The soldiers would have been trying to put their masks on in a hurry but due to their physical condition their minds would have been wanting to move faster than their bodies would have allowed them, this is why the were "fumbling". ... Owen refers to many subconscious states. The reason he uses these references so frequently is that war is made apparent to the reader as being a subconscious state as the realties often seem to be too hard to except. ... Overall Owen shows that there is no triumph in war, he effectively does this by open the readers mind to the gruesome deaths of soldiers. H...

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Yet all this needs to be taken under consideration keeping in mind that these are very small, young children. ... Eliot related the water, the sea to the subconscious in The Wasteland. ... Golding also makes use of the sea, the water to make reference to the subconscious. ... It is a thought process that infinitely goes on in the back of our minds while we are the exact moment perhaps speaking to someone else, doing something else consciously. ... Up till here, the beast is only existent in their minds. ...

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The best image in the movie was when John Malkovich went inside his won mind. ... When Malkovich escaped his own mind, he was completely freaked out. ... Because they did that, they didn't go to his mind. They were sucked straight to his subconscious level. ...

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As King Oedipus and the Theban Legend incorporate many themes, one particular themes sticks out. Does suffering make one wiser and stronger? Throughout the play Sophocles forces us to read between the lines to solve the question. Oedipus's fate and decisions lead to the suffering of himself and the ...

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The Narrator lets the viewer into his mind by telling them some of his random thoughts throughout the movie. ... Jack believes that his conscious thought is good and his subconscious, which was Tyler, is bad. ...

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The clerk, in his unfairly underprivileged mind understands his natural bodily function to be an offense, which must be atoned for. ... Upon preparation for his visit to the general's office the clerk does his best to spit-shine himself into looking the part of someone in the hierarchy the general may take seriously, all the while subconsciously degrading himself and his own position by orchestrating this over-the-top charade simply to have his apology heard by the general. ...

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According to Descartes, the mind and the body can be separated. "Mind is conscious and non-spatial and body is spatial but not conscious."" Descartes asserts that the mind and body are separable and infinite by using his method of doubt to show that he could not doubt the existence of his mind. ... Somewhere deep down in your mind you must be thinking "breathe, breathe - "The Cartesian Dualism is still having problems of explaining how the mind and body interact or why the mind does not stay in body or mind control body."" ... Or perhaps there is NO actual world but only an infinite amount ...

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What do you think of when you consider the mind? ... My mind raced through confusion and darkness not seeing any light in existence. ... A world lost of color, hope and love, lost to the subconscious functions of the brain. ... I still am unsure whether I controlled my mind or it controlled me. ... My mind now is not given much freedom. ...

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Even though she says "maybe," I think that in her mind she expects him to be awake when she returns. ... With the other family, they are not really remembered till the end when we learn the boy died, but subconsciously you might think he would live. ...

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A reader of this passage may interpret that "the lurking menaces of the future" to be Henrys mind thinking of what is inevitably lying ahead for him. Without the use of imagery, this particular passage would lose its effect of subconsciously making the reader doubt Henrys romantic thoughts of war. ...

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The visual imagery of this scene improves our understanding of change as we can see that the growth of a child in the subconscious as he goes to bed and has a nightmare of his father. ... We can see that the boy puts up a resistance to the change but his mind is maturing and he must go with it. ...

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