I don’t think Nora and Torvald seem to share an equal partnership in their marriage. Their marriage demonstrates the most typical marriage in 1800s of the Europe. Their unequal partnership can be seen from how Torvald called Nora’s name. It is notable that throughout the whole story, Torvald always called Nora in a list of pet names. For example, “my little skylark”, “my little squirrel”, “My pretty little pet”, “My little singing bird”, “My little sweet-tooth”, “My poor little Nora”.
Opportunity isn’t a tangible item that you can pocket and save for later, it comes around once in a lifetime. When the speaker addresses the “virgins” in, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” by Robert Herrick, he uses visual imagery, an extended metaphor, and personification to express his optimistic outlook towards the idea of seizing opportunity, or “Carpe Diem.” In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To his Coy Mistress,” the speaker describes the same subject, namely that life should be lived to its fullest but through a contrasting perspective of pessimism. that the listener isn’t living their life to the fullest. Through the use of auditory imagery and allusions, Marvell is able to portray his pessimistic attitude that one must seize every opportunity to live life to the fullest because it life can end any minute. Both poems address the idea of seizing opportunity and living life to its fullest, but from different perspectives – one positive and optimistic, one negative through pessimism.
Devoid of identity everything on this planet would be uniform and cause the boredom of the century this will deprive the world of ever having a joy and passion for life. The texts that validate and prove my analysis that identity is the key component of life are: 1) “Portrait”, the themes of identity that portrait provides are the effect of time on identity, change of identity, and that the identity of a person is his image. 2) “Nobody Calls Me a Wog, Anymore”, the themes that this poem expresses about identity are diversity of identity, the identity’s passion for equality treatment despite of differences, and respect. 3) “Happy Endings”, written by Margaret Atwood, explores identity through freedom, choice, and destiny of and identity. 4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity.
At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." --God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Vonnegut tells it like it is, which is why I’m so often moved by his darkly humorous observations of human nature and why he’s my favorite author. He doesn’t speak unnecessarily; his words are precise and cutting, but still send the message, “this is what’s wrong in society, but there is something you can do about it”. The core message of the selected quote is that kindness and goodness is no longer a privilege.
Острошапкина О. Long walk to forever by Kurt Vonnegut. One can get the gist of this story in just a few words: a man and a woman who have been known each other (have known each other?) from the childhood reveal their feelings too late, only when the girl is going to get married to another guy. The theme is, of course, love, not the ordinary one, but the blind, if we can say so.
It can be translated in different ways through the time. “Conjoined” (1891) by Judith Minty is a blank verse poem which uses a lot of metaphors that describe a broken relationship ; the poem gives you a feeling of a general unhappiness. In contrast, « My Dear and Loving Husband » (1678) by Anne Bradstreet, is a true declaration of love. The poet talks about her husband, celebrating their unity and stating that there is no other woman in the world who is as happy with her husband as she is. The two poems give two competing visions of marriage.
We only have 0ne life, unless of we believe in incarnation.....then we have more than one life. But shouldn't we live life to its fullest? Shouldn't we embrace every moment, even if that moment doesn't turn out so good? When you're lying on your death bed, wouldn't you rather want to be able to say "yea, I had fun, made some mistakes, but I don't regret it, I got to experience just about everything I wanted too." instead of "yea, i regret never going on a cruise or telling my sister how I really felt.
You never know how something will end; you must always wait it out till the end. I believe in the saying “it’s not over till the fat lady sings” because it’s true. It’s not ever over till it’s over. I think more people should go with my way of thinking because, it demonstrates a good work ethic. If people don’t wait things out till the end then it might have gone there way in the end but they will never know because they gave up to early.
the short story, " Long walk to forever ", Kurt Vonnegut Jr places many ironic situations that are apparent to the reader. Throughout the story, us readers are able to perceive the love between Newt and Catherine as blind, ever since childhood, up to one week before Catherine's wedding. One can evaluate the rekindle of their love and their true emotions. Many ironic situations unfold as the story proceeds and clues are given in conclusion of the two character's finalized happily ever after. During their childhood, Vonnegut states that there was never any talk of love, just a playful and comfortable warmth between the two.
A comparison of the way language is used in P.S.F.M.M and Born Yesterday. Praise song for my mother and Born Yesterday are two closely related yet contrasting poems; They both talk of loved relatives, however in Grace Nichols' poem she talks of her deceased mother in an uplifting positive manner whereas Philip Larkin talks of his newborn niece in a plain yet hopeful fashion. The poems start in different ways, with Larkin addressing the newborn child "tightly folded bud" and Nichols starting without introduction "You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming"; the metaphor "tightly folded bud" is used to show that this newborn infant has not grown any personality or features that would affect her, so it seems that Larkin uses this as a blank slate so he can imprint what he wants onto the child. Larkin continues on to say "I have wished you something none of the others would" he uses this as a pretence (as if he is preparing her for the unconventional blessing) to what he is going to say about the child. Nichols uses a essential of life "water" to introduce what the poem will be like: her describing how much Nichols needed her.