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Berger's "Ways Of Seeing"
638 Words - 3 Pages.... the scope of your understanding.
When looking at an object your mind automatically processes an interpretation of its significance. "The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe." When an image is presented one reflects on their beliefs or prior knowledge causing a sudden blindness to occur. You only see what you choose to look at. By referring to your ideals you ultimately lose the reality of the entire image. For example a person walking down the street sees a homeless person begging for money to get food. He walks away without helping the man as he reminisces about trickery by a beggar in the past. He acted on prior knowledge of past occurr ....
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Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
1553 Words - 6 Pages.... that this was all that the American Dream was about. Is this why NAFTA went through so easily or why Cuba antagonizes so many? It is such a paradox, yet there are ultimately American, like fast food stands and Reganomics. Like I said, fascinating.
"I hold the future to you and all that pass through."() This is engraved on the entrance of Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It has been a welcoming to millions of hopeful immigrants coming to America. They search for a dream. The American dream. What is this dream that so many came looking for? The American dream is believed to be freedom, success, opportunity, perseverance, equality, justice, and safety for all. (). A c ....
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Hamlet - Characters And Plot
811 Words - 3 Pages.... Gertrude is Claudius("Nay, I know not: is it the King?" Act 3, Scene 4 line 28). Consequently, Hamlet consumed with rage automatically thrusts out attempting to kill Claudius, but instead strikes Polonius. Hamlet's and Laertes's imprudent actions are incited by fury and frustration. Sudden anger prompts both Hamlet and Laertes to act spontaneously, giving little thought to the consequences of their actions.
Hamlet and Laertes share a different but deep love and concern for Ophelia. Before his departure for France Laertes provides lengthy advice to Ophelia pertaining to her relationship with Hamlet. Laertes voices his concern of Hamlet's true intentions towards Ophelia an ....
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No Mans An Island
537 Words - 2 Pages.... or poor you are, educated or not, we are all part of civilization and we all have something to contribute. If a human being loses an arm or a leg he is less capable of functioning within his normal bounds therefore affecting the whole body. The same goes if an individual perishes, he is no longer able to contribute to the whole and society suffers. I actually found this piece kind of ironic, John Donne speaks of togetherness yet probably about the same time Europeans were discovering other parts of the world and exploiting and killing the inhabitants of these lands.
Chief Dan George writes about an age where everything was innocent and beautiful. Where his people look ....
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Trifles And Suppressed Desires
1915 Words - 7 Pages.... in disorder with unwashed dishes, a dirty dishtowel and a loaf of bread sitting out. The scene gives the impression of a lonely household with little attention having been paid to cleaning up either recently or ever.
Mrs. Wright is placed in the kitchen in her rocking chair but does not speak during the production. She gives off much information by her expressions used throughout the play. I have read that in the original transcript of the play, the key characters never appear on stage. I believe seeing her gives a major impact to the setting. It helps the audience see the people surrounding the mystery. Even though she does not utter a word, her expressions help tel ....
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How Does Shakespeare Use Hamle
1201 Words - 5 Pages.... the world as an ‘unneeded garden’, ‘rank in nature’. In the first soliloquy and the third, Hamlet is particularly nihilistic. In the first he says;
‘Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve into a dew!’
He clearly has suicidal tendencies, which crop up again in the third soliloquy;
‘When he himself his quietus make
With a bare bodkin’
Clearly, Hamlet is unhappy, but it may be because he has too little to do (He is briefly happy when things take his mind off his problems - e.g. when the players arrive - but even this, on reflection, leads to more soul searching in a soliloquy). Other aspects of Hamlet& ....
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Jane Eyre
4839 Words - 18 Pages.... Thornfield Manor, Moor House, and Ferndean Manor. As she grows, however, as she is her own shoulder to lean on in her times of need, Jane slowly learns how to understand and control repression. Jane's journey begins at Gateshead Hall. Mrs. Reed, Jane's aunt and guardian, serves as the biased arbitrator of the rivalries that constantly occur between Jane and John Reed. John emerges as the dominant male figure at Gateshead. He insists that Jane concedes to him and serve him at all times, threatening her with mental and physical abuse. Mrs. Reed condones John's conduct and sees him as the victim. Jane's rebellion against Mrs. Reed represents a realization that she do ....
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Imagery In Macbeth
556 Words - 3 Pages.... thought of as garments to be worn; likewise, Macbeth is constantly represented symbolically as the wearer of robes not belonging to him. He is wearing an "undeserved dignity." A crucial point in describing the purpose of clothing in 'Macbeth' is the fact that these are not his garments. Therefore, Macbeth is uncomfortable in them because he is continually conscious of the fact that they do not belong to him. In the following passage, the idea constantly recurs that Macbeth's new honours sit ill upon him, like a loose and badly fitting garment, belonging to someone else:
New honours come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould,
But with the aid of use. ....
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