Escapism

story is the meditation on blame… Each individual in the shit field feels he knows who to blame -- himself, others, all of them, none of them, the higher ups, and so on. Each also suspects it is beyond them.” (Bloom 55) The soldiers use blame as escapism from the conceptual burden that his death has given them, and as an attempt to cope with his death. Although the soldiers never cease to blame themselves, they think that his death is beyond them. Kiowa, much like an angel, constantly forgave…

It doesn’t help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must…

escapades is the question that becomes important. What is the desirability to shun the present and the individual selves for the past memories when all it does it to provide brief patches of escapes and can never be an alternative to reality. Why this escapism and this attitude becomes so fundamental in the old age. The need to look back and ponder with nostalgia at the lost past is very fundamental to a particular age. Age may limit a man physically but should not mentally and Krapp stands as…

U Street Music Hall, a DJ-owned concert venue in Washington D.C., recently celebrated their six year anniversary on March 11, 2016. The venue had DJ Jim E-Stack as the opening act, and featured XXYYXX as the main attraction. XXYYXX is a twenty-year old black electronic dance music artist who challenges stereotypes and uses his racial, age, and gender identity to creatively produce music without the boundaries of modern convention. XXYYXX, otherwise known as Marcel Everett, considers his genre…

Last of us is a dual protagonist game, a highly developed action/horror game focusing on a post apocalyptic society. Created by Naughty Dog. The Last of us along with its predecessors like Uncharted use detailed graphics, which resonates realism with every movement. The game is more cinematic in its elements like a Film. The use of colour and Mis-en-scene along with production aspects gives it a cinematic feel and look. The game was carefully edited to give a film like experience. The game was…

The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic example of dystopian literature. This paper aims to demonstrate how the novel illustrates the evolution of the concept of dystopia and discuss how the text provides a critique of the modern world. The quote “brave new world” is referenced three times throughout the novel to express, joy, confusion and finally pain and sorrow. Sentiments that are strikingly relevant in today’s world. The birth of dystopian fiction could not have been possible…

They found Maurice Stanley’s decomposing body at the factory grounds. He’d been lynched, the media concluded. He must have deserved it, they whispered under their breaths, or said much louder. After all, a people as wretched as his kind did deserve no better fate…. but did they, really? Was their existence really so cursed, so pathetic, that mercy should skip them? That justice itself should forsake them? Or rather, did they have the curse thrust upon them? Like a leash of heavy brass that would…

Being an INFJ female leader in the military goes against many of the established social norms that are ingrained in our military warrior ethos. Military leaders are taught from an early age to fight and win without giving much regard to introversion, intuitiveness, and feeling. In fact, the only acceptable trait that I seem to possess as military leader is that of judging. My persona fights an epic battle every day as I feel the pressures of having to force myself to be extroverted and to lean…

Accessibility that most students have to the internet through their computers, tablets, smartphones and also other mobile devices has made accessing information and also connecting with people a touch away in numerous cases. From the perspective gathered from Qualman, (2010) his study shows that students are now communicating all day every day through texting, email and also through the ever expanding frameworks of social media. Since it has had a current explosion in usage and popularity,…

Did you yet “discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself and the other for helping others” (Hepburn)? This woman strongly believed in this and spent her life to helping others until her death which was possibly caused because she forgot that she had another hand to take care of her own self. Despite her traumatic childhood, Audrey Hepburn was able to overcome the nightmare experiences through possessing strong morals and beliefs of her own and not only had a successful career as…