Analysis: As Clarisse and Montag meet for the first time, she asks a series of mysterious questions that no one in the dystopia would ever even think of. The statements and questions display how wise she is and how there are very few people like her in this society that can actually see the enjoyments in life and nature. She attempts to make Montag understand that this world they live in, everything moves so fast, they need to slow down every once in a while and appreciate the simple pleasures in life. Because their society is overtaken by technology they are convinced that it is the only way to make them happy.…
|1 |““You think too many things,” said Montag, uneasily.” Guy Montag |Clarisse isn’t the only person who has dozens of thoughts streaming through her |…
He does not see it yet until he meets the women on the bridge. Clamence is coming out of his regular bar when he walks passed a woman in a black dress. The black dress did not cross the mind of Clamence that if she might be in a state of depression. He hears the splashing of the water as the women jumps into the freezing water. If what Clamence does for a living, doing good deeds for the helpless then he would consider a way to save this woman. Instead, he proceeds walking away. “Yet La Chute makes it clear that Clamence’s judgement is selective.” (Holman 145) He is not a selfless man, but one who determines whether if it is worth his time or not. Maybe if it were in daylight and people were around to watch that would be more of motive to attempt to save her. Clamence begins to face the absurdity in his life, and it has cast him into the life he is living now. He passes the first question of absurdity and suicide, and continues on living, seeing that his life was still worth something. He moved from Paris, a place where he considered heaven into a hell in Amsterdam. He is to never leave the island he is on, because a bridge is needed to cross onto another one. He is contained in the absurd walls because the bridge represents the absurdity in his life. He knows that all those lives he helped in the orphans were meaningless, because he could not have the compassion to risk his own life for another. “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself: not that the sense of special self-love should be expanded to embrace just a brother, or a close friend, but that any fellow citizen, or even fellow human, should be shown the same degree of concern that one feels for oneself. Those who fail to expand their concern outward in this way have, it is often suggested, stumbled at a crucial stage of their moral development they are destined to become psychopaths, or at least sad cases or “arrested development.” (Cottingham 799-800).…
Alyss to Earth and Back What adventures will Alyss go through. Alyss goes to Earth and after thirteen years and then she comes back to Wonderland. Why and how do people change after going to a new pace for a long time. As Alyss goes through her thirteen years on Earth she shows how people change in many different ways as they go to somewhere new.…
Marie-Laure had always been curious and questioned what ordinary people did. “‘Why not,’ she asks, ‘just take the diamond and throw it into the sea?’” (pg. 23). When she went blind however, even small tasks seemed daunting, and her father had to help her regain her courage. The Nazi’s invasion of France forces her to use that courage and not lose her mind in a seemingly difficult situation. “‘You did well, Marie-Laure. I’m proud.’” (pg. 117) says her father as they evacuate the city. Upon reaching Etienne’s house, Marie-Laure and her father settle down before her father is summoned back to the museum. However, he gets arrested along the way and sent to a German prison camp. Marie-Laure is fearful for her father despite his reassuring letters that he is alright. She becomes more secluded and isolates herself out of worry, “Only then, with her toes and fingers in the cold sea, does her mind seem to fully leave her father; only then does she stop wondering how much of his letter was true, when he’ll write again, why he has been imprisoned.”…
Serge’s mother committed suicide when he was just an infant, but Serge takes the little that he knows about her to create a fictitious connection with her. The outdoors is a symbol used to represent Serge’s made-beleive connection with his biological mother. In the snow, is a place where Serge loves to be, since he believed that his birth mother loved it and passed the fondness down to him. To show, “Before his birth his mother used to go off alone and sit in the snow for hours... The feeling for the snow and the love for it seemed to go into the boy's blood, somehow.…
Montag and Granger arrived in the city that was blazed into ashes. Granger was bombshelled when he saw the city in ashes. On the other side, Montag was anxious about Faber, so to make sure that Faber was in good shape, Montag advances toward Faber’s house. When he reached there the house was entirely obliterated, he examines the house to find something that could conduct him to Faber. Later, when he realized that there was nothing in the house, he advanced towards Clarisse’s house where he asked Granger to wait for him. With Granger, Montag quested throughout the city to find someone identical to them who had knowledge of books. Eluding the hounds, they went down the street to find their own people.…
During the introduction of Paris on the first page it states “He was a widower with no interest in children”. This represents how he cares more about his reputation than his daughters health, although he does pray for Betty at the start of the play. This also symbolises what a negative personalities he obtains, and how he cares and prioritises the wrong things. He is shameful of the involvement of his family in the case.…
In the novel, Madame Gaëlle struggles with the loss of her husband and daughter. Her husband Laurent was shot at the radio station at the same time his daughter was born. Their daughter Rose was killed immediately in a car accident. Madame Gaëlle states in the novel, “Every day is an infinitely difficult day for me” (153). She struggles with the losses she has which is one of the many reasons why she sleeps around with different men. She does it to cover up her pain so no one could see that she is suffering. Claire’s father Nozias feels like he can help with Madame Gaëlle pain by giving his daughter to her. Since she was the one to breastfeed her as a child, he feels like they have a mother and daughter connection and that she would give his daughter a better successful life. This is again another example of loss…
Her father helps her out by building her a replica of her neighborhood so she can learn to navigate it blind. Her father is a very important figure to her that she relies on very much. Marie-Laure is very disappointed when her father has to leave on such short notice. “Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.” This is a quote that talks about someones who can forget the war completely. I feel Marie-Laure can relate to this because she wishes that she could forget the war and all the heartache that has been brought along with her. The one thing that helps her get through these tough times are the memories of her dad she has. They are not by sight, but the feelings of joy and happiness that her father made her feel when they were…
In these instances, the viewer is given several views of Paris, however, this time through the window of the taxi. There appears to be an element of confinement – both Clèo and the viewer’s perspective is limited to a window frame. This implies that there is a subtractive element, lack of a bigger picture. Ironically, in the first taxi scene, the radio gives a report of the recent casualties in the Algerian war. The juxtaposition between what the viewer sees and what they hear indicates a certain extend of obliviousness, as it is overshadowed with the events taking place in Clèo’s…
In The Stranger, before Mersault “opened himself to the gentle indifference of the world” (122), he valued women only in regard with their physical appearance and made no attempt to relate to them in any other way. This is illustrated in Mersault’s relationship with Marie Cardona. He values her company only because he is attracted to her in a physical way with no regards to her character: “She had her legs presses against mine. I was fondling her breasts” (Camus 20). In fact, their characters are the complete antithesis of each other: her liveliness, “She laughed the whole time” (Camus 19-20), in contrast to his apathy, “It didn’t mean anything” (41), her love for him, “with a smile and she wanted to marry [Mersault]” (42), in contrast to his inability to reciprocate her feelings, “…she asked me if I loved her. I told her I didn’t think so” (35). This further highlights their disconnection from one another. He accepts his incapability to interact with her and thus, he…
Mersault strives to find meaning in his life because horrible things happen to him. In the beginning he says, “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe. I don’t know” (1). This basically shows that Mersault did not care too much when his mom died. In the book, Mersault doesn’t really show that Maman’s death affected him; he just hangs out with his friends and enjoys life. To get things off his mind, Mersault goes to the public beach to go swimming. While there, he runs into Marie Cardona, a typist in the office he works at. Marie finds out about his mother’s death but they forget about it and go to the movies. Marie seems like Mersault’s…
The poem discusses the funeral of a woman and how she is presented in her funeral as someone people would be more likely to romanticize than what she actually was, perhaps out of a misguided sign of respect. The other more hidden meaning behind the poem is the author's reaction to the women herself and how she is portrayed in almost a spiteful, angry way because of his anger over her wasting her life in gray dullness.…
Mathilde believes she was born in to the wrong class. Her middle class marriage was not up to her standards. Her wardrobe was too simple in her opinion and this was not satisfactory in her eyes. Mathilde did not posses any good jewelry unlike her old school friend Madame Forester. One night her husband brought home an invitation for a dinner at The Ministry of Public. Instead of being exited and looking forward with spending an evening with her husband and in a high society environment in which she believes she belongs. Her only concern is her appearance and what other people might think about her. This is reflected by the author where Loisel states, “What’s the matter? What’s the matter?” The only response from Mathilde is, “Nothing. Only I have no dress and there for I can’t go to the ball. Give your card to some colleague whose wife is better equipped than I.” This is a reflection of how materialistic Mathilde is and how she sees…