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    Records Department. This place is to rewrite and alter history. The antagonist of the story is O’Brien. He, as does Winston, works in the Ministry of Truth where he holds an administrative role, which is unknown to Winston. However in reality, O’Brien is actually an agent for the Thought Police who soon arrests Winston and tortures him for several weeks. Winston all along thought O’Brien was against the Thought Police. The story starts with Winston entering his apartment with

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    their poor decisions have consequences. The teenage girls’ decisions and consequences they had faced it, reveals the short stories’ themes. In the very beginning in both “I.D” and “Where are you’re going and, where you been” the theme of realism vs fantasy were apparent. In the short story “I.D” Connie experimented with the meaning of sexuality. She would leave home, looking like a young teenage girl, but when she went out, she gave a false perception of being a grown woman. Connie

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    understanding by the speaker or character towards their surroundings. Alice has woken up from her dream of Wonderland. Then, she comes face to face with her reality and solemnly wishes to return back to her dream-like state (O’Flaherty). Coincidently, Carroll has the same mindset as his creation, he longs to return to a simpler time rather than face the reality he despises. Identity, as well, is another motif present in Life is But a Dream. As Carroll struggles to come to terms with what is real and what is

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    Worlds’ End Inn. Multiple people and creatures are waiting in the Inn while he storm is emerging. After awhile, they all find out it is not a weather storm, but it is a “reality storm” and they exchange stories while they await for the storm to pass. Anyway, readers could expect that The Sandman Worlds’ End is portrayed as a dark fantasy book because an author known for his horror books, Stephen King,

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    man’s heart can aspire for these outrageous designs. More often than not, these goals are never reached for any of a number of reasons. Reality is a lot forthright than we would hope. We see this exact reality play out in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald teaches us how reality can never measure up to the fantasies we create for ourselves and what can happen to someone who spends their life chasing their

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    story, he does not need to. Not much may seem to happen in the stories, but profound themes and messages are hidden beneath the words. In the story An Encounter, a group of boys imagine they are in the Wild West, while staging mock battles of cowboys vs. Indians. The story includes many encounters that present themselves as ordinary; however this is far from true. In fact, the story is largely commentating on often mocking Irish religious life and escapism. In the beginning of the story one of the

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    The Glass Menagerie

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    The Glass Menagerie-Alesha Jeter ITR 2 Summary: In Modern American Drama, we read a play by Tennessee Williams titled Streetcar Named Desire. This play is about the mental decline of a woman named Blanche Dubois who goes to live with her sister for a while. Her husband, who was actually gay, had killed himself and the rest of her family is dead as well. The play that I read in comparison was a play titled The Glass Menagerie, also by Tennessee Williams. This play is about a woman named Amanda Wingfield

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    Lightning Thief vs. Artemis Fowl Both the Lightning Thief and Artemis Fowl are in the fantasy genre, both involve full of action adventures. Both of their narrators are humorous yet very sarcastic. Both of the stories take place in a modern day. Percy Jackson and his demigod friends live and travel across the United States going on quests while Artemis Fowl, a human that mostly does is work in Europe does darker business. One of The Lightning Thief’s characteristics is that it re-imagined the world

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    Enlightenment vs. The Comfort of Fantasy Plato is known as the most progressive and fruitful philosophers of his time. He created the practice of questioning everything, and he illuminated the knowledge ignored by the majority. His ideas were rejected, despite his intentions of expanding knowledge and creating a more clear vision of the world. However, his students of philosophy, Aristotle and Glaucon were the most prominent of those who chose to learn from him. Plato engaged in dialogue with these

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    Hamlet Character Analysis

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    Elizabethan era. An unquenchable thirst for revenge is the underlining factor which propels the action of the play, engaging our undeniable fantasy for vengeance as we too are torn between bestial urges to act and Christian morality “vengeance is mine says the Lord”. Additionally, the theme of verisimilitude explores the complexities of appearance vs reality depicting the difficulty in comprehending the truth in a world changing from feudal ideals to modern humanist values. Thus, Shakespeare’s skillful

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