Nostalgia‚ the desire to live in the past and a feeling that mainly every person experiences. To go back to the days where a person was innocent and didn’t care about the actions they performed‚ no matter how silly and foolish the actions were. Mainly‚ nostalgia is something that is believe to have a positive meaning where a person recalls good memories. However‚ nostalgia can consume you and cause a negative aspect. Tony Hoagland’s book Sweet Ruins tells about the nostalgia that a character feels
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"Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about
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The desire for freedom is a similar aspect of the female protagonists Louise Mallard‚ Mathilde Loisel‚ and Emily Grierson.</b></i><br><br>In Kate Chopin’s‚ "The Story of an Hour‚" Guy DE Maupassant’s‚ "The Necklace‚" and William Faulkner’s‚ "A Rose for Emily‚" the female protagonist’s have a desire for freedom. The stories are about three women living in patriarchal societies. Each character longs for freedom in a different way‚ but because of the men in their lives they are unable to make
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Ogulcan Bayol‚ 11-H In the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ Blanche the protagonist who is mentally fragile and depends on her sister’s help to overcome various adversities as her husband’s passing away and her paying many debts decides to move to New Orleans‚ where her sister lives. Throughout the play‚ Blanche‚ who is from a southern part called Laurel‚ strives to conform to society’s norms and attempts to find a man to marry her; but she is incapable of feeling
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Desire. It burns like an uncontainable fire‚ engulfing those in its path. Society bows down to desire for the individuals in society are driven by the desire to succeed‚ driven by the hope that they can be better than whom they were made to be. In a society in which men are merely pawns in a larger game of war‚ it is the desire to be special that keeps them going. But when desire takes over the brain‚ it provides the illusion of perfection. It turns a person against the world‚ for they believe they
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Does the man’s natural desire for “Summum Bonum” leads to the state of war where peace can only be achieved within an absolute monarchy? According to the 17th century philosopher‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ humans share a fundamental quality – an enduring desire for power‚ glory and self-perseverance‚ and in the right of nature it is upon each man’s liberty to use his own power to persist his existence. Hobbes‚ in one of his most influential texts‚ Leviathan (1651)‚ constructs arguments which justify destroying
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A postmodern cultural perspective in Lolita and A Streetcar Named Desire Postmodernism has emerged as a reaction to modernism thoughts and "well-established modernist systems". (Wikipedia‚ 2005) Specific to Nabokov’s Lolita and Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire is the idea that both of the novels are written under the view of postmodernism as a cultural movement and that they are broadly defined as the condition of Western society especially after World War II (period in which the novel were written;
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Michelle Hong EBS-021-701 July 8‚ 2013 Professor Haji Desire There are two readings that are similar to each other. One is called‚ “Shame‚” by Dick Gregory‚ and the other is called‚ “Salvation‚” by Langston Hughes. The major similarities found in the two readings are lying to fit in and longing for something/ someone. The two readings also have a similar introduction like the setting which takes place in Missouri‚ both authors are young‚ and are memoirs. The two readings have so much in common
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Life is often dictated by a desire from deep within a person’s soul. People will usually act on whatever desire this is for their own personal gain. Be it greed for lust/love as represented by Abigail Williams‚ greed for power/authority as represented by Reverend Parris‚ or greed for land/wealth/power as represented by Thomas Putnam. Arthur Miller points out all of these in his play “The Crucible.” He shows how it leads to the corruption of a once good community. The greed and quest for power blurs
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Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire investigates the power of externally driven and social influences upon the expectations and manifestations of relationships. Williams criticises social inequality and division between those who support the ‘old money’ and those in the ideals of the ‘American Dream’. He critiques the projected impressions that they create‚ surrounding the differing life expectations and the subsequent disconnect between members of the classes. In turn‚ his drama also examines
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