Indeed, color footage of the aftermath of the bombings and the survivors sat in the faults of the Pentagon, classified top secret, until a lawsuit forced its release. In Hollywood, the actual bombings were not part of collective historical memory, either, but sublimated into film noir and science fiction, "where disintegration, invasion, violence, and secrecy are frequently associated with nuclear fear" (Cavanaugh 251)
As usually, novels and poetry reflected these personal experiences that opposed the official, collective memory and ideology far more than mass media like film. Even though war is a national event and a collective human experience, poetry also describes the type of experience that "eludes fixation in words and appears irrevocably lost" (Sakai 178)
Theoretically Informed Intertextual Analysis There are numerous similarities existent between Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and William Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence" Despite the fact that the former is a novel and the latter a poem, both were composed by English authors in the 19th century and were preoccupied with the singular theme of youth. This theme becomes even more magnified and lucid when these pieces of literature are examined within the psychoanalytic lens of literary criticism -- in which one largely identifies psychoanalytic concepts associated with the characters or authors of works of literature (Brooks 334)
A comparative analysis of these pieces of literature reveals that each respective protagonist attempts to stave off the process of aging by clinging to his youth. The central conflict in each work revolves about an adopted version of Lacan's mirror stage theory and the Ideal-I, which was substantiated in part on the works of Kohler (Billig 1)
In the case of the unnamed narrator in Wordsworth's poem, the vicissitudes inherent in adulthood -- stress, worry, impending demise -- present the narrator with conflict. Such anxiety and cognitive processes are ripe for psychoanalytic criticism (Delahoyde)
In a fit of passion, the young man cries, "I shall grow old and horrible and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young…If only it were the other way! If it was I to be always young, and the picture to grow old!" (Wilde 28)
Additionally, Wordsworth's narrator attempts to reject aging in much the same way that Gray does. The setting is an idyllic walk in the summertime through a beautiful woods, in which the narrator feels, "as happy as a boy: / The pleasant season did my heart employ: / My old remembrances went from me wholly; / And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy" (Wordsworth)
Conflict in the First Scene of Dialogue in Miller's The Crucible The piece of dialogue at the beginning of The Crucible in which Abigail and Parris reveal their respective characters through snippets and snatches of admissions is an important scene that sets the tone and initial conflict of the drama. The tone is serious but chaotic: a child is in danger; the doctor has no cure; foul play in the form of "possession" is suspected by the community, many members of which are talking in the parlor where the "rumor of witchcraft is all about" (Miller 9)