Реферат: The Cherry Orchard Reality Illusion And Foolish

loves.

Nora: Millions of women have done it.

Helmer: Oh, you think and talk like a stupid child.

Nora: That may be. But you neither think nor talk like the man I

could share my life with…as I am now, I am no wife for you.

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If she had continued to grow, and mature, and had accepted the kind of

person she became, then perhaps she would have gained the courage to tell her

husband what she had done. She would not have had to leave. She could have

educated him gradually instead of immediately surrendering any hope by leaving

everything she has ever known. Nora’s failure to accept what she had really

become led to the end of her life with Helmer, and her downfall in society. It

was also Helmer’s downfall socially and emotionally.

Galileo, by Berolt Brecht, is rather different from both of the

previously mentioned situations in that the protagonist puts forth a fa?ade of

living with an illusion (that he had truly recanted, and truly believed his

theories to be false), when in reality he didn’t believe it. His denial of this

illusion led to his collapse.

Granted, on the exterior, his collapse seems relatively minimal (he ends

up with a popular status among the people of his city, and throughout Europe),

but he is disgusted with himself. The feeling that other people have towards

him does not lead him to believe that he did the right thing. Instead, if he

had been steadfast to what he thought, instead of buckling to the illusions that

everyone had of him (that he was a person who immediately realized he was wrong,

and valued the church more than his theories) he would have been much happier,

although he’d be dead too. He leads the rest of his life echoing the idea in

his head that he was weak and useless.

Galileo: …At that particular time, had one man put up a fight, it

could have had wide repercussions. I have come to believe that I was never in