Oneiromancy

Dreams otherwise known as Personal Legends in the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, are thoughts, goals, and aspirations a person not has only in their mind while asleep but also in reality. An idea that an individual looks forward to as they rise from the morning and gives them happiness. Therefore, Dreamers have set out these ideas with the hopes and wishes that one day they 'll be able to achieve them. Each and everyone in the world ends up having a dream, they may not all realize their dreams at the same time, and all dreams may be unique but everyone has them. However, there is a diversity between certain people, a difference in which only a few are capable and successful in accomplishing their dream and others who give up along the way to their goal. In the novel, The Alchemist it shows people how personal legends can be difficult to accomplish but are still possible to fulfill through time and willingness. Furthermore, a personal legend that is unattained is an aspiration affected by an individual who has no courage to take action in bringing upon their dream, a person who is torn with whether or not they should follow their heart may bring challenges, and people who don’t take risks with actions may do it in the fear of failure and suffering Upon pursuing a personal legend, a crucial step for an individual to be capable of achieving their dream is by taking action. This is an important step for one to be able to accomplish their dream due to the fact that things…

1. Describe your overall impressions of the play. My overall impression of the play was good. But it was a little boring because we knew what would happen word for word. I think I would have enjoyed the play a little more if we just read the synopsis. The play talks about a lot of issues that are still here today. I would rate this play 7.5/10. 2. What part of the play stood out to you the most? Choose a quote from that part to support your answer. “MAMA: Oh—So now it’s life. Money is…

“He had all the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong.” Why were these dreams ‘Wrong’; analyse what the ‘right’ dreams would have been. Base your answer entirely on the text. Willy had quite a few ‘wrong’ dreams and they could have turned into ‘right’ dreams if his perception of the American dream was right. Dave Singleman was the man who sowed the false umbrella dream in Willy’s mind. This umbrella dream was the American dream, for all the smaller dreams Willy came up with, started with the pursuit…

Li- Young Lee poem This Hour and What is Dead seems to be filled with heartache and memorization from the death of his brother and father. Due to the format the poem is written it can be inferred that Lee use the Lord and other phrases as his connection to help humanize what can be looked at as a dream of the person he has talked about in each stanza. Li- Young does a tremendous job at using specific words to help allow the audience of this poem to visualize each scenario he is stating…

Death of a Salesman: An American Nightmare The playwright Arthur Miller takes us on a journey into the lives of the Loman family in the play Death of a Salesman set in post war Brooklyn 1949, when Americans are striving for the American Dream reaches full force. The play is taking place during the last twenty-four hours of Willy Lomans life. The Lomans are family that consists of Willy the father, Linda his wife, sons Biff and Happy. The play starts in a gloomy setting with the Loman’s home…

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” The meaning of the American Dream is that every citizen has an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The Dream is something every human has a chance to pursue and become successful with it. Everyone's dreams are different and achieving them can be either easy or hard. No matter what every person has…

many skills that Santiago learns along the way to finding his treasure is that he learns to watch for and follow omens. For instance, Santiago interprets a message from when the hawks were attacking each other. The text states, “Suddenly, one of the hawks made a flashing dive through the sky, attacking the other. As it did so, a sudden, fleeting image came to the boy: an army, with it’s swords at the ready, riding into the oasis” (Coelho, 2014, p. 103). This quote shows that Santiago was able to…