Disillusionment

Question: What are signs of disillusionment in our society today? I'm doing my research paper and I am dedicating two pages to show the American character trait that I chose applies to people living today. The trait i've chosen is disillusionment. Does anyone know of a specific situation that can help my arguement? Thank you.

Answer: google disilluisonment and society.

Question: How do you deal with disillusionment? It's not as simple as lowering one's expectations because everybody gets disillusioned sooner or later. Knowing that the human being is the greatest source of disillusionment, why doesn't he try to change for the benefit of everybody else?

Answer: Don't place your faith in illusions. OK OK so its all illusion so how does one deal with it? Well in my case I'm a philisophical skeptic. I don't believe in any incontravertable facts. There is no truth, only experience and compassion.

Question: What is meant by "a novel of disillusionment"? I see this term used often in book reviews; however, I'm not sure how it's used in reference to the book. What makes a novel "a novel of disillusionment"?

Answer: It means a novel that brakes down a traditional standard, or way of thinking. We all carry around illusions things we all like to believe are true but some novels like to brake down those traditional ways of thinking.

Question: Discuss The theme of disillusionment in Ernest Hemingway's A farewell To Arms? I would like to know alot about this topic so if you could please write alot about it. Discuss the theme of disillusionment in Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. yes it is for school but its not homework its something that we did a long time ago and i just wanted to know what other people think about this topic. please Answer back Guy

Answer: Tell me why you need to know and if it's a good reason I'll tell you. I don't want to do your homework for you if it's for school or something. Go to edit-add details on the bottom of your question box. EDIT: I'm not sure if I beleive you but ok. I just don't want to be doing your homework for you :) If I am doing your homework for you, then please read the book anyways. It one of the best ever written and one of my favorites. I'm not going to write a lot about it but basically the disillusionment comes at the end when when his wife and son die. All throughout the book he is almost invincible. He barely escapes death when the bomb exploded and when the Italians were about to shoot him and he escapes to Switzerland with his wife. They live there for a while and Henry is completely happy. Right about this time he is feeling good because he had almost died earlier in the book, and now he's escaped from the war and is in Switzerland with his love. But I think the whole theme comes down to one passage: "The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." This was all said before his wife and son died. He was a good person but the world got to him and broke him. He came to realize true sorrow that he had escaped from all throughout the book.

Question: Good classic American literature about disillusionment? I need either a book or a short story. I've thought so far about Of Mice and Men. Can you suggest some more? I'm planning to include it with Fight Club in my research paper about disillusionment in American literature.

Answer: Moby Dick, The House of the Seven Gables, Huckleberry Finn,

Question: What is Disillusionment with the Communist Party? Need to know what this question means exactly, referring to the Communist Part in China.

Answer: They were told that the Govt was going to help them and the Govt made them slaves. That will happen in America if we continue to allow Labor Unions (which are communist) to take over! Promises don't turn into freedom and we are about to go broke because of Unions (it's their goal to make monopolies like General Motors

Question: Discuss how the characters in both Candide and the Great Gatsby wander in a world of disillusionment and detac? can i just have a few points to make for an essay i already have this: In both novels Candide and the Great Gatsby the main characters wander in a world of disillusionment and detachment from the realities of society. Candide and Gatsby are in their own little world throughout both novels. They search and search for way to improve their lives that’s and go way out of their way to accomplish their goals.

Answer: You could talk about how each character's fantasy world continues to collide with the reality. Candide always thinks that everything is for the best, but he just goes from one bad situation to another and nothing really has any rhyme or reason. Gatsby has his own rich American dream, but eventually is murdered. In the end, fantasies do not protect us. We learn that, as Candide does, or we die, as Gatsby does.

Question: Is there disillusionment surrounding the BP Oil Spill? I'm doing a research paper, and i have to prove that there is disillusionment in life today. Is there any proof that there is disillusionment, or disillusioned people, as a result of the spill? Help please.

Answer: Ya think? It's a hard pill to swallow when corporations who saturate the airways with ads that they are on 'our side,' are so reckless with our trust and the environment, and then play dumb when it comes to cleaning up their mess. And then we find out that the government whom we elect has allowed these private companies to work around the rules and regulations set up for our protection - Thanks Bush/Cheney! Sure seems like every man for himself in this scenario. Hope they choke and die on their billions.

Question: Are some of our ambitions merely gateways to deception, disillusionment and frustration? In following our false dreams, do we lose our 'spiritual' purpose within a quagmire of confusion? Mr X: Thanks for being the first to answer - not that it was much of an answer. graham a: I fully agree that nobody, no living thing should ever be unneccesarily hurt in our journey to our goals. pickme: you make a valid point. I agree with you that some 'dreams' are never fullfilled, because they are never pursued. However, this questions asks if we are consumed by a 'false' desire - (eg. the media) and therefore even if we do 'succeed' , have we really lost touch with our 'real selves'? Sorry to be complex. Bubba and Frankly speaking: I thank you both for your insight. Don W: That sounds like a frightening form of driven Mania. Mikey and surfsav: Excuse me but I think you are making the same point - that being we ALL have our limitations. I have to agree , that's why in essense I'm a Utopian - we all need other people who can happilyn do those other jobs, thatb we can't.

Answer: You're delusional, as you think you are Sparticus!!! Hahahaha!!!!!!!

Question: What and how is disillusionment used in these books...? What and how is disillusionment used in these books: A Farewell to Arms, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, All My Sons, The Catcher in the Rye?

Answer: In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway shows the main character becoming disillusioned with war, realizing that in war, everybody loses, while the opposite is true of love. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows that the lifestyle of the 'new rich' is fraudulent, and by realizing the provincialism of such a petty way, the protagonist becomes disillusioned with high society. Now read the rest and keep going.

Question: How did European paintings reflect the disillusionment in society between 1919 and 1939? This refers to the art during the interwar period. Adding specific artistic examples would be much appreciated. Dadaism, Surrealism and Socialist Realism are some of the movements that originated during the time period. I need the answer fast and it's hard to find it on the net. Please Help

Answer: Read the article about Guernica and that should help.

Question: Why was the 1960's known as the decade of disillusionment? Why was the 1960's known as the decade of disillusionment? What are examples of why Americans became disillusioned in the 1960s?

Answer: It is most likely because people were realizing what was going on in the world, and in the wars with the new technology like color TV. They were now seeing what is really happening, the truth, instead of some of the made up lies that the government would sometimes tell to make themselves look invulnerable to the people. This caused the increasing number of hippies, environmentalists, and other peace and war protesters.

Question: what was the widespread disillusionment with the prewar institutions,authorities,and values? this is based on world war one!

Answer: No idea what you are talkign about.

Question: To what extent does 20th century sociological theory represent a disillusionment with the Enlightenment?

Answer: Sociologists, and later the post modern cultural theorists, are critical of the concepts of - the 'truth and certainty' model of science - progress, - one single narrative of modernity - modern society as a rational society Instead sociology today is based on the principles that: -falsification not verification underpins all sciences including the social sciences -that there are a variety of perspectives through which to interrogate and analysis the social world -conflict, power, ideology and contradiction are the central features of each historical stage, including modernity, of social life -the central contradiction is that rationality is inherently irrational Post modernism in the arts has taken a similar critical view of modernity: 'Modernism is often associated with identity, unity, authority, and certainty, Postmodernism is often associated with difference, plurality, alterity, and skepticism'.ref below

Question: How did European painting and literature reflect the disillusionment in society?

Answer: We need a time period. I am guessing that you're talking about the Realists. Art and literature during this period no longer reflected ideals and perfection of earlier classical period. Realism began to reveal the warts of society. You will find literature with desciprtions of odors and bodily functions and despair and pollution. Art will be stark and contrasted and no longer just show the happy, beautiful, wealthy patrons.

Question: In light of our disillusionment with the two main parties in the UK,should we all make a concerted effort to? elect a party we believe will change our Country for the better.Who shall this be though.

Answer: Choose one party or the other. If you vote for a third party, your vote will be wasted. It works the same in the U.S. Each side is trying to encourage a third party to split the vote of the opposing party....thereby they would win. It stinks.

Question: Who wrote a poem about the disillusionment of dying for ones country? it is great and honourable to die for ones country was the populer opinion trying to get youngsters to join the army and there was a latin phrase for this in the poem but the poet was claiming the opposite thanks everyone no it was a poet not a musician but thanks

Answer: Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est the full fraze is Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori and means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

Question: Why do you think there was a general sense of disillusionment...? In the decades following the end of World War II? How was this reflected in some of the artistic expressions? Thanks :)

Answer: I'm not sure if this will be the answer you are looking for... But I'll give it a go. Post-modern theorists argue that there have been a few stages of society which shape the beliefs and behaviors of that society. Pre-modern societies (up until roughly the 1840s) were mainly governed by religious or traditional thought, accepted on the basis of someones status within a tribal society. Post 1840s, after the US democratic and European industrial revolution, a certain enlightenment came about which rejected the traditional knowledge and began to believe society is governed by science. However, as science has "progressed" people have become increasingly dissolutioned with science as it's nature of destruction. E.g. Nuclear War. And it is around the 1950s when a post-modern society is suggested to have begun. Society rejects old forms of thought, e.g. Architecture rejected the concrete/steel forms of buildings and progressed to new schools of thought. It is now governed by a diversity of theories and metanarratives which are more focused on the saleability or "usefulness" rather than the ultimate ends of making a better society. I know this may seem difficult to apply to art, but I hope there is something for you here. Two people to read upon are Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard. There may be more artistic focused answers in their work. Hope this helps :)

Question: Do we need to reclaim disillusionment? Disillusionment should be celebrated as the revealing of the truth but has our society become so founded upon lies (we lie to ourselves, we lie to each other, we lie to our governments who, in turn, lie to us etc, etc.) that it is now a damaging concept leading to high levels of social apathy and decay? To further clarify. A discussion I was involved in asked "Is disillusionment inate?" The answer we settled on was that disappointment was inate, you can't help but be disappointed with some aspects of life, however disillusionment required the creation of an illusion in the first place. For example, someone else telling you that something will be more than it is, different to what it is etc, etc. Scepticism is just the refusal to believe and is the product of wide spread disillusionment.

Answer: if you say so......

Question: Where would disillusionment come into from the book, "All Quiet On The Western Front"? It's for a project, don't tell me everything in detail, I just need to know where to read it in the book and maybe find some good quotes. I can do the rest.

Answer: To me, disillusionment seems to be an overall theme in that book. The horrors the main character is subjected to have a huge impact on his ideas about war (i.e. it's NOT glorious). You might be able to find some quotes in the section in which he is on leave, around people who have not seen war. Also, you might try doing some research about the post WWI era and how the book affected people irl; as I recall, it was one of, if not the, first books that provided a realistic depiction of war, and it helped spawn post WWI antiwar sentiment.