...Willy's Loneliness and Alienation in Death of a Salesman Willy Loman’s feelings of alienation and loneliness are direct psychological results of his interaction with society and the conditions that are found within it. Although, he does not necessarily have the ability or allow himself to have the ability to define his feelings as such, they are still very much a part of his everyday existence. This is evident in his constant bragging and attempted compensation. He does not feel that he is truly a part of society. Indeed, he is not. Miller himself seems to be saying that this is not necessarily a bad thing; this society is not that wonderful. Yet Willy still yearns to be like his brother, Ben, and the other men he sees making up the work force. He desperately wants to command respect and be a part of the group. Although usually he just goes about his business as best he can, he does at times admit his feelings: ‘Because I get so lonely—especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to. I get the feeling that I’ll never sell anything again, that I won’t make a living for you, or a business, Business for the boys. There’s so much I want to make for— (Baym 2001) He wants to provide for Linda and for the boys, but he does not know how to go about this within the confines of society and still maintain his individuality. Even the things he dreams of having for himself and for his family are shallow. He will never find relief from his search...
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...Since the beginning of computers and the internet, society has become very dependent upon them, wasting many hours browsing and suffering the different sources of the world wide web. According to Nicholas Carr, “The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the most intimate, the most human, of natural capacities- those for reason perception, memory, emotion”(211). What Carr is saying is that the internet causes the brain to be affected more than any other form of technology. With the invention of the printing press, books has had a major impact on the mind, but between that time and the invention of the internet, no other device has had the effect that the internet has. As society becomes more dependent upon the internet, researchers have discovered that the brain has changed the way a person reads, focuses, and performs certain activities, also the internet being the easiest place to gain any information it makes it number source...
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...time passes by he gets used to "the shackled form of a conquered monster", which relates to the old image of many natives having to follow the orders of white man. At the same time, these native people are also "monstrous and free”. These two strong adjectives show that Marlow no longer feel safe here. This also gives an emergent tone for the passage, giving the readers the danger of going on a voyage to a new land and facing strange people. As Marlow feels that he will face new experiences, he uses such adjectives as “horrid”, “ugly”, or “inhuman” in order to reveal his feelings of alienation. Races are also one of the main themes in this passage. By using the world “ugly, remote”, Marlow implies that the natives are not of familiar to him. Toward the end of the passage, he uses the adjectives “thick”, and “treacherous” in order to describe the water. The water is portrayed to be dangerous and shallow; the engine is compared with the word “devil”, which seems to imply the upcoming danger that Marlow has to face during his journey. These details contribute to the whole “perilous” tone of the passage. Marlow describes different feelings when he comes to Africa such as “joy, fear, sorrow,” The repetition of the word “truth” drives his curiosity for find the truths in...
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...With the emphasis on the Collected Poems by RS Thomas and The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy and with wider reference to Wit Margaret Edson explore if the modern world destroy emotions, passions and irrationality creating a selfish, unresponsive and rational society? By: Imogen Teale The age we live in is the age of 'the machine,' where technological achievements are unimaginable, 'the age of space travel, the internet, genetic engineering,'(An Introduction to Marx's Theory of Alienation) this is The Age of Enlightenment. No longer are we seen as individuals in society, we are not urged to liberate human imagination and creativity to unleash,' the true, the good and the beautiful,'(Toward a Genealogy of Individualism By Daniel Shanahan) potential of individuals encouraged by the era of Romanticism. Living in the age where despite our power to control the natural world our society is dominated by insecurities, lives characterised by feelings of isolation, loneliness and the need for escapism,'insecurity has seeped in to the fabric of our lives.' (Insecure Times: Living with Insecurity in Modern Society, Author unknown, edited by Michael Hill, John Vail, Jane Wheelock) Exploring the ideas and themes portrayed in RS Thomas' Collected Poems, Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych and supported evidence from Wit by Margaret Edson each author uses a main character as a symbol for the death of the natural world and the destruction of modernity. The more densely populated cities...
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...English 2328 Spring 2011 Unit Two: Early Twentieth Century Review Sheets |Survey Highlights |Modernism in American Literature |Imagism, Imagery, Image | |Major Authors |Some distinguishing characteristics— |From Pound's "A Retrospect": | |Historical Context |Rejection of traditional values and assumptions, in society and art. |—Three principles of Imagism: | |Intellectual Movements |Strong break with traditional literary forms and techniques of |1. Direct treatment of 'thing' whether subjective or objective. | |Genres, Elements of Literature |expression. |2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the | |Authors |—Avant-garde, innovative |presentation. | |Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot |—Frost's "old-fashioned way to be new" |3. As regarding...
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...URBANIZATION AND ITS HAZARDS Urbanization: Urbanization refers to general increase in population and the amount of industrialization of a settlement. It includes increase in the number and extent of cities. It symbolizes the movement of people from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens because of the increase in the extent and density of urban areas. The density of population in urban areas increases because of the migration of people from less industrialized regions to more industrialized areas. The concept “Urban Sprawl” means increase in spatial scale or increase in the peripheral area of cities. “Urban Sprawl” has its own drawbacks. The city and its infrastructure may not be adequately planned. Traffic is high with increased time needed for commuting.Essential services are not reachable within time.City administration becomes extremely difficult. An excellent example of urban sprawl within our country is that of the city of Bangalore. After the establishment of IT industry in Bangalore, the population exploded from 24,76,355 in 1980 to 42,92,223 in 2001 with influx of 18 lakh immigrants within two decades. The growing population has increased pressure on several resources including civic amenities, residential availability, cost of living, local infrastructure, transport, traffic and administration. Bangalore has lost many if its water bodies (lakes) and consequently the fragile ecosystem has been disturbed due to the everincreasing need for space, to cater to residences...
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...Meursault’s reaction to Maman’s funeral was one of indifference, like the death of the Arab: “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The telegram from the Home says: Your mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Deep sympathy” (Camus 1). Meursault recognizes the insignificance of his mother’s death and thus has a shallow emotional reaction. He displays no grief; he is simply in attendance to the funeral because he feels obliged and he gets to be absent from work. Throughout the funeral, he is mainly concerned about physical discomforts. For example, he complains about being tired and other trifling matters. Meursault didn’t even want to see the body of his newly deceased mother. Further, he even takes interest to how the humidity will affect the decay of her body. Pondering this, he recognizes that Maman’s body is merely an empty shell and contains no semblance of her soul or past life. This is perhaps one of the most prominent examples of existentialism in the novel. Meursault looks past his maternal relation to Maman, recognizing that her death...
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...is prevalent throughout the novel - the issue of Holden's black and white perspective on the dark, phony world of adulthood juxtaposed with the light, innocent, world of childhood. The important passage contributes to Holden's clinical depression as a result of his beloved brother's death, therefore his cynical view of adulthood, and his anxiety about growing up, resulting in the overall angst and alienation palpable throughout the novel, leading to his eventual catharsis. Holden's imagery of “catching” children playing in a field of rye before they fall off a cliff is unrealistic, misheard from a little boy, and it serves merely as an escape route from what he fears most about adulthood – the change and overwhelming complexity. Holden wants everything to be easily understandable and eternally fixed, similar to the Eskimos and Indians in the museum. Opposed to acknowledging that adulthood scares and mystifies him, Holden instead invents a fantasy – that childhood is an idyllic field of rye, while adulthood, like death, is a fatal fall over the edge of a cliff. Holden's shallow, one dimension understanding of childhood and adulthood allows him to cut himself off from the world and as one shielded with an armour of cynicism. Holden's grief upon the death of his dear brother leads him to carry Allie's mitt for comfort, but the mitt also serves as a tool to “catch” children from...
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...culture influences the way that he or she looks at and interacts with the world. For example, in the story "Everyday Use" education plays a big role in the story." She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know." Mama speaks these words in reference to Dee’s formative years. Rather than her daughter’s intelligence and accomplishments triggering pride in Mama, Dee’s schooling prompts fear and intimidation in her instead. Education is the means through which Dee rejects and belittles her family, thus leading to division and alienation. At the same time, knowledge is a provocation, reminding Mama of the exposure and opportunities she was never given. Also in the story "An Indian Father's Plea" education has affected the way a boy named Wind-Wolf is labeled. "So you see, all of these influences together make him somewhat shy and quiet and perhaps 'slow' according to your standards." Wind-Wolf was raised learning how to weave baskets and he can count more than 40 kinds of birds. But to the school standards he is slow...
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...management” as the triggers for employee resigning (Stephen & Barber & Linda & Robinson & Dilys, 1997, p.34). Post-90’s as the new labour force goes into people’s vision and pose a high liquidity in labour market. They have their own specific working characteristics here, such as they lack a clear goal and direction; having a high working expectations with high salary and more free, but in reality, any of boring job content, long working hour, poor working condition may lead a extremely low satisfaction; besides, they have the strong learning ability and low interpersonal communication skill at same time, the unbalanced capacity development potentially results in their interpersonal relationships and mental health problems; they have a shallow job responsibility and professionalism and miss belong sense and organization loyalty （Li & Lu, 2014, pp.17）. Working stress and work-life conflict also been mentioned by previous researches, the nerves and stress caused by work has a significant negative influence on the sleeping quality problem, however a bad working ability might be caused by the bad sleeping quality, both can lead up to a vicious circle, health problem is a undisputed reason for a higher turnover; normally women have serious work-life conflict than men, such as unstable working scheduling , night shift, long working hour all posed a potential demission inventive due to work-family conflict (Lu & Hu & Huang & Zhuang & Feng & Hu & Chen & Zou & Hao, 2017 , pp.10)...
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...Psychological Bulletin 1980, Vol. 88, No. I. 60-77 Work and Nonwork: A Review of Models, Methods, and Findings Boris Kabanoff School of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia This article examines theory and research in the field of work/nonwork relations. Three different theories of work/leisure relations are examined—compensation, generalization, and segmentation. All three theories have received some support; however, the review indicates that much of the available research evidence is constrained by conceptual and methodological problems. A number of paradigms for describing work/leisure patterns are reviewed, and it is concluded that most of these paradigms are more suitable for classifying leisure definitions than for guiding empirical research. Research in this field requires objective definitions of attributes common across life spheres. A task-based description of work and nonwork is discussed, and its research utility is illustrated. It is recommended that future research be concerned with describing different work/leisure patterns, the processes underlying these patterns, and the life consequences associated with different patterns. The meaning and the relationships between labor and leisure, work and contemplation, or in the most general sense, work and nonwork have been a source of intellectual, political, and religious debate for a considerable period in Western history. However, the view that the interplay...
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...The Ethics and Attitudes towards Ecotourism in the Philippines - Mary Ann Chen Ng, MSc. Eubios Ethics Institute, Philippines Email: maryannchenng@yahoo.com The Philippines, a developing country in South East Asia, is faced with the challenges of an increasing population, poverty, inequality, and corruption. With more than a quarter of the Filipino population falling below the poverty threshold, the pressure for productivity and growth has led to practices that have resulted in environmental stress and degradation. In response, the Philippine government has adopted the rhetoric of sustainable development as defined by the 1987 World Commission on Environment and Development. Government policies on economic development have reflected this vision of sustainability and poverty reduction. A major part of the government's economic development plan is ecotourism. In preparation for 2003: Visit the Philippines Year, the Department of Tourism has been actively marketing the country as a safe tropical holiday destination (DOTa, 2002). The aggressive sales missions and advertising campaigns, along with the various activities in 2002 commemorating the International Year of Ecotourism, aim to increase visitor arrivals, and consequently bring in more foreign currency to the country. How much is actually at stake? In 2000 alone, the total annual revenue directly attributed from tourism amounted to about US$ 2.5 billion. There were 1.8 million...
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...CRASHING IN OUR OWN ZONE The film Crash (2005) directed by Paul Haggis takes place in the city of Los Angeles’ and focuses on the ethnically diverse population of the city. It puts a spotlight on the high degree of alienation amongst the groups where meaningful human contact only occurs if individuals literally ‘crash’ into one another. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a population of 3.8 million (Census, 2005); it is home to more poor people than any other urban area in the US. Approximately 20% of residents, including one of every three children, live in poverty (Census, 2005). The city is home as well to extravagant displays of wealth, mainly associated with the entertainment industry, making income inequality the most disheartening part of the Los Angeles region today. In addition to this vast social polarization there is a large immigrant population that struggles with integration, poverty and alienation. The movie is filmed as a series of vignettes focusing on the lives of several characters over a two-day period in post-9/11 America. Haggis’ characters exemplify various substantive birth cohorts and vast differences in gender, age, and class relations. These include characters of Caucasian, African American, Persian, Mexican, Korean, and Hispanic decent. He depicts these characters as forming harmful prejudices from a combination of impressions and individual beliefs toward each other as well as using stereotypes to define each other. The concepts and theoretical...
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...Brett Cox’s criticism for Novels for Students, he states that Flowers for Algernon is “a powerful story of alienation, of an individual who is at odds with his society and who struggles to have satisfactory relationships with others” (56). This statement is certainly true for Charlie’s character both prior to and following his surgery. Before his IQ tripled, Charlie was oppressed by his lack of intelligence and the people around him, including his parents and coworkers. He was seen by others simply as a juvenile fool who could easily be made fun of to his face without him realizing. Much like other mentally disabled people during the era of the civil rights movement, he was seen as an anomaly in society. Charlie believed that once he became a genius, he would suddenly fit in with everybody else around him and that people would treat him like an equal...
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...T he Catcher in the Rye is set around the 1950s and is narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden is not specific about his location while he’s telling the story, but he makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital or sanatorium. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas, when Holden is sixteen years old.As Holden goes out to the lobby, he starts to think about Jane Gallagher and, in a flashback, recounts how he got to know her. They met while spending a summer vacation in Maine, played golf and checkers, and held hands at the movies. One afternoon, during a game of checkers, her stepfather came onto the porch where they were playing, and when he left Jane began to cry. Holden had moved to sit beside her and kissed her all over her face, but she wouldn’t let him kiss her on the mouth. That was the closest they came to “necking.” Holden leaves the Edmont and takes a cab to Ernie’s jazz club in Greenwich Village. Again, he asks the cab driver where the ducks in Central Park go in the winter, and this cabbie is even more irritable than the first one. Holden sits alone at a table in Ernie’s and observes the other patrons with distaste. He runs into Lillian Simmons, one of his older brother’s former girlfriends, who invites him to sit with her and her date. Holden says he has to meet someone, leaves, and walks back to the Edmont. Maurice, the elevator operator at the Edmont, offers to...
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