Beautifully Deceived
Is the world one see around them really how it is or are they being deceived?
In Melissa Morelli Lacroix 's A Most Beautiful Deception she explores the lives of Clara and Robert Schumann in her set of poems Variations on a theme by Clozapine. Robert and Clara had many struggles throughout their lives the greatest being Robert 's mental illness, schizophrenia. Deception is all around us making us think everything is more beautiful than it really is. One deceives oneself though drinking, deceives oneself into thinking they are in love someone, music is beautifully deceptive in the way it sounds, as well as the medicine that is meant to help oneself deceives.
When one drinks alcohol it seems as if their problems just disappear but really they are just deceiving themself by believing that they are gone. The speaker in the poems says this is "because they grow cloudy behind the glass."
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Randy Ramal explains that "Traditionally, the relationship between love and self-deception has been interpreted to suggest that people often deceive themselves about love in order to fulfill a deep need in them to give meaning to their lives. This interpretation is often invoked to explain, on the one hand, why people who are in love might claim otherwise and, on the other hand, why those who are not in love at all convince themselves of the opposite." Clara fell in love with Robert for his artistry in music but soon she deceived herself in believing she was still alive. The speaker in the poems Robert says about Clara, "I know you always / cross the distance/to which you have dedicated your life" (Morelli Larcoix p.63). Clara has dedicated her life to Robert through marriage and must stay with him. Even with the problems Robert is going through she must stay with him. In order to stay happy she must live a beautiful deception she created for herself, which is that she is still in love with
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes and The Scarlet Letter. Both authors persuade the reader to feel pain of the stories subject. In Little Girls in Pretty Boxes the author used pathos and interviewing to share the stories of these overly dedicated youth. Joan Ryan wrote to show how these young, talented, sophisticated women can hide the harsh reality of the sport. In her biography she listed the physical problems that these young girls go through. They have eating disorders, stunted growth, weakened bones, depression, low self esteem, debilitating and fatal injuries, and many sacrifice dropping out of school. Whereas the Scarlet Letter is a fictional drama that uses persuasion and storytelling to involve the reader. Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses
... This line implies that the drinking will never end and that no one can stop him from drinking no matter what you do. This poem is a poem that has beautiful imagery that consistently connects the reader to what’s going on in the actual poem like these lines from “Country Western Singer”, “And the blood I taste, the blood I swallow / Is as far away from wine / as 5:10 is for the one who dies at 5:09” (37-40). These lines have to do with the final push of the alcoholic and the fact that they lost the battle against alcoholism and did in fact pass away.
Just one become only two, which then leads to number three that will be the last… so they say and apparently so will the one after that, after that, and after that until they can physically drink no more. For some, this might happen on their twenty first birthday or only once, but for many people in the world this happens every month, every week, or even every day. “Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the U.S. 17.6 million people, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence” (“Alcohol”). The need and overdose of alcohol is called alcoholism. This addiction causes pain, anger, and loss of control all over the world. One might say, “I can handle myself. I am just fine,” but we all know they are not fine because most of the time they are causing hurt around them. In Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, her father, Rex Walls, is an example of one of these 17.6 million alcoholics and this disease affects the family in multiple ways.
Anne Lamott has an amazing ability to connect with the audience. With use of personal experience and scenarios to be able to connect with the reader using rhetorical techniques such as ethos and pathos. Although her use of vulgar terms may tend to turn off readers, giving her points less impact.
Reneé Sintenis’s bronze sculpture Daphne. It is 58 3/4” high include the base. Located on the right wing which is the European area of the museum. There are not a lot of natural light on the sculpture, but there are several spot light. Those lights highlighted the whole sculpture. The lines of the sculpture is thin and rough but it gives viewer a tone of tranquility and gracefulness.
One of the symbols that the author uses in “Cathedral” is drinking which shows how humans use drinking as a form of escaping of their problems, but at the same time drinking helps the narrator to have a more open mind. In the story drinking is present many times, when the wife tried to kill herself, when the husband is waiting for her wife and the blind man, when the husband meets Robert, and when the husband, the wife and Robert eat and when they watch television. According to Caldwell Tracy “The narrator's disaffected state of being seems exacerbated by his turn to alcohol and drugs, which he uses both to provide a comfort level during Robert's visit and as a strategy to deal with his frequent nightmares.” Drinking in the story can be seen as a way of escaping reality because one knows that the husband is lonely an alcohol is a way of forgetting that. “I did the drinks, three big glasses of Scotch with a splash of water in each. Then we made ourselves comfortable and talked about Robert’s travels” (436), this quote shows how drinking in the story was the form in which the husband and Robert star socializing and ...
A woman on a journey to get better and stop her eating disorder that has killed her life experiences and with the help of friends, family and god she just might get through it. Cynthia, a 28 year old woman has had bulimia for the longest time and has been binging and purging for 12 years. The Monster Within by Cynthia Rowland McClure, is a memoir that tells the story of Cynthia’s road to recovery from her struggles to learn what is causing it and the courage it takes to overcome it.
In Cassie Heidecker’s “The Real, the Bad, and the Ugly”, she explores the realities of reality television. She first admits she watches the very unrealistic culinary television shows with her husband for the shows amuse them. Since the shows are not realistic, Heidecker questions what the reality of reality television shows. She comes to a conclusion that the ideas of the shows are not real, but the people who play the characters are real. She believes characters and their situations are not real but the everyday lives of the people in-between the episodes are a part of our reality. These people playing roles in their shows must be at least a little like themselves while off the screen, which is most definitely real. Heidecker expresses that reality television is not real concerning the show, but of the people who have real lives beyond what the screen plays.
In the story The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, one big conflict being developed is man vs. unknown. In the story, Charlotte goes down to top steerage to get some things from her luggage. When she’s down there she sees a mysterious face staring at her. She went up to it and realizes it’s fake. After that she sees another face peeking up from the Brig (the ship's jail) and realizes that the face is alive. It wasn’t any of the crew or the captain. The captain and Zachariah told her that she needed to keep the dirk for protection just in case because of the crew and because of Cranick. I think a good theme for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is, being brave is sometimes the only choice. I think this is a good theme because
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The Deadly Deception is a documentary released the fact of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male which took place in Alabama from 1932 to 1972. The documentary cited several articles as well as writings published on the academic journals providing background of the experiment, the interviews of the professors and witness was also included offering scientific and affective views of the event. The Deadly Deception is a good film that succeed in giving audiences the fact, then led them to think.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel, follows the life of a group of sisters as they try to live under the control of their authoritative mother, Mama Elena. The story is told through recipes created by the youngest sister, Tita. As the story unravels, there is a theme of lost, love, bondage, and freedom. Throughout the course of each sister’s life, at least one of the aforementioned themes play out in their life. It is a story that contains deep pain and loss due to an evident cultural oppression perpetuated unto each of their lives by their authoritarian mother. This cultural oppression is due to the deeply established ideologies of the importance of being a righteous women. This effect caused by patriarchy, fueled Mama Elena’s authoritarian
is real or not, could we be made to think that this is the real world.
We are like the people in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” The people chained to the cave were forced to look at projections and shadows that were cast upon the wall. Because the shadows were the only thing they had seen, they perceived them to be the “truth”. Today our “shadows” have become the media, death, and pain which influence what we believe to be “truth.” The media, death, and pain are fairly common in today’s world and we encounter them often enough. Very few have reached the real “reality” ruled by thought and reason. Life is a struggle in which achieving enlightenment and seeing “reality” is the goal. We have a biased outlook on life because we are imperfect. Our notion of reality is distorted from the shroud of ignorance that surrounds us.