Eerie, Eldritch Erlkönig Essays -- Goya, Sleep of Reasons Produces Mon

Goyas The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is an ominous plan of the dark vision of humanity. A man sleeps, app arntly peacefully, even though he is besieged by creatures associated in Spanish folk impost with mystery and evil. There is an unhomely feeling of darkness as the brutes seem to resettlement in closer towards to the man that accomplishes a scary environment in the aquatint (a method of etching that creates a rough sketch). A kabbalistic creature sits at the center of the frame, staring not at the dormancy figure, but at us, the viewer. Goya forces the viewer to become an active participant in the painting the monsters of his daydreams even threaten us. This creates a blur between the dream and the rattling populace an obscure boundary between fantasy and reality. As Freud would claim, we are faced with the reality of something that we have until now considered imaginary. This negative feature of feeling, filled with dread and horror, repulsion and anxiety, where t he supernatural becomes a part of putting surface reality, is one of the uncanny. It is a frightening feeling which leads back to something forgotten and lost. comparable to The Sleep of Reason, there is a sense of ambivalence in what is real in Hoffmans tale The Sandman. The uncanniness attaches directly to the figure of the Sandman, which a son believed to be true in his childhood. Hoffman exploits disturbances of the ego that involve regression to measure when the ego had not yet clearly set itself off against the world outside and from others. Freud writes that the uncanny unheimlich is something which is secretly familiar heimlich, which has undergone repression and then returned from it. The music of Schuberts Erlknig dramatizes Goethes haunting poem in an uncann... .... It contained works (from 1800s and 1900s) that were dominated by themes of the uncanny, the inexplicable and the incomprehensible from the 1800 1900s. A spokesperson at the exhibition said, things that are mysterious or inexplicable will always evoke peculiarity and interest.Works CitedFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 17461828) EtchingFreud, Sigmund, David McLintock, and Hugh Haughton. The Uncanny. New York Penguin, 2003. Print.Hoffmann, E. T. A., and Christopher Moncrieff. The Sandman, Surrey. N.p. n.p., n.d. Print.Kerman, Joseph, and Vivian Kerman. Listen. New York, NY Worth, 1980. Print.Gibbs, Christopher H. Komm, Geh Mit Mir Schuberts Uncanny Erlknig 19th-Century practice of medicine 19.2 (1995) 115-35. Print.Stein, Deborah. Schuberts Erlknig Motivic Parallelism and Motivic Transformation. 19th-Century Music 13.2 (1989) 145-58. Print.