Simulated reality

In Magical realism it is impossible to determine where reality ends and the extraordinary begins. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary magical realism is “a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction.’’ Magical Realism stories “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, “Bless Me Ultima’’, and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” use magical realism elements of interweaving the magical and…

in worlds built by essays. In How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez, Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen, and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Yolanda, Mona, and Baby Kochamma each seem to live in their own personal realities, unaffected by the real world. The women in these novels effectively invent the world around them through stories, lies, or manipulations. First, Yolanda in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is a poet by trade, a story teller. The basis…

Based on a true story The following information you are about to read is loosely based on true events. The names, locations and minor unnoticeable details have been changed. Even though I corrected the statement to make it slightly more true, it is something along those lines. We never know exactly how true, but it admittedly makes those events slightly more terrifying when we believe it to be real. “Real” events such as murders, massacres and even the spiritual dark side. The moment we realize…

Perception is not Reality Is what you see always what is true? No. Optical illusions trick our eyes and brain. During a magic show, we see magic, but nothing “magical” is actually happening. What we perceive is also not always real. Sometimes what we feel about a situation is not actually what will happen. Seeing is not believing. Perception is not reality. We see patients in a vegetative state as unconscious. They do not speak or respond to sounds, hunger, or pain. They are basically brain…

“Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant as the story itself.” Many will believe; many will not. However, myths and legends will forever be a mystery till everyone sees it and believes it. Mermaids are denied being real by many. Some think mermaids are real; however, then everyone's point of view on them is wrong. Mermaids could be real because no one can disprove the historical background, modern-day research, and explanations. Historical backgrounds of…

truths about the world. Cultures have different views and ideas about nature of reality. The direction of art is to portray beauty. With artistic realism in the 19th century and other shifts in taste, great art could be ugly in both its subject matter and its depiction. Western history, reality itself, created by God was conceived of as beautiful. The definitive voice in the identification of beauty with an ultimate reality was Plato theory. Beauty, in which is the exhibit itself in all and only…

into the films emotion be shown to the masses or should the privacy of the human mind and dis-involved ignorance of humanity take hold over what is acceptable when viewing the realities of the world. There are key reasons why it is necessary to show photographs of this nature which are as follows to wake up the world to realities, to invoke the heart. Ephron’s essay is very well written in the way it goes to wake up the viewer to…

been human or animal shapes. He had no further thought that made him question his reality or things that had been in it. In The Matrix the same situation occurred as Mr. Anderson went about his life accepting the reality that his mind had made for him. He had a successful job and lived a decent life alone working as a computer programmer. Just as Socrates questioned Glaucon with questions that revolve around reality Morpheus pushed Mr. Anderson to question his existence and what he thought was…

How does our perception of reality serve us? Do the lies presented to us by those we surround ourselves with affect us adversely; or do they add to our happiness until revealed? Guy de Maupassant gives us with a chance to discover this in his short story, “The Jewelry”. A simple man is deeply in love with a woman he adores. He places his wife upon a pedestal of perfection, and until her death reveals that his perception of their life together was not a true reality, she remains the source of…

The book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is full of twists and turns that leave the reader wondering what is true and what is not. His complex writing not only makes one question the truth, but also teaches them about what it is. Through this novel, the author teaches his audience that truth is arbitrary. To support this idea, O’Brien writes about the process and composition of storytelling, explaining that there is a difference between two types of truths which he calls “story-truth” and…