... rooted securely in her garden but also held down by her connection to it. Their house is described as “hard-swept” and “hard-polished,” and is the only outlet for her talents. However, Elisa needs something more in her life than a neat house and a good garden. Their marriage is childless and conventional and she has begun to sense that an important part of her is dying and that her future will be predictable and mundane. Elisa is a barren woman who has transferred her maternal impulses to her garden, a garden full of unborn seedlings. On the other hand, Elisa would never consider a lurid affair, when a dark mysterious stranger appears at their quiet farm dwe ...
... how the information of the world is much too vast to comprehend without simplifying it (Baran 299). This can be interpreted as receivers of information need to have a structured, well-defined scheme of information. This structured, well-defined scheme of information causes the media to pick and choose information that it feels is relevant to the audience. This is where presents itself. is the idea that the media choose topics that it thinks are important and focuses its broadcasts around this topic. McCombs and Shaw fully developed the theory of in respect to public agenda in a study in the early 1970’s. Their cross-sectional study involved the effects of ...
... unconsciously she seems determined to prove them wrong. As the story begins, the woman -- whose name we never learn -- tells of her depression and how it is dismissed by her husband and brother. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (160) These two men -- both doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the ...
... desired revenge on the number of men lusting for Penelope. This seems unjustifiable, and very inhumane. Odysseus was so overcome with his hate that he lost control, perhaps it was his years of denying the power of the gods that led him to brutality. Odysseus’s actions are indeed aggressive and morality at this point in his life seems to have faded. All these things considered, the validity of Odysseus’s actions remain fair. Because of his denial of the power of the gods, Poseidon forced Odysseus to the raging sea. For these years that he was apart from Penelope and Telemachus he felt such pain and longing for Ithaka. And when Odysseus returned final ...
... Southern town. Faulkner sets the mood in the first paragraph of his story, with strong descriptions of the seemingly endless dry summer days of the South. He stages the characters with distinctive language patterns, and the repetitive use of the slang term for a colored person, is used much to frequently. The town is demonstrated to the reader as a closely knit community with no strangers. As the rumor becomes clear, it is the men in the Barber shop that bring it to the reader’s attention. Miss Minnie Cooper and Will Mayes, a Negro. Or so it was stated in disbelief, of the well respected colored man committing a horrible act of rape against a white woma ...
... His ideals were shattered, his genitals left on a battlefield in Europe with his ability to be subjective and involve himself emotionally with the world around him. His life (as viewed in his narrative) is simply moving from one place to the next, with no deep thought about the people he meets. Merely a simple statement of the facts. Objectivity as a whole depends upon distancing a person from the events and simply watching with a clinical disattachment as Jake did. And as Jake is the narrator of The Sun Also Rises, this creates a definite lack of caring in the reader for the events that effect those outside of Jake’s circle. Just as when a tragedy is ...
... make their friends happy, like when they have a party for Doc. Mack and the boys try to be themselves and get away from the lifestyles of the rich.. "Mack and the boys avoid the trap, walk around the poison, step over the noose while a generation of trapped, poisoned, and trussed-up old men scream at them and call them no-goods, come-to-bad-ends, blots-on-the-town, thieves, rascals, bums"(18). They wish to live the life they want, even if they are called bad names and looked upon as bums. Rich people call Mack and the boys names without realizing that they themselves are worse off than they are. "In a world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls ...
... sized fish. At first he thought it was a dolphin, but then noticed it's fins. It was a marlin. Santiago had hooked a marlin. He knew he had caught a big fish, but wasn't sure what type. He did not real the fish in right away. Santiago feared that the line would break because the size of the fish. He thought about increasing the tension so it would hurt the fish and it would jump out. But the line had been taut up to the very edge of the breaking point. Then with his right hand he felt the difference in the pull of the line before he saw the slant change in the water. The fish started to come up. The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface o ...
... she belong to upper class”. He felt eager to know her, to have sex with her without knowing her name. He did not love her then, but after a few days he could not forget her. She was in his mind all the time. Gurov did not like his wife and was unfaithful to her for a long time. When he meet Anna, I felt, she was the woman that he was looking for in his life. Anna is trapped between two men. One that make her feel like nothing and the other one that make her feel a live. Anna loves her husband but not in the same passion that she loves Gurov. Anna and Gurov Found love and passion in each other arms and feel like a husband and wife, both of them tried to let ...
... symbolizes man’s side of using physical ability to answer questions. Vladimir on the other hand continues to look into his hat. Vladirmir constantly “Takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again”2. Through this action Vladimir is shown to be searching for answers in his hat, which symbolizes his using knowledge and his intellectual capability for solving problems. Both Estragon and Vladimir are searching for what the reader assumes to be the key to life’s problems. When they continue to do this throughout the drama, it expresses the fact that they are searching and will continue to search until they find what th ...
