Illusion vs. Reality

Imagine, what is called the American Dream, acres of green grass all around you, a rushing river nourishing the little creatures that live nearby, and a ranch sitting on top of a tiny hill. This at the time of the 1930s is what every man could have ever wanted including George and Lennie. In the historical fiction genre, Of Mice and Men, By John Steinbeck shows the American dream in the perspectives of three very different characters, an ignorant man…...

"Lost in the Funhouse" explores the many layers of the theme "illusion of reality." This concept is first introduced in the second paragraph as the explanation of initials or blanks replacing proper names in fiction-writing. The "attempt" at disguising a place name by shortening it, is really a tool used by authors to make a place seem real, in need of disguising. John Barth explains that this tactic is merely an "illusion of reality." In the following pages of this…...

The play “A street car named Desire” by Tennessee Williams is a play that explores different characterizations in the society, by using three prime characters Stanley, Blanche, and Stella. Stanley is a person who lives in the realm of reality while Blanche seeks to live in a fantasy world. Stella is person who is deceived by Blanche’s illusions but comes back to reality when Stanley acts as a mirror and reflects all that Blanche loathes about herself. The characters in…...

How can we distinguish between reality and illusion? Is reality an illusion, or is an illusion simply reality? Albert Einstein once stated that ‘reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one’. The statement suggests that what we interpret to be real may well be an illusion and this is evidenced mainly through dreams and aspirations. For example if someone has dreamt of one day being a doctor their reality, which is described as the state of things that…...