...Long Day’s Journey into Night: The Perpetual Cycles within O’Neill’s Play O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956, 2002) is a depiction of the Tyrone family and the ongoing cycle of events that occur within the span of one single day in their life. At first glance, patriarch James, his wife Mary, and adult sons Jamie and Edmund, appear to be the average family in the year 1912, until one looks further and finds that each appears to be in their own version of purgatory, stuck in a repetition of events and behaviors that are both non-productive, as well as destructive. Ultimately, these result in their being condemned to continually relive the worst events in their life with their most unflattering characteristics, time and time again. Yet, in doing so, they not only self-sabotage, but sabotage each other and prevent any member of the family from realizing any genuine relief or finding any true resolution amidst this perpetual cycle, which is essentially foreshadowed by the title, itself. Therefore, from the ongoing cycle of denial and blame, to anger and guilt, to drug use and abuse, Long Day’s Journey into Night is a cynical story that illustrates the seemingly infinite cycles that depict the perpetual struggles that occur within one family over the course of an average day as the light gives way to darkness. As such, the paragraphs that follow elaborate on some of the most prominent cycles within the story, beginning with a discussion of the Tyrone family’s...
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...A Long Day's Journey into Night Should “A Long Day’s Journey into Night” be considered an example of Naturalism? Why or why not? Naturalism depicts the realism of events, occasions, life and people. It considers the inescapable force of heredity, social conditions and environment in shaping human character. An intensive analysis of the “A Long Day’s Journey into Night” clearly shows that it is an example of naturalism. This argument is supported by the following facts and discussions. The play has the quality of naturalism evidenced by the unfolding nightmare realities of family life right from the beginning to the end of the play. At act one, Mary, James’ wife is treated from the addiction of morphine and seems to abandon the habit and tries to assume a new life. In some occasions she opted to sleep alone to seek self comfort by avoiding the snoring of her husband. She shows great improvement in health and everybody in the family is happy about her change. Surprisingly, this new life without morphine does not hold long, she is forced by her unhealed addiction and breaks loose into it. The family stress of Edmund bad health, James and Jamie alcoholism may have contributed to her further indulgence into morphine. The fact that one of the family member contracts tuberculosis seems to be anticipated as it is revealed Mary’s father died of it. This case objectively support naturalism, it explains that the disease was passed through...
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...Martha Graham, whom is recognised as one of the utmost and greatest artists of the 20th century, revolutionised the art form of contemporary dance through movements which were established on the expressive dimensions of the human figure. The mother of contemporary dance achieved this by using her body in certain ways which were classified as athletic and dramatic, although raised controversy regarding every principle taught to ballet dancers. Outlined in this presentation will be a thorough analysis of Martha Graham’s work which challenged the concept of dance and made her one of the most significant pioneers of contemporary dance today. As well as her choreography throughout “Night Journey” and the symbolism involved which portrays her bravery...
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...A Journey by Boat - Essay Essay Introduction Last summer vacation was a period of joys and delights. I traveled through many cities, made many friends and enjoyed sights and scenes. A journey by boat upon the Ganga is a very wonderful experience. It is impossible to forget it. It is equally impossible to remember it without sense of pleasure. From where to where: We were three friend sat Allahabad. We decided very early in the morning to go to Beneras by boat. All the necessary arrangements were quickly made. We were soon moving on the sacred water. How the boat was propelled: The current and the wind were very favorable. Our boat went on by itself without help of oars. They were smoking and laughing. They were perfectly at ease. Night rest: My two friends had paid a visit to a theatre the previous night. They felt very sleepy. As the gentle breeze was blowing, they were soon asleep. Description of Surrounding Scenery: I was quite refreshed after a whole night of full rest and sleep. I began to look about. I observed and enjoyed what I saw. I feasted my eyes on the sights along the banks of the river. At regular intervals, there were ghats where men, women and children were bathing. I saw, at some places, the village women washing clothes. Here and there children were playing about. They were shouting at one another. Some women came to the river to fill their earthen pots. I had often heard and read that Indians were lazy. I was struck with the...
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...https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/470989045/voxskool-music-hub-for-better-health-and-happiness?ref=category VoxSkool Music Hub for better Health & Happiness! by Victoria Beebee 0 backers £0.00 pledged of £20,000 goal 27 days to go Back This Project Remind me This project will only be funded if at least £20,000 is pledged by Mon, Apr 18 2016 3:06 AM AWST. Fleet, UK Music In this day & age we feel worn down by so many daily pressures & emotions. We believe MUSIC is the MEDICINE of NOW! Share: Tweet Share Embed Pin Post Victoria Beebee First created | 0 backed voxskool.com See full bio Contact me Campaign Updates 0 Comments 0 Community Back This Project Remind me About this project Hey, I'm Victoria and I've been singing, writing and performing from a very early age and had a life of touring around the world and releasing my own material, which was amazing to experience with lot's of musicians and respected artists, as well as meeting brilliant every day people who loved the music! About 10 years ago I started to coach kids and adults to sing and express themselves through music, as I realised music has the power to change your mood from negative to positive and really aid in the healing of the mind, body and spirit. So I continued to coach and began gaining lots of new students. Each year we would gather everyone, all ages and cultures together and put on a concert for the local community, often...
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...The third element of Tyre’s theory is “(3) at night” (Tyre 19). This element is still relevant to The Hobbit even though the entire journey did not take place at night. The important events that help transform Bilbo into a hero happen at night. “At night” could also be generalized as a state of darkness. Bilbo did do many heroic things in the actual nighttime but while on his journey, he had one encounter that was very symbolic. This particular scene, could have been literally at night but Bilbo was not sure when it was because he was in a cave that was full of darkness. Bilbo is awakened from being unconscious after the dwarves were taken by the goblins. He finds himself in a cave and while feeling around on the floor, in the darkness, he...
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...lonely, dangerous journey to find the way back home, and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at, and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. Cold Mountain opens with Inman staying in a Virginia hospital trying to recover his wound from the war. One day he speaks to a blind man he usually saw through the window of the hospital’s room. When the blind man asks Inman to “cite me one instance where you wished you were blind,” Inman doesn’t know where to begin. There are many like: Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, but “Fredericksburg was a day particularly lodged in his mind.” At that time, he wishes that he himself had been blind at Fredericksburg when his regiment shot down thousands of Federal troops. He wishes that there is no war that takes many lives of soldiers, partitions families and makes him shatter by the violence he has witnessed while fighting in the Confederate army. Inman returns to the ward and opens his copy of Bartram’s Travels at random. He finds himself lose in descriptions that remind him of his home near Cold Mountain. One day in town, he writes a letter to Ada inform her that he will return home. That night, he leaves the...
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...Eden’s Draft of essay (without intro and conclusion) Bruce Dawe effectively utilises the poem ‘enter without as much as knocking’ as a tool to explore in depth the not only physical but emotional influences from modern society. Dawes poem is a political and social statement of contemporary culture and the cyclic web of conforming and consumerism that we follow consciously and subliminally. The persona is born into a clinical, inorganic world of ‘Blink, blink. HOSPITAL. SILENCE’, where feelings of isolation and distance are evoked, where loss of connectedness and belonging is created. Dawe comments upon the superficial world we are brought into from the start. Without warning, without consent we are stripped from our innocence and taught what is right and what is “true”. Even from a place of safety, from a haven in a “mothers arms” the allusion of “Bobby Dazzler on channel 7” from the cradle so to speak, introduces the influence of the character and opinions of his modern external world. From the ‘set-up’ of the personas life individuality is robbed as he becomes part of a stereotypical family where reality is superficial and abiding family and society norms begins control. The frame work of this conformed civilization compel the persona to exist as a commodity of a nuclear family that runs all too often on the middle class dictates of consumerism, wealth and keeping up with Jones image. Even as a child, within his family he is introduced into a world of control...
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...from a traveller, we can tell this from the nature of the questions, also from the fact that they are being asked we already get the idea that the second character who answers her is wiser. This is then emphasized by the sureness of the answer completely absent of doubt or hesitation. The persona finds comfort and reassurance in these straight forward answers, this could be because Rossetti lived at a time were such answers to difficult questions were a rarity. This is all supported in the question and answer: “Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?” “From morn to the night, my friend.” Here we have an answer that is reasonable yet difficult to answer, and yet we are given the simple straight forward answer, ending in the encouraging phrase “My friend”. If one takes the poem so far spiritually then day is now representing life and night represents the end, death. “A roof for when the slow dark hours begin” to show us that we slow down at night so we search for...
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...to a place far away from my home like traveling by train, car, or taking a bus, each having both advantages and disadvantages. Given the choice, I always prefer to travel by train especially if it is an overnight journey. Trains are easily the most comfortable way to travel. One has the option of travelling in air-conditioned coaches either first class, 2 –tier or 3 –tier. At night there is hardly any scope of getting amazing views en route and a good night sleep gives a refreshing start to the onward journey. Passengers are provided with clean bed-rolls for the night to tuck yourself in. The ride is very smooth and not bumpy as in case of buses due to the poor condition of roads. Trains rarely suffer from weather delays and does not give a jet lag. You can talk to your companions, read a book, or have a snooze. Indian Railways is pretty well connected and major cities are serviced by at least one railway line, along with countless local and commuter services. Trains offers plenty of legroom, no restrictions on the use of electronic devices, generous free baggage allowances, and a dining car serving freshly-prepared meals. Long distant passenger trains are provided with washrooms which are cleaned regularly. Travelling by train overnight is much safer. A bus journey is fraught with risks, they are more accident prone because it is depends on one individual - the driver. Whereas in railways, a system of traffic signals and personnel work in tandem to ensure safety. Trains are...
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...Meranda West Essay #1 Creation/The Hero’s Journey Neo’s Journey into his Real Life The Matrix shows Neo as he travels through a journey into the unseen and unknown to learn the truth about the life he has been living. Neo, otherwise known as Thomas Anderson, goes through an intense journey with the help of his mentor Morpheus. Thomas Anderson, Neo, works for a high end company in the day but at night he is a talented computer hacker and doing his side job of selling secret computer programs. One night as he is asleep at his desk, a message pops up one his computer that reads “The Matrix has you…”. It goes further in telling him to follow the little white bunny. As some people come through to buy something from Neo, he is asked to join them for a night out on the town. At first he denies the invitation, but then he sees a little white rabbit tattoo on the back of one of their shoulders and soon accepts. The nightclub that he goes to with them is where Neo meets Trinity. Trinity acts as a herald to Neo in The Matrix because she is the one that takes him to meet Morpheus. She, in a sense, called him to the call of adventure by messaging him online and having him come to the nightclub. When Neo is taken to meet Morpheus, he is given a choice between taking a red pill and a blue pill. He chooses the pill that will “show him how deep the rabbit hole goes” and at this point, this is where the creation myth of the matrix comes into play. Morpheus explains to Neo that the...
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...way?/ Yes, to the very end" (1-2). I believe that in these two lines, Rossetti expresses the distress she is feeling with life in general and how she cannot believe it just keeps going on and on. She uses the road as a symbol for the journey of life and she cannot believe it is windy, or difficult the whole way up the hill, or through the path of life. She goes on to say "Will the day's journey take the whole long day?/ From morn to night my friend" (3-4). In these lines, she is in this dialect with someone and is complaining that the journey of life takes the "whole long day," or in other words, she is in awe that it will take her entire life. In saying this, she is expressing how stressful and difficult she thinks of the journey of life and cannot believe she will have to go through the entire process to get to a peaceful place. I believe the person means from birth to death by their response. I think of the person talking to her as some short little elf-eared man for some reason. I picture him nicer than the men from "Goblin Market," but I think I still picture him as a goblin man because he the one that is giving her these answers that are difficult to hear, but is also telling her how to get to a better place. "But is there for the night a resting place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss them" (5-8). Rossetti is searching for this place of what is probably heaven, to get her out of the darkness,...
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...The Secret Sharer written by Joseph Conrad, centers around a character of a sea captain. Its title and opening paragraphs forecast a story of mystery, isolation, duality, darkness and silence. The novel proves true these predictions reveling thematic and image patterns directly proportional to them. The opening of the novel further reveals dialectics in the novel. The clash between the private and the public world or man versus society, in other words is the primary dialectic. The journey theme or the rite of passage theme also reveal themselves. We see a young and inexperienced captain grow and explore himself and the world around him, and in the process becoming a functional member of a society. The novella may be only fifty pages long but its words speak volumes. The first indication of a course that a novel may take is its title. The three little words contained in the title give rise to many interpretations. An image generated by the title could be that of a gossip. Since a gossip is someone who tells people’s secrets, or in other words is a secret sharer if the word secret is taken for a noun, it is a possibility that this image might come to mind. Another image is that of a person who shares in secrecy, therefore becoming a secret sharer, if the word secret is taken for an adjective. This could be an image of a miser, who generally does not share his wealth, but does so only in secrecy. A secret sharer could also be an imaginary friend. It would be a person who is secretive...
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...tested Gawain's ability before crossing the threshold into the unknown by presenting to him the beheading game. This game tested Gawain's stance as a knight and also started his journey. If he could not have successfully beheaded the green knight then he would have been unable to set about the journey in the first place. This therefore shows how the green knight can function as a threshold guardian. Likewise, the porter is a threshold guardian since at the castle he asked Bertilak if Gawain can cross the bridge in order to enter the castle. The other threshold guardian is the guide that was sent with Gawain to the green chapel. When the guide questioned him and asked if he was certain that he wanted to encounter the dangerous man that lies in the...
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...A journey by boat It was Durga Pooja vacation. I had come to my native village with my cousins. As we had no work there, we found the village life very dull. Suddenly an idea struck in my mind and soon we decided to go on a journey by boat. A day was fixed for the journey. The river was not too far. On the fixed day we took our bags and some things to eat and started for the river bank on foot. As we had already hired a boat, we found it ready. The boat was small but it was beautifully decorated. There were two boat-men who instructed us to set properly on both the sides of the boat. It was morning and the sky was clear. A fine cool breeze was blowing. As soon as we took our seats in the boat, it began to move on water. They were really thrilling movements in our life. We all were in high spirit. The' boat was moving gently. The river water was shining in the rays of the sun and was presenting a beautiful scene. It looked white like silver. There were many more boats of different shapes and sizes sailing in the river. There were men, women and children in those boats. The children were very excited and were shouting with joy. All of a sudden the cool breeze stopped blowing and we felt a bit hot. One of my cousins suggested enjoying cold drink which we had brought in our bag. Soon it was midday and we decided to take our lunch. Up to this time we were on the other side of the river. The boatmen tied the boat to the bank and guided us to a restaurant. We took our meals. We enjoyed...
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