The narrator becomes repulsed by Bartleby and decides that he must be suffering from some type of mental problem. The less the narrator knows about Bartleby the worse things seem to be for him. He wants to make sense of things. He wants it all to make sense. The conflict arises from his inability to do so. The narrator is simply being human in his desire to control and understand things but Kafka is demonstrating how we cannot always know everything and how we must be at peace with that, lest we become insane. It is also important to point out that some things are simply not meant to be known or completely understood. Kafka does not attempt to explain everything in this story because we often face situations that will never be truly understood. Marquez demonstrates conflict and how it makes for interesting fiction by allowing the readers to embark upon a journey with the narrator of the story. We also see conflict with Angela's situation. She is being forced to do something she does not want to do and she is must keep a terrible secret in the meantime. She struggles before the marriage and even prays for the "strength to kill myself"(Marquez 193). She almost confesses the truth to her mother but backs out when her friends convince her to keep quiet. Angela marries with the "illusion" that she is pure. Angela tells the narrator about her misfortune "without shame in order to cover up the other misfortune, the real one, that was burning in her insides' (229). Santiago is another character that brings conflict to this story. The narrator is certain that he died "without understanding his death" (236). The story is also important because the narrator attempts at all costs to discover truth about what actually happened. The result, however, demonstrates how incredibly futile it seems to attempt to...
Perspective becomes important as we realize everyone has one and they rarely coincide with each other in regard to something as simple as weather. We also learn that truth is subjective and while thirty people may all witness the same event, they will recall it differently.
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Science Fiction A Definition of Science Fiction -- a Frightening realistic glimpse into a probable future "Oh Brave New World! O. Wonder! That Has Such People in it!" This is the poetic exclamation that John the Savage of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World utters, upon seeing individuals from 'the future' (really, the present day) in his so-called primitive, native society. When the future individuals seem bemused by John's highfalutin poetic utterance,
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