Waking Life

674 years old exactly to the third decimal place. Although he sometimes hated this number to the nearest tenth, today he hated it down to the thousandth, and would have even if the thousandth's place were zero. Disgusted by the necessary cliché of waking, he shuffled off to the kitchen as his stomach requested of him (rather impolitely, he thought). He had once been a man of regularity to the point of eccentricity, but that was less a trait of himself than of the past, and this past felt like…

poet. Roethke was known to have often lived in "dark times". Whether it be emotional, spiritual, or mental the struggle was a familiar one marked by periods of psychosis. This confessional poem may very well be a window into such a time of Roethke's life. A window through which Roethke reveals that darkness, as daunting as it may be, is not eternal and though one may not emerge into light, one may emerge into wholeness. It is not surprising, then, that Roethke seems to believe that the…

has denied, and the relationship between Braggioni and his wife. The story concludes with a haunting dream about Eugino guiding Laura through a desolate landscape; she devours his hands made out of flowers as he leads her, which results in her in waking up shouting “No”…

universal sharer of the inevitable outcome of life-of what “We shall find out.”In “High Windows” Larkin’s own ‘terrible dread’ of death removes his isolation from society and brings a poignant concentration on the inevitability of ageing and death. In the second part of “The Old Fools” there is an attempt to realize their position from the inside and is a realization that he and the old fools share a common destiny. This link is implied in the image of life as a shared landscape whose…

time. Many people obtain life insurance to make sure that their family is taken care of when they die. This is clearly a way in which we are accepting of death in our society.…

ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK! Gunfire!”this quote shows how salva’s life changed just like that but also it shows that he was confident to run into the bushes when there was fire in the air and everyone was running. Another reasoning why salva was confident and braver was that he was stuck in the barn by himself and he didn’t know what to do. I can prove this because in the text it says “The tears were hot in salva’s eyes. Where had everyone gone? Why had they left without waking him?” This quote…

The people of Oran live a life of monotony and indifference to the problems of the people around them, so when they succumb to the wrath of the plague, they realize for the first time that their lives are indifferent to the world and that death may be around the corner. In Albert Camus’s The Plague, each character develops a different way of thinking that helps them to rationalize the plague. Rieux uses what he knows as a doctor as motivation to help the people suffering around him, while Father…

Suffering from a failure is a significant turning point in an individual’s lifetime. However, escaping from a failure does not solve the problem fundamentally, but it is pawning off the responsibility onto others who are remaining. It is in this scenario that Arthur Miller explores in the play Death of a Salesman. In the play, the title character, Willy, a prideful man, who was successful as a salesman and a head of the household faces a failure of getting fired and raising independant sons.…

Safety in Numbers Imagine waking up one morning and getting ready for work just like always. You get out of bed, put on your clothes, and go to the train station to catch the train to your locale where you work. You walk to the station and right before you go in you feel a sharp pain in your back and suddenly everything feels hot. You’ve been stabbed with a fairly long and sharp blade. You look around and see everyone else also being ran up to by what look like wild acting men and women in the…

faded memories, she was 12 years old when she arrived at Saint Peter Orphanarium without memories of the previous life she was taken from, or so she believed. Unlike her name she is blonde, eyes the color of storm gray clouds. Her height is equal to the size of a file cabinet ,but those files hold the answer to the most asked question in the universe “Are we alone?”. Waking up on a early,bright sunday morning Ember stretches and yawns.”Only 1 more day till I'm free” she mutters to…