Alright, first of all the reason Alice says she has a right to think baselines down to one of the original struggles of mankind. People are always struggling for freedom, whether freedom of speech, creativity or life it all comes down to the same principals. The thoughts we have are and should be personal and should not be able to be forcibly changed by any other outside source. We have the right to change, alter or re percept our thoughts in what ever way we deem necessary, in lay mans terms we all have the right to think.
The sentence “take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves” comes down to the rationalization that if you eliminate the realization of a problem, the problem will fix itself. This rationalization (however flawed it may or may not be) is a core instinctual thought to people under many circumstances.
The purpose of Alice mentioning the mustard mine was nothing more than a test to the duchesses true loyalty to Alice, or if the duchess was just a “yes-man”. Alice knew good and well that there was no such thing as a mustard mine and she also knew that the duchess knew better than to believe in a mustard mine. Therefore when the duchess agreed to the existence of a mustard mine Alice knew that the duchess was full of it.
No the duchess is not a friend of Alice in my opinion. I believe she has some form of use for Alice and in order to achieve this she is befriending Alice. However at the same time I believe Alice is smart enough to realize the blatant deception the duchess is attempting to achieve.
Now back to the same basis as my first answer, the sentence “birds of a feather flock together” is another symbol of human psyche. Those who are the same will follow those who are also the same. Any one who can deny that this is a basis of human instinct needs only to look at high school cliques and music genres to prove themselves wrong.
2 comments:
Thomas, your responses get more and more eloquent each time I read them. I appreciate your efforts to speak in an academic voice. Your voice still comes through and that, my friend, is a gift. You still have a few punctuation problems, but I see real improvement.
Remember, you can always slip back into the hip hop vernacular. Always size up your audience when you speak or write. You probably already know this so I will shut up.
One other thing you might consider. Your rhymin' vocabulary allows you to create words to make them fit. You used the word re percept. Now, I know what it means from the context in which you use it, but I'm not too sure it is a word. If you don't know for sure, don't use it.
I don't want to say anything else except this, I really enjoyed reading your post. They are getting better and better! :)
lol iv hurd re percept said before so i assume its a word
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