Difference between revisions of "Pan pipes"

From Conservapedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Reverted edits by CaitSith (Talk); changed back to last version by Dpbsmith)
Line 1: Line 1:
−
'''Final Fantasy VII''' is a best selling RPG for the Sony Playstation. Despite being a best seller the game is filled with highly offensive material. For one it features a hockey team named the AVALANCHE who are also a terrorist group. They blow up a coal power plant but justify it by saying they are helping the environment. The game is also filled with profanity especially from Cid and Barrett (who bears a strong resemblence to Mr. T). The game was also critcized harshly because of the sexual liasons of the main character Cloud Strife. He has relations with three girls in the course of the game including a 16 year old Japenese girl named Yuffie.
+
'''Pan pipes''' are an ancient musical instrument consisting of a set of pipes of different lengths, each of which plays a single note. The pipes are closed at the bottom end and have no fingering holes. They are played by blowing across the open end of the pipe, rather like sounding a note on a jug or pop bottle.  
−
==Characters==
+
 
−
===Cloud===
+
The earliest depictions of the instrument are on 5th or 6th century BC bronze urns from north east Italy.
−
The main protagonist of the game. Once a member of the US marines, now heads an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche
+
 
−
===Barrett (aka Mr. T)===
+
Variations on the pan pipes are found in many parts of the world. As a folk instrument it ranges from the Balkans to Burma, China and parts of Oceania. It is popular in the Andean music of Peru and Chile. In recent years the pan pipes were popularized by the Romanian musician Zamfir. In the U. S., its greatest foray into popular music came with the Simon and Garfunkel song, "El Condor Pasa"; and it is prominent in the folk mass, "Missa Criole" by the Argentinian, Ariel Ramirez.
−
An African-American man who is second in command in Avalanche to Cloud. Has an adopted white daughter named Marlene. Shows love and affection to her, one of the few redeeming qualities of this highly offensive game.
+
 
−
===Tifa===
+
==In literature==
−
Cloud's gf from his childhood. Flashbacks show Tifa and Cloud engaging in sexual acts as early as age 12. This part of the game as been highly criticized
+
In Greek mythology, Pan, the goatlike god of Nature, is in love with the nymph Syrinx, who does not love him. He chases her, but river nymphs help her escape by changing Syrinx into river reeds. Pan makes his pipes out of the reeds. Pan pipes are also known as the ''Syrinx,'' which is also the name given to the sound-producing organ in birds.
−
===Aeris===
+
 
−
Another one of Cloud's love interests. Cloud steals Aeris' virginity. To be fair though, Cloud does show genuine affection towards her and becomes extremely upset when she is brutally murdered by Sephiroth.
+
[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]]'s poem, ''A Musical Instrument,'' uses the mythical pipes of Pan as a metaphor, suggesting that great art is produced only at great personal cost to the artist. In the poem, Browning says, Pan creates his musical instrument only by muddying the river, killing lilies and driving away the dragonflies as he tears out a reed. He then "hack'd and hew'd" at the reed, "drew the pith, like the heart of a man" and "notch'd the poor dry empty thing in holes." The experiment is successful; the last two stanzas read
−
===Cid Jefferson===
+
 
−
Owner of the Jefferson Airplane, an aircraft you can use to fly all over the world. Joins your group after he is offered a night with Yuffie and a 12 pack of Blue.
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!<br>
−
===Vince the Pince===
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Piercing sweet by the river!<br>
−
A mysterious man who has been locked in the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim for 30 years. He has been crygenically frozen so he still resembes a 27 year old man. Shoots people with his Colt 45.
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!<br>
−
===Cait Sith===
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;The sun on the hill forgot to die,<br>
−
A puppett controlled by a 40 year old virgin who works in an office in Midgar. Turns out to be a mole for Shinra but later joins the cause of AVALANCHE
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly<br>
−
===Yuffie Kisagari===
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Came back to dream on the river.<br>
−
An attractive Japenese teenager. She has a passionate affair with Cloud Strife and also has relations with Cid (she only slept with Cid so the crew would get access to the Jefferson Airplane). She was kidnapped and molested by Don Corleone in Tokyo but was rescued before Corleone could have intercourse with her.]
+
 
−
===Red CXIX===
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet half a beast is the great god Pan,<br>
−
Cloud's pet dog. A loyal companion with a gentle temperment, Red is probably the most moral individual in the game (sad to say because he is not even human). He shows affection to all he meets especially children.
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To laugh as he sits by the river,<br>
−
===Sephiroth===
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;Making a poet out of a man:<br>
−
A highly dangerous psychopath with superhuman strength. He is also a leader of a dangerous cult known as Jenova's Witnesses. He is the main antagonist of the game and brutally murders Aeris in the Canadian Rockies.
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;The true gods sigh for the cost and pain&mdash;<br>
−
==Criticisms==
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;For the reed which grows nevermore again<br>
−
Although from a commercial standpoint Final Fantasy VII was highly successful, it has been criticized by a variety of both liberal and conservative groups including Christian groups, women's groups, and minority groups.
+
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As a reed with the reeds of the river.<br>
−
===Christian Criticisms===
+
 
−
Although the game does not mock Christianity or make any references to God or Jesus, the game does violate Christian values. On one hand, Cloud does show genuine affection to his friends and lovers and Barrett is shown to have a good relationship to his daughter but the game is fraught with moral relativism. The protagonists of the game are eco-terrorists who although their cause may be noble, their methods are brutal and repugnant and their actions kill innocent civilians. Although their renounce terror later in the game, this does not excuse their actions. Also sex is trivalized in the game. Instead of being the ultimate act of intimacy between a man and his wife; Cloud has relations with three unmarried young women, one of whom is still a teenager. Although the acts were depicted as consensual, this does not send a good message to young impressionable children and teens.
+
==External links==
−
===Women's Rights Group Criticisms===
+
*[http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-music-1.htm A Musical Instrument] Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, online
−
Ironically, many women's rights groups share some of the same complaints as Christian groups. Despite often being at odds with each other, feminists and Christians find some common ground in their opposition to this game. Women's groups find the way sex is trivalized to be highly offensive as well as the fact that the girls in the game are sometimes treated as sex objects by the other characters. The fact that a 16 year old is depicted in sexual acts with an older man (Cloud is 21 years old) has also been harshly criticized.
+
 
−
===Minority Rights Group Criticisms===
+
[[Category:Musical Instrument]]
−
Both Japanese and African-American groups have been highly outraged by the stereotypical portrayal of Japenase and African American characters. Barrett is depicted as loud, hot-headed and prone to violence, reinforcing the stereotype of black gang members. Yuffie is portrayed as a nymphomaniac which perpetuates the stereotype that Japanese women are merely the playthings of Western men.
 

Revision as of 03:02, June 23, 2007

Pan pipes are an ancient musical instrument consisting of a set of pipes of different lengths, each of which plays a single note. The pipes are closed at the bottom end and have no fingering holes. They are played by blowing across the open end of the pipe, rather like sounding a note on a jug or pop bottle.

The earliest depictions of the instrument are on 5th or 6th century BC bronze urns from north east Italy.

Variations on the pan pipes are found in many parts of the world. As a folk instrument it ranges from the Balkans to Burma, China and parts of Oceania. It is popular in the Andean music of Peru and Chile. In recent years the pan pipes were popularized by the Romanian musician Zamfir. In the U. S., its greatest foray into popular music came with the Simon and Garfunkel song, "El Condor Pasa"; and it is prominent in the folk mass, "Missa Criole" by the Argentinian, Ariel Ramirez.

In literature

In Greek mythology, Pan, the goatlike god of Nature, is in love with the nymph Syrinx, who does not love him. He chases her, but river nymphs help her escape by changing Syrinx into river reeds. Pan makes his pipes out of the reeds. Pan pipes are also known as the Syrinx, which is also the name given to the sound-producing organ in birds.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, A Musical Instrument, uses the mythical pipes of Pan as a metaphor, suggesting that great art is produced only at great personal cost to the artist. In the poem, Browning says, Pan creates his musical instrument only by muddying the river, killing lilies and driving away the dragonflies as he tears out a reed. He then "hack'd and hew'd" at the reed, "drew the pith, like the heart of a man" and "notch'd the poor dry empty thing in holes." The experiment is successful; the last two stanzas read

  Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!
    Piercing sweet by the river!
  Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
  The sun on the hill forgot to die,
  And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly
    Came back to dream on the river.

  Yet half a beast is the great god Pan,
    To laugh as he sits by the river,
  Making a poet out of a man:
  The true gods sigh for the cost and pain—
  For the reed which grows nevermore again
    As a reed with the reeds of the river.

External links

Retrieved from "https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Pan_pipes&oldid=205989"