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- 20251: Hamlet
- Hamlet The work that I wish to discuss is Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" as a scholarly work in regards to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, which is included in Sven Birket's Literature: The Evolving Canon. I believe that the most important issues in the play are the "psychological issues" involved. How do two relatively unimportant characters in Shakespeare's play interpret what is going on ...
- 20252: Into The Forest
- ... there are small things that differentiate the two girls. For example, Nell, wants to be thrifty, save and preserve the things, while Eva is prepared to use things to get something done, her thinking isn’t of the future but of now. This changes later to some extent when she realises they need these things to survive. An example of this is when they find that they only have four matches ... Alcohol provides some temporary relief, but after a while she thinks that maybe a boyfriend would be better. Nell eventually meets and gets to know Eli, a young man from the Redwood town. From Nell’s account of Eva we see that Eva has a different personality. She appears to be much more self-assured than Nell is. In there own way they seem to be very focused; Nell on here ... are simular in a way, because they are both are striving to achieve something and to make a name for themselves, Nell with her University acceptance and Eva with here professional ballet debut. Eva doesn’t appear to need others like Nell. For example when Nell asks Eva, “Don’t you ever want a boyfriend…” Eva responds with the statement, “what for?” This surprises Nell as she grew up with ...
- 20253: Imagery Of The Supernatural In
- Imagery of the Supernatural in "The Fall of the House of Usher" Edgar Allan Poe's writings are known for their macabre subject matter. In "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe uses the life-like characteristics of an otherwise decaying house as a device for giving the house a ... the gray walls and the turrents, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought upon the morale of his existence" (Perkins, 1515). The narrator is remarking on Usher's strange behavior in the house. Roderick Usher also had a firm belief in the sentience of inorganic matter and he sees the reason for this belief in the atmosphere. Moreover, he states that the atmosphere ... unbalance is obviously being disturbed by his environnment (52). Walker also states, "the narrator leaves the House of Usher with a sense of supernatural fatality accomplished with no natural explanation" (61). Throughout the story, Poe's imagery of the house and the inanimate objects inside serve to give a supernatural atmosphere to the story. By giving inanimate objects almost life-like characteristics, he is giving the house a supernatural quality. ...
- 20254: Iliad
- ... kidnapped Helen for his own selfish interests. Homer uses the contradictions in Paris’ behavior to suggest the ironic contrasts in his character. For example, in line 40, after seeing his formidable opponent Atrides, he “dissolve[s] again in the proud Trojan lines, dreading Atrides—magnificent, brave Paris.” At first glance, he appears very afraid, hardly the hero he is supposed to be. He “dissolves,” as Homer describes it, a verb choice which implies fragmentation of attitude or feeling. It is as if his famed hero’s will were itself disintegrating on the battlefield. Homer uses the epithet “proud” to modify the Trojan lines, an adjective that intensifies the effect of Paris’ action of retreating by mentioning its opposite. Homer further reviles ... deceiving, as Hector implies when he says, “Paris, appalling Paris! Our prince of beauty--/mad for women, you lure them all to ruin!” In this quote, Hector is highlighting Paris’ ability to ruin virtually everyone’s future. After all, Hector’s comment suggests, he is not only an unrepentant heartbreaker, but also a self-centered catalyst for the war. Hector specifically describes Paris as “appalling” and, in another ironic twist, ...
- 20255: Criticism Of Brave New World
- ... give physical as well as visual and aural delight. Spearmint gum has given way to sex hormone chewing gum. Speaking about sex, causal sex is something that everyone participates in. In fact, in you don t your peers look down on you and think that something is wrong with you. The population eats grammes of soma, a non-hangover-producing substitute for rum, daily; they take away the blues. God has been dissolved into Ford, and his book "My Life and Work" has become the new Bible. Most shocking, church-like ceremonies are replaced with orgies. Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's predictions of the result of a completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by systematic conditioning, regular doses of chemically induced happiness, and nightly courses of sleep teaching. This book made me question reality. The whole time I read the book, I wondered if the world could ever survive like that. In today's society, we believe that prosperity is more important that happiness. Aldous Huxley's ideas contradict this opinion in his exciting novel Brave New World.
- 20256: Bartleby: "I prefer not to,"
- ... changes into a caring person, and tries to know Bartleby, and his odd ways, even going the extra yard to help him. In the end, the narrator tries to save Bartleby from his doing, Bartleby's undoing, Bartleby's isolation. In conclusion, in real life, the strange are always isolated from the normal. During the 1950's and 1960's, blacks were isolated, or segregated, from society. Now, many people are isolated: retarded, ugly, "uncool," the deformed, and people with contagious, deadly diseases. In Bartleby's time, the strange were looked ...
- 20257: Character Analysis Of Falconer
- In the novel Falconer, by John Cheever, the main character, Farragut, is motivated by the wish to escape from an unpleasant world. In the "Overview" of John Cheever, it says, "Cheever's world commonly portrays individuals in conflict with their communities and often with themselves." In this novel, Farragut is sent to Falconer prison for murdering his brother, and has to deal with the confinement and withdrawal ... with his loneliness from the outside world. He tries to solve this problem by engaging in a homosexual relationship. Even though Cheever does not judge his characters, he treats them with understanding and compassion. Cheever's characters are uncertain in their desires, so the stories themselves are unclear, presenting no clear resolution ("Overview" N. Pag.). Finally, at the end, Farragut miraculously escapes from prison, and the unpleasant world he was living in. Farragut's actions tend to add emotional tension to the novel. The novel reminds us that man has always had to face new and inhospitable environments, and that change, with its accompanying reactions of surprise and ...
- 20258: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Nature
- ... not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot or killed another person. At a spiritual level, Nature's power can decide if we will live, or be condemned. Nature is capable of presenting "innermost suffering" (Coburn 33) upon people. The mariner's suffering included having his "soul in agony" soon afterwards. After attempts at prayer and realization of what he has done - "I looked to heaven and tried to pray", his penance to forgiveness begins spiritually. The mariner releases the weight of the crime greatly at the "moment he could pray". "The albatross around the mariner's neck was an emblem of an inner state" (Fraser 204), as it "fell off and sank", the mariner was forgiven. Guilt follows many of us throughout our lives today as we do brash things ...
- 20259: Civ. And Its Discontents And G
- ... and Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. Throughout Gilgamesh the character Enkidu is portrayed as an easygoing creature who has an overwhelming sense of freedom in his everyday life. This is comparable to Freud's understanding of the "oceanic feeling" which is "a sensation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded the source of religious energy" ( Freud 11). Also, Freud presents a concept involving the feeling of freedom when he talks about the libido. He speaks of its ability to make a man and woman happy and how it is the ultimate free feeling. This idea is parallel to Enkidu's experience with the prostitute in Gilgamesh, giving him a whole new idea of his body and feelings. This is a different kind of freedom, sexual freedom. This sexual freedom can also be described as a ... two friends sharing some common journey not needing to speak but just continue" (Freud 17). This shows how the animals make living a religious experience for Enkidu. This excerpt from Gilgamesh is similar to Freud's understanding of the 'oceanic feeling'. The oceanic feeling as described by Freud "is a feeling of something limitless, unbounded the source of religious energy one may rightly call oneself religious on the ground of ...
- 20260: Comparison Of The Swimmer And
- ... The Swimmer the first stanza reads opening the spray corollas which also means the blooming of flowers or plants. This similarity is very strong, as it helps to paint the same picture in the reader s head. Both describe a very beautiful scene of nature involving the blossoming of a plant, perhaps reflecting the changes the character might go through. However, there is one fact that distinguishes the imagery in Lone ... of poetic devices such as similes and word choice are both mastered by these two poets. In some cases, it seems as if the two are trying to make their points distinct from each other s. In the case of word choice, A.M. Klein chooses to dwell on a more positive side, with Layton taking the negative. Proof of this is found in Lone Bather : swims fancy and gay ....under ... reference to animals, and how the character either becomes one or acts like one. In Lone Bather the character becomes a dolphin, then a bird, while in The Swimmer Layton makes reference to the swimmer s snake heads strike and later goes on to where his blood sings to the tiger shadows. As often in poetry, when writing about the forming or creating of life, as I believe is the ...
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