antithesis

Examples of antithesis in the following topics:

• Antithesis

  • Antithesis is a counter-proposition that denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.
  • Antithesis is a way to express contrast through direct opposites.
  • Light is the antithesis of dark, heaven is the antithesis of hell, and some would even say that cats are the antithesis of dogs.
  • Antithesis is also a way to describe contrasting ideas or themes: genocide is the antithesis of world peace, for example.
  • Black is the antithesis of white and vice-versa.

• Painting and Sculpture

  • The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen by contemporaries in the Age of Enlightenment as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic aesthetic style.

• Marx and the "Opiate of the Masses"

  • The antithesis to this alienation is freedom.

• Culture-Specific Nuances of Decision-Making

  • The antithesis is essentially 'counter-culture' culture, which dictates the opposite decision-making influence.

• Architecture

  • French Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the nineteenth century and beyond— a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals.

• Revolution in France

  • The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen — in the Age of Enlightenment — as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic.

• Social Impacts of Monopoly

  • In a perfectly competitive market, the antithesis of a monopoly, demand is completely elastic and the production quantity and price point align perfectly with marginal costs and actual costs .

• New Media for Art

  • It therefore tended to be defined as the antithesis to theatre, challenging orthodox art forms and cultural norms.

• The Challenge of Competition

  • Quality is therefore a strong antithesis to the low-cost strategy.

• Jefferson's Agrarian Policy

  • The Jeffersonian conception of the yeoman farmer as the model republican citizen developed under a rising fear that the aggressive Federalist promotion of industry and commerce would lead to the growth of a class of wage laborers dependent on others for income and sustenance (the antithesis of the independent, republican citizen).