Brief Encounter

Is Brief Encounter best understood as a sober realist drama or as an imaginary love affair? Brief Encounter (1945), according to Dyer Richard’s words (1993, p.9), is a ‘lovely film’, but also ‘pretty much a good one too’. It indicates that this film conveys many symbolic meanings, such as how people struggle in forbidden love, but represents the reality as well, like women are vulnerable in a relationship. In this essay, it will be claimed from three aspects to prove the film is best understood as

Every day we interact with many different people. Some encounters are brief and some will be so important that they will impact you for the rest of your life. I once had a brief encounter that turned into a life changing event. I has an encounter with a person who profoundly changed my future .Through the meekness that he had while dealing with my fragile broken heart. The countless hours he spent mentoring and encouraging me through the hardest times in my life. It was an ordinary yet cold day

doubts about Gatsby. Aside from that, Fitzgerald focuses even more so on hinting at the truth behind Gatsby’s notorious rumors. The first time the reader actually sees Gatsby use his social status for something other than parties, is during a brief encounter with a highway policeman. As Gatsby speeds down a highway and is stopped by a policeman, Nick witnesses him wave “a white card from his wallet” right in front of the man’s face. This gaudy display of exemption implies that Gatsby is not at all

Miss Brill soon observes a lady and a gentleman having a brief encounter in the park, and she imagines what is being said on between the couple. Through this encounter one sees that Miss Brill is living vicariously through the people in the park to fulfill her loneliness. Miss Brill's voyeurism leaves her feeling as though she has interactions with these people;

“A Brief Encounter with the Enemy” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, is a story about a twenty seven year old man named Luke who enlisted into the army, for the wrong reasons. Luke finds the time there to be incredibly boring. He was afraid he would leave this place learning nothing and being the same cubicle worker he is before he enlisted. Most of his time is spent training and building a bridge across the valley, that would soon touch the hill. Once the bridge they’ve been building for four months is completed

that it can be easily be created with the click of a single button. Therefore, the aesthetics of photography really an artform when it is captured at the “right” moment rather than being staged and given an artificial meaning. In the video Brief Encounters, Gregory Crewdson depicts multiple scenes that he claims to have artistic quality. He creates “objective documents” that replicate the reality in front of him (Wilson). These photographs are staged and virtual as they deviate from the natural

Kerri Brown Professor Jegede ENC 1101 9/12/11 Carolyn Forche’s “The Colonel” In the poem “The Colonel,” Carolyn Forche recounts a cruel encounter with the titles main character of interest while working for Amnesty International in El Salvador. The colonel personality can best be summed as a remorseless man in a chaotic country where violence is customary to the colonel and his people. He also cares not for the civil liberties of the citizens of El Salvador that he governs or the fact that he

Every epic hero possesses certain heroic characteristics. The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times. Beowulf is the hero. He shows that he is a great man by always putting other things before his own needs. He is important and needed by his people and is known by many as a strong, courageous and a helpful person. He shows all of the qualities and traits that a true hero possesses. Beowulf, like other epic heroes, possesses the following heroic qualities: epic

Choi, THE HANDS OF TIME 6 His jaw dropped. There were old houses, ones that looked almost exactly like the ones he had seen in his social studies textbook. The intricately designed, curved black roofs, the cubical design- it was like it was the 1930’s. And then realization struck him. He was in the 1930s. The yellow, black, and brown portraits, the stone frying pans, the guns, the old houses- his house was the house of a communist in the 1930s. Also, the reason why his house was huge was because

Steinbeck uses chrysanthemums to symbolize this conflict and Elisa's self-worth. By examining these points of conflict and the symbolism presented by the chrysanthemums, the meaning of the story can be better determined. The first time the reader encounters conflict occurs when Elisa is tending to her chrysanthemums in her garden. As she works, Elisa handles the flowers with care and compassion; she makes certain that nothing will come to harm them as though they were her own children; "No aphids were