There is never any hint of any form of cultural stereotyping in the way the director forms the characters. She also does not take part in any kind of anti- communist sentiment that has existed since the fall of the Berlin wall and the former Soviet Union except in her portrait of the Stasi. The Stasi are portrayed as abusing power, ruthless, misanthropic and oppressive. The Stasi and authority in general play a huge part throughout the film in terms of Konrad and Sophie's relationship and lives. It is they, not the symbol of the wall, that keeps the couple apart and later on keeps Konrad from seeing his son Alexander after he has failed to convince his sister to join Harald in the West. In one scene after Konrads sister has been arrested for an act of protest his father is refused entry to the courtroom where the trial is taking place. To this he remarks that he was let into a family related trial " Even during the Nazi days ." This symbolizes the way the DDR government is represented throughout the film.
Though Sophie and Konrad's is of course the main relationship examined in the film it is not the only one. Konrad's sister and Harald are also examined almost completely within the context of the DDR. They are both staunchly in opposition to the divide but promise each other that they will stay together in the DDR and attempt to subvert the system they so despise from the inside and not choose the "easy" way out by fleeing to the west. For one Harald and Konrad's family are working class and in stark contrast to the middle-class Sophie and thus could possibly not make a transition to the west. This is starkly highlighted towards the end of the film when Harald has been "forced" to the west. We see Harald arrive in a train station where he only sees homeless people drinking, a man threateningly asking for money only to dismiss what he receives as "bloody eastern money" and general urban decay.
In reading the story, Interpreter of Maladies by Jjumpa Lahiri , I found some very interesting events that occurred. In this paper, I will attempt to analyze certain situations that show "value-. The first situation that I will analyze is the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Das. After that, my focus will ...
In "Interpreter of Maladies," Jhumpa Lahiri uses river as a symbols of how the things were between Mr. Das and Mrs. Das. Lahiri also tells us about how once- important cultural values had been disappeared from most people's life. How people makes mistakes in their early childhood and those m...
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."" (Frost) This part of Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken- talks about a man's decision in life. He must choose between two "roads- in his path. He chooses the path that, according to him, ...
There are many people who start their adult life very happily and later on regret their past and what will be their future. Out of these people three groups form. The first group gives up and leads their life feeling sorry for themselves and depressed. The second group starts over and leaves their...
Do people prefer to live in ignorance or in knowledge? In the story told by Plato "Allegory of the Cave" gives us an example of prisoners kept ignorant, and one prisoner that is exposed to the knowledge of the real world. The prisoners were locked underground and shown puppet shows believing this wa...
Kapitel 16 Ein letzter Faktor fuer das Interesse ist die Faehigkeit. Man kann aber nicht von der Hypothese ausgehen: Je hoeher die Faehigkeit, desto hoeher das Interesse. ... - Eine dritte Komponente ist die Personkomponente-das Motiv. Das Ergebnis der bisherigen Erfahrungen manifestiert sich in einer Persoenlichkeitsvariable. ... Das Kind empfindet ueber die selbsterzeugten Effekte Freude und Stolz. ...
Nesta perspectiva, a resoluzao visa incentivar o surgimento de redes de apoio social integrado de mbito local, capazes de contribuir para: a activazao dos meios e agentes de resposta; a conjugazao dos esforzos das diferentes entidades com intervenzao na esfera social; a optimizazao das respostas existentes a nÃvel local; o surgimento das necessárias inovazÕes na concretizazao das medidas de polatica social. A filosofia global em que assenta a Rede Social materializa-se num conjunto de princÃpios e orientazÕes mais especÃficos que, decorrend...
