In the third stanza Kröte is playing purposely to bore the audience, who he knows cannot appreciate what he is playing. The use of the word ‘blur’ shows this, as the audience perceives Kröte’s playing as incomprehensible. The word 'blur' also illustrates how deceiving Kröte is and how ignorant the audience is, as he can ingeniously cover up a mistake with a 'dubious trill'. Having the fourth stanza begin with ‘of something better left alone’ also emphasises how the audience is not willing to discuss and evaluate the music, lest they reveal their ignorance of it. Harwood then says ‘They suffer’, emphasised by the short syntax.
The Ignorance was that Ray needed those schedules or he will have a fit. The Story Of Mice and Men and the movie “Rain man” both are examples of lack of knowledge towards mentally challenged. This resulted in anger at ignorance of mentally challenged, dependent needs required and mistakes made. This is all because people were ignorant and selfish and lacked knowledge of their friend or
He was sad because he was forbidden to play music after he broke the rules. Christian was placed back into normal society knowing that he would be “punished drastically” if he ever attempted to play music again. He lives miserably as he passes instruments daily and finally his temptation overpowers. He eliminates the clasps of control and plays freely. It’s described as, “The piano was played as pianos aren’t meant to be played; the bad notes, the out-of-tune notes were fit into the music so that they sounded right, and Christ’s fingers, ignoring the strictures of the twelve-tone scale, played, it seemed to Joe, in the cracks.” This is symbolism to the theme, even though he wasn’t supposed to be playing, he denied the petty laws of his land and soaked in the
Essay 3: ‘Maestro illustrates the impossibility of escaping the past.’ To what extent do you agree? Essay 4: ‘Maestro’s protagonists are too deeply flawed to be sympathetic.’ Discuss. Essay 5: ‘All of the characters in Maestro experience loneliness and displacement.’ Discuss. Essay 6: ‘The reader, in the end, sees Paul and Keller both as egotists and as equally unattractive characters.’ Do you agree? Essay 7: ‘Keller was bad for me, the worst possible teacher: revealing perfection to me, and at the same time snatching it away.’ Is Paul’s assessment of Keller correct?
In defiance of Keller’s instruction when Keller asks Paul to practice one piece instead he prepares two; he is hurt by the implication that he is not as good as he thinks he is or that Keller dismisses his talent in saying, ‘perhaps there can be no perfection’ which Paul responds to be ‘ignoring his advice,’ playing, ‘till his hands ached.’ Paul’s insensibility, which the author uses to render Keller’s teaching less efficacious is shown in the scene where Keller tries to inform Paul about his past and Paul is at first too insensitive, probing too deeply by asking Keller ‘Why didn’t you [leave]?’ and later during the confession Keller paternally hopes will benefit Paul, his interest is not sufficient to miss his rendezvous with Rosie. The context of Darwin’s steamy sexuality fuels his love for romantic music, something Keller no longer has any interest in. He is encountering sexuality and he loves Keller’s passionate rendition of Wagner’s Tristan from which he describes as ‘wonderful’ yet which Keller dismisses as ‘cheap tricks’. It is this sexual awakening that makes Paul ‘increasingly impervious to [Keller’s] criticism’ and though Keller’s brilliance is evident and the scathing eccentric teaching style as relevant as ever, Paul becomes less able to appreciate it.
In “Harrison Bergeron” Harrison is not content and rebels against the society. He tries to remove the handicaps off of the people at the ballerina performance. In Brave New World, Bernard and John are not completely satisfied with Brave New World. Bernard rejects Soma and is more of the reclusive type as John does not like the concept of Brave New World altogether. As both stories have people on the same basis, an ex officio controlling the affairs of the people, and at least one unsatisfied person, one must come to the conclusion that the stories of “Harrison Bergeron” and Brave New World have many
Myrtle Wilson is ashamed of her social position in life because she is poor. First off, when she is with Tom, (which is wrong in the first place) she is lifted of her under-class blemishes, even though Tom has abused her. When Tom and Nick go into town to the apartment party, Nick states, “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”(37). It is never okay no matter what situation a person is in to hit a woman. Tom is so arrogant that he thinks he can do whatever he wants.
In the play ‘Educating Rita’ cruelty and cynicism feature a great deal. One of the main characters, Frank, is cynical. Frank’s personality portrays him as a miserable old man who cannot see the good in anybody, including Rita. For example, Frank thinks that Rita is only trying to change herself because it will look good to others when they meet her rather than seeing that she is really trying to change her life for the better, not for selfish reasons. When Frank is on the phone to Julia he refers to Rita as “some silly woman” and this portrays him to be cynical because even though he has never met Rita he is already making assumptions about her in a negative manner.
Again this presents the idea of being the unreliable narrator as he fails to perceive the sinister way of Heathcliff’s living. As an audience a feeling of mistrust and even dislike is built for Lockwood as he constantly misjudges events, which could even evoke frustration from the audience as his complete incompetence and lack of understanding immediately allows him to fall out of favour with Heathcliff, and furthermore presents his clumsy character. In addition to this, Lockwood also misreads Heathcliff is by being totally unaware of his body language: ‘my heart warmed..when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously’ this quotations presents how Lockwood is completely oblivious to the recluse body language of Heathcliff, which strongly suggests he is uncomfortable in Lockwood’s presence. Furthermore, the fact that his ‘heart warmed’ when seeing Heathcliff react so strangely to
Dorian develops a fear of aging so he tries to live his life as if it was his last day on earth. He gets carried away and practically addicts to pleasure; his unconventional actions result in him feeling guilty and miserably. The attempts to fix his mistakes prove to make the situation even worse. It isn’t Dorian’s fault that he turns out the way he does –a pleasure seeking and self-conscious maniac, in turn showing the readers that his actions are practical. Basil, a painter, paints a portrait of Dorian which changes for the worse every time Dorian does something selfish.