para 2 Flashcards
Furthermore, Nussbaum’s haunting artwork provides?
insight into the outcome of oppressive regimes for the human race.
who are seen heralding the end of time beneath the kite-filled sky?
The motif and body language of the corpses with the direct gaze of an emancipated angel of Death, also featured in his 1943 painting “Organ Grinder”,
The grotesque nature of this symbolises ?
how life is replaced with a devastated nullity due to tyrannical leadership
The symbolism and positioning of the menace faced kites in the dark background patrolling the sky creates ?
an ominous atmosphere, highlighting the inescapable and malevolent reach of tyranny.
what happened to Nussbaum?
was captured and killed by the Gestapo due to his dissent and opposing political perspectives of his time
such opposition is evident in?
in Auden’s poems where he openly condemns and criticises a tyrant.
allusion and reference to paraphernalia and propaganda of tyrannical regimes such as Nazi Party?
in “the poetry he invented was easy to understand” may connote his manipulation and deception despite being introduced as an ‘idealistic’ leader where “perfection, of kind, was what he was after”.
what do both texts act as?
as a warning and representation of the influence of the totalitarian regimes such as Hitler and Mussolini, and their involvement in societal decay and oppression of individuals.
