Shakespeare's First Experience Anchoring

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Many titles of Shakespeare’s plays illustrate past experience anchoring. Self-experience anchoring is featured on diaries, autobiographies, soliloquies and dramatic monologues as well. Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s "أهل الكهف" [Ahl Al Kahf], People of the Cave, provides an example of identity-based misanchoring. The three people of the cave, Mishlinya, Marnush and Yamlikha, did not realize that they spent three hundred years sleeping inside the cave. “The king and his retinue, especially Gallias, the man of religion, mistake them for priests. Their perception of Time isolates the protagonists away from the people: their aims are different… Chaos springs from the absence of mutual understanding—a gap of three hundred years. As a for itself they seek …show more content…

“Tell me what it is”(Frost 69). They are not of the same mind or vision. Therefore, his wife challenges him to tell what it is she is looking at, and the poet describes him as “blind creature”, which again leaves the reader with his own personal experience. A reader who happened to deal with a blind person before reading these lines may believe that it is just a blind’s husband’s roving over nothing. It is not until the reader reaches line 24 that he discovers that they talk about graves: “The little graveyard where my people are!” (69). It is clear now that she is looking at their child’s grave. In fact, the poem can be read as a tragic double entendre. Although the death of the child is the catalyst of the couple’s problems, the larger conflict that destroys the marriage is the couple’s inability to communicate with one another. Both characters feel grief at the loss of the child, but neither is able to understand the way that their partner chooses to express their sorrow (Robert Frost: Poems Summary and …show more content…

Sometimes when one’s team wins in a football match, one feels happy and vice versa. Recollection of a romantic scene from a movie may save a relationship from being broken up. Similarly, memory of a religious sermon may, at moments of spiritual instability, stop a God-fearing person from committing a crime. Of mistaken identity movies there are top 10: North by Northwest (1959), Galaxy Quest (1999), Being there (1979), The Big Lebowski (1998), El Mariachi (1992), The man with One Red Shoe (1985), The Wrong Man (1956), The Great Dictator (1940), Life of Brian (1979) and Monte Carlo (2011) (Top 10 Mistaken Identity Movies). However, some scenes in Rush Hour 3, "ليلة الدخلة" ,[Lilat Aldokhla] The Wedding Night, and "حمادة يلعب" ,[Hamada Yel’aab] Hamada May Have Fun, provide better misanchoring examples than these top 10

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