Play It As It Lays: Life Unscripted (DRAFT) Maria Wyeth is an actress‚ a beaut‚ a dimming star‚ a schizophrenic‚ and beyond that a untraditional loving mother to Kate‚ her daughter. The way Joan Didion writes “Play It As It Lays” in satirical way upon Hollywood lifestyle is tantalizing the mind to think that Hollywood is full of people who have problems of drinking‚ drug abuse‚ and sex. Which is undeniable happening in the most era of Hollywood lifestyle since the day one. Fame‚ success and pouring
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Suffolk College‚ “So terrible is Holden’s depression‚ so complete his sense of alienation from the world of the living‚ that in his disturbed imagination only the dead‚ idealized brother can save him from the nothingness‚ the hellish state of his own nihilism” (26). Holden views Allie as one of the few good and pure people in the world‚ so naturally he thinks of Allie whenever he feels scared or alone. When Holden is talking with Phoebe and she accuses him of not liking anything‚ Holden tells her he likes
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Existentialism : Here & Now Existentialism aimed to explore and encourage personal sensory detail via the thought processes of human beings. “Existentialism stressed the special character of personal‚ subjective experience and it insisted on the freedom and the autonomy of the individual” (Wolf). The philosophy of existentialism‚ and one of its greatest philosophers Jean Paul Sartre‚ were the motivation and inspiration to the arts and humanities during the 1940’s and 1950’s. First allow me to
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violence. His aggression toward the Danes is due to the jealousy of Hrothgar and loneliness that is endured by him through isolation from everyone. Grendel desperately admires his hunger to kill and destroy. “I have not committed the ultimate act of nihilism: I have not killed the queen” (Gardner 90). Grendel fears the idea of compassion and kindness in a society . Therefore he has a hard time accepting Wealtheow (Hrothgar’s wife) into the life of the Danes. At the same time he is confused on whether
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Subjectivism Each every person in the room is a subject. There no way to make a judgment between 2 people. Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people‚ or that any ethical sentence implies an attitude held by someone. As such‚ it is a form of moral relativism in which the truth of moral claims is relative to the attitudes of individuals (as opposed to‚ for instance‚ communities). Consider
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In this world‚ there are many attitudes towards life that one can possess. This attitude can range from nihilism to ignorant idealism depending on the human being. The works entitled "Dead Poets’ Society" and "The Catcher in the Rye" hold a variety of stances on life. However‚ the novel‚ "The Catcher in the Rye" mainly paints the mind-set of idealism because it is about an adolescent named Holden Caulfield who is highly idealistic. The novel goes on to tell about how Holden cognizes that the reality
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The Cycle of Violence In his autobiography‚ Fist‚ Stick‚ Knife‚ Gun‚ Geoffrey Canada exposes the reader to numerous types of violence witnessed while growing up in South Bronx‚ a subaltern community in New York. The slum is full of lower class individuals who are in a constant struggle for power‚ acceptance and safety. The book begins by discussing his childhood and how he had to learn the codes and behaviors accepted in his neighborhood and his place in the hierarchy of the street. Each block
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Towards the beginning of the twentieth century‚ ‘monstrosity’ underwent a significant shift; from externalised representations to largely internal manifestations. From the Victorian vilification of the social and cultural ‘Other’ as an antithesis to morality and human civilisation‚ the monster grew to embody a more relativistic and ambiguous identity in the twentieth century paradigm. American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman‚ and Monster’s Aileen ‘Lee’ Wuronos‚ are two quintessential monsters of the ‘serial-killer-as-protagonist’
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No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy’s novel‚ No Country for Old Men‚ enlightens the life of Llewellyn Moss‚ a welder and Vietnam veteran‚ who happens to stumble upon several murdered bodies‚ a sufficient supply of cocaine‚ and two million dollars of cartel drug money. Moss decides to seize the money and consequently sets off a chase for his life against the old hand sheriff Ed Tom Bell and hired psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh. However‚ McCarthy essentially exploits Moss’ and Chigurh’s
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burned it instead of taking it. In the publication "The Destructors." Masterplots II: Short Story Series‚ the idea is presented that this is an analogy for the institutions of the time. It states: “Trevor” and his followers represent the extremes of nihilism‚ the philosophical doctrine that existing institutions- social‚ political‚ and economic- must be completely destroyed in order to make room for the new”
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