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    Jan Steen was a famous Dutch genre painter, born in the seventeenth century. In his paintings, he made his subjects mainly from his daily life. The scenes he painted were often lively and chaotic and the Dutch to this day often use the phrase “A Jan Steen household” meaning a chaotic and messy household. His paintings of household chaos were supposed to act as a warning to observers that life needed to be more organized and orderly. Today the Merry Family is a typical work of art that portrays a…

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    after school, and not being able to leave. This was the life of a child of the estate during the Victorian Era. Although the child’s family may have been rich, that doesn’t mean that the child would live a happy life, free of troubles and worries. Some aspects of a child’s life were happy and not worrisome, including their variety of food choice and expensive clothing. However, children during the Victorian Era usually had very sad and depressing lives because of the fact that their parents were…

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    specified, but likely produced in Victorian era because the couple wear Victorian clothing, therefore will reflect Victorian values and concepts. The man in Source A is clearly distressed because he may have read bad news, the woman is fulfilling her role in life by comforting her husband; she is fulfilling her role in the Victorian period. Judging by the rest of the picture we have a beautifully dressed woman and a well-kept home, which was stereotypical of Victorian society. Overall, the…

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    manners, the entertainment form that satirizes the manners of a social class, in Wilde’s case, the high upper class, as previously mentioned. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a great example of this, as Wilde in this play, repeatedly mocks Victorian traditions, such as the pursuit of love, which we see in both Gwendolen and Cecily, who both have put their faith in the Christian name of Earnest, quite unlike the mother of Gwendolen; Lady Bracknell who is much more methodical and analytical…

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    clear. He proposes to the honorable lady Gwendolyn Fairfax and, through leading a double life, ultimately demonstrates his conformity to the Victorian ethical and social standards. Jack, same as other main characters in Wilde 's play, is a less realistic character and more of an instrument to highlighting a set of ideas and attitudes. As a known upper-class Victorian, Jack became respected by the society only because of his adopted father 's fortune this made him familiar about all the rules of…

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    exactly how Oscar Wilde felt about the Victorian upper class. In the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Oscar Wilde uses the characters to portray how he viewed the Victorian upper class. Wilde satirizes the Victorian upper class by using understatements about serious matters, bringing attention to the comedic behaviors of the characters, and portraying the humourous beliefs of the characters on serious topics. First of all, Wilde satirizes the Victorian upper class by using…

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    and The Matrix 's narrative is the starting place of the individuals who are faced with the concepts of the experience machine and Matrix. Although in Nozick 's example, individuals start outside the machine, those in The Matrix, like Neo, begin life in the Matrix. Neo 's subsequent choice to unplug from the Matrix to confront the real world would go against status quo bias and aversion loss, which, I suggest, explains why The Matrix 's narrative revolves around sinister machine rulers, who…

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    Similarly, Neo, the main character in the Wachowskis ' The Matrix, feels a similar discontentment with his world, even though he is incredibly intelligent. Siddhartha is a successful scholar and Thomas Anderson is a successful computer programmer, both men have vast amounts of knowledge about the world but something else on a different level is nagging them. This brings up the question: is knowledge truth?…

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    Agent Smith Psychology

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    movement for this text. First, Neo receives his “calling” from Morpheus and is given a choice between freedom from the matrix, or forgetting his meeting with Morpheus ever happened. Second, after Neo chooses freedom, and the price that accompanies it, he can no longer simply exist in the matrix; he is now a freedom fighter who ultimately discovers that he is “The One” who has been chosen to defeat the machines and free his fellow humans. Third, through a near-fatal experience, Neo is physically…

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    The Matix Analysis

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    revealed. In the movie, “The Matix®,” (I am not promoting or endorsing the movie, nor the directors, nor their lifestyles, I only found the quote to be an example of a revelation), the character Neo receives the revelation that not only is he in the Matrix, but he is the Matrix. In a scene from the movie, Neo makes the following statement upon this revelation, “I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the…

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