Australian Dream

The Psychology of Dreams As defined by Sigmund Freud, dreams are the manifestations of urges and desires that we keep suppressed in the realm of our subconscious. Everyone dreams; some people dream every night, others once or twice a month, but everyone dreams. To some people there will always be a fascination with dreams and why we have them. How do we take what we do in our every day lives and turn them into something make-believe, which could be both magical and horrifying, when we sleep?…

Sigmund Freud proposed that the dreams we have show what we want to feel but are too afraid to admit. He used the terms ‘manifest content’ and ‘latent content’. Manifest content can be defined as the remembered story line of the dream. For example, if you had a dream about going to a casino and gambling. The manifest content is remembering that you lost at the table or the machines. Latent content is applying that dream into your unconscious mind to interpret what it means. The gambling may…

Freud once said, “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious” (“The Interpretation”). Sigmund Freud firmly believes that dreams allow people to be what they cannot be, and to say what they can not say in our more repressed daily lives (Freud). Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel that involves dreams to symbolize characters and foreshadow situations. Raskolnikov’s dreams may give more insight to his mind than the entire novel. Raskolnikov experiences four dreams from beginning…

Dreams serve as an effective way to look deeper into the character of a novel. Dreams allow authors to speak through their characters in a new way and act as a ploy to insert an idea or theme into a narrative, subtly. Dreams can speak to the mind of a character in profound and indirect way (WC) as well. Furthermore, dreams reflect both A Map of Home and Minaret and act as a motif to highlight the main characters as well as add to characterization. The two protagonists, Najwa and Nidali, come…

Death of a Salesman presents the struggle of an American family to achieve success. Willy Loman, the main character, is a salesman who is motivated by the desire to provide for his family. This desire is the quintessential definition of the American Dream. Blinded by this desire, Willy Loman loses sight of his true happiness and tears himself apart. To fully understand the breakdown of Willy, one must first look to the play. Miller uses numerous literary devices to introduce the audience to…

“Follow your dreams,” quoted by Kobi Yamada. Now one may think this quote is talking about the dreams as in goals and things people want to do in their life, but think again. Have you ever wondered about real dreams? The one’s you have when you’re asleep at night; the normal dreams, lucid dreams, the false awakenings, and even the nightmares? A dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep (Dream). Dreams are a great wonder to the world that…

What It Means To be American To be an American means not being afraid to follow your dreams and follow your heart. To be an American means be willing to fight for what is right and not just for yourself, but for other people you may like or dislike. An American is a hard worker that makes sacrifices for the greater good. It is okay to work hard and suffer and have delayed gratification. There are many songs that provide words that will move you and leave you feeling pride for your country. The…

In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the main character, Willy Loman is an elderly man. He has come to a fork in the road of struggling with everyday life in modern America, in the late 1940’s. As constantly newer appliances and cars are being manufactured, Willy Loman is progressively tries to obtain the latest models for his family. As he slowly starts to lose his mind in this materialistic world, it becomes clear that the only thing he is really concerned about is keeping up with the…

I identify myself as coming from an Australian, Aboriginal and Italian nationality, which then effects my religious, ethnic and professional culture. I could also be known as ‘half-caste’. In school I would be a part of many Aboriginal cultural programs and because of the colour of my skin and…

in my class but I never really paid much attention to where they came from I just treated them like other class mates. This didn’t help me broaden my knowledge of their culture, as we never discussed it. During primary school we learnt some of the Dream Time stories and the their different ways of living. However, not until high school did we learn what truly happened to Aboriginals. We watched eye-opening movies such as ‘The Rabbit Proof Fence’ that started more questions about the aboriginal…