Beautiful Tragedy

The Strength of Words and the Lessons You Learn During the pilgrimage to Canterbury, 24 tales were told from all different types of people, from the poorest in the city to the richest. In the Canterbury Tales, a famous tale is heard from a Nun’s Priest about a widowed wife left with two daughters to live graciously with what God had given them. One-night Chanticleer: the noblest chicken on their farm, is awoken by a dream, a nightmare of being eaten by a fox. He is called crazy and thought to be sick but little did all his wives know that dreams in fact can be a portal to the future and can teach valuable lessons. In the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” the story teaches valuable lessons that dreams should not be overlooked, people shouldn’t be prideful in making choices, and people should watch out for false compliments. Firstly, dreams should never be overlooked. The noble chicken, Chanticleer, tells different stories of many scenarios that tell Pertelote, his wife, that he must listen to his dreams. A critic writes that “Pertelote calls him a coward and cynically suggests indigestion as the cause” (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia). Chanticleers wife is embarrassed of his claims about the nightmare he just had, and tells the rooster he must purge himself of this nonsense. Pertelote goes on and on about how a dream is just a dream and there is no significant importance to any of it. With her nagging, this leads Chanticleer into many short stories about how dreams are, and can be…

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misconception, it will leave the public with a bias forever and cost geniuses and their families an enormous amount of money seeking for seemingly better medicine heavily propagandized by media for financial purposes. The movie A Beautiful…

‘A Beautiful Mind’, directed by Ron Howard, is set in and around Princeton. It is a film about a Mathematical genius whose life is complicated by him developing Schizophrenia. In comparison ‘The Social Network’, directed by David Fincher, is set in Harvard and California. ‘The Social Network’ is a film about a genius that is sued for allegedly stealing the idea behind Facebook. In a comparison of these two films I will set out to show how both directors have successfully portrayed their…

Good morning/Afternoon Today’s topic focuses on the complexity of John Nash’s schizophrenia, a mental illness that devolves and progresses accordingly to the narrative structure of Ron Howard’s “A Beautiful Mind. “Did you know the prevalence rate for schizophrenia is approximately 1.1 % of the population over the age of 18”? Within his film, Howard explores the development of this mental illness, highlighting the adversities Nash faces along his journey. These challenges offer insight into his…

Life is beautiful is a film about a man named Guido Orefice, his wife Dora, his son Giosuè, and Guido’s uncle Eliseo. His family is sent to a concentration camp. Guido uses his humor to hide the horror of the camp by playing a game with his son. Critics of the film say that the film is not showing the full picture of the holocaust. Proponents of the film said that film is portraying the Holocaust, this way to have a broader audience. Roberto Benigni’s use of comedy is effective in portraying…

I find myself at times when I hear the music of some point of disappointment or stress that I had experienced in the past. The song composer was a poet named Katharine Lee Bates. In 1925 she wrote the song based on her inspirations at Pikes Peak. This I relate to relieving stress or disappointment because the tune is for Celebrating for our love of country as well as the dream of patriotism. I can conclude that the song had an impact on my life during the time of stress or discomfort. It…

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). I am renown around the world for this quote and it is very applicable to my life, because I am a writer. Although lots of my stories were not successful, I had a few hits that made me as famous as I am today. In these few minutes, I will tell you about my early life and where I came from, secondly my life and work in Europe, and lastly, my work in film and end of my time. To…

In “A Beautiful Mind”, John Nash is a brilliant man who had a lot going for him. He created various theories and equations that drove him further into the world of knowledge. However, it seems as if the smarter John got and the better jobs he was offered, the worse his hallucinations got. Hallucinations are triggered from stress; therefore, I feel that because John may have been so stressed about his life, job, education, etc. this caused the hallucinatiions to begin. I feel like John had to be…