Doubtful. Most people will be at peace if they have experienced love and have loved. This gives meaning and satisfaction to a person’s life – especially when one is on “death’s door.” In the short story, “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross, Ann and John possess vastly different perceptions about what will bring them happiness; not addressing this lack of unity creates distance and tension between them, which greatly compromises their happiness. Ann pursues happiness by trying to talk to John about her concerns, busying herself around the house, fantasizing about Steven and social events. She tells John, “It isn’t right to leave me here alone.
This links to the film ‘An Education’ where David is describing Jenny, “Isn’t it wonderful to find someone who wants to find out new things”. The difficulties of Rita’s moving into the world are immediately obvious to the audience in the first scene, act one. The stuck door is a metaphor for the effort required to make a change. Rita’s quest for education begins with a physical difficulty to overcome and continues with her being challenged by emotional difficulties. Rita is uncomfortable in the first scene because she is in unfamiliar situation.
Character: Rose Mary: It is hard to take pity on Rose Mary because at this point in the novel she becomes very self-centered. Determined to be an artist, she declines paying jobs even when her family needs the money for survival. Rose Mary’s character also introduces larger concerns about occupations. She does not want to be a teacher or have a “real” job because she delights so much in the creativity and spontaneity of being an artist. This trait is extremely alarming, and is embodied in her own quote when she expresses that she’d rather spend money on paints to create a beautiful painting that could last forever instead of buying food that will only last fifteen minutes.
Growth and change often comes about when new stages of experience allow a transition ‘into the new world’. This is illustrated in Educating Rita as Rita grows with knowledge and changes as a result of moving into the world of education and middle-class society. The changes made in Rita’s life include her name, from Susan to Rita after her favourite author. We also see Rita leave her husband Denny and her social class pressures, slowly gain confidence in herself to associate with ‘proper’ students and her views on Frank, her tutor, as well as her attitudes towards her tutorials. Rita desires to ‘know’ and expects Frank to teach her ‘everything’ in order to have choice and direction in her life, ‘I wanna discover meself’.
Therefore we are losing our ability to determine what right and wrong looks like. Winston the main character of 1984, is attracted to the brotherhood because they are revolutionary yet he does not know why resistance is a good thing. He gets tortured for something he does not know why he has an affinity for and this is exactly what Postman meant, we are amusing ourselves yet we have no idea why we are laughing. We are gradually becoming apathetic on what should matter and we are a basically just going with the flow. We are refusing to ask uncomfortable questions in fear of questioning our sanity and this where schools come
In another way of interpretation, life brings us opportunities and creates obstacles in order to challenge us to get contact with our world, specifically, is getting to know people and our community that we associate with. This idea is explored through a collection of poetry “Immigrant Chronicles” by Peter Skrzynecki, a play named “Educating Rita” by Willy
“Educating Rita” “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell is a comedy which deals with social issues. In this drama Russell explores the central concerns of education, social class and personal choice. In his drama there is an important relationship between the two main characters, Rita and Frank. This relationship helps us understand the themes of the drama. In the exposition of this play, Russell introduces us to the characters of Rita and Frank.
In Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield makes it very clear that he does not like fake or phony people. Throughout the story Holden at times makes the reader feel like he or she should feel bad for him because of the hardships he's been through and how he has to deal with the "phonies" when he is actually one himself. As the story goes on Holden proves himself to be the real phony of the book because he never goes through with what he intends to do, he is overly concerned about sex but thinks its overrated, and he's very critical about other peoples lives. Holden Caulfield is the true phony and even more so a huge hypocrite throughout the novel. To start, All he wants to do is connect with someone but the boy has high standards.
The bakery was his place of desolation because he did not like the interaction with people. The narrator in “Cathedral” was not enthused when he learned that a blind friend of his wife named Robert was spending the night with them. His whole concept about a blind person he thought came from the movies. He thought that a blind person would have to solely depend on other people for help. His wife had a very good relationship with Robert and they were able to communicate with each other although he could not see.
This signifies that violence is the root of fear that results in women to conform to their traditional roles, as they fear the consequences of disobedience. Thus, allowing males to sustain inequality. Additionally, in the novel, women have no violence in their utopian society; there is only peace and love that creates a harmonious sisterhood. The lack of jealousy and fights induces Terry to become irritated with this society. As well as, Alima’s lack of interest within him results in more frustration that leads him to “hide himself under her bed one night… [and there] was the noise of a tremendous struggle” (132 Gilliam).