hand‚ the first essay “Regarding the pain of others” written by Susan Sontag in 2004. Sontag was born early in the twenty century; she was considered filmmaker‚ writer‚ and political activist. She used any possible way to teach people on humanity and human rights without being scared to be killed or go to jail at that time as it was not safe to talk about these topics back then. Sontag is discussing how people react when they see others passing through painful experience. Sontag complains about how
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In the short story of‚ “Regarding the Pain of Others”‚ we see the author‚ Susan Sontag writes about how images are a powerful influence on the world and people around us. She uses many examples throughout history to back up her ideas. Such as on page 650 when she talks about how images of diseased and cancerous lungs are being placed on the outside of cigarette packs in Canada. This is so the owner of the cigarettes understands what can happen if smoking becomes a serious habit. Also to give the
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‘To live is to be photographed’ (Sontag‚ 2004). Does photography have a special role in the mediation of our lives‚ and how‚ according to Sontag‚ is this role changing? INTRODUCTION Attempting to comprehend the role of photography in the mediation of our lives would have to account‚ apart from historical evidence‚ an understanding of the importance and the necessity of the photograph in every day life. In a society that is constantly bombarded by images from different mediums
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Susan Sontag an author Regarding The Pain of Others and of four novels‚ and seven non-fiction books. States that "Photographs tend to transform‚ whatever their subject; and as an image something may be beautiful - or terrifying‚ or unbearable‚ or quite bearable - as it is not real life." These words spoken by Susan Sontag explain almost every aspect that goes into evaluating a photograph. For instance a picture
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photographs with the largest impact are horrifying photographs of others‚ especially those on the news. Shocking photos‚ like ones from a war‚ can make people uncomfortable and cause them to act‚ like protesting wars or writing petitions. Sometimes‚ the media will not publish images that are difficult to look at because they know the damaging effect these photos could have on people. In her article “Regarding the Pain of Others‚” Sontag uses ethical and logical appeals to show that disturbing photographs
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Susan Sontag‚ in "Against Interpretation‚" takes a very interesting critical standpoint on the idea of literary interpretation. Unlike most literary critics‚ Sontag believes that literary criticism is growing increasingly destructive towards the very works of art that they‚ supposedly‚ so greatly "appreciate" and "respect." Her standpoint could not be more accurate. Reading her work generates numerous questions‚ the most important of which is quite possibly‚ "How are we to take her final statement
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what we now have to call--lamely‚ enviously--whole person…..beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind” -here she explains how theirs two types of beauty the “inside” beauty and the “outside” beauty. In Susan Sontag informative piece entitled “Beauty” she discusses her logical thoughts of the beauty of a women and a men‚ and of how beauty has changed over the centuries. Susan uses Logical appeals to evoke her philosophy of beauty. She says “The privileges of beauty are immense”
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1.2 The major literary works of Susan Sontag In Sontag’s life‚ she totally wrote four novels‚ they are "The Benefactor” (1963)‚ “Death Tool"(1967)‚"The Volcano Lover"(1992) and "In the United States" (2000);besides‚ there is one short stories “I ‚ etcetera" and a few scripts. Then she also published eight other works‚ among these works ‚ the famous works are "Against Interpretation" (1966)‚ "The Radical Form of Will" (1969)‚ "On Photography" (1977)‚ "The Disease Metaphor" (1988)‚ "The point" (2001)
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When comparing the descriptive technique of Susan Sontag’s On Photography book between ALL MY LIFE FOR SALE by John D. Freyer and eBay‚ we will find that Mr. Freyer demonstrated a merely subjective description that was mentored solely by his own point of view. The assumption that “every photographer should read this book” in the beginning of his description‚ and asserting this assumption later by using an overstated sentence like: “Even the mom and pop photographers”‚ and further emphasizing by generalizing
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Susan Sontag’s essay on the subject of beauty‚ particularly in relation to women‚ is a strong and moving piece that also greases the old gearbox and gets the brain going. It takes a strong hard look at how the concept of beauty has been shaped through the ages‚ from the time of the great Greek civilization to the modern era. The analysis that is put forth that women can never preen just for pleasure is exemplified in so many innumerable ways in modern culture that it is indeed something to despair
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