It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. “The blood that was shed was bad blood; the blood that was saved was good blood.” (http://www.azquotes.com/author/19738-Porfirio_Diaz)…
In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe uses irony to develop the central idea of revenge. He uses irony in naming the character of Fortunato. Fortunato’s name means “fortune”. He is a man of wealth who is being blindly led to his death by Montresor in search of justifiable revenge. Poe also uses irony in the dialogue, “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking today”. Montresor is pleased to see him. Although Fortunato looks good now, he will be dead by the end of the story when Montresor puts his plan into action. Later, Montresor is concerned about his coughing. Montresor said, “We will go back. Your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved..”. Montresor tells him to go back because…
There is a story of losing love ones in the face of evil and corruption. To change a man who has lost everything to have him gain so much honor, fame, and love. To destroy who caused you suffering and avenge those who have fallen for you. To reveal that to gain so much, you must lose everything you used to hold so dear. Everything is avenged when a hero holds The Mask of Zorro. Throughout the movie, they’re multiple archetypes presented as scenes move on, such as the introduction of main characters, death and rebirth, and spiritual gain. The Hero must go on a Journey to avenge the lost, he must face evil and corruption, to find what he has lost has reformed him into a good…
These animals may have different habitats and they might be different animals but they have much more in common than you think. Humans started both of these animal issues, by not thinking about the habitats of these animal. They brought them to place where they didn’t know how to live and so they ended up destroying the environment around them. A good example is the goldfish. Their owners threw the goldfish into ponds and rivers, which was not their natural environment. Since this new environment did not have the things they were used to, they ate up all the native fish in the ponds and rivers. Now the native fish were dying, and the goldfish became huge and took up…
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace”, (Dalai Lama XIV). This quote relates to the narrator in Raymond Carver’s short story, “The Cathedral”. In this story Bub’s ignorance is shown in various parts throughout the story. Towards the end of the story, Bub has an epiphany. This makes him realize how ignorant he’s been towards his wife as well as Robert, her childhood sweetheart and present day best friend. He enters from a world of insecurities to a world of peace.…
There is a commanding belief that our experiences of reality are just simply deceptions of the truth. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, Socrates illustrates his perception about human knowledge. He contends that people are rarely able to escape from personal ignorance and with greater knowledge comes confusion and conflict when their own beliefs are challenged. (Socrates 20)…
“Laideezzz and gentulmennnnnn. Step right this way and see the side show! An act never before seen in the scientific world! A mouse and a moron turn into geniuses before your very eyes!” Greater intelligence does not equal greater happiness. In the science fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes takes us on an adventure through a world where the statement “Ignorance is bliss,” could not be more true. Charlie Gordon was born mentally retarded, with an IQ of 68 at the age of 32. He undergoes a life-changing scientific procedure that skyrockets his IQ to 180. As his intelligence increases, he realizes that the friendships he had with people he cared about were false, and with intelligence, comes the heavy burden of societal norms. Although…
In the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, two characters are portrayed, revealing themselves as heroic figures. Huck and Jim, two opposites traveling down the Mississippi River searching for freedom, land into predicaments were they must use their wits to overcome. Huck and Jim's strengths and weaknesses determine the outcome of their escape from "sivilization".…
T. Coraghessan Boyle uses irony in his short story Carnal Knowledge, which gives it a humorous tone. The way the narrator reacts to ironic events shapes our understanding of both him, and the meaning of the story as a whole; although humans can adapt to their surroundings to get want they want, they will always return to their original basic set of morals and standards.…
If you go to a restaurant and it was for favorite but they change a recipe and you get food poisoning you are probably not going eat there again. You don’t like how there doing things now so your going to a different restaurant maybe even start your own? Well that’s kind of what happened to the Englishmen noting really to do with the food but the rules and the restrictions on religion and that is why they settled in north America .King James did not believe in a real religion but he believed in divine right of kings . He taught he was entitled to disobey parliament because he did not answer to anybody but god. He started fights and caused tension with parliament and gained an advantage under Charles Is reign. This started a civil war which…
Socrates' step in accepting the fact that one is ignorant is very important. It is much like realizing that one has a problem and how that is the first step to correction and improvement. I agree that in many ways today, we are witnessing the same conditions that lead to Socrates' death that existed in Ancient Greece. It is a very interesting comparison and I can see the relations. As for what can be done, I am quite unsure at this time. As Socrates would suggest, I am wise enough to admit of my ignorance on the matter. What was something that you read regarding Socrates that has stood out to you and is perhaps influential? Good job this…
The first verse of the Tame Impala song “The Less I Know The Better” states: “Someone said they live together / Ran out the door together / She was holding hands with Trevor / Not the greatest feeling ever … Oh the less I know the better.” A situation where one finds out more about the person they lust for than they wanted to is a common and undesirable one, hence the phrase “ignorance is bliss”. The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, takes place in the town of Maycomb, a fictional small town in the American south, during the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. Reading came easy for Scout Finch, especially with her father’s help (he is an educated lawyer), but her 1st grade teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, does not…
Children are born into and will grow up in a racist and ignorant world. No matter how hard you try to keep them away from it with your words and protection, it is a disease, and everyone catches it at some point. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a widower named Atticus Finch with his two children Scout and Jem, are in the prime time of segregation, the 1930’s. Atticus is a very serious lawyer that is presented with an intense rape case. Scout and Jem are tasked with the process of growing up. The most important messages in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, are growing up, individual Vs society, and the dangers of ignorance.…
Randolph dipped his brush into a little water-filled vinegar jar, and tendrils of purple spread like some fast-growing vine. “Don’t smile, my dear,” he said. “I am not a photographer. On the other hand, I could scarcely be called an artist; not, that is, if you define artist as one who sees, takes and purely transmits: always for me there is the problem of distortion, and I never paint so much what I see as what I think: for example, some years ago, this was in Berlin, I drew a boy, not much older than yourself, and yet in my picture he looked more aged than Jesus Fever, and whereas in reality his eyes were childhood blue, the eyes I saw were bleary and lost. And what I saw was indeed the truth, for little Kurt, that was his name, turned out to be a perfect horror, and tried twice to murder me…exhibiting both times, I must say, admirable ingenuity. Poor child, I wonder whatever became of him…or, for that matter, me. Now that is a most interesting question: whatever became of me?” As if to punctuate his sentence he kept, all the while he talked, thrusting the brush inside the jar, and the water, continually darkening, had at its center, like a hidden flower, a rope of red. “Very well, sit back, we’ll relax a minute now.”…
Most people have been told that “Ignorance is bliss” but has any one ever questioned if it actually is? It is not, ignorance is never as blissful as it seems. Ignorance can be compared to being trapped in a prison of someone’s own mind where no man is ever truly free; he will always be imprisoned either by ignorance or by education. Authors such as Plato, Fredric Douglass, and Sherry Turkle all have faced bouts of ignorance but have overcome them through the want and drive to learn.…