Fantasy In David Burley's 'Labyrinth'

The excerpt from The Republic “Parable of the Cave” by Plato is a central metaphor for Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 because the prisons and citizens in Montag’s society are trapped in a cave, chained, and find a newfound knowledge

Those three words reflect her self-image as much as how she sees Bert and Eddie in that moment. Walking with a pronounced limp, Sarah lives with the idea of "crippled" and "twisted" every day, but she also sees herself as a drunk and as, basically, a prostitute, telling Eddie at one point that she owes her livelihood to the last "rich man" she dated. She also sees herself as a writer who

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

The artist wants the audience to feel his substantial affection for Delilah, and how it is unchanging even though they are separated by distance. He appeals to the audience’s emotions of admiration, compassion, and longing for another person. The artist does this by singing about his extensive love for Delilah, which may lead people to think of someone they themselves care deeply about, or an example of love in their life.

Many of the literary devices are revealing the theme of the song. To start off, Michael Jackson writes “under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart.” This lyric talks about the girl being frightened of all the creatures that she sees in the night. Second, Michael wrote “you try to scream, but terror takes the sound before you make it.” This emphasizes being terrified and aghast. Also, Jackson wrote “and the dead start to walk in their masquerade.”

This echos Angelou's quote as Sarah cannot handle the events she goes through, therefore she lets these events affect her negatively. To begin, her experience in the concentration camp makes her lose faith in staying alive. She sees so many horrific situations, as Rosnay states, “she could see the dislocated body of the woman, the bloody skull of the child, sliced open like a ripe tomato” (33). Witnessing this traumatic event cause her to believe that she will die too, that there is no point of trying, as she she will die anyways. She also loses her longing to live when she visits her house after escaping the concentration camp. When she arrives in her house she notices “the new wallpaper, the new bed, the book, the belongings that had nothing to do with her” (160), as another family takes her home. She comes to realization that she no longer has a home to live in, that everything is taken away from her, which causes her to think that she has no one to live for anymore. Furthermore, she keeps having flashbacks of all members of her family's death, which drives her to commit suicide. Sarah further explains this event in her letter to her brother, Michel, when she writes, “ I carry the burden of your death like I would a child. I will carry it till the day I die. Sometimes, I want to die. I cannot bear the weight

George Straits daughter was killed in a car crash in 1986 when she was just 13. When most people see this song they immediately think that it is a love song and in a way, it is, but I think that this could maybe not be a song addressed to a significant other but rather to his daughter. This could be a possibility in his intention for this song. Yes, the song may sound worldly when he is telling her how to get to him, but when he tells her “cut a path across the blue skies, straight in a straight line you can’t get here fast enough.” Maybe he is trying to talk to his daughter again and wants her to seemingly fly down from heaven to him so he can see her once more. This would also explain why he misses her so much, maybe it’s his little girl who died who he is writing to. In many of his other songs George talks about Dallas and always sings about Dallas, perhaps in this song when he talks about her leaving Dallas to return to him he is thinking of Dallas as his form of heaven. So, he is begging his daughter to come from Dallas which is his representation of heaven, to come back to him if at all possible. This is the only variation I can think of for the lyrics: instead of the thought of it being toward his wife or lover it may be for his daughter who passed away in a car

MØ also mentions,“Woo, take us to a higher ground/ Here and now, whatever you do, just don't look down/ Woo, underneath the disco light, it's alright.” To elaborate on MØ’s words, she is using an example of a driven situation. As the challenges get harder, they are using the drive of “home” as their motor.This is shown when the song says underneath the disco light. This can be interpreted by….To further on this quote in order to get there, they would have to focus on what they have now instead of what they had which is shown when the song states whatever you do, just don’t look down. This piece of evidence relates to the claim that “Final Song” is connected to this section and the main focus that the girl’s (Hannah/Chaya’s) situation by it showing how Hannah has her drive to stay alive and that even though someone might be in the worst situation possible, you have to focus on why you’re doing this and what you have right now to help you. She uses the constant reminder of being the chosen to help her stay focused. To add on, according to The Devil’s arithmetic by Jane Yolen, “In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive.” To elaborate

Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.

The last lines of the song are just repetitions of previous lyrics the repetitions can be reflected as being the urges to go through with the vial which in the end she did as the following lyric is “I choose defeat I walk away and leave this place the same today some like to sleep we like to play just look at all that

Reaching enlightenment can be equated with discovering a chest of treasure. After winding along a dotted path to an ever-elusive “X”, finally discovering valuable gains can feel more than satisfactory. But how does one begin the journey imprinted on the metaphorical treasure map to enlightenment? How does one procure the map in the first place? Plato’s Allegory of the Cave reveals that someone, a mentor, must be willing to press the yellowing parchment of the treasure map into the hands of the unassuming and complacent human, and whisper, “Go.”

Ch-1: The allegory presupposes that there is distinction between appearances and reality. Do you agree? Why or why not?

When delving into the song and trying to grasp the meaning, it can be understood that the author really desires to be free and go back home to where he belongs and desires. The author or writer of the song does not like the idea of slavery, nor does he like being a slave himself, his perspective on the topic shows that he is not happy about the current situation and no one should because of how cruel slavery is. The author also uses certain rhetorical strategies, one of them being metaphors. They can be used to explain his sadness and other feelings he has about the topic of slavery. An example of this is,

The song "Starman" by David Bowie is about a young man finding a song on the radio. After the sound he realizes it was a man in space and decided to call him "starman." during the song David Bowie decides to use imagery and repetition to convey the idea that what is happening in the song is during at night and should be a nice upbeat song and cheerful/calm song.

The film begins with Susanna and the other girls from the hospital sitting in somber silence, in what appear to be a wet and dark room just as the sun comes up. From there Susanna begins talking about emotions and feelings someone with a mental illness might be feeling or thinking. Later it is revealed Susanna tried to kill herself by