Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

There are many feelings within this poem such as love, happiness, relief, teamwork, trust and many more. The overall feeling of the poem and what the poem is telling us is that life’s a tricky task and its not easy to get through life without any help, the poem states ‘you are holding up a…

The statement I picked was “then, what I had waited for had pounced on me” and this Is linked this quote to a little passage in the book that states “if you succeed with one dream, you come back to square one and its not long before your conjuring up another, slightly harder, a bit…

When exploring the tittle of this novel, “touching the void” a range of interpretations are possible. There were two conclusions I reached, which were the ‘void’ being a space between a goal and also the void meaning the unknown. I will explore both points in brief detail. The first thought of the void being a…

I look at the tittle ‘touching the void’ and many thought come into my head which relates with the tittle. The meaning of the tittle could be explored and interpreted in different ways. But mainly focusing on the word ‘void’ brings many ideas of what the word is trying to tell us. As soon as…

Some of the thoughts Claire Francis would have been feeling during the storm were feelings such as tension, scared, anxiety, and many more. We see in the short passage about the storm many things which trigger her feelings and emotions. Feelings such a tiredness are shown for example ‘ not only am I feeling exaughsted…

How do Shakespeare and Plath show the strength of feeling of women?   Looking at the two authors work, the taming of the shrew (Shakespeare) and Sylvia Plath’s two poetry’s ‘daddy’ and ‘the arrival of the bee box’ we see to angry and infuriated women who express themselves with emotions. The emotions shown by the…

slyvia creates a figure image of her father, using so many different metaphors to describe the relationship between them.he’s like a black shoe shes had to live in , like a statue that streches across the united states when the reader reads this qoute you could automatically presume that she thinks very highly of her…

this is a poem based on youth culture. ‘all i can see’ is about someone expressing what they see within there area in a poem. it gives you a good perspective on how youth culture is looked at by the older generation.the peom is described very well and has very affective language which helps you…

This is the second film to add too my theme study. British drama follows a day in the lives of four poor youths living in an impoverished neighborhood in West London, where the pressure and desperation of poverty propels each of them towards the choice between a life of bleakness, violence, and crime, and the…