In both Modern Love a fictional piece and The Entire History of You, the underlying theme that runs through is obsession. The theme of obsession is explored uniquely in the respective pieces. In Modern Love, T. C. Boyle explores two forms of obsession- one through Breda’s obsession with cleanliness. This is seen in the scene after they watch the boy in the bubble and she says, “What a life, what a perfect life. Don’t you envy him?” with reference to his isolation from the outside and the speaker’s obsession with Breda. In The Entire History of You, Liam was obsessed with finding the truth of the situation, without understanding why he was so obsessed and how he would react to the truth if it was what he feared. Liam obsesses over Fi’s past among many other things and the technological advancement makes it easy for him to confirm those suspicions. Directly analysing the writer’s ideas, I did not think the memory chip was far off from what humans do already. From what I heard in the movie it was clear that you could alter some memories and eliminate some the only thing you could not do was add ones that do not exist. Humans already alter memories …show more content…
Liam obsesses over Fi’s past among many other things and the technological advancement makes it easy for him to confirm those suspicions. Another underlying idea I noticed was how some of the characters live in the past and hold on to past memories; Liam is the biggest offender here yet. However, the whole memory chip idea is what paves way and makes it easy for the characters to continue to relive past memories they have had which is an unhealthy form of behaviour especially if it is holding the individual back in some ways. In Liam’s case living in the past put him in frenzy and he blew up violently as a result of being able to refer to the past, not just his own but his
My topic for the Anthology Project is love and lust. I chose this topic because I’m a sucker for romance. I love romance novels, movies and etc. I thought this topic would come easy to me, but I had a lot of trouble finding texts in the QCC database and especially finding books in the library because most of the ones I was looking for have been taken out already. I ended up having to go to the public library closest to me to find some of these texts. For texts such as “The Storm”, I wanted it to look clean so instead of scanning the actual book, I found a text version online. Essays were very difficult for me until Professor Murley suggested I go to the New York Times database and search “Modern Love”, after that, all I had to do was go through
Look at the magical world of Disney, all the princesses ‘fell in love’ to escape their dreadful lives, either being an oppressed slave to her step-family, having an obsessive mother who wants to kill you, or having a miserable curse. In Modern Love, T.C.Boyle described a love between the narrator and an obsessive, germaphobe girl. Why did this love exist? Simply, because of the fear of being alone. The narrator is described as “a
The human brain is not a computer. A computer can store hundreds and thousands of documents and files permanently in its memory, but the human brain can not. Computer files can be stored permanently in secondary storage devices such as external hard drives and USB. On the other hand, human memory is neither transferable nor material. The human brain can not store memory permanently and accurately. Although the human brain is marvellous, human memory is highly unreliable due to memory distortion.
The film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind focuses on the interesting topic of memory. The film follows two main characters, Joel and Clementine, who have both chosen to erase part of their memory. What both characters, and other characters in the movie, find out though is that our memory is complex and very flexible to what we make of it. The film reflects the tendency that we have as humans, to think that we are in control of our memory. The truth is that our memory is not like a video tape of the events in our lives nor is it a library of the knowledge we have collected. As I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but think; our memory is more like a ball of clay. Our minds can take the clay and make it into a shape and we can stare at that shape and know that shape but our minds will play with that clay and mold it into something different eventually. The idea portrayed in the movie is that no memory is safe from our meddling minds.
Memory is a very complex system. It is broken down into many different parts. When these parts cease to work it creates such disorders that are discussed above. Many people suffer from these diseases and there is no way of knowing how to cure them as of yet. Cognitive scientists have been working to find cures and to identify where and what memory is. It is still an enigma, but someday they may be able to figure out how the mind wo
In Aldrous Huxley’s A Brave New World, pleasure is the main driving force in life. The government uses tools such as the wonder drug soma and the endorphins naturally released during and after sexual intercourse to keep the minds of their well-tended flock off of matters that might concern them if they had not previously been conditioned to resort to a vice the moment that they begin to conceive an ill thought. Lenina 's adulation of John, the Savage, is perhaps one of the more obvious triggers of soma usage within the novel. Lenina does not understand John 's concept of love, and attempts to show her affection in the only way she knows how, and that is by having sex with him. She thinks this is a normal act, but for him, it is sanctity. John believes that one should only express their passion through sex if they are married as is the custom on the reservation. This leads John to call Lenina many obscene names and to send her into the tender arms of soma instead. She merely wishes him to reciprocate her advances, which she would take as meaning that he was happy to be with her. She simply wants the both of them to be joyous in their carnal revelry but “Happiness is a hard master – particularly other people 's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn 't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth” (Huxley 227, Brave New World). John and Lenina are very different people however, as Lenina tells Bernard “I don 't understand … why you don 't take
Ninety percent of Americans marry by the time that they are fifty; however, forty to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce ("Marriage and Divorce"). Love and marriage are said to go hand in hand, so why does true love not persist? True, whole-hearted, and long-lasting love is as difficult to find as a black cat in a coal cellar. Loveless marriages are more common than ever, and the divorce rate reflects this. The forms of love seen between these many marriages is often fleeting. Raymond Carver explores these many forms of love, how they create happiness, sadness, and anything in between, and how they contrast from true love, through his characters in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Four couples are presented: Mel and Terri, Nick and Laura, Ed and Terri, and, most importantly, an unnamed elderly couple; each couple exhibits a variation on the word love.
“Memory, like learning, is a hypothetical construct denoting three distinguishable but interrelated processes: registration, storage and retrieval” (Gross. 2001: 244). Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go represents memory as a backdrop to the storyline and narrative structure, a moral and ethical tale preluding to science fact to the modern and experimental advancements in technology through cloning.
The first issue that needs to be addressed however is what exactly is memory? “ Without memory we would be servants of the moment, with nothing but our innate reflexes to help us deal with the world. There would be no language, no art, no science, no culture. Civilization itself is the distillation of human memory” (Blakemore 1988). The simple interpretation of Blakemore’s theory on what memory is that a person’s memory is at least one of the most important things in their life and without it civilization itself could not exist.
Advances in technology have complicated the way in which people are connecting with others around them and how it separates people from reality. In “Virtual Love” by Meghan Daum, she illustrates through the narrator 's point of view how a virtual relationship of communicating through emails and text messages can mislead a person into thinking that they actually have a bond with a person whom they have stuck their ideals onto and how the physical worlds stands as an obstacle in front of their relationship when the couple finally meets. In comparison, the article … While Daum and X discuss that technology pushes us apart and disconnects us from the physical world, they evoke a new light into explaining how technology creates the illusion of making
Nearly everyone searches for love during at least some part of their life, but what happens when that love destroys them? The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author who has had his own complications with love. The Great Gatsby is a novel about a man who is desperately pleading to get the woman of his dreams to notice him; consequently, spending thousands of dollars throwing parties so this girl – who is already married – may wander in and he can win her over. When Nick Carraway comes into his life he starts to show just how obsessed he is with obtaining his idol, Daisy. The man, Jay Gatsby, uses Nick to get to Daisy, but that proves to be a fatal mistake after they run over a woman and the woman’s husband – now infuriated and delusional – shoots Gatsby for vengeance. Destructive love is the driving force that defeats all of these characters in The Great Gatsby.
Memory is the tool we use to learn and think. We all use memory in our everyday lives. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. We all reassure ourselves that our memories are accurate and precise. Many people believe that they would be able to remember anything from the event and the different features of the situation. Yet, people don’t realize the fact that the more you think about a situation the more likely the story will change. Our memories are not a camcorder or a camera. Our memory tends to be very selective and reconstructive.
An experience’s colours, smells and sounds are impossible to isolate from one another. Each conscious experience is a unique, never-to-be-repeated event.”(Barras, 2013). In other words; to be able to replicate the conscious mind one needs to somehow implant different sounds, colours, scents and perhaps even artificially created experiences and memories for it to “become” conscious. But how would one program the ever-learning memory of a human? For it to be considered “conscious” it would also have to be able to constantly learn new things and use the newfound knowledge in a human-like manner for example it should able to explain certain phenomena or remember certain events as well as being able to describe
Hate, a passionate dislike for something or someone, has taken part of every war in the world, whether it is a political or civil one. Macklemore, the rapper of the song “Same Love”, uses powerful lyrics and imagery in many of his songs. It is in “Same Love” that he raps about a social issue that the world has been dealing with since, some could argue, the beginning of time. In the song “Same Love” he uses his rap to speak to everyone who can make a change in this world. “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis bring awareness to the unjust issue of homophobia by giving people the information they need to obtain a voice and stand up for humans who have had their rights stolen.
Some people believe that there is no such thing as “true love” they believe that love is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another, but the aspect that separates true love from illusion, is the way love ends. “True Love” is much too powerful to be destroyed by Human imperfection; it may only be destroyed by a force equal to the power of love. Diotima believed that “Love is wanting to posses the good forever” In other words love is the desire to be immortal and the only way that we are able to obtain immortality is through reproduction, and since the act of reproduction is a form of sexual love, then sexual love is in fact a vital part of “True love”. Sexual love is not eternal. This lust for pleasure will soon fade, but the part of love that is immortal, is a plutonic love. You can relate this theory to the birth of love that Diotima talks about. She says that love was born by a mortal mother and immortal father. The mother represents the sexual love, the lust for pleasure. The father represents the plutonic love that is immortal. Plutonic love is defined as a true friendship, the purest of all relationships. A true plutonic love will never die; it transcends time, space, and even death.