Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Dream. The woman, Kimberly Amado wrote about the American Dream in her article What is the American Dream? Quotes and History. So what is it? The American Dream is the goal every standard American believes they can achieve. Little do they know it is impossible to achieve. Although the American Dream is a real thing it is unreachable because when a person thinks they reach it they keep wanting more. As in the story The Great Gatsby, Mr. Gatsby changed his life around. He has a beautiful house,…

Paul Coelho stressed that “Whatever you decide to do make sure that it makes you happy.” The pursuit of happiness is shown in the novel The Alchemist, written by Paul Coelho, and the New York Times “The Pursuit of Unhappiness” by Darrin McMahon. In The Alchemist, a young shepherd named Santiago decides to leave his current lifestyle after having his dreams read by a gypsy, and travels the world to find the Pyramids of Egypt and its treasure. Coelho encourages his readers to follow their dreams…

attempts to win over his golden girl, he is oblivious to the fact that he is hurting himself and the people he cares about along the way. Not only is Gatsby blind to not see the incongruity of his goal, but he fails to realize that the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, has other aspirations for her ideal life that Gatsby will never be able to fulfill. Much like the way Gatsby thinks and acts, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson struggle to be mollified with what they already have. These naïve hopes…

American Dream is written in the declaration of independence, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In Of Mice and Men Lennie and george have a dream to one day live in the “fatta the lan,” as they call it. To them this is happiness and the “American Dream.” They dream to save up and purchase their own place. They have spent all their life working or traveling looking for a place to work. All of the other men like George and Lennie dream of having the same, but never seem to achieve it.…

In both life and literature, love exists as a hidden force that secretly drives all lives, propelling people's greatest desires and pushing them to extreme lengths if it means that they will get what they want. Love, in whatever form it comes in, will make people crazy. In fact, it will make them so crazy that centuries after a work has been written, students analyze the insanity behind the actions and the all powerful drive — love— that caused it. In Plato's Symposium, characters examine not…

of these texts there is a love story that share common themes, throughout each text there is an unwavering desire for someone, and regret in the end. This results in actions that don’t go well for each of the main characters and in each of the texts there is a love triangle that breaks through death. There are also alternatives that are denied in each story that could have been a happier ending for each text, but the pursuit of what each character thinks is their true love is so strong that it…

Is it art imitating life? Or is it life imitating art? In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald it is a little of both. This classic tale of the pursuit of happiness, be it love, wealth or power, was directly reflective of the time period of its writing and of its setting. The interactions between the characters in The Great Gatsby are timeless and universal. The fictional novel, The Great Gatsby is set during the 1920’s in New York City’s, Long Island. Nick Carraway, the…

answer. In the beginning, King’s tone was accurately described as indignant as he states, “Five years ago he said (JFK),’Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments… We must rapidly begin the shift from a…

has been described as being “all about unbearable nostalgia and lost youth and impossible love.” Describing the feelings of unsatisfied characters such as Charles and an accurate depiction of Sebastian, suggesting that their love is unobtainable and “impossible” to achieve. The idea of a “lost youth” possibly brought about by love, depicts the dark side of love, which is often looming yet unstated by the authors. Love, hate, and death all follow closely together, crossing paths. In “North and…

inevitably crumbles into dust, like so many other cities before it. Just cities require the philosophy forged from Christianity, however Plato’s view of justice is incorrect. Plato’s ideas of just government relate to his idea for a just soul. Reason, spirit, and appetite make up the tripartite soul. These three factors further explain Plato’s four types of unjust government. First, he analyzes the concept of a timocracy. Timocracy, a society that loves honor, values spirit over appetite and…