Not only this, but Brave New World is more relevant to the modern world as it encapsulates the gathered feeling of apathy and aversion of feelings among the people in the real world, as apposed to 1984 which slightly refers to this attitude. The people in Brave New World live in a world free of negative emotions due to the elimination of families, religion, and books. Back in the Condition Center the Director explains the burden such institutions brought upon the people of the past, reasoning, “What with mothers and lovers, what with prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey,what with the temptations and lonely remorses.. they were forced feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopeless individual…
“The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air.” (Dickens 14) The ghosts in Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol were portrayed creatively and the director of one of the many film interpretations recreated the ghosts almost exactly like Dickens. Three of the ghosts in the film seemed to the most tantamount to the ghosts interpreted in the movies. They were: the ghost of Jacob Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, and the ghost of Christmases yet to come.…
Happiness, expressed in an everyday sense, is a mental or a psychological state of being sound and well defined by positive energy or joy. One may feel happy in a different manner, and due to a different reason than another. For example, one may be happy to win a million dollar lottery, whereas another may be happy to just to be alive. It is subjective when it comes to interpreting happiness as it differs with every individual. As a matter of fact, happiness compels an individual to embrace their passion and do what they truly believe in.…
Family is not always about blood sometimes it’s about who is there to hold your hand and support you, when you need them! - Unknown. Throughout the book in Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, the main characters Jolly and LaVaughn face how family support affects their identities. As LaVaughn, a fourteen year old lives with her supportive mom, Jolly, a seventeen year old teenage mom is living in dangerous apartment with her two children alone. Frequently throughout the book, the amount of support Jolly and LaVaughn get from their families affects their education, living conditions, and happiness.…
This showed some of Scrooges soft feelings, but the thing that really hit home with Scrooge was seeing his own…
Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into The Wild, presents the question, to what extent is community essential to happiness? Based on the actions illustrated by the main character, Chris Mccandless and humans in general, it’s fair to say that we don’t need people in order to be happy. Community can be defined as, “A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” As humans, we are so diverse and unique that we sometimes can’t find a community where our goals, interest or attitudes are reciprocated by others. Though society does believe we need relationships with parents, mentors and friends to be happy; Chris showed that we did not need these relationships to be happy.…
Ebenezer Scrooge is an old grumpy selfish miser who doesn’t care about others…
Why can happiness be hard to achieve for some? Some people are able to attain happiness through smaller goals, and some choose to pursue a more challenging path. Certain individuals must go through obstacles and the ignorant thought of the society they live in, to reach the contentment they desire. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby both illustrate the protagonist’s difficulties towards their goals of happiness.…
How well do you know Ebenezer Scrooge? And what does business mean to you? Ebenezer Scrooge does not understand the true meaning of “business”. The novel A Christmas Carol is about a mean old greddy man that learns a big lesson. He believes that “business” means to make money and to be rich.…
There are those who wake up each morning energized and in a good mood and others whom are never in a good mood unless something good happens in order to trigger the good mood. Not every person is alike in the way they think or in the way they do things. When trying to figure out why people do what they do it is very difficult to come to a complete conclusion because everyone is different and do things in different ways. Throughout the years there have been numerous ways that people have tried to figure out why people do certain things and although it may seem like they have found the answer there is always a question that follows. In Appiah’s “Case Against Character” the question of being in a good mood is raised.…
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how much his greed can hurt the people around him. Needless to say, greed is the central theme of Dickens’ beloved novella, and it is revealed by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, in order to change Scrooge’s curmudgeonly ways. The very…
The article “There is More to Life than Being Happy” uses a mixture of ethos, pathos, and logos to show the audience that the pursuit of meaning is far more important than the pursuit of happiness. Emily Esfahani Smith is a well know editor that writes about psychology, culture and relationships. She graduated from Dartmouth and was also the editor of the Dartmouth review. In this particular article, Emily talks about a neurologist who was contained in a concentration camp and how he survived with a motivation of still living on. She also talks about highly credible people performing different research that shows living with a purpose positively affects one’s life more than living to be happy.…
There were various things going on in the crazy county of Maycomb. Tom Robinson’s case, racism, and even who planted the beautiful flowers were just some of the things the people had going on in their life. Harper Lee uses many symbols to illustrate these topics and much more throughout the book. In the novel ,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the snowman to represent that a black person is never accepted unless he is a white “snowman” and it represents the trial and Tom’s life. She also uses red geraniums to represent Mayella’s desire for a better life.…
Inside Out is a film that is about one main character, Riley. The film shows us how from the time of Riley’s birth until eleven years of age, how her emotions change as the older she gets. The first emotion that Riley is born with is Joy. Joy is always happy, and looks to the brighter side of anything negative. Next came sadness.…
In “The Happy Man’s Shirt- An italian tale” the theme to this story would be that you shouldn't need something to be truly happy. This theme enhances the story by giving the readers a true reason to understand happiness can’t be handed to you. In the text it will prove that there are other way to draw in happiness. “The song led them into the vineyard, where he found a young man singing and pruning the vines.”…