celebration of a simple life and examination of inner feelings. He urges his audience to pay attention to individuality instead of conforming to societal expectations of how you should behave. In the beginning of the excerpt‚ Emerson says that “envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.” (245). He is asserting that it is essential for a person to maintain individuality and not to be afraid of voicing out opinions that contradicted what everyone else thought. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
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Examine the way Shakespeare presents the theme of loss in Act 3‚ Scene 5 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and how this is developed in the rest of the play. Juliet -Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. Romeo - Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live‚ or stay and die. Juliet - Therefore stay yet. Thou need’st not to be gone. Romeo - Let me be ta’en. Let me be put to death. Juliet - It is‚ it is. Hie hence! Be gone‚ away! Nurse -Be wary‚ look about. Juliet - Then‚ window‚ let
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The novel Chokherbali was written by the Nobel Prize winner writer Rabindranath - Tagore‚ and later came into movie adaptation directed by one of the most celebrated director of the Bengali cinema Rituparno Ghosh. Chokher Bali is a story about the physical and mental deprivations of young widows and their sexual frustrations. Binodini is a young girl who is left to her own device when her sickly husband was suddenly dies at soon
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White Noise: The Sounds That Keep us Sane White Noise follows Jack‚ a man who teaches Hitler studies and has a house full of children between him and his wife. The first part of the book‚ Waves and Radiation‚ introduces Jack’s family and his strange friend‚ Murray. We gain insight into the daily lives of the various characters‚ the relationship Jack carries with each of his children and his wife‚ Babette. While you’re reading the first part of the book‚ DeLillo gives you the sense that Jack is
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that case the duty of saving a human life may fall below it. In this case the moral character of a person will tell which duty one must follow. Veil of Ignorance: The key is that people make decisions based on what is good for their community as a whole‚ and without regard to their own self-interest (since they operate behind a veil of ignorance and don’t know enough about what would benefit them). Now suppose that all the 3 hiking parties & Sadhu had met before in Nepal before they were given there
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Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase‚ "American Dream" during the early infancy of our country‚ proposing this dream as‚ "That pursuit of a better existence [and] a higher quality of life through hard work‚ determination‚ and devotion." While this may be what many of the characters in The Great Gatsby believe (Jay Gatsby in particular)‚ one critical ideal is discarded in Fitzgerald’s twisted refinement of Franklin’s definition: morality. It is apparent that Jay Gatsby achieves his wealth and social
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is no longer an option or privilege‚ but rather a necessity. We are practically raised and conditioned to believe that one needs higher education in order to succeed in life. There is a saying that says "if you think education is expensive‚ try ignorance." Nowadays‚ going to college is common in United States. According to the statistic‚ there are more than 70 percents of the student are going to college after high school graduation. After high school millions of kids get a start in life without
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his condition begun‚ and the consequences of a degraded order derived into a different kind of savagery: social savagery‚ a kind of paradoxical parable. The plot in the novel describes with special care how the democracy of the shell generated enough envy and conflicts to finally fracture their attempt to organize themselves under a rational
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weaknesses and cut their bond with the source of their Power. Humans are good by default‚ but not everyone is made of steel so as to defend themselves against the demonic forces - destructive emotions and detrimental attitudes: fear‚ ignorance‚ hatred‚ worry‚ revenge‚ envy‚ attachment‚ greed‚ lust‚ selfishness‚ doubt‚ prejudice‚ pride‚ vanity‚ impatience‚ sloth‚ discrimination‚ arrogance‚ ambition‚ addiction‚ gluttony‚ criticism‚ blame‚ anxiety‚ frustration and so on. We all get attacked by those faulty
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creating a utopian environment‚ they consummate forced control instead. Regardless of implementation or motivation‚ 1984‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ and The Giver are unsuccessful in establishing a utopia because the societies control their citizens with fear and ignorance. The societies in 1984‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ and The Giver want control to maintain power and equality. In The Giver‚ the
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