Jean Cocteaus Essay Examples

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The Early Life and Tribulations of Jean-Paul Sartre (3305 words, 5 pages)

On of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre hadbeen imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of theleaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus,and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman forthe French Underground ... Read More

An Introduction to the Sexism and Male Hatred of Women in the Literature by Jean Jacques Rousseau (455 words, 1 pages)

World Civilization IIJanuary 14, 2000The Lesser HalfWhen Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about the inequalities of women it was acceptable for that time period. During the 1700's a women's role was primarily to bear and raise their children, which is emphasized by Rousseau in Emile. In all other aspects they were ... Read More

The Existentialist Views of Jean Paul Sartre on Men’s Principles and Beliefs (1033 words, 2 pages)

Jean-Paul Sartre says "man is nothing else but what he makes of himself" (762). This existentialist view depicts the idea that one is not based on the essence of a soul, but rather, based on decisions made throughout life. Sartre also believes that every man is responsible for all men. ... Read More

An Overview of the Play The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre (507 words, 2 pages)

Title The Flies (Les Mouches)Author Jean-Paul SartrePublisher Vintage International Edition, October 1989Genre Dramatic playSetting City of Argos, GreeceMinor charactersAegistheus- He overthrows Agamemnon, makes Clytemnestra his wife and takes rule of Argos. He invents lies in order to make his people fear him. This only proofs that he is poor when ... Read More

A Parallel to Jean de Crevecour’s Letters from an America Farmer (541 words, 1 pages)

Note This paper was done as a parallel to Jean de Crevecour's "Letters from an American Farmer," published in London in 1782.What, then, is an American now?An American today controls the world. She lives for herself, and is successful. She has a job, not on the farm or with the ... Read More

A Biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat (471 words, 1 pages)

In the 1980's art punk movement, the only thing the market liked better than a hot young artist was a dead hot young artist, and it got one in Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose working life of about nine years was truncated by a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-seven. His ... Read More

An Analysis of Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet’s Painting Hunting Dogs (1488 words, 2 pages)

Hunting Dogs by Jean-Dsir-Gustave Courbet is the first painting I looked at and I was created in 1867. The painting is oil on canvas and the size of it is 3612 x 58 inch. Courbet paints two dogs and a dead hare in the woods. The woods are becoming dark ... Read More

A Short Biography of Jean Arp (506 words, 1 pages)

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb, once commented Jean Arp--a remarkable twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Shepherdess and Her Flock by Jean Francois Millet (920 words, 2 pages)

The Shepards KeeperThroughout time there has been at least one constant that I am aware of. That constant is art. One particular piece of art stands out and catches the eye. That piece of art is The Shepherdess and Her Flock constructed and perfected by Jean Francois Millet. When one ... Read More

A Biography of Dorothy Jean Dandridge (613 words, 1 pages)

Dorothy Jean Dandridge was born on November 9,1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents (Cyril and Ruby Dandridge) had a troubled marriage, which eventually lead to them going their separate ways. Ruby met the new "love" of her life, a woman, later was much despised by Dottie. She was very domineering ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (847 words, 2 pages)

My Side of the MountainByJean Craighead GeorgeSam Gribley is tired of living in a crowded New York City apartment with his dad,mom and 8 brothers and sisters, so he runs away looking for his Great-grandfather Gribleys land in the Catskill Mountain wilderness. The Gribley land had not been inhabited by ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the One-Act Drama No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (395 words, 1 pages)

No Exit By Jean-Paul SartreSartre's most popular play is undoubtedly the one-act drama No Exit, which is a discussion of such familiar negative existentialist themes as bad faith, self-destruction, and the impossibility of interpersonal relationships. It is in this play that Sartre's famous line, "Hell is other people," occurs. Although ... Read More

Biography and Inventions of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (409 words, 2 pages)

Jean Bernard Leon FoucaultJean Bernard Leon Foucault was a very instrumental scientist in history. Born on the 18th. of September 1819, in Paris. Foucault was born into a fairly wealthy family. As he grew up his father urged him to pursue a career in medicine. Foucault agreed, and began his ... Read More

A Biography of Constructivist Jean Piaget (735 words, 2 pages)

Mark Shaffer22900Jean PiagetJean Piaget grew up in a quiet region of French Switzerland. His father was a professor and his mother was a Calvinist. In 1918 Piaget earned a doctorate in zoology and started studying psychoanalysis. In 1920 he moved to Paris to study children's intelligence. He was fascinated with ... Read More

The Character of Norma Jean in Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason (1191 words, 2 pages)

ENG 113-Essay 1September 28, 2000Shiloh And Norma JeanShiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason represents a change over the course of a young womans life. Bobbie Ann Mason uses Norma Jean to help clarify that relationships can fail and that roles do change in todays relationships. Mason uses the character Norma Jean ... Read More

An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Flies (507 words, 2 pages)

Title The Flies (Les Mouches)Author Jean-Paul SartrePublisher Vintage International Edition, October 1989Genre Dramatic playSetting City of Argos, GreeceMinor charactersAegistheus- He overthrows Agamemnon, makes Clytemnestra his wife and takes rule of Argos. He invents lies in order to make his people fear him. This only proofs that he is poor when ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1122 words, 2 pages)

The Rise to Miss Brodies DemiseMiss Jean Brodie, the protagonist in Muriel Spark's novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), is a character of great influence and arrogant dominance. As a schoolteacher in her prime, she believes she has an abundance of wisdom and knowledge about life's principles that ... Read More

The Role of Personal History and Reminiscence in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1750 words, 3 pages)

What role does personal history and reminiscence play in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?An interesting narrative device of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the manipulation of the time line. The first 5 pages are set in 1936, after which, we are brought back 6 years into the ... Read More

An Analysis of Jean de La Fontaine’s Poem “Le Chene Et Le Roseau” (832 words, 2 pages)

Analysis of Le Chne Et Le RoseauLe Chne Et Le Roseau, a poem by Jean de La Fontaine, shows the contrast of the characters while moralizing about hidden strengths that are often overlooked or belittled. In this poem, the oak is personified as having a stubborn sense of strength, while ... Read More

An Analysis of the Basic Themes of Existentialism in No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (671 words, 1 pages)

In his play, No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre examines basic themes of existentialism through three characters. The first subject, Garcin, embraces existentialist ideas somewhat. The second character, Inez, seems to fully understand ideas deemed existential. Estelle is the third person, and does not seem to understand these ideas well, nor does ... Read More

An Introduction to the Analysis of the Existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre (2518 words, 11 pages)

Jean-Paul Sartre . . . the name is one of the most popular in modern philosophy.But who was he? What did he write and what were his works about? What was hisrole with regard to Existentialism? What is Existentialism, really? What lifeinfluences affected the person as whom he became famous? ... Read More

The Life and Career of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (5378 words, 20 pages)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fascinating individual whose unorthodox ideas andpassionate prose caused a flurry of interest in 18th century France. Rousseau'sgreatest work were published in 1762 -The Social Contract. Rousseau societyitself is an implicit agreement to live together for the good of everyone withindividual equality and freedom. However, people have ... Read More

An Analysis of Religion in Society by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1641 words, 7 pages)

Religion is a component of almost every society. Knowing this, one might look atthe function it serves. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, religion, specifically acivil religion established by the Sovereign, is an instrument of politics thatserves a motivating function. In a new society people are unable to understandthe purpose of the law. ... Read More

A Biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (907 words, 4 pages)

Jean Jacques Rousseau was a very famous french philosopher. He wrote manypopular stories and operas during his life. He was a very smart man who was borninto a disturbed family. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on June 28th,in 1712. Rousseaus mother died while giving birth to him. His ... Read More

The Influence of Jazz on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Stuart Davis (1094 words, 5 pages)

Jazz has been an influence in many artist's work, from painting to other formsof music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed fromAfrican-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920'sand the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that wereinfluenced ... Read More

The Life and Writing Works of Play-writer Jean-Paul Sartre (3305 words, 12 pages)

On of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre hadbeen imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of theleaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus,and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman forthe French Underground ... Read More

A Biography of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot a Landscape Painter (642 words, 3 pages)

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was born inParis on July 16, 1796. His mother managed a fashionable dress shop in Paris onthe Rue du Bac and as a result he spent his first four years with a family nearI'sleAdam, and until 1807 lived in a pension ... Read More

Life of Jean Arp as the Forefather of the Dada and Surrealist Movement (506 words, 3 pages)

Artis a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in itsmother's womb, once commented Jean Arp--a remarkable twentieth-centurysculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada andSurrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, 1887 inStrasbourg, France, where ... Read More

The Story of Jeane’s Life in the Novel “Farewell to Manzanar” (2284 words, 3 pages)

In the novel Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne tells the whole story through her own eyes as she saw it. She is a Japanese American who was born in the states and happens to be the main character and author of this novel. Her father, Ko, had fled from Japan to ... Read More

Life of Jean Toomer as an Important Figure in African-American Literature (331 words, 2 pages)

Carlo A.per. 4Jean ToomerJean Toomer was born into a upper-class African American family ( being that his grandfather, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was a Union officer in the Civil War and became Acting Governor of Louisiana in the Days of Reconstruction) on 1896 in Washington D.C. He showed strength in ... Read More