Category: Reality

The Truman Show offers viewers a great insight into the concept of discovery by presenting themes of Descartes perception and reality and the power of media are prevalent in the process of discovery promoting a sense of reality and awareness of ones place in life. In this film directed by Peter Weir, the viewers are…

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one in which we are stuck and forced to live with. We have an innate belief, or faith in our world, and our reality. This is evident in The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, where Truman Burbank, the protagonist, is born and raised in a…

The short story, The Black Cat, was written by Edgar Allan Poe. The main characters are the speaker, his wife, and a black cat named Pluto. The conflict occurs when the speaker constantly gets mad at everyone and suddenly snaps, committing a crime. The speaker grew up with a childhood filled with abuse, and as…

The intention of this essay is to consider the representation of illusion and reality throughout F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby (1925). It shall focus on characters and their perception of the illusions and realities that they represent, such as Nick Carraways illusion of what he perceives Gatsby to be and what in reality,…