what it meant‚ “It’s about the God of the Old Testament‚ the God of the New‚ and Humanity‚ isn’t it?”. Pinter replied‚ “No Terry‚ it’s about a caretaker and two brothers”. With this quote Terence Rattigan succinctly highlights the absolute ambiguity of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’; in this story of two brothers and an elderly derelict in close quarters‚ everything that is said and not said can be understood in all sorts of contradictory ways. Rattigan saw three characters as the holy trinity
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love isn’t all love towards each other‚ nor that love’s ambiguity could ever be single in concept. Shakespeare places special emphasis on genuine love‚ love of love‚ and false love. All there‚ becoming more and more evident throughout the play. Although a strange play; with cross-dressers‚ homoerotic attractions‚ and strange ambitions‚ his message became clear. Although “The Twelfth Night” creates an atmosphere of confusion and ambiguity
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different types of pressures (Bunkholdt‚ 1997). Role stress can be defined as a state of tension and anxiety‚ whenever a person finds it difficult to perform an assigned role. There can be two different types of role stress; role conflict and role ambiguity. Role conflict is defined as when a person has been given demands from different directions and those demands are contradicting then the person will experience stress. This person will become dissatisfied and
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The audience preoccupies itself in determining race‚ when in reality it proves only to mask the importance of this underlying sisterhood that cannot exist without its fellow feminine bloodlines. A powerful example of racial ambiguity‚ the character Maggie‚ which the two main characters saw as their mothers and never do agree on her racial identity‚ represents this idea of race as unfixed as the memory of her begins to fade in both of their minds. As well‚ Maggie served as the
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In the article Moral Criticisms written by Market‚ Ken S. Ewart‚ he discusses the religious criticism of the “free market” acknowledging that there are problems. The problems include selfishness‚ materialism‚ and abuse of power in the economy existing in the “free market” He clearly identifies that the free market system gives everyone the ability to pursue their own goals. The believers from the secular left believe this thought. He states “According to critics of the market‚ mere survival in
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thereby steadily participated in the issues of existing. “More than Love and Death? (xiii)”. Jonhson means that Dickinson poems are about these topics‚ she persistently likes to express her ambiguity and questioning of these topics. Dickinson was obsessed with death and immortality topics. She had a talent for ambiguity and questioning life after death. It is not hard to understand why she had all these thoughts. When Dickinson was a kid‚ she attended a Seminar for girls‚ but on some point in her life
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Ambiguity‚ which is doubleness or inconclusiveness of meaning‚ is an important characteristic of Hawthorne’s style in The Scarlet Letter. Constantly used throughout the story‚ ambiguity continually keeps the readers attention. Examples of ambiguity are clearly seen throughout the book. When Hester Prynne is leaving the prison‚ Hawthorn briefly describes a rosebush In front of the prison. Hawthorne says‚ "…or whether‚ as there is fair authority for believing it had sprung up under the footsteps of
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wrong for the their to steal the bicycle from Antonio‚ but after seeing where he lives it is apparent that he only stole the bike to support his family‚ it is easy to understand that it was done out of desperation and not out of pettiness. The moral ambiguity in the film creates makes it hard to discern who is truly in the right. Originally the viewer starts out feeling quite sorry for Antonio. Just as fortune favors him and it seems he and his family will have a chance at a better life‚ it is torn
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DEGREE OF ROLE AMBIGUITY AND ROLE CLARITY AMONG THE EMPLOYEES OF MODI MOTORS GROUP IN PARTIAL FULFILLMNT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR MASTER IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES (MMS) 2011-2013 ROLL NO. C - 14 SUBMITTED TO DR. V.N. BEDEKAR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES‚ THANE Dr. V.N. Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Page 1 STATEMENT BY THE CANDIDATE I wish to state that the work embodied in this Project titled DEGREE OF ROLE AMBIGUITY AND ROLE CLARITY AMONG
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children: Miles and Flora (5). As the protagonist – the governess narrates the story in first-person; thus‚ the reliability of the story is arguably biased due to her comments and thoughts in the text. The author deliberately encloses elements of ambiguity within its’ gothic setting‚ which asserts mystery in the mind of the reader‚ hence relating the story to many dark
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