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After being assured that no matter what his original nationality, Tobey is still an American, Tobey says: "If Bess doesn't like me -- if she falls in love with somebody else -- if she's married when we get there -- I'm going to live in Ithaca, anyway. I don't know, but Ithaca seems to be my home now, too. For the first time in my life I feel I belong somewhere. I hope you won't mind. I feel like my family is the Macauley family, because that's the kind of family I would have if I could chose. (161-162)
Home, and America, is about feeling at home, not about one's national origin, place of birth, or even if one is genetically tied to a family. The longing of the soldiers for home and love, and the anxiety of how things are changing when they are away shows the...
The great thing about America is that a person can choose his home, regardless of where he was born. Yet paradoxically, the soldiers must leave home and fight for freedom. Fighting for the values that make his homeland great, Marcus loses his life abroad.
However, because of the power of family, the Macauleys are able to stay strong and make a new home, because home is forever being recreated. After her husband died, Katey had to create a new home for herself and her children. Even after the death of her eldest son, she and the rest of the family is aware that life must begin anew, and they must choose to move on.
Works Cited
Saroyan. William. The Human Comedy. New York: Laurel Reissue, 1966.
Works Cited
Saroyan. William. The Human Comedy. New York: Laurel Reissue, 1966.
Audiences can ponder the issue of fate when presented with Oedipus, afterlife when thinking of Antigone, and motherhood and marriage when confronted with Medea. Further, modern plays often offer this type of ending as well. For instance, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie allows audience members to consider the theme of love and romance, superimposed with family. At the end of the story, audience members must contemplate whether Tom should
This echoes life. To others we present as a simple person, perhaps even shallow and one-dimensional. Yet inside we are a mass of interminable twists and turns of plots and subplots. The story must reflect positive morality or, as Aristotle warned, when storytelling goes bad, the result is decadence. As stories become more extravagant and violent, and all the areas of storytelling - acting, stage settings or environments, music,
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comedy films "His Girl Friday," directed by Howard Hawks, and "Bedazzled," directed by Harold Ramis. Specifically, it will discuss these two comedies made at least 45 years apart, and comment on their similarities, their differences, and the societal changes that make films obsolete, or keep them classic. COMEDIES IN TIME Comedies are some of the most popular film genres of all times. They entertain, they make the audience laugh, and they
On the contrary, "You Have Got Mail" is a new style of comedy movie that involves romance in a much open manner that it could not attract all age groups. Key Features of New Comedy Few traits of new comedy are as follows: It revolves more around a boy and a girl and their love story It involves a lot of physical relationship between male and female ( Richmond ) Related with love, desire
Socrates Both comedy and tragedy are "related to emotional needs and religious longings that became crystallized and structured in ritualistic celebrations and festivals," (34). Both can be framed as "catalysts" that force "some sort of conversion" in the individual (34). Moreover, both comedy and tragedy reflect the "eternal spectacle of human nature and its weaknesses," (35). Both art forms use imitation or mimicry of a political figure or idea. However, there are