Maya Lin essays
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Mary Shelley uses Victor Frankenstein’s creation as a warning towards classicism and rational thinking; something past the boundaries of societal and cultural norm. Firstly, Shelley shows this through each victim, namely Elizabeth Lavenza and Henry Clerval who both appreciate nature and its sublimity when Victor fails to do so as the novel progresses. Victor narrates this thought, as he states, “The delight of Clerval was proportionally greater than mine….,” and Clerval exclaims, “I could pass my life here...and among these...
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Architecture is constantly associated with its functional purpose, physical appearance and its amenity. However, maintains a much more inadvertent role which surpasses far beyond the physical and material world in which we live and enters the intangible realm of our existential memory. ’A mental meditation between the world and our consciousness’ . Successful architecture is displayed in the completeness, credibility and the unquestioned prestige of experience. Memory is involved indisputably throughout this, between the space and experiencing person lies an...
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Corresponding to Victor’s initial situation with his creation, Lin faces an outcome of negative criticism and controversy to her virtuous intent. In 1979, Congress grants the committee of Vietnam War veterans the right to build a memorial in Washington D.C., dedicated to American soldiers killed in the Vietnam conflict. A design is put out by the committee convening a blue-ribbon panel of sculptors, architects, and landscape architects to evaluate more than 1,400 submissions. And when the winner is declared, no...
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