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    about our personalities. Like those “Expectations vs. Reality” moments we always encounter‚ the appearance of people are not the same as the reality. Never has this been more evident than in Shakespeare’s playwright Hamlet portrayed through several characters. Hamlet is a play solely revolving around revenge. With the play being based on revenge it needs to have characters who are not what they seem to be. This brings in the appearance vs. reality factor in Hamlet. Every character has something to

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    The Reality of Dreams Chasing after your dreams always comes with consequences. Big or small‚ those dreams can positively and negatively affect your life. A dream is defined as a strongly desired goal to achieve something. Jing-Mei‚ from “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ tried to pursue her and her mother’s dream of becoming a child prodigy in America. Jing-Mei’s mother‚ Suyuan‚ first moved to America after losing everything in China; this led to the creation of her and her daughter’s dream

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    Appearances vs. Reality M.C Escher said‚ “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” This quote is saying that what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Appearances versus reality is a recurring theme in William Shakespeare’s play‚ Twelfth Night . Appearances hide an important reality and sometimes can get in the way of a character from developing or attaining his or her goal. The problems that happen involve disguises and deceit of one form or

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    In the play Othello by William Shakespeare the theme of Illusion vs Reality is continually developed through the actions and experiences of the different characters. Reality is the “state of things that actually exist‚ as opposed to an idealistic idea of them” that is considered an Illusion. One character in the story‚ Iago‚ is the mastermind behind the creation of this illusion that Othello has been tricked to believe. Additionally‚ two other foil characters in the play seem to symbolize this theme

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    appearance and reality in his book-Hamlet. The dilemma of what is "real" is established at the very beginning of the play. Hamlet doesn’t know what to believe and devises a plan to find out. The old king Hamlet appears to be bitten by a snake‚ but in reality he was poisoned‚ the ghost appears as an apparition‚ but it’s actually real‚ and the play-with-in-a-play strongly depicts the theme of appearance vs. reality. The dead King appears to have been bitten by a snake. In reality‚ he has been

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    picture of their delicious Big Mac was not what sat in front of him. Instead‚ there sat a three pieces of bread‚ and what appeared to be two brownish‚ green beef patties in-between the bread. What this young man had to sadly go through was appearance vs. reality; while the picture of the Big Mac looked big and tasty‚ the actual Big Mac he got was disgusting. The theme‚

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    Your Dream Home is a Reality at Active Acres Kolkata‚ July 6th 2016: Ruchi Realty is one of the most prestigious real estate companies in Kolkata‚ which has shaped the dreams of the thousands into reality with its extravagant residential projects in Kolkata‚ Indore and Bhopal. Ruchi Realty has successfully given all the residents of Kolkata‚ a well-furnished home nestle with all the modern amenities situated in one of the prime locations of the city of joy‚ Active Acres. One phase of the construction

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    RUNNING HEAD: THE REALITY OF REALITY TV 1. THE REALITY OF REALITY TV Donna Napper ENG 122 Instructor Kissel 5/05/2013 REALITY 2. THE REALITY OF REALITY TV Even though reality television may seem real to some‚ there are several controversies surrounding the fact that it might actually be scripted. This is just one of the major misconceptions of reality television. Millions of people are addicted to watching reality television every single day. It is even being said

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    Appearance vs reality in Shakespeare’s plays According to definition in Oxford dictionary reality is a quality of being real; real existence; that which underlies appearance. And appearance is something that is showed or can be seen. The word appearance comes from the word appear. And one of the meanings of the word “appear” is “seem”. When we say: “it seems to me” we mean that we don’t know for sure. Shakespeare tries to reveal the reality‚ which underlies appearance. If appearance is something

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    conflicts one of them being apperance vs reality. The major ideas of the text is when ambitious overwhelms moral constraints‚ also shows corruption‚ cruelty and betrayal. One example of this is when Macbeth was a brave man at the beginning of the text and towards the end he showed he was a merciless murder. There are many lines in the text where people get fooled by appearances and in reality the get stabbed in the back. One of the first reasons why apperance vs reality are shown in the text is because

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