Assignment: Please choose a passage from the essay on one of the following themes: pain, technology, photography, detachment, sexuality
Write out the passage. Interpret the passage and explain how it relates to one of the other works we have looked at. Explain why you chose this passage.
Passage:
“Pain is one of the keys to unlocks man's innermost being as well as the world. Whenever one approaches the points where man proves himself to be equal or superior to pain, one gains access to the sources of his power and the secret hidden behind his dominion. Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are! (1).
Theme: Pain
Interpret the passage:
To experience pain can be tough, difficult to handle and accept. It can bring the negative or positive side of a person. Pain can not always be controlled and during the process individuals have access to contradiction and bad behavior. Pain can influence and be misleading by these type of feeling. It is basically saying that experiencing pain can determine what your capable of.
Explain how it relates to one of the other works we have looked at:
It relates to the film Blue Angel because when Rath finds out that his beloved Lola is being affectionate with Mazeppa he is enraged. He is full of anger and pain that causes him to be insane. The pain takes him to the point of straggling Lola. Rath's pain of feeling like he was loosing Lola to another man made him react violently towards her. To the point that he wanted to kill his beloved. Rath's pain of losing his job as a teacher and Lola created negative and violent behavior. It brought out the madness within him.
Explain why you chose this passage:
I chose this passage because it was interesting and accurate. When Individuals are going through a lot of pain they tend to react on them. Sometimes they react violently and another side of them comes out. Some individuals don't know how to deal with the pain and are not capable of handling it well. Pain can trigger a person to find a side in themselves they didn't know existed in them.
You brought up a good point when you stated that Professor Rath was enraged at the fact that his wife, Lola was getting with another man. And i also would like to say that i totally agree with what you stated about pain showing you your weakness and how sometimes pain is beneficial because in a way it brings to your attention something that you didn't know about yourself.
ReplyDeleteyes sometimes pain can bring out the inner feelings that we didn't know we had or were there. It is up to us to learn or know how to handle it. Individuals handle their pain in different ways.
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