My world is, or was, in its glamorous ways, perfect; magic within desire, desire within magic. Neither life nor death could rob me of this magic, of this pompous veil of secrecy-I did not know-I[…]
Tag: delusion
A Wrong Dream: Polished Critical
…significance of an individual’s attempts to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance One of the most fraudulent conventional beliefs from history which continues to pervade time – The American Dream. A dream built off[…]
Blindness and Delusion: Quotation Presentation
The Stone Angel: Margaret Laurence “Summer and winter she viewed the town with sightless eyes. She was doubly blind, not only stone but unendowed with even a pretense of sight.” (Pg. 3) “Every last[…]
William Loman: A Small Analysis
After a first-time read through Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, it is easy to simply see the book as the story of an old geezer trying to live vicariously through one of his[…]
Lady Macbeth’s Descent into Paranoia
The response below is an AP analysis focusing on Lady Macbeth’s changing character/nature within Act 5 Scene 1, but specifically focuses on the lines 23-47 (within this website: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_180.html). Please note that these lines represent a[…]
The Looking Glass
Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. Mirrors are cruel, for they[…]
To Muzzle My Sins
The following is a journal response from Scene Six. Question: From Allan Gray’s point of view, retell the story Blanche told Mitch. Try to provide some explanations why he killed himself and how he felt[…]