“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr is a Pulitzer Award winner that was published in the year of 2014. Throughout the novel‚ Marie-Laure is faced with blindness‚ World War Two‚ along with many other personal issues she faces throughout the novel. Another major character of the novel‚ is Werner‚ who along with his sister Jutta are both orphans. Because of the fact that both Werner and Jutta are orphans‚ Werner decides to help the two of them out by becoming part of Hitler’s Youth. Throughout
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Oedipus’s decision to pursue knowledge of his identity‚ are significant‚ fate is responsible for Oedipus’s life. In the play‚ Oedipus is the tragic hero. Even though fate victimizes Oedipus‚ he is a tragic figure since his own heroic qualities‚ and his blindness to the truth that ruins him. Overall‚ Oedipus’ fate was that he was to kill his father and marry his mother. To avoid this curse given to him when he was born his mother and father‚ Jocasta and King Laius‚ took him to the Corinthian mountains where
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seen‚ Too long been blind to those for whom I was searching! From this hour‚ go to darkness!”(line 45‚901) By the time‚ the fate of Oedipus and his “lightless life” has everyone pitying and pondering over Oedipus. The blindness of Oedipus‚ which had been preconceived by the blindness of Teiresias‚ at the end of the play‚ also leads to
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practice wickedness and seem to get away with it. In his novel The Chosen‚ Chaim Potok provides such a character: a sweet‚ innocent boy named Billy who has a sad story. Throughout his small part in the book‚ Billy demonstrates joy in the midst of blindness and a rough family situation. While recovering from his injury in the hospital‚ the young boy makes a lasting impression on Reuven‚ the main character‚ with his kind heart and sunny personality. Even though he could choose to turn angry or bitter
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prophecies surfacing various times throughout the play. As Tiresias prophesies‚ “I say without knowing it you are living in shameful intimacy with your nearest and dearest. You do not see the evil in which you live. [...] You have mocked at my blindness‚ but you‚ who have eyes‚ cannot see the living‚ nor with whom you share your house. [...] Without knowing it‚ you are the enemy of your own flesh and blood‚ the dead below and living here above.” (Oedipus pg. 25) Tiresias tells Oedipus of the
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throughout her novel with Victor’s parallellism with society in the way he goes about his science ‘I was left with a Childs blindness added to a student’s thirst for knowledge’ this thirst for knowledge in victor was not accompanied by thought for the future it was the ‘childs blindness’ to go with his ‘ardent curiosity’ that created a ‘monster’. Frankenstein’s arrogance and ignorance is making a statement about humanity’s lust to be enlightened with ‘both eyes open‚ only to be blinded in one eye’ with
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“Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive… that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.” Simon experiences much emotional pain; he realizes how thoughtless he was with the other townspeople and how he never let any get close to him. Simon said that live people will never understand how important life is‚ how beautiful and precious it is. They are just full of ignorance and will “always be at the mercy of one self-centered passion.” Through the thoughts
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many people are lazy‚ if it is not handed to them on a silver platter it may as well not exist. This ignorance of government and politics leads an individual to be unable to figure out for themselves what the costs or benefits are in what the government does when making policies or laws. This blindness leads people to think that finding out more is useless to them and this rationalized ignorance‚ creates a feedback loop that few ever break. What needs to happen is increased spreading information
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of the Cave‚ he explains the ignorance of the current human situation by describing events that happened to men chained in a cave. These men were chained by the neck and legs‚ so they could only face the cave wall. As the men sit‚ they often see shadows of animals and humans from the flickering fire that is behind them. One day‚ a man is released from his chains to venture around the cave‚ making his way out of the cave. During his adventure‚ he experiences blindness from the light and witnesses
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her book who wrong her in any way. Life in the favela consists of disease‚ hunger‚ alcoholism and violence. Carolina writes about the presence of inequality between the rich and the poor. She values independence‚ the power of words‚ and loathes blindness of authority and false promises of politicians. She collects metal scraps and paper to earn money for food. Her only reprieve from this task is the rarity of kindness from her friends and once when a man stopped and gave Vera‚ one hundred cruzieros
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