Joy Cannot Exist Without Pain “It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”-Marquis de Sade. This quote describes life and the obstacles throughout it. The people who have been through the most pain truly know what joy is. A lot of people go through struggles and pain at more than one point of their life. For some people‚ it is more enduring than others. However‚ everybody must suffer some sort of pain and must struggle at some point in their life in order to truly experience joy and
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titled “Madness is Part of Life.” “Madness is Part of Life” is an environment piece created by the assemblage of many items. The items used to create this art piece are a bunch of plastic balls‚ the number in the thousands‚ as well as orange netting to keep the balls suspended in the air. These items are arranged in a way which makes the piece resemble a children’s jungle gym‚ with many zigs and zags along the pathway. The pathway is used to support Ernesto’s idea and belief of madness being a huge
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Life‚ to most of us‚ is a succession of sorrows. This may sound rather pessimistic. Shakespeare through the lips of one of his immortal characters spoke of "the oppressor’s wrong‚ the proud man’s contu mely. Shakespeare’s lines find a sympathetic echo in our own hearts‚ for we are all subject to these and other woes. Man vainly hopes to find in religion and God the sop or solace that life denies. Almost all religions have a similar prescription. The Christian tells us not to think much of our material
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’’MADNESS’’ AND ’’TRUTH’’ IN REGENERATION The idea of madness is central in the novel Regeneration‚ and since the very beginning is presented as a struggle between the ’real’ madness and the social conventions that lead people to think what should or should not be considered madness. The text is introduced with a letter written by one of the main characters‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ who is going to be sent to a mental hospital for protesting against the war. But after reading the letter which is supposed
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October 2012 Begging for an Escape “Joy Ride” is a short story written by Richard Russo. It features a boy‚ John Dern‚ and his mother‚ who both long for an escape from their lives at the time. This story follows the theme that one key aspect the human condition is the search for an escape. At some point in life‚ most humans wish to escape their past and present state of living. There may be many motivating factors behind this. However‚ most attempt to escape for one of three main reasons. These include
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remains both a foreign concept and one all too close. In my family‚ my maternal Aunt was diagnosed with rapid cycling Bipolar Disorder (BD) following a car crash and my father’s ex-wife and mother of my half-sister and brothers was diagnosed with Narcissistic BD at the age of thirty. While I did not have a particularly close relationship with either of these women‚ they both inadvertently affected my life and others within my family. Therefore‚ reading A Hidden Madness was a mixed experience in which
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Though many themes and poignant arguments arise in Buchi Emecheta’s Joys of Motherhood‚ the most bold of these is the impact of colonial rule on traditional African society and its ambiguous affects thereafter. These themes specifically come about in the text as the clash between colonialists and Africans and how colonial occupation comes to alter the natural development of African cities and villages. It becomes obvious that the influences of colonial presence in Africa are and will continue to
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I came across a picture the other day that took me back to an unforgettable and very eventful day. It was a picture taken after a horse show of the horse that I had saved my money for years to purchase. I had been showing horses and participating in rodeos my whole life with my Mom being a huge influence. She was and still is a horse trainer and breeder. I wanted a horse that I could purchase with my money‚ train‚ and show without the help of my Mom. That horse came about in 2000. She was a two year
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Hamlet Madness In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet‚ Hamlet allows his madness to cause him to behave irrationally. Hamlet’s madness causes him to make many irrational decisions. Starting with hearing the news about his father’s death‚ and then the spirit of his father appearing in his bedroom. The spirit tells him that Claudius was the one that killed him and that he needs to seek revenge in place of his father. This causes the beginning of Hamlet’s madness in the tragedy. His madness continues
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Questioning The Madness of Hamlet In the Shakespeare play‚ Hamlet‚ there is the question concerning the madness of the main character‚ Hamlet. There is no real answer to the question‚ “Is Hamlet mad”? It is merely based on ones own opinion and interpretation of the play. Although‚ Hamlet might display qualities of someone mad‚ is there enough proof to make the statement factual? First‚ we should look at the definition of what mad really means; According to Dictonary.com‚ Mad means to be mentally
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