Grillo 1 Maritza Grillo Mrs. Krocmal English I-3 January 13, 2012 Past, Present and Profit Scrooge’s Journey From Miserly to Munificent Is Empathy something you are born with or something you must develop over the course of your lifetime? Even someone as greedy and heartless as Scrooge possesses some empathy. In all darkness, human compassion and bonds with each other still take hold. A person’s life cannot be complete with out the sympathy and pleasure that comes from interactions with others. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the three ghosts help Scrooge regain his empathy by awakening his old emotions, letting him experience human relationships, and showing him the true meaning of consequence.
The husband made stereotypes abut the blind and pass judgments on Robert. The four stereotypes the husband made about the blind are the blind move slowly, never laugh, use canes, and wear dark glasses. “And his being blind bothered me” (Carver 100). From the very beginning the husband expresses negative feelings toward Robert because Robert is blind. The text goes on to say, “My idea of blindness came from the movies.
In Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca’s Oedipus, dramatic irony is used to demonstrate and emphasize a character's disloyalty, ignorance, and blindness. Oedipus starts out as a prosperous king at the beginning of the play but ends up torturing himself at the end of both plays. Except for the almighty Teiresias, all the characters in the plays such as Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon, the Messenger, and the Chorus know nothing about what is to come therefore their speeches contain a lot of dramatic irony. However, the most dramatic irony is brought to light within the speeches of Oedipus. Oedipus specifically states, “no special favors and no personal ties will tear the guilty party from my grasp,” (Seneca 210).
In both plays Death of a Salesman and True West can be both in contrast to the conditions of their visions of the American dream. Both of these plays focus on characters that spend their lives pursuing this dream while they fail at happiness as a result. In Death of a Salesman Willy Loman is a unfortunate, man who is so obsessed with trying to live up to an ideal that he has become disillusioned and has developed a loose sense of reality. Willy, spends his lifetime attempting to become a salesman, only to find in the end that he had failed. True West also focuses on the dysfunction of the American Dream.
Tolerance is not Enough Albert Ellis, an American psychologist, once said, “Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.” Langston Hughes’s short story, “Thank You, M’am,” emphasizes this point—that all must be accepted—clearly. In the story, a boy struggles for approval Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. A story set in the 1950’s, it spreads its message to all periods of time, including the modern world. Throughout history, there have always been outcasts, those whom society rejects.
November 30th, 2009 Symbolism in the Glass Menagerie “I have a poet’s weakness for symbols,” says Tom Wingfield, the narrator and a major character in the play “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams. In Tom’s opening speech he says,” I give you the truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” Through the eyes of Tom, the reader gets a glance into the life of his family; his mother who clings to the past, his sister, Laura, who is too fragile to function in society, and himself, a struggling man who works in a warehouse to pay the bills for his family. Symbols are a major part of this play. One of the major symbols is the fire escape, which has a different meaning for everyone in the family. For Tom, it is a way for him to leave his daily life of paying bills and working behind him.
Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance. In the play, ignorance is apparently portrayed and paralleled to the compact majority. The compact majority can be compared to un-educated people who are generally seen in many developing countries. Compared the Bath to technology development or social development, the city cannot accomplish this development surely since the compact majority is ignorance. Ibsen, faithfully, wrote the play as a way to criticize Europe society at the times when people were not interested in any technologies and truths.
The death of his mother doesn’t even bother him so show sadness. When Meursault realized that his freedom was gone away for good he begin to see things different.”And I felt ready to live again too. As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope: for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”(Camus Stranger122). The quote explains that maybe he took the world for granted and there was so much to accomplish in the world of freedom. In The Myth of Sisyphus -Sisyphus stole the gods secrets and he was punished for this action.
These were the words that Queen Gertrude delivered to Ophelia's brother, Laertes, when she took her own life. Many think Hamlet is the most tragic character in the play, but some critics like to think that Ophelia is the most tragic. Ophelia's life is not mentioned often throughout the play, so it is shadowed by the life of Hamlet. Many obstacles that Ophelia faces throughout Shakespeare's tragedy support reasons why she is considered the most tragic character. Ophelia lives in a society ruled by men, faces rejection from the love of her life, and deals with the death of her father.
I think Miller used the name “Loman” to reflect the characteristic of the low man who has a poor social life, one of the main reasons why he is unsuccessful. The parallel protagonist of the play is Biff, son of Willy, who used to be a star football player, lost in his life after failing the mathematics in high school. Later we found out that he gave up all his life goals after witnessing his beloved father cheated on Linda with another woman. Well, let’s get to the story and discuss about how the play is set. The playwright described the opening as “A melody is heard, played upon a flute.