It is grounded in three schools of thought, deterministic realism, theoretical idealism, and practical idealism. ... In book one, Fichte describes deterministic realism. ... There must be an explanation, so he continues his search and rejects deterministic realism and its lack of free will. ...
An American writer who made his mark on American Literature in the 20th century is Edgar Lee Masters, an amazing poet, novelist, and biographer who made his reputation in Spoon River Anthology poetry. Rather than using rhymes, Masters preferred his free verse style of writing in his poetry, especi...
Socrates believes that the everyday world is an illusion compared to the world of knowledge. People are often too distracted by money and materialistic things to appreciate truth and reality. Socrates says, "the capacity for knowledge is innate in each man's mind." This exemplifies the point that ma...
The Disillusioned View of Reality In the drama Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller focuses on dreams versus reality as his main theme of the play. The major characters Willy, Happy, and, in part Biff, all have problems facing life and its hardships. The lead character Willy has a difficult time con...
I had always thought art was about the personalization of one's perspective of physical reality, a filter through which we can observe the material world in ways may or may not match ours. When I watched a short surrealist film, "Destino," (Dalí, Hench, & Ernst, 2003), however, I realized that there is another side of art, one that is unmaterialistic: it has absolutely nothing to do with replicating the physical world and has most – if not everything – to do with the non-physical. The clear portrayal, the beautiful expression of the inner worlds of feelings and emotions, of t...
The techniques an author employs, and the way in which they are manipulated, often determine the reader's response towards a novel's themes. The Collector, written by John Fowles is broken into three sections. The first and third sections, narrated by the character of Clegg, and the middle, narrate...
