Ingmar Bergman’s film‚ Persona‚ allows for a plethora of interpretations‚ none of which can really be said to be correct. The film is overflowing with symbolism just within the credit sequence that is later repeated throughout the movie. Within the structure‚ the elements continue being related to each other. It is easy to become disoriented in flash backs‚ dream sequences‚ and personality confusion that characterizes the action of the film. This makes it hard to create a clear picture
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Zoe Altenau Ms. Herring AP English 5 November 2013 The Single Persona of Ophelia and Gertrude According to Shakespeare‚ Elsinore did not require more than two women‚ let alone two unique women. On a larger scale‚ the society in which Shakespeare wrote agreed that most women were indistinguishable: women in general did not hold positions of prominence and did not demand recognition. In all of Shakespeare’s plays‚ a meager 126 female characters develop; of these‚ Ophelia and Gertrude play minor
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story‚ “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener.” The titular character starts out as the narrator’s best employee‚ but after three days he suddenly begins to stop working altogether without facing any disciplinary constraints from his boss. The passages
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Jesus Lopez Ms. Head British Literature Agoust 30th‚ 2012 “Crabbe” Crabbe by William Bell is a journal of Franklin Crabbe‚ an unhappy teenager who‚ right before his final exams‚ decided to run away and leave not a trace. It takes him some time to plan it‚ but he gets away with it‚ packing up his things and driving away from his life as a spoiled‚ "semi-alcoholic" teenager whose every move has been planned out
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the members of the family fend more for themselves. Then‚ in retrospect‚ she will surely be given all A’s. What happens after “Happily ever after?” This is what Ron Koertge is supposing in his poem “Cinderella’s Diary.” Koertge takes on the persona of the well known Disney character‚ Cinderella. The speaker‚ presumably Cinderella herself‚ of the poem is reading from a post fairytale Cinderella’s diary. The fairytale has ended and the boredom of real life has set in‚ thus there is a heavily jaded
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AVS 101 Allante Castle Bartleby Reading Reflection Assignment 10/9/2012 I met this kid named Josh in my Calculus class the first week of school. Josh is tall‚ has jet black shaggy hair‚ very pale skin‚ and really big ears that stick out through his hair. But what mostly distinguish Josh from others are his very blue eyes. Josh never speaks in class‚ even when the teacher asks him for and answers. One day in class‚ I needed something to write with and he was willing to give me
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Bartleby is described as completely emotionless. He wrote on silently‚ palely and mechanically‚ at first when he wrote. He is also described as a ghost. It should be pointed out that the narrator’s problems with his other employees have to do with their unreliability‚ sloppiness and flaring tempers. Turkey and Nippers are quite the opposite of Bartleby‚ yet the main conflict that “Bartleby the Scrivener” presents is an internal problem. The narrator cannot deal with someone who appears to be void
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brought about by walls is their confining nature‚ such as the prison that Bartleby finds himself in near the end of the novel. “Walls” are eventually associated with death itself‚ moving from bartleby’s dead-wall reveries (his staring at the wall during work) to conjoining the two words into one‚ making deadwall. Melville also employs walls as not only physical barriers‚ but as mental barriers‚ eventually diminishing bartleby to simply existing. The story begins by the narrator stating “I am a rather
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“Bartleby the Scrivener‚” by Herman Melville‚ and “Hills Like White Elephants‚” by Ernest Hemingway‚ both present entirely different stories about an isolated employee‚ and an awkward conversation between a young couple‚ but as we delve deeper into each story‚ we are presented with the theme of choice and gender. Bartleby is presented with a number of choices and opportunities to leave his place of work‚ and the woman‚ Jig‚ faces the choice of whether to get an abortion or not. This theme of decision
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have certain traits in common that makes us feel. In general many Americans want to be exactly like someone they know but realize everyone is and acts different from each other. However‚ there are certain qualities that are repeated that make up the Persona of an American. Thomas Jefferson and his cohorts‚ Malcolm X‚ and Lin Miranda are all authors who show real qualities of a true American. First of all‚ Malcolm shows the idea of being outspoken during the interview. In Malcolm X’s interview‚ he talks
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