The Unbearable Lightness of Being - It is Better to Carry a Heavy Load

The lovers are in love with themselves being in love. They love each other, but are more preoccupied with being seen as lovers. They often feign mild hatred. She is extremely aware of being watched and plays with the audience for sympathy in their plight and ccasionally flirts with spectators.

Throughout the book he grew as character and slowly gained his power of showing his love for her. The first time Pedro showed his love was when Tita and he first met and he made her feel “heat that invaded her body was so real she was afraid she would start to bubble” (16). This example was just through sight and as the novel continued his feelings were shown though touch. On page 158, Tita and Pedro have sex in the storeroom on the ranch. This strike of courage in Pedro shows the power gained through the course of the book by taking the opportunity and showing Tita that he has not loss his love even though he has been married. This shows Pedro change in character of how in the beginning of the book he would not touch her but admire her. Now in this scene he reached a climax of lust for

Vladek arranges to be reunited with his wife and son by working with the Polish. Spiegelman shows Vladek wearing a pig's mask to convey his polish

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experience during the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through his “night” of the Holocaust, and how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel will captivate you on his earth shattering journey through his endless night. Elie Wiesel’s book Night forces you to open your eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove that man does have the capability to create such a harsh reality.

All of humanity suffers at one point or another during the course of their lives. It is in this suffering, this inevitable pain, that one truly experiences life. While suffering unites humankind, it is how we choose to cope with this pain that defines us as individuals. The question becomes do we let suffering consume us, or do we let it define our lives? Through James Baldwin’s story, “Sonny’s Blues”, the manner by which one confronts the light and darkness of suffering determines whether one is consumed by it, or embraces it in order to “survive.” Viewing a collection of these motifs, James Baldwin’s unique perspective on suffering as a crucial component of human development becomes apparent. It is through his compassionate portrayal of

This shows that he cares for Saskia and is jealous that she is spending time with Ernesto. Although things seem rocky, they achieve inner thoughts and feelings which helps them to dissolve them to discover their own identities.

She had her suspicions for some time, but finally Gustave admitted to falling in love with the young and attractive daughter of his boss at work. They had seen each other for some time, and many late nights he was supposedly working had been in the arms of his mistress. He left Mariabella and the two girls with nothing.

“Later that night when Thomas roller over and lurched into her, she would open her eyes and think of the place that was hers” this proves the point that she cannot even express herself sexually because she does not feel as if she has control in the situation.  Her mind wanders elsewhere, in a place where she is her own master, instead of what is reality. Additionally, the main character’s husband shows some selfish tendencies in the fact that he may not notice his wife’s discontentment with his affection.  However, this may also present the lack of communication between man and wife and therefore may cause a sense of isolation from her husband.

“The weight of the word” is an argumentative piece written by Chris Berg that appeared in The Sunday Age on the 12th of December, 2010, and on The Age’s website. This argumentative piece was written in response to the harsh criticism following major leaks released by the website WikiLeaks. This argumentative piece is written in support of WikiLeaks. An evaluation of the argument overall has indicated that this argument is relatively strong.

1. "There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must             distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose             correctly between them."

"…what would it be like if I could, if I were free – not enslaved by my conditioning."

Additionally, by including less detail, Spiegelman makes his characters easier to relate to, or as McCloud references, more universal. After Vladek recalls the hanging of a few of his associates, Spiegelman illustrates a very plain, bleak image of him mourning their loss in present day. The image consists of the most basic character features, making it effortless for the reader to mentally input their face on Vladek’s. Overall, this “amplification through simplification” (McCloud), aids the reader in feeling the emotion of the character, finding a deeper connection to the story as a whole, and can reveal universal truths.

Sofia Semionova Marmeladov is a large part of Crime and Punishment, acting as both a love interest and a moral compass for Raskolnikov. Despite her pivotal role in the narrative however, she is a victim of women’s usage in literature in the most literal sense. She is a prostitute, being used and abused by men every night for the sake of bringing in money for her abrasive family. Sonia is viewed in the lowest regard by most, and is particularly by her stepmother. Literary tropes aside, Sonia’s personality does not benefit at all from her nightwork. While some might take the job of prostitution and use it to harden themselves from emotional pain, Sonia’s tender nature makes her more susceptible to the night by night terror that she faces. Her innocence is articulated by Marmeladov when he is talking about how he borrowed money from her and says “She gave me thirty kopecks with her own hands, the last she had, everything, I could see that myself…. She said nothing. She only looked at me in silence….” (Dostoyevsky, 19). Her reaction towards him, rather than fighting for her hard earned money, she meekly gives it to him, demonstrates how subservient she has become, how used to being used she is. Despite prostitution being legal in Russia at the time, Sonia being forced into the profession is immoral, another example of how she is used. While she

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is written by Milan Kundera, a Czech novelist. It is mostly set in late 1960's Prague. The novel explores the state of life after the Russian military occupation of Prague. The author does not follow a chronological order throughout the novel, which is a reflection of how disorderly life is. It is a time of conflict both spiritually and physically. People start to question the meaning of life if there is any meaning at all. Kundera begins the novel by refusing both Nietzsche's interpretation of eternal return and Parmenides' classification of lightness as positive and weight as negative. Then he argues the point that lightness is unbearable and proves his point through his observations of the four main characters'

One reason why I like Tomas’s personality is that he persevered until the very end. “It’s not up here,” said the tiny dragon. “Do you know where it is?” asked Tomas. The dragon shook its head. “Nope, sorry.” (6 Baum)The quote helps back up my statement because This was one of the challenges Tomas faced when he wanted to find the chair on top of the world. So Tomas went up to first the first mountain and the dragon told him that the mountain wasn’t on the top of the world. So this means that Tomas didn’t give up on sitting on the top of the world. At the end, Tomas finally accomplished his goal(sort of). “I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.” This was Margot’s poem. This quote helps me explain why Margot is not