There is a time in every person's life where a person loses hope, whether it is over reconciling an old friendship or over attempting to arrive back home to society. On numerous occasions, the audience observes the latter throughout the pilot of the television series called Lost. Further, the audience notices the scene in which Sayid discovers that the transceiver is receiving a signal and he utilizes it to attempt to communicate with someone off the island. In this scene, the theme of hopelessness is seen through the characters' verbal and non-verbal actions as well as the situations they are constantly being put into. This scene represents the thesis of the episode, which is someone can still overcome the situation they found themselves in even though that person feels hopeless.
The first instance in which this scene represents the theme of hopelessness occurs at the beginning when the characters discover that the transmission they hear on the transceiver is in French and it is in reality a loop (Pilot: Part 2 38:18). While this is going on, the audience gets a close-up on several characters facial expressions. The characters facial expressions are all the same. These facial expressions show hopelessness, confusion, and uncertainty. In addition, the characters feel moderately lost.
The theme of hopelessness is represented again when the transceiver's battery starts to die before Shannon could finish translating the whole recording that the characters are hearing from the transceiver (Pilot: Part 2 40:25). Once the audience can tell the transceiver's battery is about to die out through some weird sounds and then the silence, they see Shannon's facial expression turning from complete concentration on what she is translating from...
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...else in the group right after this question is asked by Charlie.
From what the audience has seen throughout the pilot, they can observe this cycle of the characters becoming hopeful of a situation to help them escape the island and later have the same hope turn into hopelessness just because what the characters initially planned does not work out how they wanted it. The logical standpoint after what these characters have been through and done to just attempt to escape the island is that characters will attempt to regain their hope and certainty about the island and its mysteries as well as how to escape from this malevolent island. This cycle of hope then hopelessness will start again with the characters. Considering this, the logical standpoint is that this time it will all start when the characters hunt down the transceiver that they heard through their very own.
...es in Rural Rehabilitation Client run horizontally and represent hopelessness. They symbolize that the couple’s life will move forward but it does not mean it will move upwards. The diversity of the superficial appearance of each picture contributes to the different symbolism each image contains.
He doesn’t lack of encourage anymore, he has overcome his fear and despair. “I have to go. I have to disobey every impulse and leave her for Jasper Jones, for Jack Lionel, for this horrible mess.” We see a different Charlie from his determination. From escape to face up, he shows us more responsible. From helpless to assertive, he comes to realize what he really wants. He knows the dark side of human nature and this unfair and cold world. His innocent, his perfect world has been destroyed by those horrible things; because of these, he knows the part of real world, he knows how the ‘dark’ actually changes this world, his friends, his family, included
Hope enables people to move on by providing the thought that maybe tomorrow’s events will be better than today’s. Hope is a theme that remains constant in every part of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. Ishmael begins the novel optimistic, believing he will find his family again. This optimism is later lost when Ishmael is recruited by the army to fight against the rebels, causing him to become addicted to drugs and the thrill of killing. Three years after his recruitment, Ishmael is rescued by UNICEF-a group dedicated to rehabilitating child soldiers. During his rehabilitation, Ishmael discovers hope once more by relearning how to trust, love, and have the will to survive. The presence of hope throughout A Long Way Gone enables Ishmael to have an ability to move on and a will to survive that he lacks when he loses hope.
Duncan Schaffer and Lorraine Quarrles represent all that wrong with Charlie's life. Charlie attempts to steam forward and like a anchor they keep him moored in place. I can not truly sympathize with Charlie though there is a sense of empathy within me. I sense that with Lincoln Peters also.
Here, his new goal is to save her, and so he begins lying to his unit. This is Werner putting his own morals over the pressures of his environment, beginning his shift towards understanding justice. Werner hears Marie-Laure play lectures on the radio, lectures he and Jutta used to listen to when he was at the orphan home. This reminds Werner of his time before the evil he’s committed as a Nazi, and shows him his mistake of ignoring his conscience, which led him astray in his search for justice. And, in saving Marie-Laure, he realizes that the path of justice was to be able to ‘see the light,’ meaning that he has to see the light in others, and understand their perspective. The radio symbolizes communication, which brings people together, allowing for the sharing of points of view. When Werner ignores this power, it becomes a tool of murder and injustice. Werner dies soon after he saves the girl, so, his search for justice is successful, although it is too
they finally realize that they were never going to be able to get what they wanted.
The theme for this dystopian characteristic is this; one can still have faith even when they don’t have a whole lot to be hopeful for.
What is the director ultimately saying about the ways in which hope affects the individual?
Hope has the incredible ability to make or break someone. People are always told to make large goals in school and employment, and try to reach those ambitions no matter how far they are. Hope is the motivation behind accomplishing dreams, but it also has the ability to break people who have hoped for something so desperately, yet never came to fruition. Only determination and personal situations can persuade hope to fly or fall. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly highlights this ambiguous hope we depend on through the use of symbolism, characterization, and inner conflict.
that had been taken to the island had gone. This left the path open to
Postmodernism can be defined as a rejection of the idea that there are certain unequivocal truths or grand narratives (such as capitalism, faith or science) and as a belief that there are multiple ways of understanding anything, whether it be it culture, philosophy, art, literature, films, etc, or even television... Television reflects the mass-produced society we live in and certain shows exhibit many of the archetypes of postmodernism that have become prevalent in other art forms. Postmodernism can be useful for understanding contemporary television it can help us to relate to the ever-changing world we live in. Television shows like ABC’s Lost (ABC, 2004-2010) dabble in matters of intertextuality, questioning of grand narratives and, amongst others, a manipulation of time through use of flashbacks, flash-forwards and, uniquely to Lost, the flash-sideways.
...ng the underlying theme that drives the story and the movie, propels the reader and viewer to rekindle the desire to hope above all else because hope is all one has in devastating as well as dire needs. Hope overcomes despair, permits others to see your “inner light” to develop integrity which connects with honesty and trust. Hope is the inspiration to continue to live regardless of the circumstances. Red may have narrated; “Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” But, Andy Dufresne states it best: “Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
In the same way that Wiesenthal’s language of forgiveness elevated Simon’s place in society, Sender’s use of Riva’s language of hope raises her level within society. Specifically in The Cage, the key factor that keeps the Jews’ spirits alive is Riva’s language of hope. Hope is what allows the Jews to keep going, to keep moving forwards. By way of example, is when Laibele suffers tuberculosis, and it is Riva’s job to nourish him. She tells him that one day, all Jews will walk out of the cage, free to build a new life, a new world. No more hunger. Only Freedom. Happiness. A world of brotherhood. “A world of love and peace” (Sender 33). Riva does all she can for her dying brother. She keeps him alive by giving him hope. With the power of love, Riva’s family can help
...never able to understand that the Machine was man-made and was therefore imperfect like humans. Kuno and Vashti talk and kiss each other and Kuno explains that even though they are going to die they have never been so alive.
In the opening lines of Paradise Lost, Milton wastes no time conveying to his readers what his purpose in writing the epic is. He writes in the beginning that he intends to “assert Eternal Providence, / and justifie the wayes of God to men” (I. 25-26). What exactly does this mean though? In order to be able to clearly judge and evaluate what these lines imply, it is important that one understands what exactly Milton’s thoughts we regarding “Eternal Providence” and the “wayes of God”. Stemming from this idea, it is important to also realize how the idea of free will intertwines with the omniscience of God. For Milton, God’s omniscient did not constrain the free will of Adam and Eve. However, this idea presents the reader with a paradoxical situation that Milton as an author was fully aware of. Paradise Lost presents the reader with eternal providence and free will as being part and parcel of each other, neither constrains the other, and it is these two aspects, along with that of knowledge that lay the groundwork in understanding Paradise Lost.