nip-fix, dolphins screw, primates throw excrement. Humans deride at our beastly brethren for their means of amusement, yet I have little doubt if you sat a gorilla in the mezzanine to watch a hoard of synchronized singers and dancers telling their story in front of him, he would think “What the hell are these idiots doing? I want my stick back.” Yet what makes it so real? Where does the allure come from? The high notes or the kick lines? The consistency or the insanity? I have but one theory.
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"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" Two waiters in a café in Spain keep watch on their last customer of the evening, an old and wealthy man who is a regular at the café and drinks to excess. They discuss the fact that he tried to commit suicide the week before, but that it could not have been over anything important because he had plenty of money. The old man asks for another brandy and one of the waiters brings it to him. The two waiters discuss their customer further, saying his niece found him hanging
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka portrays an extreme example of existentialism. In this existential allegory, Gregor is forced to give up his normal human life when he suddenly turns into an insect overnight. This transformation shows the reader, if not Gregor, that things in the world will happen inevitably and the only way to enjoy life is to change your perspective of it. Looking at this story as an existential allegory, Gregor is a modern everyman. Before Gregor turned into an insect he was
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the innovative "bullet time" that loaned the audience a virtual eye to the world of the Matrix, where the laws of physics can be bent or broken. Nor is it just the fighting sequences of kung fu and the impossible acrobatics of a hero "plugged-in". The Matrix is an action film because its actions speak louder than its words. It is a film where adventurous narrative and visual spectacle meet, unapologetically, hand in hand. The film, through action, reveals just as much story, if not more, as through
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before them. As the ghost starts to leave the group, Hamlet swiftly decides to run after the ghost. When Hamlet finally catches up to the ghost a conversation, which serves great importance to the story, is started. The conversation with the ghost is in some ways, what creates the entire plot of the story. The deceased king tells Hamlet how he died, and why. He also tells him that the murderer is his uncle, who recently married the queen. This scene touches on some interesting things. We get an understanding
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while others like to believe it’s what is at the far reaches of our universe. It doesn’t really matter though, we live and then we pass through the veil of death into oblivion, everything that happens in the middle is just filler to the end of our stories. When a true existentialist dies, his or her last thoughts are probably along the lines of “That was fun.” or maybe even “I hope I turned the coffee pot off.” Gregor has probably gone through a lot more during his months as a bug than most people
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providing an autobiographical undertone. Moreover, the work is reportedly one of the few stories that satisfied him enough that he desired that it be published. In order to truly appreciate Kafka's work it is important to understand who he was and what his state of mind and overall disposition was when he wrote “The Metamorphosis”. In many regards his own personal background mirrors the character Gregor in the story. Although Kafka was intelligent, he lacked confidence and assertiveness in his daily
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The Decline of The West Short story by: Hanif Kureishi The Decline of the West is a short story written by the English, half Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi in 2010. The main theme in the short story is the capitalism and how material we have become in the West in the year of 2010 and how we strive to gain material comfort ahead of true happiness and greater meaning in life. The short story’s main character is a forty-five year old man named Mike who is on his way home to his family. It
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English Essay – Wolf Alice At the time of writing “The Second Sex”, Simone de Beauvoir was gaining popularity. It was a masterpiece of feminist literature, which provided theoretical basis for the feminist ideas in the 1960s and 70s. But what makes this relevant is that de Beauvoir and Carter had much in common: they were both influenced by existentialism; rejected any kind of female essence; and both thought that “one is not born but rather becomes a woman”. This is precisely what Carter tries
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THE LITTLE PRINCE In the eyes of a child, there is joy, there is laughter. But as time ages us, as soon as we flowered and became grown-ups the child inside us all fades that we forget that once, we were a child. The story begins about drawings of closed and open boa constrictors. Later, the author relates a story about the Turkish astronomer who discovers the little prince's home, Asteroid B-612. When he presents his findings to the International Congress of Astronomy, dressed in his comical
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