The Issue Of Time Can Never Be Overemphasized

Time is constant. No one has the power to stop it or to go back in it. Time cannot be changed for it is timeless. With time being everlasting there is a mystery within time’s boarders; why cannot one change time? Arcadia by Tom Stoppard explores the lives of many individuals in two different time periods but within the same setting, Sidley Park, which is a stately home. Within the first four scenes of the play there is a shift between the two time periods 1809 and contemporary time period. Time is omnipresent throughout the play, whatever happens will happen and time is constant regardless how you measure it. In Geraldine Cousin’s Playing for Time, Cousin explores the mystery of time’s immutability. She also explores the ideas of how the past always has a lingering effect on the future. Then in John Fleming’s Tom Stoppard’s: Arcadia compliments on how time is equally woven between the past and present. He also provokes the idea that one could split the play into two plays by splitting up the two times. The mystery behind time in Stoppard’s Arcadia is well defined. Time is inevitable and connected, you cannot have the past without the present and future. Tom Stoppard depicts that tie overlaps itself in order to show how chaos enables freewill.

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

Memory is used as a powerful conduit into the past; childhood experiences held in the subconscious illuminate an adult’s perception. Harwood uses tense shifts throughout her poetry to emphasise and indicate the interweaving and connection the past and the present hold. By allowing this examination of the childhood memories, Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death.

He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past.

Thesis: Because he was unable to find comfort from human cruelty in common human institutions, Billy Pilgrim turns to the Tralfalmadorian concept of time.

In 1967 Billy Pilgrim was abducted by aliens called Tralfamadorians. “They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time” [26] Because of this Billy understands how time is structured, and changes his perception and understanding of

New ideas derived from self-reflection enable us to develop in ways that are spiritually linked to the future. The inexorable passage of adulthood is established by the motif of time, indicating that life is continuously moving forward. The personification of time “guiltless minute hand” suggest that time is not responsible for our future, but we are. Additionally, the dysphemistic personification of “time was killed” foreshadows the cessation of childhood. Eventually, the

Time traveling, a concept known to modern man as inconceivable, but in The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, this fathom of human fantasy has come to life. Wells entangles a unique blend of contrasting characters, conflicts of capitalist verses laborer divisions, and foreshadowing of the destruction of humanity to seem together this novel of visionary proportions. "The Time Machine is a bleak and sober vision of man's place in the Universe."(McConnell Pg.1581)

We plan our day around different times of the day. Time tells us when to eat, when to sleep, and how long to do things for. If time were based on these simple terms, then this mysterious enigma would not be in debate. There are the issues of space and time; what is the relationship

The science fiction novella, The Time Machine, written by H.G. Wells in 1895 is a warning to human society. The two kinds of people under Wells’s pen, the Eliot and the Morlocks, are the representatives in the social condition of the author’s life. Wells is using science fictional to predict the decline and extinction of human society after high development. Because human civilization is highly developed and achieving perfect at the same time, Wells is warning that energy, passion and creativity of human being will be degenerated, along with the loss of conscience, moral decay, social disintegration and the loss of civilization. The higher development of science and technology, the greater the existential crisis that the human beings face.

Most of the story is told in the first person by the narrator, Yu Tsun, who is awaiting his execution at the end of the story.From the begin Yu Tsun has been cover as a German spy in London has been blown, Yu Tsun has only minutes to plan his next move. He must escape from Captain Richard Madden. Madden nearly catches up with Yu Tsun at the station, but he misses the train, filling Tsun with a sense of confidence that he will complete his mission successfully. At the Ashgrove stop, children directed Tsun to the home of Dr. Stephen Albert. Tsun follows their instructions, finding himself following a continually forking road. He finally arrives at a summer house; from which he can hear the familiar sounds of Chinese music. He enters “the garden of forking paths,” labyrinth so intricate that all who enter would belost within. Centuries later, no trace of the labyrinth exists, and what remains of the novel is deemed totally incoherent. Yet his great grandson finally unravels the mystery: Ts’ui Pen’s book and his labyrinth. The meaning of this labyrinth of labyrinths is time itself. Madden arrested Ts’ui Pen and condemned him to the

The Scottish philosopher J.E. McTaggart published his work “The Unreality of Time” that presented a now famous argument in the world of philosophy. McTaggart concluded that time doesn’t exist and that nothing worth calling time exists. He came to this conclusion by uncovering two theories of time, which are referred to as the “a-series” and the “b-series.” The a-series is the “series of positions running from the far past through the near past to the present, and then from the present to the near future and the far future.” The b-series is the “series of positions which runs from earlier to later.” To break this down further, the a-series is a time series in which every moment is either past, present or future, while the b-series is each moment is either before or after a different moment. McTaggart recognizes that we use both series, but questions the validity, importance and effect they have on each other.

Time travel has long been a fascination of the science fiction genre, with many of the great stories concerning time travel being centred around the philosophical issues of the paradoxes seemingly caused by just the possibility of time travel, namely that of bootstrap and grandfather paradoxes. A question that is often bandied about is whether or not time travel is possible, now unless those questioning are physicists attempting to warp space-time back upon its self-using long equations and ‘Tardis ' like machines, what is, in fact, being asked by the average person is can there be time travel without paradox? I will attempt to answer this question, with the use of the most notable and pressing time travel paradox and it’s supposed solutions. Further to this, I will obviously be assuming for the sake of argument time travel is not only possible but freely available to the hypothetical time traveller I will centre this essay on. (there will be no issues of getting stuck in the past for out time traveller) Time travel paradoxes come in two forms temporal and ontological. The former is the one which will be discussed in this essay and is concerned with conflicts in causality, that is the order of events and how they interact as a result of cause and effect, a basic law of nature. For context, the later type of paradox the ontological is in relation to the formation and acquisition of knowledge.

The passage of time is intrinsically connected to every aspect of life, as it is the construct through which we understand human experiences and the framework through which we comprehend our existence. The essence and effects of temporality reverberate through narratives; acting as a catalyst for action, or becoming an impediment to the future. Through the response that characters in The Wanderer and The Tempest have towards the transience of time, it becomes clear how these effects echo throughout the narrative, prompting these events into movement, and how they seep throughout every aspect of these texts.

     According to traditional concepts, time is considered to be a two-dimensional phenomenon, with a long past, a present, and virtually no future. The linear concept of time is western thought, with an indefinite past, present, and future, is practically nonexistent to African thinking. The future is absent because the events that lie in it have not taken place, they have not been realized, and therefore, they cannot constitute time.