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- 11881: Dead Poets Society 2
- ... if you conform to something, you are just going along to that thing you are conforming to. I think conforming can be good at times, especially if you are trying to adapt yourself into a new environment. But again, you should always be yourself, and do what you think is right, and not what others think is right. You should never go along with what the world around you does or says just to fit in, when you are really going against your principles. As long as you are keeping your principles, and doing what you think is the best, then it ...
- 11882: A Doll House
- ... to fix the situation is to leave Torvald and her children and find herself independently. Slowly Nora’s character is forced to discontinue her inauthentic role of a doll and seek out her individuality, her new authentic identity. She comes to realize that her whole life has been a lie. She lived her life pretending to be the old Nora, and hid the changed woman she had become. The illusion of the old Nora continues well after she becomes a new person. When she realizes that responsibilities for herself are more important, Nora slams the door on not just Torvald but on everything that happened in her past. It took time to evolve into a new person, but after she did she became a person who could not stand to be oppressed by Torvald any longer. Nora says, “I’ve been your wife-doll here, just as at home I ...
- 11883: Does Neo Of The Matrix Fullfil
- ... characteristics, an audience will interpret these characteristics and identify that character as a hero. The first clue to Neo's heroic character is that he is separated from a place of comfort and taken to new surroundings. That is the first step in a hero journey and this happens to Neo when he is taken out of the Matrix. Neo is then initiated and faces unfamiliar circumstances which begin to teach ... will flee from it and that is what he does at the subway station. But as a sage, he transcends his enemy. Finding enlightenment in his deeper self, Neo was able to control his own world and destroyed his enemy. As all hero's must do, he returns to his original home with the reward that he is able to free his people. The character of Neo in The Matrix fulfilled ...
- 11884: Addicted To Love
- ... the sensibilities of the mind. This agony filled state is where Mark’s resides. This theme of unreturned love is as relevant today as it is in Gottfried’s time. Mark’s perception of the world, mentally and even at times physically, is greatly skewed by love’s drunken haze. Broken on the wheel of love, Mark’s heart is tortured until he confesses that Isolde is unfaithful; then just as ... of love whose only objective is that of self preservation. Support for this is found each time that Gottfried turns to parallelism when describing the couple. This use of language signals the birth of a new animal, one that is bent on surviving. Once the libation of love is imbibed, Tristan is Isolde, and Isolde is Tristan. Brangane, through no fault of her own, nearly falls prey to the ravenous beast ...
- 11885: Analyzing The Creek
- ... The most harrowing part of the whole situation was when Andie told him that she was willing to take him back, but since he cannot forgive her, she has planned an alternative course in her "new" life - that doesn't include him. On top of all of that, he has to deal with the fact that his life-long best friend thinks that he stole the test from him. He ends ... what she believes in. She has been "cursed" with an extremely dysfunctional family, and is described by many as the "good girl from the wrong side of the creek." She is determined to show the world that you don't have to be rich or popular to make something of yourself. She has the intelligence and drive to go anywhere she wants to go in life, but the money issue is ...
- 11886: An Analysis Of Jonathan Swift
- ... when later he states their past proposals have miscalculations. This bit of Rogerian serves the purpose of warming up the audience so they get used to agreeing with Swift and having an open mind to new suggestions much like an opening act does for the nights main act. Swift continues to warm up the audience by recognizing that these children are “a charge upon their parents” but more importantly to the ... followed with vivid imagery of immoral acts happening to blacks. This imagery often refers to children. King specifically uses the children because they are often viewed as innocent, not old enough to understand the terrible world that which surrounds them. People often feel empathetic when they see or hear of adult matters affecting children who have had nothing to do with the situation. The feeling being portrayed here exactly matches the ...
- 11887: Decameron
- ... Pericone s possessions. Alatiel is treated like property again when she is on the boat. Two men think that her her love could be shared like merchandise or money (52). Once she gets to a new destination the prince of Morea looks for a way of possessing her (53). He doesn t and can t win her love because they do not speak the same language. However, this doesn t stop ... s care. Their friendship developed and they enjoyed each other most exquisitely between the sheets (58). Alatiel goes from man to man in this story. It doesn t take her long to adjust to a new situation. Antioco dies and Alatiel lives with his best friend. Alatiel and Antioco s friend soon became intimate (59). Alatiel eventually sees someone from her home and tells him of her adventures. This man, Antigono ... of the situation she got herself into. Antigono tells her what to say and she memorizes it all. Alatiel also didn t realize how much she would like having sexual relations with men and this new pleasure allows her to be consoled very easily. The man telling this story may have made Alatiel seem weaker than if a woman were telling this story.
- 11888: The Killing Floor
- ... and alliances with which Frank is making. They feel that the strides he is taking to improve himself i.e., saving money and purchasing a butcher knife, exhibiting real enthusiasm in learning the tricks of new trades, and joining the “white man’s union”, are unnecessary and a blatant demonstration of selling out to the white community. I find myself amazed at how persistent Frank is throughout the course of these events. When he loses his job with the packinghouse and the union can not do anything about it, he still maintains union ties and beliefs, and perseveres in finding a new job. His love and concern for the welfare of his family proved more important then the relationships he is building with other men in the neighborhood. Going against popular opinions to reach for a goal is something that takes a lot of courage to do. He never gives up, re-securing his old job at the packinghouse Frank immediately goes to work on recruiting new migrants from the South into the union. When trouble brews with fellows he works hand in hand with, Frank turns the other cheek because he knows it will do no good to fight them ...
- 11889: Death Of A Salesman - Willys I
- ... for 34 years. He is now 61 years old and his job has been taken off salary and put on commission. He has a family and he boasts to them that he is vital in New England, but in fact he isn t vital anywhere. Willy has many strong beliefs that he strives to achieve. He wants to own his own business and he wants to be bigger than Uncle Charley ... is himself. Willy had great goals (ideals) in practice, but the only thing that he didn t realize is that if he didn t achieve those goals it wouldn t be the end of the world. Willy took it a step to far though, he thought that his life wasn t worth living anymore, therefore Willy Loman was definitely destroyed by his own ideals.
- 11890: Death Of A Sales Man
- ... In the end at Willy's funeral no one, but his family show up to pay their respects. In his sons eyes Willy seemed to be a coward trying to escape the torments of the world, but in truth he was trying to get the $20,000 insurance money so his family could live a happy life. The main conflict in Death of a Salesman deals with the confusion and frustration ... At times, Willy even believes these lies himself. At one point in the play, Willy tells his family of how well-liked he is in all of his towns and how vital he is to New England. Later, however, he tells Linda that no one remembers him and that the people laugh at him behind his back. As this demonstrates, Willy's need to feel well-liked also causes him to ...
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