Persona

Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer, responsible for the thousands of poems written in the dirty realism literacy movement and was heavily influenced by the cultural, economic and social ambience of his home city in Los Angeles. A violent father, who at the time was out of work frequently during the great depression and often took his anger and pain out on his son, beating him regularly, up until his teenage years, marred Bukowski’s childhood. The poet became…

Sincerity is a trait that is many times lacking. People put on a persona they wish to be seen as, while in reality, they are completely different. In The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, one can clearly see an example of people who lack sincerity. In this play, Jack pretends to have a younger brother named earnest so that he may indulge in pleasures while in the city. In the same way, Algernon pretends to have an ailing friend named Bunbury so he can escape his duties in the city. The…

Styles make the fights that is what boxing promoters always say when they choose two fighters to encounter each other in the ring. A boxer's repertoire, speed, ferociousness, capability to yield a punch, and persona determines the style. Boxing styles are more instinct than a learned feature. Once someone boxes more and more they will find themselves suiting into one of the four styles swarmer, slugger, boxer, and a boxer-puncher. First, the swarmer is a relentless aggressor with a strong chin…

March 11, 2024 One of the principal themes in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" is the loss of innocence characters face. The book reveals a nuanced narrative, where the boys' time stranded on the island initiates beneficial effects to their personas. Being disconnected from civilization teaches them survival skills like hunting and mental skills. While the loss of innocence is undeniable, the dystopian setting fosters moments of growth and self-discovery, forcing the boys’ to accept the…

To examine Rebel Without a Cause without Plato’s Cave Allegory is to have an incomplete knowledge of the film. The underlying idea behind the film is laid out with mere references to Plato’s Cave Allegory, and so one must use those references as guiding points connecting back to the whole allegory in order to have a full understanding of the picture painted by Rebel’s references. Although one’s ability to perceive reality is central to Plato’s Cave Allegory, a close look at the 1955 film Rebel…

In the ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, T.S Eliot gives the readers a view through a twenty-two-year-old modernist, around the beginning of World War 1, set in a bedraggled, populous city and its persona is represented by an extremely caliginous man under the name of Prufrock. He is depicted as one that is afraid of living and hence is continually procrastinating. In contrast, ‘Mirror’, written by Sylvia Plath in 1961, around two years before her suicide, carries one into the mind of a woman…

Discovery may often be seen as spontaneous and sudden, however, it is just as often a result of a long process evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder. This concept is evidenced through poems such as ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Robert Frost, as well as ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley. These texts all feature key elements of discovery which can be identified and analysed as containing a conscious process, rather than occurring spontaneously or…

On the other hand, in Orwell’s short story, Shooting an Elephant, the persona was perceived as an outsider, working for the imperialist in Burma. The persona was experiencing external conflicts with the Burmese people due to their mockery of him as a British Empire, the British Empire’s unjust occupation of Burma and his internal conflict with conscience and self…

In today’s world, if one goes to a big city all one will see is people glued to their phone and computer screens. While walking, driving, riding in a vehicle, eating, or just sitting down people are always on their electronic devices. “Another way of defining technology addiction is – a habitual and compulsive way of indulgence with technology deviating from meeting the life’s different issues.” (Agarwal and Kar Page 170) Only a small part of these phone users are using the basic talk or text…

they continue being involved. Communities provide a sense of understanding and acceptance towards the teenager. Feeling included and loved by the members of the community continually block the struggles of the outside world, making their virtual persona an addiction that cannot be controlled. The addiction is a way of escapism that formulates from the struggles of boredom and personality difficulties that are masked with an online identity. In conclusion, many teenagers and users of social media…