Mr. Sandman

Pasternak ever said, “Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life.” Like a coin always having two sides, the problem of life and death always interact with each other. In the 1925 published novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf points out that the view of life and death is rooted in individual consciousness. Some people die, their consciousness still live; some people live, their consciousness is empty, they are the walking dead. Although…

characters and the events which occur are vital. The film depicts a recent college graduate (Dustin Hoffman), whose life very quickly becomes dominated by his relationship with Mrs. Robinson and her daughter Elaine. In Act one, the key players are introduced, Benjamin, his parents and their friends including, of course, Mrs. Robinson. It feels as though Benjamin is on a different planet to the others, and for that we are sympathetic towards him and want to see how things will play out. As is…

Ice and how its seen Ice, frozen water that is very brittle. That is the definition of ice. While it may have one definition it can be interpreted in many different ways around the world. Depending on who you're speaking to they might interpret ice as cold and unforgiving. However, another person might say that ice is the breath of god. The symbolic meaning of ice can be seen in literature with Game of Thrones, Film with Futurama and Batman, art with ice sculptures, religion with…

In the novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, Kenny wonders why his brother Byron is so mean to people. Kenny treats people better than Byron does because Byron was beating up Larry Dunn, Kenny shares his lunch and his gloves with Rufus and Byron had his lips stuck to a mirror and Kenny was trying to help him but if it was Kenny said “If he was stuck Byron would have done some cruel stuff to him”. Kenny tricked his mom into getting him another pair of leather…

Ben is a very active guy with a strong career and many life goals. He is currently working full time and attending classes to receive his MBA. Ben has always been involved in sports and fitness his entire life. He grew up playing basketball, baseball and lifting weights. He has backpacked in different countries and enjoys the outdoors. After high school, Ben enjoyed playing league softball and the challenge of bodybuilding. However, he had to stop playing softball because he was starting to…

his parents' house. He's trying to avoid the one question everyone keeps asking: What does he want to do with his life? An unexpected change comes up when he is seduced by Mrs. Robinson, a bored housewife and friend of his parents. But what begins as a fun rendezvous turns complicated when Benjamin falls for the one woman Mrs. Robinson demanded he stay away from, her daughter, Elaine. The main theme expressed in the movie is the coming of age. It focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth…

Innocence is defined as a lack of experience with the world and with the bad things that happen in life; it is a barrier between truth and ignorant purity. Although innocence is irrefutably granted to every human being upon birth, its duration varies because it is fragile and there is no telling what or when life will throw a Bomb of Truth at the barrier and destroy it. The Barrier of Ignorance can be shattered by anything that contradicts a childish belief. It can be shattered by something…

happiness to society. He is a foreigner, but in terms of social conformity, rather than national identity. In a way, Clarissa is an ideal example of Sigmund Freud’s theory of melancholia. Mrs. Dalloway continues tormenting herself by living the life she’s stuck in, rather than striving for her own genuine…

The world of Mrs. Dalloway can be summarized in one word, insane. Everyone is different and no one is who he or she portrays himself or herself to be. Even Mrs. Dalloway herself is a room full of people, all of whom are compressed behind the thin mask that doesn’t hide a thing, at least to the reader. Some people like Peter, are a mess of emotions so jumbled that even as the reader you have no idea what his reaction to a situation will be. Others like Hugh Whitbread have put up a front, that…

Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this fear of existential emptiness is manifested into the characters’ own materialist strategies to cope with it. Whether it be through the accumulation of memories and social clout, physical tokens from the past, or knowledge and exquisite treasures, the characters of these three novels find their own distinct ways to fill the vacui, or void, they feel within themselves. The elderly Mrs.…