Puppet

Nothing is accomplished towards a vision of a final goal in life when others are telling you how to live it. By becoming influenced by others mechanical nudges we are living life as a puppet and will never truly live. A study was done by a palliative nurse examining the top five regrets on the soon to be dead. The foremost regret was because of the decisions they didn’t make(“Nurse Reveals Top 5…,” 2016). Most of these choices and dreams…

Enter, if you dare… I stood in the middle of the bookstore's children's section, running the pads of my thumbs along the raised, bumpy title of the book that would inevitably change my life. My brow furrowed as I studied the cover. A green creature with horns that resembled a ram's on either side of its head, gazed back at me glowing red eyes. It's gnarled and clawed hands held a sign that read, "Welcome to Horrorland where nightmares come to life!" In the distance, there was an amusement park.…

Top 10 must watch Fantasy movies of all time The world of cinema is a place for us to escape the mundanity of our everyday lives. No genre embodies that feeling quite like a great fantasy movie. Let’s take a look at the Top 10 fantasy movies of all time (in no particular order). Willow The idea was conceived in 1970 but the movie didn’t come to fruition until the late 1980s. It follows Warwick Davis’ Newlyn as he undertakes a prophetic quest to destroy the evil queen. The Princess Bride This…

One innocent man was put on the spot and no one would have expected this to happen. A poor man in lower Burma had to make a vital decision whether he should bend the rules of his British peers or to follow his own heart. Throughout “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell attains many main accomplishments. At first he shows us his personal experience while he stayed in Burma. This story was full of metaphors which pointed out the main themes. The elephant is a metaphor for many things like the man's…

Godwin says “It is amazing the lengths a watcher will go to keep you from pursuing the flow of your imagination”. That’s exactly right! My mind is no longer free, it’s now trapped as this puppet, with the strings being controlled by my watcher. She tells me when she thinks something is stupid, or just doesn’t sound right. She tells me that I have to follow the directions and find rhetorical devise like, anaphora and diction; and I have to…

Why are the Epics effective means of transmitting dharmic values? The Ramayana and Mahabharata Epics are literature devised in a time period when Hindus needed guidance. The Epics provided a source of conduct for humans that followed dharmic values. Dharma is the cosmic order of the way things should be done. Dharma is a person’s duty in life to follow and it is often in conflict with karma. The Epics were written in a manner that illustrated the social groups’ interests of that time (Rodrigues,…

When we fall asleep and we dream how do we distinguish if what we are seeing or imagining is real or not? How do we even know if we are imagining what we are seeing, or if what we are seeing is actuality? Based on The Matrix, humans are always in a dream-like state. The film depicts humans attached to a huge artificial intelligence system called the Matrix run by evil machines. This system controls the human mind and conveys it with virtual reality depicting life. In the film, after Morpheus…

Once upon a time, a small boy named Napoleon was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica in 1769. His parents waited until he was 9 years old and then sent him away to a military school. After he finished school, at age 16 in 1785, he became a lieutenant in the artillery. But as the French revolution started, he joined the army of the new government. He was asked to defend the delegates by powerful people. Then, Napoleon became a ‘Hero of the Hour’ after he caused his attackers to flee in…

In the New Testament, baptism is a symbolic ritual where one is submerged under water after receiving Christ as their savior. The water symbolically washes away their sins and gives them a new birth in Christ (Acts 22:16). Near the end of Part One, John fishes Mary 1’s dead body out of the sea and carries her to the stage as water continues to pour out of her body (76). In this moment John symbolizes Jesus, who tries to fish Mary 1’s lost soul out from the seas of sin. The continuous flow of…

philosophical concepts brought forth on the nature of self, through the different characters in the movie. Let’s begin with Craig Schwartz, he’s a struggling puppeteer, who is going nowhere in his career in the movie. He lives out his life through his puppets in fantasizes of whom, he would like to be in his life.…