Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Compare the methods poets use to present their points of view in ‘next to of course god america i’ (page 48) and in one other poem from Conflict. plan – next to of course god America I is about patriotism in the United States, about war the Americans go through. They do it in almost…

Select an incident which you think is particularly tense and exciting in touching the void. How does Simpson create tension and excitement in this incident? The incident I chose in the  book was when Simon cut the rope while joe was hanging.  What makes it so tense and exciting is the language devices used. The…

Relationship between climbers – “he asked me if I was okay” this shows that Simon cares in a little way . ” I already owe Simon” joe saying he owes Simon for having him involved every way with all the publicity. landscape – “I felt as if I was about to be attacked from behind…

Creative writing Cadbury always uses those funny adverts to brainwash people into buying their product using comedy. This one is where a grown man is put on hold during a phone call. He’s very bored so he takes a bite from a Cadbury chocolate bar and turns up the volume of a song he’s listening…

Explore the ways the theme of thwarted dreams and aspiration is developed in Of Mice and Men Steinbeck incorporated the theme of thwarted dreams into his novella Of Mice and Men he is referring to Americans living life with all these dreams in their head believing they will achieve them. Americans, most of them want…

The Cadbury advert where the man in the office is lip syncing the “yes sir, I can boogie” song is very funny. The man is just humiliation himself by singing a song you mum would listen to just after eating chocolate.

“You’re nuts. I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an’ they go on; an’ every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’…

Shakespeare/WWI poems assessment by Albert Savill In this controlled assessment I will be explaining how the extremes of emotion expressed in Titus Andronicus and WWI poetry been effectively created by the writers’ craft and performance of the drama text on stage, on screen and classroom. Titus Andronicus is a play written by Shakespeare before his…

In both the play and the poetry, iambic pentameter provides an underlying rhythm. When emotional states become extreme, this rhythm is often undermined, frequently through the Adsense of the final stressed syllable. This interrupts the flow of the characters speech, or the verse, which provides to the reader and audience a clear signal to their…