Critical Analysis : High Fidelity 's Success

Being held by your word because you make a promise, or commitment is frustrating and tough. You don’t always want to do what you promised because it could be hard, or get you into trouble. Throughout the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry and Keiko’s relationship comes at a cost. They make commitments that comes with sacrifices which makes them hard to keep. Through Henry and Keiko’s relationship Ford shows that commitment is difficult.

Each character travels through life maintaining relationships which exist on a very shallow and superficial level. There are of course an exception here and there, but the majority of the relationships drastically lack substance.

Loyalty is an important factor in human relationships that is often challenged and tested. This is showcased in the short stories “My Brothers Keeper” by Jay Bennett, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, and “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. The theme of loyalty laces into the characters moral dilemmas and social pressures. This essay is meant to explore the similarities of loyalty shown in these texts. Expressing how loyalty serves as a driving force in shaping character actions and relationships which can lead to dependency.

What is a good relationship? Many people get asked this question every day and there are many different answers. Throughout history love and lust has been a very interesting topic to write about or in portraying in writings. Two stories that portray love in a different light, that are intriguing, is “The Boarding House” by James Joyce and "Women Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros. These so-called love stories’ main theme is disillusionment. “The Boarding House” and “Women Hollering Creek” both have a conflict, thematic development, and the epiphanies.

While many works of fiction portray love through a utopian perspective where true love is easy to achieve, the story of Cyrano follows a failed quest for intimacy, where Cyrano’s own tragic flaws stop him from achieving the romance he dreams of. It is these same tragic flaws that help to define Cyrano as a tragic hero in Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, and it is these same flaws that eventually lead to Cyrano’s tragic fall. However, some of these flaws are also the admirable traits of the large-nosed hero’s character that also help to define him as hero. Due to this fact, Cyrano is able to gain respect from others, but never truly reaches his ultimate goal of having Roxane’s love. While Cyrano never truly experiences Roxane’s

Relationships are seen everywhere at all times, there are many different types of relationships. There are relationships between students and teachers, mother and father, an employee and their boss, and there are romantic relationships. All these types of relationships mentioned, plus many more, have an impact on our daily life no matter where we are. In the science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury the relationships in that society are very distinct from the ones present in today's society. Ray Bradbury creates a very interesting twist on how people's perspectives on relationships have been changing throughout the years. The lack of communication in Fahrenheit 451’s society has a negative effect on relationships because it prevents wisdom from spreading to younger people and to new generations, causes people to lose self worth, and it causes isolation to those in relationships.

The use of second person within the chapter allows the reader to live Rob’s life and judge him objectively. At the end of the chapter Rob comes close to accepting who is his by exposing all of lies between himself and Sasha. “I wish we could live in that cabin. You and me… She was a hooker and a thief… You’re the last to know (Egan, 204). By telling Drew Sasha’s secret and discreetly telling his own Rob finally understands and accepts himself for the first time. Unfortunately Rob rather live with the lies he tells himself instead of living with his new found truth, “We can get back out of here right, you yell” (Egan, 206). Rob words doesn’t mean to get out of the water, but get out of this reality were he realizes for the first time that he’s

Throughout the course of time, societies views have been persuaded by contextual influences, yet the core human values have remained unaffected. Through the texts by composers William Shakespeare and Tim Blake nelson and their texts Othello and the late 20th century contemporary film O, the key values of trust, honesty and loyalty are explored with contextual influences being reflected. The values are explored with the use of thematic development of the key issues jealousy and appearance vs reality and the use of dramatic devices in Othello and cinematic techniques in O. Shakespeare's accurate representation explored these values in an Elizabethan context where the values of loyalty, honour and fidelity were apparent. In contrast, Tim Blake nelsons film express similar views and attitudes to a more teenage-orientated audience and these values are replaced with modern contextual values such as popular culture, peer pressure and popularity.

“If stories were depopulated, the plots would disappear because characters and plots are interrelated” (76). I chose to do my analysis paper over the short story Lust by Susan Minot, in this analysis I will be going over how the use of characterization in lust contributes to the message about relationships. The first-person narrator starts off by detailing her sex life likes it’s a grocery list or some kinds of list of things to do on the weekend. It just goes to show how meaningless these relationship with her sex companions mean. Although we do not know what the reader looks like we do how she thinks and feels. We can feel the narrator become more detached and emotionless towards the end of the story. Even though she is emotionally removed for the story at the end she also becomes more self-aware of what she is doing, and comes to the realization that she is looking for a relationship in all the wrong places.

John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men has many themes, but the strongest and most prevalent theme is loyalty. He includes the subject loyalty in order to prove that it is necessary to create and maintain deeper relationships. Moreover, his book was written during the Great Depression, which was a time when there was an even greater need for strong, dependable relationships. This prevalent theme of loyalty also is a challenge to ponder whether your relationships are set in loyalty or not. Throughout Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck portrays the deeper meaning of loyalty through the various alliances between characters in the novel. These loyal relationships encompass faithfulness, respect, and sacrifices.

There is a fine distinction in the fabric of DNA that separates men and women- one has the opportunity to give life and one does not. Although beneath skin and flesh is the foundation of a body, the bones. What every human being also shares with each other is the ability to cast emotions. However throughout history, men have been brought up to be seen as if they have little to no feelings at all and women are to be too emotional. Everyone has the potential to feel pain at some point in their lives. Objectification is the central concept dear to feminist thinkers. Many think that objectification is something that remains in history, but it continues to be a problem in modern society. F. Scott Fitzgerald applies this to the characters in his book: The Great Gatsby. The underlying theme of the podcast: Relationship Radio dealt with the objectification of human beings. Aidan Buckner, Olivia Lujan, and Penelope Tucker’s three podcasts: You Can Buy Me Love, Daisy, Money and Usage, and Puppy Love tie the notion of objectification through the relationships: Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, George and Myrtle Wilson, and Tom and Myrtle Wilson through the book The Great Gatsby.

Mr. Purity nodded and paused to take another sip of coffee. “As you well know, my name has fallen into a state of great reproach. And with this declining opinion of my importance, I have become increasingly unattractive to most people today.” This short allegory may seem like an exaggeration, but it sadly depicts an accurate picture of modern circumstances. It seems as if every girl’s imagination has been acquainted with the idea of a knight in shining armor who is ready to whisk her away to a far away land where a whimsical romance awaits and a "happily ever after" story book ending. As women, our thoughts tend to run wild as we try to build our symbolic castles, filling them with our own plans, drawing on our own desires, and wishing that

In the Scarlet Letter relationships are commodified based on social/religious standing. Human relationships are asserted and denied to further someone in the social and religious hierarchy. Bonds can merely be tossed aside for the benefit of a person. This is illustrated all throughout The Scarlet Letter in the relationships between the characters.

We live and learn from many experiences in our life, especially our failures, mistakes, and of course--breakups. Sometimes why and how these incidents happen to us boggles our minds and makes us contemplate “who we are” and “why we are this way.” The film High Fidelity, directed by Stephen Frears, does a perfect job of exemplifying a man midst an existential crisis, experiencing a flurry of emotions, most notably: despair and angst. Rob Gordon is in his middle 30’s and the owner of a failing record store called “Championship Vinyl” when he has a breakup with his then girlfriend, Laura. This throws Rob into a state of despair as he loses all hope and that he is destined to be alone.

It not only threatens, but also breaks through. Betrayed by love once in her life, she nevertheless seeks it in the effort to fill the lonely void; thus, her promiscuity. But to adhere to her tradition and her sense of herself as a lady, she cannot face this sensual part of herself. She associates it with the animalism of Stanley's lovemaking and terms it “brutal desire”. She feels guilt and a sense of sin when she does surrender to it, and yet she does, out of intense loneliness. By viewing sensuality as brutal desire she is able to disassociate it from what she feels is her true self, but only at the price of an intense inner conflict. Since she cannot integrate these conflicting elements of desire and gentility, she tries to reject the one, desire, and live solely by the other. Desperately seeking a haven she looks increasingly to fantasy. Taking refuge in tinsel, fine clothes, and rhinestones, and the illusion that a beau is available whenever she wants him, she seeks tenderness and beauty in a world of her own making.