song’… And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.” Cumulative detail Anaphora – several sentences that start with the same wording – “And I wonder” Amplification and repetition Voyeuristic imagery Stream of consciousness Simultaneously connects and doesn’t connects Reinforces the motif of the “wallflower” – someone who observes but does not participate or belongs “Charlie‚ we accept the love we think we deserve”. Aphorism – short statement of general truth
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Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is one of the most successful and controversial novels of our time. Other authors have jumped on the bandwagon writing novels on Christian topics or treasure hunts or simply discussing The Da Vinci Code. Even the film industry has profited by using Brown’s strategies (and topics) in the successful movie National Treasure and by taking advantage of the Grail publicity in TV productions like The Blood of the (Knights) Templar. But which strategies does Brown use to make
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functionalism movement that were more qualitative in nature. Although not directly associated with the movement‚ psychologists such as Sigmund Freud‚ Alfred Adler‚ Carl Jung‚ and William James made is possible to explain the purpose of the human consciousness. They all wanted to discover a way to improve the quality of the lives of individuals rather than focus on laboratory research; a more direct approach to mapping the mind. Their variations in theory were designed to focus on the foundation of human
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approach to time. She contrasts the objective external time and subjective internal time that structure the plot of the one-day novel. In fact‚ the story takes place on a single day in June and‚ by the use of two important techniques‚ namely the stream of consciousness mode of narration and the interior mono-logue‚ the reader is constantly flowing from the present to the past or the future. Moreover‚ Woolf blurs the distinctions between dream and reality but emphasizes the importance of the present moment
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Other nodernism terms Expressionism Presented a wildly distorted and symbolic world to reflect the feelings and emotions of the character or author Expressionism Authors include Kafka‚ T.S. Eliot‚ Joyce‚ Ralph Ellison Imagism Rejected sentimentality and cloudy verbiage and aimed for new clarity in short lyrical poems. They believed images carry the poem. Meaning happens in the air. Imagism There were four basic rules of the movement: 1. use the common language of speech 2.
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person would be you.” (384) With this statement‚ Parfit means that we could know the result of what just happened without answering the question. There is only one outcome that is being considered. According to the Bundle theory we cannot explain consciousness by examining a person. The answer is instead in a long series of mental states and different situations. In these different series we experience life through thoughts and sensations. Each life situation or experience is put together by various
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Crete. Like Daedalus‚ Stephen eventually decides that he must create a new soul that will allow him to rise above the miseries of his life‚ develop an identity‚ and pursue his destiny as an artist. Joyce ’s novel is narrated in a unique "stream-of-consciousness" style‚ such that the reader sees the story through Stephen ’s eyes. The novel begins‚ "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming along the road met a nicens
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Wollstonecraft based her life. "The high-handed and hot-blooded manner in which she cut her way through life" is in essence what Woolf is trying to replicate in this essay‚ in particular through her method of writing which is based very much on the stream of consciousness style. Woolf here attempts to vividly reconstruct the thoughts and ideas on which Wollstonecraft not only based her life on‚ but by which she was influenced for her own writing. Her writing is certain‚ yet a work in process. The purpose of
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The Comparison of George Moore and James Joyce Ireland is best known for its unique culture‚ the accent‚ the green beer‚ and the music. But it is also known for its diverse literature and writers. Over the years there have been many different writers with their own sense of styles and their personal views of Ireland. There are many writers‚ such as James Joyce‚ Roddy Doyle‚ Edna O’Brien‚ George Moore‚ and Frank O’Conner who all came from different places in Ireland or even moved out of Ireland
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with the Cosmic Laws. That is inevitable phase‚ in ‘recognition’ of ‘Contrast Principle’ ‘exercise’. ‘Pain & Suffering’ lead towards strong longing for the opposite or corrective mode of behavior‚ cultivating the process of Renewal of ‘Cosmic Consciousness’. (Quote from ‘Livets Bog’ Vol I‚ chapter
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