O’Brien’s narrative shows that the storyteller has the power to influence his or her listener’s opinions. Much like the way war distorts a soldier’s perceptions of right and wrong, O’Brien’s story warps readers’ perceptions of ugliness and beauty. He writes these fictional stories in order to engage readers and put them into an empathetic mindset bringing them closer to the characters. The significance of a story “comes down to gut instinct. A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe” (74).
‘‘Who’s for the game?’’ is attempting to evoke the opposite to the above; the poem refers to dying in battlefields as glorious and impressive. Here pope has referred to war as a ‘’game’’. The main theme here is trying to convince soldiers and the community that war is nothing to worry about and that it would soon be over. Pope is depicting war as something positive and exiting. The poem
As other novels dishonestly romanticize and glorify war, Heller does the opposite. A main theme Heller tries to convey throughout the novel is that the reality of war is absurd and corrupt, as well as the people involved in war. Although Yossarian is selfish and untrustworthy, Heller slowly shows the reader that these seemingly dislikable characteristics of Yossarian show a type of heroism. As Yossarian evolves, the reader comes to realize that Yossarian’s obsession with preserving his life doesn’t necessarily emphasize his selfishness, but rather the value he puts on life. Throughout most of the novel, the reader follows Yossarian’s quest to escape the war,
Through the use of techniques such as emotive language, motifs, dialogue, story plot, characterisation and dressing of sets, the composers are able to give their personal insight of the forces and therefore are able to persuade the audience in given empathy to their characters. Miller’s young antagonist Abigail Williams is highly driven by the force of belonging to her community of Salem after she jeopardizes her position within it, by rebelling against its strict Puritan ways. Although it is highly difficult to give empathy to ‘something soiled’ and as evil as Abigail, Miller gives Abigail a vocabulary with dark imagery and emotive language, which she uses as a defensive mechanism. Dark imagery such as ‘I have seen reddish works… My dear parents head smashed on the pillow next to mine’ followed by an emotive threat ‘I will make you wish you never saw the sun come up’ is an example of how the force of belonging is driving Abigail to threaten and scare those who dare to cross her. In using this technique, Miller is able to demonstrate how frighten Abigail is of the truth being revealed and being labelled a witch which would make her an
Their roles truly affect the men at war by toying and protecting with their modest minds. Although women are seen as mere objects of symbolism and representation of the men’s truest desires, stories wouldn’t be told without them. They serve the purpose of innocence and meaningful bits and pieces that saved these men in combat. They give a reason for their survival, hopeless romance, and sanity. They are scarcely remembered.
“Love is not so important these days”… “What planet are you from?” love means something different to each character in the play. Discuss In Nowra’s play “Cosi” meaning of love is explored and challenged by the views of different characters. Each character has a clear definition of their personal and distinct understanding of what love and fidelity means. This assists in the notion of love beholding abundance of paradoxical nature. The characters also endorse the importance of love that is practical and realistic, this aspect of the play is illustrated mostly by the mental patients who have issues with distinguishing reality from their illusions.
Wilfred Owen believed he had a duty to tell the truth. How does he tell the truth about war in the poem ‘The Sentry’ Wilfred Owen served in World War One as a second lieutenant, giving him a true taste of war and the horrors it brought along with it. Unlike other war poets, such as Rupert Brooke author of ‘The Soldier’, Owen used his experiences of war and put them into words, rather than idealising war. He never wanted to glorify war or make it out to be something other than the truth. He said his main concern was ‘war and the pity of war’ He felt it was his responsibility as a poet to tell the truth and bring to light to atrocities of modern warfare, in a way others could or would not.
This shows how Viola is prepared to serve Orsino, but the only way she can is to dress and act as a man, since women weren't usually part of the Duke's courts. However this may not be considered backward because she's desperate to get to someone. The fact that she's prepared to go to these lengths to get to Orsino suggests that she has some strong feelings for him, and that's she's merely doing what she needs to do to get to him. The second aspect that could be considered backward is the binary opposites that Shakespeare sets up within Twelfth Night. Binary opposites are where the characteristics of two characters are the complete opposites of everyone.
He uses reason to explain how certain occasions have delayed him rather than blaming himself for backing out on his plans. In both soliloquies Hamlet makes comparisons between himself and other characters. In Act II he compares himself to an actor and in Act IV he compares himself to Fortinbras. In both soliloquies Hamlet uses the comparisons to put himself down for not carrying out his actions. In Act II Hamlet is angry with himself because he doesn't understand how an actor can get so emotional over a speech that he is reading, while Hamlet, who is actually in the real situation, is passive in his emotions, "Is it not monstrous that this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit."
In this part of the book, O’Brien is appalled about what he has done. He begins give an account, in vivid detail, of the Vietnamese man’s life. O’Brien describes the man’s life and how he was a victim of the war, how he only fought in the war because “it was his patriotic duty, which was also a privilege” (pg.121). By describing the man’s life and his attitude toward the war, the reader assumed that O’Brien researched the man to find information about him to use for his book. This made the passage seem real, but in fact it wasn’t.