Robert the blind man asks the narrator to describe what the cathedral looks like but the narrator couldn’t ,so he suggest that they draw one together. When Robert starts drawing he places his hand over the narrator’s, triggering the epiphany as the narrator is not accustomed to human closeness or any type of intimacy. Robert encourages him to draw the picture and as he is drawing the narrator says, “First I drew a box that looked like a house. It could have been the house I lived in,” (pg.518) It illustrated how he was very closed-mined and he lived is life “in a box”. Robert tells him to put people in the cathedral, representing the narrator’s need to socialize and expose himself to more people.
Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
For example, when Romeo has a dream that he goes inside a church and then he dies will show the viewer how Romeo enters the church and know what it will be like inside. In Zefferelli’s version the viewer cannot see what Romeo had dreamt about but, only hear Romeo describe it. For the person who likes to see more of Shakespeare touch than Zefferelli’s film would be the one to watch. For example, in Zefferelli’s film there is more of a classic or older feel to it. In his film he uses horses instead of cars and swords instead of guns.
He is uncomfortable because, he has never been around a blind person and his wife is very close with Robert. He feels there may be an ulterior motive for the visit. 3. Robert visibly carries the sadness of losing his wife. His should are heavy and slouched.
The film is set around L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) Greenwich apartment whose rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. Wheelchair stricken due to an accident, out of boredom he passes his time by watching his neighbours. The use of a ‘peeping Tom’ concept throughout the film portrays the subjectivity of the protagonist point of view and feeds off of the act of voyeurism making the audience feel a part of this to. Furthermore with Jeff’s confinement to his apartment, serves as the films fixed spatial location thus limiting the protagonists and spectators vision.
I disliked how he seemed very shy also took his time to open up about his art work. He described his work some pieces in detail and some in a rush. He talked a little to much about his mother and wife then some of the at work he presented. The most interesting part of the lecture would deffinetly have to be how he kept his personal life sepearte from his professionall work. Also how he went from drawing small animations to drawing animations for hit movies like Madagascar, wall-E, Shrek ect.. seeing Noahs art work for walle and all the scetches he had done and what they turned into in the end was amazing.
The house's state of disrepair is a symbol for the moral, physical, and mental state of Roderick and his sister. Illness is obvious in the two, and the house, which used to be a grand estate, has sunk along with the death of the last two Ushers. So, it is a complete "fall" of the house and the family whose name the house carries. The Narrator arrives at the House of Usher in order to visit a friend. While the relationship between him and Roderick is never fully explained, the reader does learn that they were boyhood friends.
At the climax of the story, when he realizes that his dreams of holiness and love are inconsistent with the actual world, his anger and anguish are directed, not toward the Church, but toward himself as “a creature driven by vanity”(Joyce 233) — Someone who chase after. The story opens with a description of the Dublin neighborhood where the boy lives. Strikingly suggestive of a church, the image shows the ineffectuality of the Church as a vital force in the lives of the inhabitants of the neighborhood — the faithful within the Church. North Richmond Street is composed of two rows of houses with “brown imperturbable faces” (Joyce Para 1) — the pews — leading down to the tall “uninhabited house”(Joyce Para 1) — the empty altar — The boy’s own home is set in a garden, the natural state of which would be like Paradise, since it contains a “central apple tree”(Joyce Para 2); however, those who should have cared for it have allowed it to become desolate, and the central tree stands alone amid a few straggling bushes. Since the boy is the narrator, the inclusion of these symbolic images in the description of the setting shows that the boy is sensitive to the lack of spiritual beauty in his surroundings.
Young Romance Depicted in “Araby” I chose to write this paper on James Joyce’s “Araby” because I found the narrator’s childlike quest for ideal or fairy-tale love in this short story interesting. Joyce’s dark and gloomy tone at the beginning hints to the reader that this tale is not a typical romance between two young lovers, but more of tragedy. In paragraph two he really sets the dark mood of the story when explaining the priests former house before he died, “The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste paper behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers” (Joyce 21). As you can see this story is not about young, dreamy love or affection, but about a boy coming to a realization that his idealistic desires for the opposite sex were childish and foolish.
Using these definitions of ignorance, it brings closed mindedness and stereotyping. The protagonists in the short stories “Cathedral” and “A Pair of Tickets” both show signs of ignorance in the beginning of their respective stories. In the short story, “Cathedral”, the husband is the protagonist. The husband shoes ignorance toward Robert, the blind man his wife used to work for. The husband made stereotypes abut the blind and pass judgments on Robert.