These citizens are chasing the new American dream in the film, a promise of a new profitable life of worry free luxury is promised via the ad shown during Quaid's trip around the city. ... He lived out his dream, achieved things he didn't believe he could, and we are left in awe of his accomplishment. The ending is reasonably cut and dry, some argument could be made that perhaps it was all a dream but without sufficient evidence to back such a theory up the majority will see it as explained before. ... "I just had a terrible thought... what if this is a dream?... The specific de...

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The character of Major Molineux represents an ego trapped within a self-indulged idealism. ... As though waking from a dream, a new individual emerges from the depths of self-interest, to advance further his or her own hidden potential. ... The language that Hawthorne uses to help define the central idea of the story lies within a comparison of light and dark imagery. ... Change is a constant variable when measuring anything within a certain reality. When the individual maintains the ability to acknowledge this relationship between the self and the world of a reality created within that s...

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He writes, "Its walls within are stored with the monuments of John's ancestors; and it is snugly fitted up with soft cushions and well-lined chairs, where such of his family as are inclined to church services may doze comfortably in the discharge of their duties" (304). ... Through invasions, corruption, war, and even education, minorities lose their land, culture, and dreams. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate