What Can We Call Our Own Except Energy, Strength And Will?

The sense of self is what determines your true needs and defines your sense of ownership. Therefore, you’ll be able to be happy with that you have. This idea also prevent people from doing things out of their nature to achieve what they want. The people that reach their goal with illegal or immoral means do not have a true sense of self. This is why I know when I achieve greatness I will not have to look over my shoulder because I will not need be worried about anything.

To any regular student, two and two equals four, analyzing is a chore, and George Orwell’s 1984 is nothing more than the psyche of the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith. However, when such a student disregards a mundane way of thinking and adheres to Thomas C. Foster’s, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, it becomes blatantly obvious that two plus two could indeed equal five as Smith’s psyche could very well as easily become theirs. No novel is ever simply just a novel and with chapters such as “Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires”, “It’s All Political”, “Yes, She’s a Christ Figure Too”, and “...Except Sex” from Foster’s literary guide provide insight into the abstractness

Post-modernism was “a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality” (Public Broadcasting Service, n.d.). It can be suggested that reality is something that we each create and possess individually. Morimura took a work from the late 1500’s and changed it to fit his personal intentions and interpretations. It embodies post-modernist devices, such as stereotyping, the crossing of genre, and contemporary culture (Felluga, n.d.). By using these devices, Morimura transforms a work that could only seem applicable to the venerable and religious, to a work that is easily recognized and applied by the general public. He transforms the work from Bruegel’s reality to his own, in endeavour to resolve it. It is thought that appropriation is unoriginal, or possess aspects of plagiarism and negligence. However, the use of appropriation to give old works new meaning is justified in the sense that it allows the build-up and corroboration of ideas, supporting the growth and change of value systems as times and realities

By connecting, considering and concluding the response gained from literary works, the reader can obtain a deeper, analytical understanding of these techniques and tools used by the authors of the various literature forms. For this assignment, I have chosen to compare and contrast two separate literary works from “Journey into Literature” (Clugston, 2010), with similar themes. . The poems I will discuss are “The

Imagine yourself shipwrecked upon an uninhabited island. The experience of being stranded will cause you to pose many questions, with the possibility of only one of those questions to being answered. One answered question is: what is the purpose of literature? Northrop Frye, within “Motive for Metaphor”, uses the analogy of being within an uninhabited island to examines the purpose of literature by connecting it to the purposes of language and their use within the different worlds and levels of the mind Frye sees present.

Anywhere in the world, someone acquires something, whether it be money, a car, or even an idea. We can “own” many intangible and tangible items in life, but how does ownership relate to a sense and development of self? This question has been constantly answered for centuries through intelligent people like Plato, Aristotle, and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, the question has received no agreeable answer. In the end, people will agree that there is a strong and positive relationship between ownership and a sense of self because the things you own will define and develop who you are positively by exhibiting what you like, what you can and cannot do, and in the end, characterizes you, as long as you use the things you own properly.

The importance of individuality is something not just emphasized by human beings, but is deemed a part of human nature. But what really makes a person who they are? Is it the color of one 's hair or the contour of his or her face? Along with these genetic traits, comes numerous similarities with parents such as interests and even a person 's accent. This idea of individuality, or also known as the self, is the personality and ideas that are in each individual and seem to be embedded genetically inside of his or her genetic code. If this sense of individuality doesn 't come from a person 's genetic code or parents, then where does it come from and does it truly exist? This sense of self is completely intertwined with human 's lives that it completely defines how a person lives his or her life. The idea of the self is real and perceivable due to its direct connection with reality and the impacts that they make on each other.

With the liberty of literature in mind, it can be seen that these two works have commonalities and both reveal something about humanity. Through scrupulous reading, these two works reveal

To add on from the concrete dissimilarities of both author’s interpretations. Both pieces also have conflicting moral and this can be derived from the fact that the pieces were written in different time periods and two totally different authors. It is evident that both authors drew

Even though two pieces of writing may look different, they can still be similar in many ways. This essay shows that even though two pieces of literature may look different, they can still have similar themes. Passages about mirrors in Fahrenheit 451 and Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” convey themes about looking at oneself in many ways.

The presence of each writer's reality have interesting parallels. These works developed similarly with the present time in which they created them. The state of prejudice and inequality in their times became a part of what they wrote. Their own personal obsessions had places in them, too.

Notes that Eliot’s comments at the time, such as one citing Imagists as ‘the starting point of modern poetry’ imply a perception of the Imagists as peers of his, while his work displays ‘relevant affinities’ with Imagism. Images can be

the Material Self (the part of us that defines and identifies ourselves via material goods

Organism used the sense of self to distinguish itself from the immediate external environment (Neisser, 1988). The idea of ‘extended self’ suggested that the self was not limited to the body but also incorporate with self-relevant information (Kim & Johnson 2012). The self-object associations was developed as far back as early childhood, which showed that ownership was important in cognition (Cunningham, Turk, Macdonald, & Macrae, 2008). Three research have investigated the association between ownership and cognition.

Instinctively, this statement appears flawed for how can a text not produce its own meaning when surely it has been specifically crafted with an author’s intention? However, upon further reflection it is clear that readers do also, if not create, but prescribe meaning to texts based upon their own assumptions and experiences. It will be the purpose of this essay to analyse each perspective using the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s ‘Inglan is a Bitch’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills like White Elephants’ as the two writers use extremely different methods in order to convey meaning and manipulate their reader’s interpretations.