Fool

Could you shoot an animal to save your pride or to not look like a fool to others? Some of you may say yes and some may say no. In Orwell’s “Shooting and Elephant” he puts his personal experience as a police officer in Burma and an insight on the imperialism during this time. Orwell goes into detail how he hated his job and he was against the corruption and inhumanity that was going on. Until one day an incident happened, which Orwell was called to take care of an aggressive elephant that had…

perfect she didn't care about the rumors of a devilish creature who lurked the grounds of this perfect home. Miss Finki let out a sigh of happiness. “Oh what a fool she is for thinking we don't exist.” A devil with dark red skin, moved his light red hair out of his black and white eyes, horns of a bull, and the tail of a lion smirked. “A fool indeed.” “Isn't that right Sapphire? My sweet daughter. Anyways how shall you make this lovely woman's life a living hell, after all you are finally of…

Hipster Cows (An Analysis of Conformity Through Colin Wilson's Quote) Emerson once said, "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Man will never be able to fully eradicate conformity, because it is human nature to a certain degree, but one can prevent the unnecessary conformity. The brave few who follow the path less traveled often finds it a rewarding experience. If one can escape the repertoire of life…

voice more seductive and almost mocks the idea of love simply by changing his tactic used when presenting those lines. His mockery of love shows how melancholy he really is, which is expressed throughout the whole play; “A fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ th’ forest, / A motley fool. A miserable world!” (II.vii.12-13). Masson also uses gestures to really bring the viewer in and pay attention to what he is saying. His gestures highlight and underline what is important within the spoken lines, while…

Corruption of a person leads to the deterioration of personal and public life. In Macbeth, Macbeth admits to his obsession to be in power; mentally and socially, which leads to his deterioration. The influences of secondary characters such as Lady Macbeth, the witches, and the apparitions cause Macbeth to commit irreparable harm to King Duncan, Banquo and Macduff in addition to Macbeth’s obsession to stand politically dominant, fear of potential consequences, and his hunger to exceed…

"Sarah! Give me my phone back!" I yelled after her. I stopped running and said to my mom "Sarah took my phone again." I heard the back door in the kitchen slam and I knew that she was already running out into the woods to hide by the creek. "That's your problem now Joseph." She replied shaking her head. I decided just to let her hide until she got bored and came home. I grabbed my book and laid down on my bed. I was reading "The Best of Edgar Allen Poe" by Edward Blake. I was currently reading…

is proven when he says, “the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl” (29). Another example of this irony is when Jack and Algernon are talking about clever people and Jack says, “I wish to goodness we had a few fools left…I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?”…

Antigone’s sister, Ismene, even warned Antigone that she would die by saying, “Go then, if you must, toward your end- Fool, wonderful fool, and loyal friend.” (Sophocles 168). Ismene was trying to tell Antigone that Creon would surly kill her if she advanced with the burial. Being the stubborn girl that she is, Antigone progressed with burying her brother showing no fear of…

The chapter focused on the terms and artwork made to fool the eyes of the people looking at them. One of the words used in the chapter is French word Trompe l’ oeil that means “fool the eye” taking two-dimensional artwork look three dimensional. Many Renaissance artworks have an Illusion trick to them like the ceiling painting by Andrea Mantegna called “Detail of central…

understanding. Then he proceeds by claiming “something” as an actual being, which turns out to be God. To start out, Anselm says that something than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the understanding or in the mind. Anselm says that the fool understands that something than which nothing greater can be thought…