Father Time, By Elie Wiesel

Time serves as one of the key structures of our society. Throughout each day we are constantly reminded of time: What time is it? What time did I start work? What time is the game? Remember that one time? Time flies when you are having fun! These expressions of time are categorized into two types of time: external time which labels our presence in reality and internal time which guides our actions, thoughts, and emotion. Naturally, we assume that these times are set in unison to each other, as time is always relative to an observer. But what happens when the times of the external and internal differ? In the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Woolf begins to explore this question through her unique writing style of free indirect discourse to travel forward and back in time, as Woolf narrates freely through the thoughts and memories of each character. With each half-hour and hourly strike of Big Ben in the heart of London, the clock serves as a tool to remind each character of the reality of life. The clock further provides physical structure and unity in a post-World War I society, connecting characters of the past at specific moments in time. Through the use of flashbacks we can parallel characters of the past into the present moment, which supports Woolf’s intricate understanding of time as circular not merely linear. Wolf further guides the reader to see how time can provoke daunting effects of fear and anxiety upon one’s life, which is displayed through

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

In one of the extracts we were shown we see Tykwer uses distinctively visual techniques to show us Lola’s determination to save Manny. He utilises the use of a split screen with a close up shot of Manny and a close up tracking shot of Lola running to show how Lola is running towards him to try and save him. Then we hear the ticking of a clock and the top half of a clock comes onto the bottom of the screen to show how Lola is running out of time to save Manny. This is another example of how clocks are a reoccurring motif to symbolise time being overwhelming. This scene also demonstrates the love that Lola has for Manny and her determination to never give up trying to save him. This distinctively visual technique is utilised to hep show the audience that even with Lola’s everlasting love she is unable to change time and Manny slowly slips away from her, making himself unsaveable.

Have you ever felt like time was running past you? That the world kept spinning while you just stood still? Time is a central theme in many of Kenneth Slessor’s poems, however it is primarily explored through ‘Out of time’ and ‘Five Bells’. Slessor has made it obvious that he is aware that time continues whether we want it to or not and this is what allows us to put into perspective the notion of humanity’s dominance.

The clock, to put it simply, is a device used to tell the hours, minutes, and seconds of a day. According to Artemidorus of Daldis, a second century A.D. writer, “A clock signifies occupations and undertakings, movements and the start of transactions. For men keep their eyes on the time in all that they do,” (Dohrn-van Rossum 17). Not only does a clock keep track of time, it signifies the need for the human race to organize and control their surroundings, as it has been from the first encounter between technology and the human race.

This photo by Diane Arbus, in my opinion represents the notion of time from John Szarkowski's notions. In this photo we can clearly see a young child crying, this image is upsetting to me mainly because it captures the child at its weakest state. It’s almost as if you can hear the child screaming out for help and having trouble speaking. The reason I chose time was because of Diane Arbus’s perfect moment capture. In one of John Szarkowski’s photos known as Children playing in ruins, we see sad and upset kids playing in a destroyed building. You can see the emotion they give off and the pain they must feel. Just like in this photo we see the emotion exploding off of the picture. It appears the child is outside on a windy day, and has tears

As a dimension widely considered inextricable from human existence as a whole, concepts of time and temporal existence often intersect with those of sacredness and spirituality. Indeed, many religions equate “time” to mortality, with the “temporal” representing the irreligious and worldly confines that precede eternity, Heaven, or Enlightenment. Contrarily, within the introductory chapter of his text The Sabbath, entitled “A Palace in Time,” author and Jewish mystic Abraham Joshua Heschel eloquently proposes the glorification of “time” as an inherently divine element.

This essay had alot of really meaningful sentences that really hit me and made me wonder certain things. When Alex said “humans are mere puppets on a string under the control of time and on the stage of earth”, it made me think of pinocchio and of the muppets, but it also made me think of how we aren't in control of time. Alex the author talks about how time feels like it slowly goes away when you have a hobby and i can totally relate to this because when i'm doing something i like i get so caught up in the moment that i don't even feel the time pass by. The author also says how when he was little, he was able to develop that mindset. How he was able to have fun and play outside and it felt like time stopped, but at the same time he wanted

Time is a self-evident perception of intangible human construct. A week consists of days, which consists of hours, which consists of minutes, and so forth infinitely; However, time is much more than a measurement or fleeting notion given to each living organism. It is an existential entity that resides outside of the human mind and its attempted comprehension. Its fundamental nature is not one of transience, but one of forward motion, where it not the past that is prepared for, but the future. The passing of time is continuous, with the arrow of time always pointing ahead. But what exactly happens when time passes? The rock band, Chicago, asks this question in their hit song, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?” in order to protest the human tendency to live for the future, and the trivial character of the time-driven capitalist structure.

And, therefore, say farewell to the sunrise which the sun carried away, though it departed, and the light has filled the space. What difference can you make between a minute and a day, and where does that false sound come from that drives men and women to overturn their initial ways? Those women have ten nails alone when one walks by the riverside. And, the leaves look similar to the pallid skeletons whose colour the moonlight has washed along the causeway. Where shall that crystal show its face inside one hour, the minutes are weeks, and fear leads your muscles astray?

Time is vital to the poem, as it is what is discussed most at the repetition of “time will say nothing but I told you so”. In the poem time is personified and is demonstrated as something that has no halt. It is made to feel like something supernatural over which we have no control. Time is indifferent to the quarrels of man, it simply progresses

The most common symbols of temporality are the grim reaper and his scythe, the skeleton head, and the hourglass, all taken from icons of Greek and Roman Paganism. The typical hourglass has a dual glass bulbs holding sand that takes an hour to discharge from the top to the bottom bulb. It's such a solid figure for time and its passage that it has survived to the digital age, telling us everything has a beginning and an end, therefore it’s an encouragement to achieve as much as possible, laugh so hard that our jaws ache, learn and experience as much as possible. The Grim Reaper authorities an hourglass, too, letting us identify that our years are numbered, emphasizing us to work even harder with the limited time we have. When the sand runs out,

To me the chariot provides a visual for the rate of time. When we think of time it can be difficult to gauge how quickly it passes, but you can easily imagine walking down a road and having a car, or chariot, speeding by. The notion that the chariot is coming up from behind the speaker lends a negative view in my opinion, because the visual that comes to mind is the speaker being chased down by the chariot, or time. Another visualization that Marvell uses is "iron gates of life". What really struck me about this statement was that it is usually said as "iron gates of death". In Marvell's use however, it is as though life were trapping the person and they must break through the "iron gates" by living in the moment to actually be able to have a life. The last two lines of the poem are a very strong image showing how time and seizing the moment are related. The lines state, "Thus, though we cannot make our sun, Stand still, yet we will make him run." Time is represented as the sun, because if the sun never sets then time would stop. Therefore this image of the sun running means that time can not be stopped, but you can "seize the day" and be in control of its

After examining the art piece with the melting clock, I notice that the artist utilizes lines, surrealistic style, and contrasting colors to convey the importance of time and how you spend it. The artist uses curved lines in this piece to create motion. The vertical lines represent boldness and strength and the background of this piece consists of horizontal lines showing calmness. The foreground consists of contour lines to portray the table’s size. The table provides an anchor for the clock, which illustrates the importance of keeping the clock from melting and time from running out. In addition the style of the work is realistic demonstrated by the clock sitting on a table. At the same time, the style is fantastic as seen by the clock

This clock that the speaker notes is the moon hanging above him, casting its pale light on the labyrinthine city streets below. It is a teller of time, signifying nightfall and furthermore the coming of day. In fact, the very light it reflects comes from the sun itself. With light representing happiness and contentment, the moon therefore serves as a reminder that the light still exists—while it is far off, it will return, and in some ways (as it reflects) it has never left. The speaker cannot seem to grasp this, however. To him, the moon isn’t an assurance that day will come. It is a stark reminder that day has left, and he is trapped in his darkness. This is only human. After all, one cannot physically see the moon glide across the sky; the fact that it even moves is something more to be known than to be believed.