Truth or Dare?

not knowing and unaware of the future they have been created to pursue. Miss Lucy is the complete opposite of Miss Emily, in terms of their mindset. Miss Lucy has the minority opinion at Hailsham. She wants to tell the students the truth. In contrast, Miss Emily firmly believes that curiosity kills the cat (or, clones here). This reminds me of those times my parents lie to me to shield me from something they think I was not ready to know, yet. I remember just…

His need for power and prestige blinds his ability to see the truth about Tartuffe. He is so enthralled by Tartuffe because he enriches Orgon with power by appealing to his desires. Tartuffe is claiming to be a traditional figure of authority by presenting himself as a holy man and Orgon foolishly goes against everyone’s feeling towards Tartuffe and falls for his act. The audience is not told that Tartuffe is a liar or hypocrite but, through his words and the actions that follow, it allows…

From first look, Oedipus Rex and The Book of Job seem like complete opposite works of literature. While in Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is pained with discovering the truth, Job in The Book of Job is greatly comforted by finding out the reality in his life. Oedipus, after finding out the truth about his family, blinds himself and runs away from Thebes. However, Job has an entirely different reaction when he finally figures out the reason as to why God was putting him through so much terror. Instead of…

the innocence of Jefferson Smith seeking personal interests. However, Jefferson realized that he was used as a puppet of the Senators Taylor and Pain but at the end of their struggle, Jefferson came out victorious because they realized that he said truth. You must know things without being influenced into the fulfilling of a true democracy and without being used as a puppet of anyone. 5. What is the film trying to say about democracy? Why are no party names such as Democrats or Republicans…

Pablo Picasso that “Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth” is a true representation of the plays Trifles and Anna in The Tropics. The society preaches equality and fairness in role distribution between both genders, with the aim of promoting co existence among them. In both plays, Trifles and Anna in The Tropics, the script writers presents how males have been dominant in both plays. Susan Glaspell, through her play outlines the truth about the current situation in the society where women…

merely imaginative. Both literary works, The Life of Pi and “The Metamorphosis”, demonstrate an attempt of an author to stretch the fundamentals of their reader’s lives through a contrast of what could be a mere imaginary world and what could be the truth in the story. This attempt becomes attained through both works’ use of imagery and metaphors within the texts. Perhaps the most evident use of imagery, Kafka’s description of Gregor, appears in starting scenes of…

whereby Fielding urges to the reader to vigorously question even the most basic of truths. When reading Tom Jones, the words of Voltaire came to mind: “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” () It is in the way Fielding asks his questions, however, by which he should be judged. Fielding employs self-deprecation, satire, and suggestive narrative order in order to demonstrate to the reader the truths which may not be known by book alone.…

William James wrote in The Will to Believe, “Believe truth! Shun error! - these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life.” There are many differing hypotheses on the existence of God and in this paper we must grasp that people will always be able to defend where they stand, and why. Both parties in religion, as in, those who believe and those who do not are going to have evidence on their side. In…

making theories then hoping that the facts fit the theory? If the facts do not fit, does science pursue the facts and the root of the facts searching for truth or do scientists ignore the facts if they do not fit and instead pursue to prove their theories by other means? Science has always been a field where the inquisitive may go to seek truth and to pursue answers to the questions that only the courageous are willing to ask. For example: “where did we come from?” Despite the different answers…

philosophy, Socrates, once said that “to know, is to know that you know nothing; that is the meaning of true knowledge.” Socrates is world renown for creating a system of questioning, to always have doubt of what one perceives as the truth, in order to find the ideal or perfect truth. By asking such queries, one is able to educate himself by exposing the flaws of the world around him. This importance to educate oneself in order to strive for true reality is exemplified in Plato’s “Allegory of…