Puppet on a String

Throughout history, there has always been people trying to obtain absolute control. During the Second World War; Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini initiated a war against the rest of the world, in hopes for world domination. If they had succeeded the world will be split into three; having each dictator controlling a certain region. Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia are most likely Orwell 's perspective of the Second World War if the results was different. Oceania is controlled by Big Brother and the…

“The place where you came from aint there anymore, and where you had in mind to go is canceled out” – Arnold Friend (p.325). The quote that is stated above is what clarifies the significance of Oates work in the question of the title; “Where have you been, where are you going?” Oates really brings out the inquiry upon her readers, and makes you think beyond what is obvious in a real world situation from Arnold Friend’s statement. Arnold had a lot of enforcement upon Connie mentally and…

Photoshop. A programme capable of altering the images in our world, and our perceptions of them. Though inanimate, it has the ability to shape our values; causes us to conform to a society that desires to be genetically flawless. You may not realise it, or maybe you do, but the probability of Photoshop affecting the way you look at yourself is more than likely. You’re reading a magazine, and suddenly, you flip to a page of a model who is seemingly perfect. You sit there, and you stare at that…

Life as a Bat the author states, ““Vampire films have always seemed ludicrous to me, for this reason but also for the idiocy of their bats—huge rubbery bats, with red Christmas-light eyes and fangs like a saber-toothed tiger’s, flown in on strings, their puppet wings flapped sluggishly like those of an overweight and degenerate bird.” (Pg. 73) Voluminous movies that include bats, the bats are usually portrayed as malicious animals. The national geographic states, “For starters, bats are not…

Victorian Women: Society’s Puppets In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator of the text was depicted as a woman suffering from an anxiety illness that she identifies as real, but her blinded husband, John, thought she wasn’t sick at all and all she needed was to rest for a while. As the text progressed, the narrator began to become connected to the yellow wallpaper in the nursery room she was staying at, seeing things move within the wallpaper and even seeing women…

Reverse Slavery The universal concept of the term slavery is that there’s an individual or a group of people that are owned by another person. This broad description of slavery became the prototype description of the enslavement of Africans in the United Sates during the sixteenth-century through the late eighteenth-century. However, a simple description of slavery does not do the term justice because it’s much more complex than the ownership of another person. Slavery is a term that is fluid,…

the Cave by Plato was written somewhere between 380 and 360B.C. in part VII of his work The Republic. It begins with the main character Socrates talking of a hypothetical cave in which prisoners are kept in bonds to see what are essentially shadow puppets upon the wall they are forced to stare at, believing them to be the reality of the outside world as they have no other frame of reference. Socrates goes on to say that if the prisoners were to be freed from their bonds they would most likely…

As we get older we assume that we get a say on how we want to live our own life. If that’s the case, then why are few rich and successful, whereas the majority are suffering and are impoverished? In a sense we are all human beings therefore we should all be treated in an equal manner and be given equal opportunities in life. Reality however is a killer for we find that society, which was initially used as a survival technique by earliest ancestors, has more of a say in our lives then we do…

Puppet on a String Realism is a way people move and talk that are like everyday behavior, a reflection of real life. In the late 19th century realism came to theatre with remarkable theatrical innovations such as, playwriting, political, and social ideas. Rather than a platform, realism holds the image of a stage as a setting. (Jones). An example of realism can be seen in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House with the identity of Nora, social expectations, and individualism. Ibsen portrayed Nora, as…

Typically in a monarchy, a King or a Queen from a royal dynasty heads this form of government, and sometimes has absolute powers. Democratic Athens had no monarchs in the real sense of the word, but Sparta had two kings. This was not a true monarchy. Both kings ruled together, and with powers limited by the Ephors and Gerousia, they were more of figureheads. Arriving at decisions in both a monarchy and a tyranny would be faster than in a democracy or an oligarchy, because that function lies with…