond that helps them remember their primitive states....

He argues that Binary Oppositions a marking difference is essential for producing meaning.... Woodward also observed that cultural identities are constructed in relation to or differences from the others this construction usually appears in Binary Oppositions that are the concept of them and us....

Aiming towards the unveiling of Catalonian traditions, myth, history, and language, Roig 's works unfold through a set of Binary Oppositions – the male versus the female; the public versus the private; the oppressor versus the oppressed.... Aiming towards the unveiling of Catalonian traditions, myth, history and language, Roig ‘s works unfold through a set of Binary Oppositions – the male versus the female; the public versus the private; the oppressor versus the oppressed; and official history versus the authentic her-story....

The theory insists that the Binary Oppositions are found in all cultures and thus support the argument that the mental process is the same despite the different cultures.... This revealed that the mythical concept had Binary Oppositions.... Myths are therefore characterised by elements that contradict one another and the two still resolve the oppositions formed by them (Peter, 2002, pp.... It goes on to add that the thought process only exists binary opposite forms....

The theory insists that the Binary Oppositions are found in all cultures and thus support the argument that the mental process is the same despite the different cultures.... This revealed that the mythical concept had Binary Oppositions.... Myths are therefore characterised by elements that contradict one another and the two still resolve the oppositions formed by them (Peter, 2002, pp.... It goes on to add that the thought process only exists binary opposite forms....

Deconstruction theory presents the metaphysics of presence by locating its ideal Binary Oppositions and illustrating the speciousness of their order by refuting the potentiality of understanding the superior or powerful element of the hierarchy or order in the absence of its inferior or less powerful counterpart.... Deconstruction principles were built on elemental oppositions, which all dialogue has to highlight if it aims to make reasonable arguments and sound decisions....

In the paper 'Myal by Erna Brodber' the author analyzes the novel which portrays unique Caribbean religions and their influence on ordinary people.... Religious context is used as the lens of the emotional and psychological state of the characters shaping the atmosphere of the novel.... ... ... ... The author of the paper states that the main characters address such universal virtues as equality and faith and give an insight look into the spiritual world of every person....

The example of King Lear depicts that everything around us has such Binary Oppositions as good-evil, chaos-order, hell-paradise, etc.... Probably, the fact that Lear's personality is based on binary opposition helps readers to recognize themselves in the character of Lear....

In general, every universal religion has such Binary Oppositions: good-evil, chaos-order, hell-paradise, etc.... Probably, the fact that Matrix is based on binary opposition helps to explain why it is so successful in our society.... This idea runs through the Matrix trying to uncover the truth of reality, but the heroes rewrite this knowledge showing that 'there is no spoon", so what Again, the views are faced with the binary opposition which creates "quasi-myth" of reality....

Stuart Hall, who is a cultural critic, contends that these Binary Oppositions are crucial for the establishment of a difference for the facilitation of organizing perceptive systems.... In this respect, the Middle East is represented within a binary oppositional framework where the region is classified as a tyrannical space (Kamalipour 34)....

A number of Binary Oppositions characterize the differences between the second and two other sections of the piece.... The paper contains the review of an unknown piece of music.... The author didn't leave no intimation for us to investigate the source of this essay.... Anyway the review itself might be used as an example....

This act may not be blamed on the part of the society, but on the nature of evil and good that confuses the way, society views the two Binary Oppositions.... This act may not be blamed on the part of the society, but on the nature of evil and good that confuses the way society view the two Binary Oppositions....

When the colonialists' countries had started to lose their real territorial powers on colonized lands, they had started to pay more attention on other methods of keeping hierarchical relationships between.... ... ... “A creation of the image of ideal others” in order to “subdue easier”, as famous scholar on Orientalism Edward Said puts it, is not a currently invented thing: for hundreds of years not realistic images of subdued cultures have been But tools have changed, and nowadays Western foreign policy is expressed through mass culture and Orientalism is widely presented in mass media production (Nicha 2012)....

The western considerations about the nature and the culture and thus further considerations about what class is, is usually conducted in terms of “Binary Oppositions”.... In the theory of criminology, social class considerations in terms of “Binary Oppositions” have remained relevant to the modern society....

tate uses Western culture and the media as a tool to disseminate the views and maintain the general consensus within society by encouraging ‘rogue' states to be seen as Binary Oppositions.... Several other theorists and academicians have described the media's reportage of Islamic countries centres around the concept of Binary Oppositions.... he theory of binary opposition allows the West to make sense of the Islamic countries....

The aim of this essay is to provide a discursive analysis on the construction of identity as an example of a specific cultural site.... I have chosen to look at the identity construction of one of the female big brother contestants using an article in Pride magazine titled 'Mel the miss understood' (Gorham, 2000) as a case study and also 'dooyoo' internet site review page....

Binary Oppositions provide a way of bringing dynamics and process into theory” (Makaryk 511).... That has been proven using the three theories, binary opposition, structuralism, and enculturation.... binary opposition refers to controversies triggered by Catholic Church.... This essay evaluates religion as a secular ritual in references to the enculturation theory, structuralism theory, and the binary opposition theory.... astly, I will explore the binary opposition theory in regards to religion as my secular ritual....

he motive of the immigrants to form the micro society is to move beyond the Binary Oppositions and come up with a common platform to learn from the challenges of the culture.... The essay "Immigrant Stories Critique" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues in immigrant stories....

The concept of Binary Oppositions, which exists in almost all Hollywood films, can be considered to be a means through which the characterizations within Mean Girls are determined and created in such a way that they fit with a specific stereotype. ... Its ability to influence the audience is based mainly on the way through which its storyline is developed and this is done in such a way that there is a form of binary opposition within it (Lacey 64).... The binary view of the world is what makes the story so interesting because it seeks to address the way that individuals react when it seems as if others are taking a point of view that is opposed to theirs....

Scarcity and abundance may be seen as Binary Oppositions, andthey are.... carcity and abundance may be seen as Binary Oppositions, and sure they are.... unning head: Abundance and Scar Toward a society of social shifts Lecturer Scar and abundance may be seen as Binary Oppositions, and sure they are....

Finally, postmodernism is characterized by non-hierarchical, anti-essentialism, uncertainty, lack of absolutes and the collapsing of Binary Oppositions, contingency, constructivism and wariness (Ward, 2011).... The paper "Postmodernism, Power, and Discourse" begins with the statement that postmodernism is a term whose meaning and implications range across various disciplines and spheres of life including architecture, philosophy, art, literature, nationalism, politics, religion, war, fiction, literary criticism, and culture....

His further ideas and behavior are developed under conditions of blurred borders between noise of savage and civilization: “Yet despite Marlow's insistence, all Binary Oppositions collapse in the course of his narrative: colonists prove to be conquerors, the gang of virtue is indistinguishable from the gang of greed, the illusions of women merely echo the illusions of men, and there is no clear distinction between lies and truth” (Kaplan 1997, p....

?? This creates Binary Oppositions, with an intact center.... In the essays of queer theorists, such as Judith Butler, who is discussed below, queer theory is described as a theory that sees that sexuality is something that is front in center in daily life, and that sexuality is expressed discursively, and is subject to binary boundaries....

This paper ''A Semiotic Analysis of Two Magazine Advertisements'' provides a semiotic analysis of advertisement found within the context of advertising in the media.... The advertised product analyzed within the area of semiotics is Coco Mademoiselle.... It focuses on the discussion of the advertisement concerning its particular status....

In relation to the ideologies at hand, the power relations and Binary Oppositions are related to the key meaning and the ideological issues in question.... This essay ''The Ideology of Post-colonialism'' focuses on the ideology of postcolonialism, in which case it involves some discipline that characterizes the ways of intellectual discourse that examine, and also respond to the social legacies of imperialism and colonialism to the man's consequences of having control of a country....

tate uses Western culture and the media as a tool to disseminate the views and maintain the general consensus within society by encouraging ‘rogue' states to be seen as Binary Oppositions.... The paper "Influence of Media in Political Stance" discusses the role of media in general....

Binary Oppositions and conflicts help on providing initial order to complex issues present in news.... Print and television media utilize binary opposition to develop more appeal in a certain piece of news along with providing it a distinguished meaning and helping in organization and categorization of knowledge.... Like other news, information about Pope Benedict provided by The Globe and Mail and CBC news was made more powerful by using binary opposition in discourse....

nalyzing a group of stories requires that the reader should locate words that suggest or form Binary Oppositions, which can be identified in the articles considered for this essay.... For example, a binary opposition is identified in both the Chicago Tribune article and the Washington Post article with regards to the fact that there is database for the total number of police killed in the line of duty, while only "justifiable killings" are reported when it comes to civilian deaths (Robinson 1)....

here are various Binary Oppositions that the speaker emphasizes throughout the essay.... "A Critique on the Brujas and Curanderas - A Lived Spirituality Essay" paper focuses on the essay that as a whole is an argument for Hispanic feminism.... Despite the fact that the rhetoric instruments can be persuasive for the targeted audience, there are various problems with the ideology itself....

However, Hall [ CITATION Hal971 \p 235-245 \n \t \l 1033 ] highlights that Binary Oppositions are open to oversimplification, shallowness, and reductionism since there is an element of power between the binary opposition poles to bring out the discourse dimension.... The goal of this paper is to discuss the concept of orientalism in regard to modern Western civilization....

Additionally, these feminisms integrated the views of numerous oppressions by replacing it with the old-style notion of oppression as functioning Binary Oppositions not held in the first days of the second wave of feminism.... This paper ''Philosophies of Art'' tells that The twentieth century, in its second half, was characterized by the rise of significant political movements....

The study "Parfit's Spectrum and Sorites Paradox" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues concerning the Parfit's spectrum and Sorites paradox.... Parfit's spectrum is based on three basic claims: the first one involves a set of psychological changes.... ... ... ... Another involves certain bodily changes, and the third – a series of both kinds of changes (Perry, 2008)....

Patterns of repetition and contrast (Method) throughout the film were “individual responsibility” and “respecting the chain of command”, two Binary Oppositions with regards to the military and war in general.... This paper aims to critically review the rhetoric of the movie Casualties of War, especially with regard to the rhetoric of two other texts, Vietnam voices; Perspectives on the War Years, and The Fog of War: 11 Lessons from the Life of Robert S....

A combination of post-structuralists and post-modernists in the imperial British offered nuanced aspects of subjective identities of women and men in the process of seeking to dilute and eliminate the stereotype that deal with Binary Oppositions manufactured socially.... This essay "The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Race in the Imperial Enterprise" discusses the imperial leather chronicles which were responsible for the shaping of British Imperialism....

The English language was successfully translated into a mathematical thinking of 1/0 Binary Oppositions (Liu, p322).... The paper "Journalism, Writing Technologies" underlines that while the claim that code has become a characteristic of modern society is valid, the arguments lack a degree of depth that left a cloud of uncertainty with regards to how the claim was substantiated....

The strategy tends to invert the Binary Oppositions and privileges the subordinates.... This paper is about racial discrimination and ethnic relations.... Stigma is a conceptualisation of a group of people, a person, or something such as illness.... These people or person is usually made to feel different from other individuals due to attributes that they would do nothing or very little to change like races....