Interpretation of Ambiguity in “My Papa’s Waltz” For most of time‚ people regard understanding a poem as a difficult process‚ and people wonder the reason the author of the literature leaves more questions than the ones he actually answers. Poets use ambiguity to add meaning and depth into their works so that their works can be interpreted in various ways. On one hand‚ the poem can be interpreted to have a positive view. On the other hand‚ the poem can be regard to be negative as well
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I hate orange juice yet I want orange juice right now more than I ever wanted anything. Every day I want something I can never have yesterday it was to be able to have a bath and today its orange juice. Daisy says that once I fully accept that I’m dead that all things that I want will go away. Daisy is what is known as a helper‚ she helps the newly deceased come to terms with being dead so they can move on from the land of the living and join the other spirits. I have fully accepted that I’m dead
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As Jeanette‚ the protagonist of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ states‚ “time is a great deadener.” (93) Essentially‚ as time passes‚ people will inherently forget crucial details of history‚ allowing for various interpretations and even inaccuracies to be perpetuated. The aforementioned Oranges‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia‚ and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart all explore‚ in some capacity‚ how certain people or events from the past are
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: very clear on Winterson’s own perspective and opinion‚ conveyed through her own history as the protagonist and the structure of the novel. POST MODERNISM - fragmented‚ discontinuous structure‚ hybrids‚ experimenting‚ and subjective view of truth. Post modernism came about because of the first world war- left Britain broken and fragmented. The massive blood bath changed the mind-set of the country‚ thought about bigger questions‚ ideas about rejecting an overall authority
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The Femme Fatale: Ambiguity and Death In cinema‚ the femme fatale is an enticing‚ exquisitely beautiful‚ erotic character who plays the ultimate trick of nature: she displays her beauty‚ captures the man and goes in for the kill. Unfortunately for this poisonous flower‚ male dominated western society interferes and kills the female predator in the end. In western cinema‚ the femme fatale can never survive‚ and can never “win” in the battle of the sexes. But why must this be so? What makes the
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this movie seem to play on rebellion against authority; alienation and isolation; sexually dominance‚ and the loss of one’s innocence. Often a young man‚ although educated‚ possibly will perhaps lack some of the experience to have true wisdom. Ambiguity traps us in the opening scenes as uncertainty of why we are looking at the fresh young graduate still unsure of his footing. Our young graduate is alone among all the other passengers‚ but in
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that act‚ we tend to have an affinity around failing to acknowledge the people around us as the people they are. We instead classify them based on a shallow physical characteristic followed by an undesirable trait‚ such as “the crazy dude with that orange Mustang that is way too loud” or “that spatially
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The definition of ambiguous is open to more than one interpretation;having a double meaning. Sometimes in life a person can have an ambiguous personality. In the crucible the character John Proctor is ambiguous.In the Crucible John Proctor has two different sides to him and it ultimately leads him to his own death. John Proctor made a very big mistake in the beginning of the crucible which lead to many bigger things. John had an affair with abigail who worked for the Proctors. While Abigail
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Orange is the New Black Essay Piper Kerman is a Smith College graduate who is serving thirteen months in prison‚ from 2004 to 2005‚ for a drug trafficking and money laundering crime she committed nearly ten years before. For most of her entire stay Piper is placed in a minimum-security prison in Danbury‚ Connecticut. I am from Avon‚ Connecticut so because her story was so close to home it immediately struck me as interesting. Her experience is eye opening‚ and as the book progresses you can see
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1. Comparative Ambiguity * The first type of ambiguity is essentially that of a metaphor: when two people‚ objects or concepts are alike in some way‚ even though they may have different qualities otherwise. Comparison provides a given object with multiple meanings‚ allowing it to be interpreted in different ways even though it remains essentially unchanged. Resolution * The second type of ambiguity occurs when two or more different alternate meanings are used as one. That essentially
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