Infinite Jest

Friends of people getting married often jest that marriage means “Game Over” for their once seemingly single brethren, but for Nick and Amy Elliot Dunne in Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl the game doesn’t end. Like other couples, they put on a mask of their best selves to accommodate the other person in their life while dating, but their inability to be honest with each other about who they are cause a downward spiral in their marriage. Instead of shedding their masks just as most couples do…

In the graveyard scene, Hamlet’s constant struggle with death and humanity comes to a halt as he picks up the unearthed skull of Yorick, a court jester Hamlet knew and admired as a young boy, “Alas, poor Yorick! I/knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy” (Act V, Scene I, Lines 160-162). As he is holding the skull, he looks into the empty eye sockets meaning that Hamlet is looking into the eyes of death itself. The skull is a symbol for the absolute finality of death…

I Family honor is an abstract idea involving a quality of worthiness and respect that affects a group of related people. Family honor can be defended by one or the group's members, however this leads to vengeful intentions. Revenge is the action of inflicting harm on someone for a wrongdoing suffered at someone else's hands. Revenge will lead to insanity. Insanity is a deranged state of the mind that usually occurs as a mental disorder. In play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the Prince of…

In “Consider The Lobster,” David Foster Wallace offers an interestingly ironic perspective on the intent of a creator when it comes to literature. As an author, Wallace has an insider’s perspective as to how audiences should be treating and accepting various forms of literature. On the surface, “Consider The Lobster” is an essay about the unimaginable treatment of lobsters in the Maine Lobster Festival which has an incredible lasting impact on the reader, leading them to feel an extreme amount…

unnatural.”(pg 57)(Hamlet). Old King Hamlet is encouraging Hamlet to kill Claudius for he is hes murder and should die cold as well and seek revenge for he is his murder. In hamlet it also states “ Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Hartio- a fellow of infinite jest,of most excellent fancy .He hath bore me on his back thousand times,and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your vibed now?your gambols?…

The Audacity of Sincerity I 'm being sincere here, I promise; but the thought of blazing a trail of sincerity in a world that is accustomed to lies is an audacious move that requires stern commitment. I have wondered time and time again that how did we get to the point where manipulation has become the norm; sincerity and irony have almost become synonymous. On the part of the pop artistes, I see a conundrum of insincerity that is necessitated by an audience that has developed “itchy ears” for…