The Surrealist Movement was a creative effort to established a new style. Prominent figures and influencers during this twentieth-century movement were Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, André Breton, and Max Ernest (Dickerson 213). As a way to diverge from previous writing and artistic norms, artists began to use the idea of the unconscious mind as a way to better exemplify one's own imagination and mind. In the works "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, each uses the idea of the unconscious mind in which alludes to aspects of Surrealism through the setting, tone, and the use of motifs. Surrealism changed the creative style for many artists, but for Salvador Dali surrealism better explained
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In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the story illustrates the absurd murder of the old man. The narrator try justifies why he killed the old man by stating, "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." Although the narrator was frightened by the eye of the old man, his reasoning is ill-justified, and therefore the murder of the old man shows his deprived mind. The theme based on "The Tell-Tale Heart" shows the "self-destruction through extreme subjectivity marked paradoxically by both an excess of sensitivity and temporal solipsism" (Robinson). This subjectivity seen through the death of the old man exemplifies the idea of Surrealism in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Furthermore, Sigmund Freud states that surrealism does not have define lines to its style but in fact any art with a subject about the mind and a specify about subjectivity, said to have some surreal influence (Bradley 74). Therefore, this directly connects the motif of death in "The Tell-Tale Heart" to Surrealism. In The Persistence of Memory the clocks not only illustrates the fragmentation of time, but also shows the motif of death. The painting shows ants on top of one of the clocks and the use of the ants shows how time is decaying. Furthermore, the decay of time shows impending death ("Salvador Dali Biography") The unrecognizable animal shows the motif of death because of the lifeless characteristics given to
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the story illustrates the absurd murder of the old man. The narrator try justifies why he killed the old man by stating, "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." Although the narrator was frightened by the eye of the old man, his reasoning is ill-justified, and therefore the murder of the old man shows his deprived mind. The theme based on "The Tell-Tale Heart" shows the "self-destruction through extreme subjectivity marked paradoxically by both an excess of sensitivity and temporal solipsism" (Robinson). This subjectivity seen through the death of the old man exemplifies the idea of Surrealism in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Furthermore, Sigmund Freud states that surrealism does not have define lines to its style but in fact any art with a subject about the mind and a specify about subjectivity, said to have some surreal influence (Bradley 74). Therefore, this directly connects the motif of death in "The Tell-Tale Heart" to Surrealism. In The Persistence of Memory the clocks not only illustrates the fragmentation of time, but also shows the motif of death. The painting shows ants on top of one of the clocks and the use of the ants shows how time is decaying. Furthermore, the decay of time shows impending death ("Salvador Dali Biography") The unrecognizable animal shows the motif of death because of the lifeless characteristics given to