Capitalist imagery is a key symbol used by John Cooper Clarke to describe his love for the recipient of this poem whilst also satirising the modern age of Britain: “I wanna be your vacuum cleaner Breathing in your dust” The poet, by saying that he wishes to be the recipients “vacuum cleaner” automatically brings a homely and domestic image to the readers mind, perhaps suggesting that he is longing for a life and a home together with the addressee. This makes it a very useful symbol for Cooper Clarke as he uses it to express the profundity of his love. This is supported by the alliteration of the soft ‘c’ sound in the line, insinuating a feeling of comfort and security for the couple. As a modern audience, this is the image that is brought to mind for us but in terms of the context of production and Cooper Clarke’s punk audience in the 1970’s, this line would have brought a different feeling to light. A “vacuum cleaner” would be seen as symbol for capitalist society and the ideal of normality that Cooper Clarke’s audience would be fighting by dressing as they did or listening to the music and poetry that they did.
Khaled Hosseini once said that “humans find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.”In A Tale of Two Cities, this plays especially true concerning the connections between all the characters. While helping others with little regard to their own condition, each character adds value to their own lives in various ways. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens exemplifies the theme that self-sacrifice achieves redemption through the characters of Charles Darnay, Doctor Manette, and Sydney Carton. Charles Darnay risks himself to save Gabelle during the French revolution despite of the tremendous danger. For much of his life, Darnay feels his family, the Evremondes’, “have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong” (Dickens 117) and “[injured] every human creature who came between [them] and [their] pleasure” (Dickens 117).
The writer then contradicts this with the description ‘signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes’ which suggests to the reader that Gatsby has been over thinking and almost obsessed about this meeting. As well as this the writer suggest to the reader about how much Gatsby cares about appearance ‘I want to get the grass cut’ – it seems Gatsby believes everything must be perfect for Daisy. Yet the reader begins to doubt that all this extravagance is the real Gatsby as the reader discovers his ‘bedroom was the simplest room of all’. The bedroom is somewhere of security and is meant to reflect the person’s personality, in the end Gatsby like his room is the man without all his
It was meant to represent the cage in which Brick had trapped himself in when he started drinking alcohol as a coping mechanism instead. The furniture and decor used in the bedroom greatly contributed to the mood of the play. All of the furniture and decor seemed to be tied together using a golden color scheme that created this image of luxury. Everything from the upholstery of the chairs to the doorknobs dripped with wealth and riches. The color scheme helped establish the play’s setting and give insight to the characters in the play.
that the Greeks started to use altering the appearance became a fad for the upper class. Wigs were widely used as well as makeup made from chalk and lead kept in ornate boxes (tragic trannies even back then….). By 500 B.C. when Alexander the great rose to power, his vanity gave birth to what would be the modern salon. Alexander the great kept his hair short and was clean shaven for every battle and insisted that all of his men were clean-shaven as well so that the enemy couldn’t pull on their beards ( but I like my beard pulled…..Meh!).
Holmes goes in to assess a partial remodel or home improvement and starts to take it back apart to figure out what unlicensed poor and incompetent contractors have done. Very often doors don’t fit, drains don’t drain and the electrical doesn’t work. He then proceeds to remodel from the ground up and demonstrate proper repairs to ensure safety. The result unlike Flip This House is a beautiful home a family will appreciate and enjoy after the harrowing experience of the sometimes twenty, fifty and seventy thousand dollar remodel that didn’t get completed
As the narrator walked in while Georgie was mopping the emergency room, he said that the floor looked clean enough to him whereas Georgie was striving and working harder to make the floor look more cleaner. The narrator seems to use drugs just to escape the boredom and hardships from the world whereas Georgie appears to be driven by the need to save lives, even though he harms himself by using drugs. At the beginning of the story, it can be interpreted that the narrator probably didn’t like his job. The narrator started the story off by talking about his job and during the overnight shift, he went looking for Georgie, probably looking for pills as Georgie used to steal pills from the hospital. Another evidence is that the narrator goes off with Georgie’s orange
The museum goes along with Holden’s idea of the perfect world, where everything is infinite, reliable, and simplistic. “Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone” (Holden, 122). The museum also adds to Holden’s depression because he realizes that while everything stays the same there, he is growing older/changing and has no control over it. Holden’s views on the innocence of kids and innocence in general, is greatly altered by the profanity he finds on the walls.
He also lives the ideal “condo-life” with all the perfect IKEA home furnishings. Despite this, he is a depressed, emotionless insomniac deprived of self-happiness due to his repressed masculine insecurities. These masculine insecurities, obtained through a feminine consumer-materialistic culture and lack of a father figure when growing up, are compensated by Jack’s creation of his alter-ego Tyler Durden. Before the creation of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Jack finds a way to cure his insomnia, caused by his suppressed emotions of masculinity, via self-help groups. It is here at these groups that he fakes having deadly diseases in order to cry and releases his emotions.
He would like to have a pair of scissors and cut his hair – cut his filthy hair right back to an inch” A. –pleasurable act , able to choose not to look attractive B. Unlike the other boys, acts civilized and longs for basic human cleanliness C. He thinks his hair is “filthy” suggests that he is digested by it because filthy connotates to dirty or grimy and Ralph is a very hygienic boy so anything dirty he would disapprove D. “Right back” suggests that he wants to completely rid himself of his dirty hairstyle that he has acquired on the island so he doesn’t become uncivilized like the rest of the boys. (The rest of the boys’ hair are long and unkept filled with filth.) 4.