Life is hard because we made it hard. WE as society have set high standards as to where we should be at a certain point in life. Whether it be getting a diploma, going to college, getting married, having a family, to what to wear on a daily basis. Life is hard because we don't appreciate it. We don't appreciate the fact that we woke up this morning and someone else didn't. Someone else's mom, brother, sister, father, friend, lover, partner, grandpa, didn't wake up, and instead of taking the first breathe in the morning, that person took their last breath. Life is hard because we are always told what to do, how to act, what to wear, what to say! Women are told not to wear "this" or "that" because it will ¿¡MAKE?! men attack you. ??. This makes the women of the nation that carries children WITHIN them AFRAID to walk alone at night or AFRAID to go to school with a skirt on because "Mr." will touch her. But, also men are told that they should never be weak and that they should always be in control. Society and social media has set an example that if a man does not have HUGE muscles, money, or a "smokin'" baby mama, then are they really a man?? See, when a baby is born whether black, white, Hawaiian, Samoan, Asian, Mexican, Indian, boy, girl, deformed, normal. The baby is innocent. The baby has no thoughts of sexual interactions. The baby doesn't think that the waitress across the room in her uniform would look better without her uniform at all. The baby doesn't think that a man without money isn't worth being with. The baby doesn't know that if she/ he is a certain color that society can be against him/ her and still be justified. A baby is pure, it's the world, it's US, that pollutes the baby with: fear, racist thoughts, sexual thoughts, anger, hate, and so much more. Life can't just be "BOOM" hard all of a sudden! life has BECOME hard. Not because Jesus did it, not because Obama did it, but because WE DID IT TO OURSELVES. Past generations setting future generations up for pain, struggle, and FAILURE. If anyone's to blame for life being hard, IT IS US. WE DID IT TO OURSELVES!!
I would say that the statement that shows this is a realist text is the description of human struggles in the form of Ivan Ilyich's suffering. It is very realistic to show the everyday human struggles in a realist piece of literature.
According to the questions, the guiding questions of reader-response criticism are:
-what about this text is remarkable or beautiful?
-what does the text teach the reader?
-how did the author achieve the beauty or a remarkableness of the text?
Explanation:
The literary theory of Reader-response criticism aims to focus on the reader or the scholar and encourage them to put in action their experience in literature.
The upper questions help the reader to be a critic in the response. The other questions, that are not included here, require a unique answer and there is no room for other answers.
Answer: Benedick laments that marriage turns great men into pathetic idiots. you? This is one of the first times that marriage is spoken of explicitly, and it's presented as an object of unwitting deception.
