This essay will highlight some of the aesthetic differences of Indian and Western art, from a technical, stylistic and symbolic point of view. ... One might argue that what inspired this unique and indeed very 'human' depiction of Indian deities based on their personality is their concept of RASA (sentiments) and BHAVA (emotions). ... Stylistically and symbolically, narrative representation of Indian art is also a world away from that of the western world. ... Artists and viewers alike are brought up having similar ebullience in expression and the understanding of the concept of i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What does Beauty mean? ... What is tragic in Dorian's case is that he is initiated too early. ... "And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?... In the very last moments before the tragedy the tempter, Lord Henry, asks the following from Dorian: "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul- which is stylistically a quotation from his enemy. ... In presenting himself as a dazzling spectacle, Wilde was deliberately challenging some of the more puritanical elements of late-Victorian society."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School