Averageness Essays

“Love can be uncertain, but true: The story of Hamlet and Ophelia” Love is a feeling difficult to understand. In fact no one exactly knows what does it mean to be in love. Some argue that being in love is feeling butterflies in the stomach and being constantly thinking about someone special. In my opinion, to love someone means to care for them and show respect at all times. In this play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, love is portrayed between the main character, Hamlet and the dear Ophelia. Even though

In modern society, humans have come to judge each other off of superficial characteristics. These superficial characteristics are often a result of facticity, or characteristics people are unable to change about themselves, or at least not easily, because these qualities are evident from the time of birth. Opinions are commonly formed about people based off of two specific characteristics-- their gender and their socioeconomic status. These elements also frequently serve as a basis for how to interact

Beauty, Schönheit, beauté, belezza and so on. It is not only so that all countries have a different word for beauty, almost all of them have a different beauty ideal as well. For us people in the Netherlands living in a multicultural society, it is already quite clear by simply looking around that there is huge difference in beauty ideals due to, for example, different backgrounds, different native country, religion, etcetera. A beauty ideal is, as we see it nowadays, the appearance of a (fe)male

affair (his daughter's friend, Angela) red rose petals appear in Lesters fantasies. The petals represent temptation for Lester and his desire for a purpose. Another major point in this film that was portrayed through the idea of conformity or averageness reoccurred throughout the film. This is show through

The author, Vonnegut , uses characterization and word choice to warn his readers of the potential drawbacks and the dangers of a truly “equal “ society. The author conveys that there are two different types of people that live in the society: through his main characters Harrison and his parents. His word choices show the mood or the tone of the society. The author shows how individualism and conformity affect the society. Harrison Bergeron is a fourteen year old that is seven feet tall, athletic

Injustice has suffocated the sphere of our contemporary world, in an age where nothing good is portrayed for too long the dawn of a new hero was the only hope for the hero less planet. Yesterday, Mowl was just an average college student but as the sunset on the awry night Mowl was walking home from class when he felt a sudden clump on his head. Now after the ‘incident’ Mowl was overcome and now shares his conscience with an ancient god that has taken the form of an owl. With no recollection of his

luxurious for the middle class. Capote also has the family in the typical gender roles seen at the time along with the self-made man idea heavily shown in the book. Where the family traves and activities they engage in are utilized to show the averageness of their life. The Clutter family represents the 1950s emerging middle class with everything from the house they live in, their family roles and success, and the activities they engage in outside their family. First, the residence in which

My mother and family members never allowed our circumstances to serve as an excuse for averageness. In my early years, education was an outlet for my curiousity. It gave me an outlet to continue to grow, learn, and make my family proud. As I got older, I came to the realization that an education was a way to change my situation and to make something

Knowledge is power, but knowledge also has the power to blackmail. In P. D. In James’ novel, Shroud for a Nightingale, Nurse Heather Pearce and Sister Ethel Brumfett understand deep secrets about the faculty and nurses of Nightingale House. They used this knowledge to blackmail others in order to cope with their loneliness and lack of love. Oddly enough, their goal was to befriend their victims. Through rumors, alliances, lies, and secrets, James gives insight into the motives for blackmail. James

Loman fails to recognize the love his family has for him. Although the author Arthur Miller states Willy Loman is a tragic hero. Willy Loman is a failure because he's a bad father. Willy Loman is an average businessman who attempts to hide his averageness and failures behind hallucinations as he strives to be successful. Willy is the father of Biff and Happy. Willy is desperately wants Biff to be successful, but Willy takes it into his own hands. Willy and his wife Linda have a conversation about

A world of difference. A change in life. Although two of the most famous men in American history were so incredibly different, their vision of hope was the same. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy both made some of the most famous speeches at two different times and two different sceneries, but they both shared a common interest. Both address the subject of freedom to all, but below the surface there are many hidden ideas that they both possess. They are both a symbol of freedom and liberty

Truman Capote's introductory passage from In Cold Blood(1966), asserts the town of Holcomb as a run-down town that every reader has seen before. Capote approaches this idea of familiarity and comfort of Holcomb through effective irony, shifts of mood, and blatant foreshadowing; acknowledging that this town isn’t ideal based on appearance but the community is what makes it the town that it is. He works to establish a sense of familiarity in the reader in order to evoke more emotion as they read through

Author Harlan Coben once said, “Adolescence is always a war; no one gets out unscathed”. There are many attributes shared amongst teens, and in the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, the protagonist, Connie is the embodiment of the typical teenage girl. Oates depicts Connie in such a way by the use of Connie’s appearance and actions, as well as her relationships, and budding sexuality. One key element that characterizes Connie as an average teen is her appearance

Ellsworth Toohey and Gail Wynand, despite being somewhat rivals throughout points of the novel, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, share fairly similar mindsets in the regard that they are both actively working in the collectivist outlook to life. Having both come from childhoods which greatly influenced their mindsets, Ellsworth’s being manipulation and mediocrity and Gail’s being conformity to the point of slander, their actions are alike in that they both fight to gain power over others at all costs

Whereas the introduction of melodramatic plots cannot be understood as a pure attempt to “go mainstream” (Wang 159) or complete deviation from Jia’s realistic concern, not only because all four stories are loosely adapted from authentic news. Different from the play of Quentin Tarantino as a fan of violence, the use of spectaculars in A Touch of Sin is a way of sketching socio-political circumstances in which ordinary people are hustled into the dead end, rather than fetishizing the genre of carnage

When you think about philosophy, who do you think of? Probably people like Aristotle and Plato, but what about Rene Descartes? Rene Descartes' philosophical work affected modern thought in so many different ways; he disproved Aristotle's theories, involved modern situations in his research, and believed anyone could achieve success. Without his research the world would philosophically look at the world in an entirely different way, yet nobody really knows who he is these days compared to people like

One of the most probing and controversial facets of humanity is the discord in belief concerning the autonomy - or lack thereof - that man has over his future. Society widely accepts that destiny hinges on a determining entity who guides people on their various paths, but dissension arises from the different theories of the identity of that determining entity. Ideologies range from a belief in a higher power who commands his or her subjects to the idea that individuals meander through life with