Animals Flashcards
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen’s Poster Le Chat Noire:
cats were symbolic of ….. and, more specifically, …. women. The fact that many Parisian cats lived in Montmartre, free of bourgeois domestication, was perceived as a metaphor for modern …., or the refusal of bourgeois social norms of that time.
Bohemia
bohemian
bohemia
Bastet was the goddess of protection, pleasure, and the bringer of good health. Bastet was a …..
cat
In Greco-Roman, deers are either the graceful …. or elegant … of powerful owners.
escorts
victims
A stag is a male ….
The attribute of Artemis/Diana is a stag, and her retribution on …. for accidentally seeing her bathing was to transform him into one so that her hunting dogs could devour him. (Story told in Metamorphoses by Ovid)
deer
Actaeon
Like an excited dog - …. - Man clings to the earth and followed but his own desires
panting
Dog represents …. i.e., marital loyalty - found with the family.
Can also be seen as pariahs like in the Middle East. Book of Revelation 22:15 - they are grouped with the … and …..: ‘outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood’.
fidelity
unclean
benighted
Story of Jonah and the Whale connects …. and ….
Fish
Rebirth
Story of Jonah interpreted as …. and …. ….
redemption
spiritual rejuvenation
Lions act as …. and symbol of …
Quran: using the lion, it illustrates the extent of fear from the …., that they flee from it and from the remembrance of Allah and the Quran, as if “Fleeing from a lion?” (Quran 74:51).
guardian
authority
truth
Lions act as …. and symbol of ….
guardian
authority
Beethoven Frieze is a homage to the highest of human achievement: the music of Ludwig van Beethoven - Allegorical narrative of humanity journeying from …. to …., under the protection of a questing knight.
Typhon depicted as an ….
suffering
enlightenment
ape
In western art, monkeys are an allegory of mimicry, vanity or lust.
Allah made the sabbath breakers into monkeys and swines - a slave of their …. …. like animals who are deprived of intellect and follow whatever their immediate urges require them to follow.
lower desires
Horses revolutionised humans’ capacity to travel at speed, herd livestock, transport goods, hunt and fight. Likely accounts for horse’s innate …. and symbolic ….
prestige
power
