Throughout several plays and films analyzed in this class, the idea of secrecy and the damage that happens from it is highly involved. Secrecy is the habit or practice of maintaining secrets or maintaining privacy or concealment. This is a key part to many plays and movies because keeping a secret can have severe consequences. Some works that I have analyzed in this class that have this relevant idea are as follows: Buried Child, How I Learned To Drive and Suddenly, Last Summer. All of these works show that hiding the truth and keeping secrets can do damage to other people. This damage can be physically, emotionally or mentally. In Buried Child, the idea of secrecy is present throughout most of the play. This is because of the child who was buried in the back of the house. Dodge drowned this child to death. The real secret of this play starts with the affair that Halie and Tilden had with each other, causing the birth of the child who is buried in the back of the house. This secrecy of the buried child in the backyard tears apart the family. In the beginning, Tilden says, “I had a son once, but we buried him” (37). When Tilden says this, it shows me that there is some sort of secret that the reader doesn’t know about a son that Tilden had. The secret ends up being that Tilden and Halie, Tilden’s mother, conceived the child. In the play, Dodge says, “It wanted to pretend that I was its father. She wanted me to believe it. Even when everyone around us knew. Everyone. All
L.A Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) is a neo-noir film about a shooting at an all night diner and the three Las Angeles policeman who investigate in their own unique ways. It is based on the book by James Ellroy and after a very well adapted screenplay, won nine academy awards. It starred actors with big names like Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Danny Devito, which made it a very high earning film.
In the article, “Confidentiality: Concept analysis and clinical application”, author Winifred Ellenchild, examines confidentiality from both a theoretical perspective using concept analysis and through the use of a clinically based empirical investigation. The author compared the two approaches and discussed the features, credentials, costs, empirical referents, and implications for clinical practice. The results discussed in the article are those provided through a research project involving participants’ definitions of confidentiality and confidentiality issues.
In the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, the author, Haddon, shows the reader that when we lie or keep a secret, especially towards our loved ones, it will come back around and have major consequences as they will eventually find out, lose their trust, and they will question if there are more important things hidden from
Truth is possibly one of the most powerful forces in humanity. Truth has the power to set people free, change lives and end them. Because of this, the truth is usually feared and often concealed. In Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret”, the concealing of the truth become a major theme in the advancement of the plot, and also carries the meaning to the work’s title. The title of “Our Secret” refers to the secrets that the individual characters in the story keep from others reference to the fact that humanity is keeping secrets from itself.
In Sister of my Heart, a coming-of-age novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the two main characters, Sudha and Anju, are not aware of the secret that runs within their families. The act of keeping a secret is to purposely keep something hidden. Although telling the truth can help create a stronger and more honest relationship, in some cases, when the secret is revealed, it can have a negative effect. Sudha exemplifies this as the secret she keeps from Anju affects Sudha's life and her relationship with Anju.
2016: Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonesty may be intended either to help or to hurt. Such a character, for example, may choose to mislead others for personal safety, to spare someone’s feelings, or to carry out a crime. Choose a novel or play in which a character deceives others. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the motives for that character’s deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
The last rule for the society is that we must not keep secrets from people and the Councils. If we find out that someone is keeping a secret they will be punished to go to the Corrective Detention till they tell. Depends on how big the secret is though. For an example from the book, Equality 7-2521 kept a secret that he created light in his secret tunnel. He then got caught. He went to the Council of the Home, but he didn’t tell them where he has been. Then the Council brought him to the Corrective Detention to lash at him till he told. We should not keep secrets because everyone should know equally what everybody knows.
In the Shakespearean world of Hamlet, acting and putting on a mask are even more dangerous weapons that swords and poisons, for it is the one that acts that is able to be a foil to those. There are numerous instances of acting in the play, each one of them being detrimental to Hamlet’s revenge plot, for Hamlet uses the powers of acting to their utmost capacities.
Like a hard steel cage, the lies devour and trap its victim yet only the truth can set you free. Edward bloor expresses this through a young boy, Paul Fisher whom knew the truth but flowed with the lies. He was blamed and framed for vandalizing an exhibit at a local carnival yet it wasn’t him. Paul not only was blamed but he witnessed a murder and decided to keep quiet, not only was his silence killing others but it was killing him on the inside. Young fisher reminded me of my own self sometimes. I have encountered time where i could choose to speak up and say the truth or hide in the shadows and let others face the penalty.
Others may say, secrets must be kept because they can hurt people. In an article by Irene Van, says that you can keep secrets about family and friends. Irene Van says, “ Gossip about family or friends unless this is about something that worries you, in / which case you should tell a adult you trust” (Van.II). This proves that, Irene Van believes that secrets about family and friends should be kept because it can really hurt your friends feelings. Second, this could be true because if I tell my friend one of my secrets, I trust this person. If he or she is going to go and tell my secret to someone, I am not going to tell he/she any secrets. However, on the other hand, in the same article Irene Van says that any kind of touch should not be kept as a secret. Irene Van says, “ Secrets that are not safe to keep:/ Any kind of touch” (Van.II). First, I would tell my parents if this happens to me because if I tell this secret to my friends, and they spread it, it would hurt me. Second, this can lead to more problems if I kept this as a secret from my parents because, the same thing will continue if I don’t take
Secret Humans Secrets to kids can be all fun and games. However, adult secrets vary in their many forms. Secrets can have dark moral side that reveal many horrible. The unpleasant side of many secrets can revolve around dark lies, depression, and public shaming. Reuben Borne and Wakefield both had dark secrets they did not reveal.
Telling the truth is not always the simplest solution. In times of guilt and distress, most fear that the truth will only further complicate a situation. The selfish fear that complications will have negative impacts on one’s own image can persuade one to avoid reality completely. However, no matter how hard it may be, it is always best to be transparent. In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini indicates that in an order to preserve one’s honour, people will deceive others, flee their situations and dismiss reality. However, the truth is always revealed. Deception can appear to be the easiest way to handle an undesirable circumstance, but the results can prove to be pernicious.
The Silkwood Movie is about a nuclear facility, and the lives of three people who worked there. This movie is based off a true story, about the conditions and safety concerns for the nuclear plants, back when the research was still lacking. The main problems in the movie, is when it came to the health of the workers from the chemicals let off from the nuclear plant. The three main characters are: Karen Silkwood (the main character), Drew Stevens (the boyfriend), and Dolly Pelliker (the roommate). All of these characters worked in the nuclear plant and were exposed to the plants poor safety conditions. Being exposed to the plutonium caused the main character Karen Silkwood, to raise awareness of the health concerns to the workers, from the exposure of plutonium. In an article by, Live Science, plutonium is explained as a “radioactive silver metal, that is a byproduct of the nuclear power industry” ( sjkdfkljshd). Plutonium has also been linked to causing cancer in people who were exposed to high levels of the chemical. Karen’s main focus was to get the Union on her side, because many of the workers already knew the health risks and decided to ignore them. Most of the workers did care about their health, however; they needed the job from working at the nuclear facility. Later Karen was exposed to high levels of plutonium, but the causes of her death were unknown.
Over the years, many people have believed that the issue of sexual harassment should not be discussed in public. Sexual harassment was to be discussed behind closed doors. In spite of this, the social and political systems have changed instantaneously. This social problem has affected men and women throughout time; however, it seems that the women of our society more closely look at this issue. This social topic has encouraged women to establish organizations in order to help them discuss the issues more openly and to demand equality including fairness and justice throughout the workplace and in their social lives as well. In recent years, sexual harassment has been one of the most serious and widespread problems
The title of the play is Buried Child by Sam Shepard. Buried Child was a play written in 1978 and the genre of the play is Drama. Buried Child is about a family in the mid-west who has been led by one tragedy after another while also holding a great secret about a child born from their mother affair with her own son killed and buried by Dodge the mother’s husband.