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This paper examines how the dream-like settings in Michael Ondaatje's novels, ("In the Skin of a Lion" and "The English Patient"), represent the structure, organization and style of the novel. It looks at the message Ondaatje is trying to get across by using this style of writing. The paper also discusses the novels in the context of post-modern literature.

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"This selection has no order in its construction. It continuously repeats the verb "leapt," which has no hidden meaning. With the images of color, and then pulling and stomping, it is difficult to discern what Ondaatje wants the reader to think about dyer's work. This is also seen in The English Patient, when it says "The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations." Here, Hana has no order in her life until she is asleep. This image in itself is disorderly, because dreams themselves are so unorganized. It does not seem possible for her to find order through them. Yet that is precisely what dreams do; they present chaos and random images in a way that almost makes sense; and that is what Ondaatje does. He puts images together for the reader to somehow make sense of it for themselves."

Tags:Patrick, Lewis, Cravaggio, Kip

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"Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy built around the events which take place during one fantastic night in the forest. It is a play about the strange power of dreams--a power which can transform love to loathing, heaven to hell, and men to beasts. This paper will focus on the dream within the play and, more specifically, on the attitudes and judgments of the lovers, Bottom, Theseus, and Hippolyta toward the experience, as expressed in four passages which present their varying points of view.

The first of these passages, the conversation presenting the young lovers' reaction to the night's events (4.1.180-92), is brief but telling. Demetrius, the only one still under Puck's pansy-liquor spell, remains dazed and uncertain whether the dream has actually ended. He even goes so far as to ask the others.."

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This paper discusses how the combination of two factors: economic opportunity and personal liberties make up the two main components of the American dream. It also looks at how God's dream can be defined as what God wants for his followers. The paper looks at how God values individual freedoms, like liberty; in holy writings, how slavery of any sort is described in a negative manner and how God also values charity. The paper compares both concepts and concludes that on the surface, it would seem that the American dream and God's dream are compatible. God's dream seems to be that all of His children will live in prosperity, while the American dream offers prosperity to all who work hard enough.

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"While the American dream continues to be the topic of much discussion, few people discuss God's dream. After all, in a country that prides itself on freedom of religion, it would be presumptuous for any one person or religion to attempt to define God's dream for people. However, the reality is that all religious traditions discuss the same central themes, when discussing what God wants for his followers. God values individual freedoms, like liberty; in holy writings, slavery of any sort is described in a negative manner. God also values charity; all religious traditions have a history of honoring those who are charitable. God cares for the downtrodden; religious works are full of stories where God lifts up the underdog to defeat the oppressor."

Tags:slavery, freedom, liberty, charity

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This paper describes "The Great Gatsby" as Fitzgerald's signature novel of the American dream gone awry. It compares American society in the 1920s to American today. The author writes that immigrants, like Gatsby, come to escape their own problems for our empty promises of unlimited advancement. On the surface, "The Great Gatsby" is a novel about confused and unhappy relationships that drank and socialized their way through the 1920s. Yet, when investigating further, it speaks of the bankrupt American Dream, which no longer stands for progress and hard work, as it has become materialistic and corrupt.

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"For years immigrants poured into Ellis Island looking for freedom of religious persecution, to escape poverty and hunger and numerous other reasons. Today over 50,000 immigrants come to the shores of America clutching Green Cards hoping for a piece of the American Dream."

It is in this setting, that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays "The Great Gatsby." Jay Gatsby, himself, the title character, was a major culprit of this corruption.

Nick Carraway surmises that Gatsby made his wealth from bootlegging and involvement with organized crime. Gatsby has focused his adult life to being wealthy enough and having enough to impress Daisy."

Tags:classic, novel, america, novel, society, immigrants, drink, daisy, jay, 1920, bootlegging, organized, crime, wealth

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This paper presents an essay that explores the concept of the California dream, as discussed in the book, "California Dreams and Realities". The essay touches upon the impact of immigration, the environment, education, economics, the entertainment industry, and the automobile industry on the California Dream.

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"In "California Dreams and Realities", editors Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon maintain that California is neither the sun-drenched land of glitter and glamour that many outsiders imagine when they think of the Golden State nor is it the war zone that has recently captured the national imagination. In a state where the one constant of life is change the California Dream is part myth, part reality and typically something in between for those who inhabit the Golden State. From a review of the essays in..."

Tags:Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, pollution, University of California, Hollywood, inequality, Silicon Valley, politics, corruption, water

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This paper presents three different essays on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Each deals with the different aspects of humanity discovered by the protagonist, Dick Deckard, as he confronts human-like androids and confronts the meaning of human existence.

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"Rick Deckard is the protagonist of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Deckard is a bounty hunter in futuristic San Francisco. Earth is covered by a layer of radioactive dust due to World War Terminus in ..."

Tags:androids, Mars, human beings, meaning, fulfillment, emotions, feelings, empathy, love, animals, war, bounty hunter, real, artificial, life, existence

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This paper discusses how in "The Dream of the Rood", the poet has added elements of the idealized heroic death to the crucifixion. The paper relates that the poem is a story of the crucifixion, told from the point of view of the Cross, as it is seen by the poem's narrator in a vision. Like "Caedmon's Hymn" this poem is characterized by its blending of pagan heroic values with Christian ones. The paper includes an outline of the poem.

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"Thus, this poem is one striking product of a people's struggle to reconcile the competing values of their ethnic literary tradition and their new-found truth. Notice the depiction of the Cross as covered alternately with riches and blood, traditionally two of the most vivid realities of the Anglo-Saxons' existence (see, for example, Beowulf). 70 A notable feature of the poem is the close identification of Christ, Cross, and Dreamer. The Dreamer's comment (126b-29a) seems un-Christian at first glance, over-competitive, yet it is perhaps not far from St. Paul's attitudes in Gal. 6:14 ("glory in the Cross") and 2 Cor. 11:21 ("boasting"). The poem as a whole embodies a typical meditative scheme-Memory, Understanding, Will-and is rich in descriptive and rhetorical artistry as well as spiritual and theological expression. The wedding of form and content seems to me superb."

Tags:hymn, christian, pagan, death, cruxifiction

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This essay explains the symbolism and metaphor in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within A Dream" and focuses on the narrator's questioning of the afterlife. The paper argues with the claim that the poem is preaching, and contends that the sentiment of the poem offers very little evidence of preaching, and seems more likely to reflect a questioning nature regarding an afterlife.

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"On the surface, "A Dream Within a Dream" very plainly shows Poe's narrator contemplating if what he senses exists or results from fantasy. However, after sifting through poetic elements at work, Poe's narrator reveals a deeper contemplation. The poem utilizes poetic elements such as symbolism, structure, and repetition to expose a questioning sentiment regarding the complexities or even existence of an afterlife. Ignoring these elements, literary critic Kim Drain claims, "Poe preaches in so many places that death is simply a transfiguration," (Drain). The sentiment of the poem offers very little evidence of preaching, and seems more likely to reflect a questioning nature regarding an afterlife."

Tags:structure, repetition, hardships, sadness, preacher

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In this paper, the writer studies the character of Jacques from 'As You Like It" and states that this part is an actor's dream. The writer points out that Jacques' intelligence and melancholia make him a cynical and cyclical character, and though the characters with whom he lives on stage do not understand him, the truths he speaks extends beyond the stage to an audience, who although may be equally as perplexed, will minimally appreciate him or may be bound to love him. Further, the writer notes that Jacques is a complex character with whom the bard has not been gentle, for though he is enmeshed in the pastoral comedy of switched identities and masks, he also observes the calamity of human nature with the stoic eye of a one-man Greek chorus.

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"The preparation an actor must do to truthfully portray the exceptional complexity of Jacques requires incredible subtextual understanding of the character so that he does not fall into the trap of relying on only one dimension of his character. Yes, his melancholy abounds, for Jacques sees his personal drama within the foolish, romantic drama within the comedy of the play; unraveling him through these many transitions affirms Jacques' function as a philosopher. And given the opportunity, the writer would be presented with the chance to dissect, extrapolate and then blend these many sides of Jacques, knowing all he is within while playing only what the other characters (and audience) expect him to be externally."

Tags:stage, melancholy, monologue, drama, Seven, Ages, of, Man

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This paper is an anthropological review of Nasdijj's book, "The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams". It observes that the book stands as a cultural treasure which clearly delineates the historical context of the present day state of the Native American. It concludes that the effectiveness of the book lies in the powerful reality that is conveyed by the author and first-person narrator.