Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals respond to the conflict between illusion and reality? Through the character Willy Loman, author Arthur Miller suggests that individuals will immerse themselves in[…]
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Dimming the Glare: Seeking Illusion to Remedy Reality – A Streetcar Named Desire Polished Critical
*A Public Service Announcement for My Beautiful, Intensely Stressed-Out Geniuses: There came upon me, once, a dark time in my life where I assumed the onesie was a rather childish, silly article of[…]
Personal Response ~ “Siren Song”
Diploma Prompt – “… the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality.” Siren Song This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is[…]
Pointing Fingers
Death of a Salesman is quite an astonishing play, mainly because it hit home in all the places I didn’t want it to. It is honest about its own truths. One question particularly[…]
On the American Dream.
I don’t think the American Dream is “bad”. Ironically, many of the books I have read that revolve around the idea of the American dream support a much more hopeless view on the dream[…]
A Poet’s Homage
I am not an essayist, nor would I ever care to be one. That being acknowledged, I do, at the same time, recognize the purpose critical writing plays in terms of its kinship to literature,[…]
Critical: The Effect of Self-Perception on the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality
Prompt: The role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. Illusions are generally viewed as the quintessence of escapism; through the creation of false ideals, one may find the[…]
Polished Critical–The Discrepancies Between Idealism and Truth
Shall each man find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? ~ Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance[…]
This is the Definition of Beauty (This is the Definition of Pain)
The following poem centres around the idea of body image. It also focusses on an individual’s personal definition of beauty. It explores the struggles young women often go through–though this is an issue that affects[…]
A Fulfillment of Self-Perception Found in Illusions – Polished Critical
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 illusions and reality. (June 2014) An individual’s[…]