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Group 5 (Rachel Stahler, Haley Waller, Hannah Urie, Jessalyn Pearson)


 * Theme: ** The Loss of Innocence


 * A.Thesis **: David Lean's // Dr. Zhivago //, based on the book by Boris Pasternak, depicts the theme of loss of innocence during the Russian Revolution, a time in which purity was scarce and being corrupted was as easy as saying "yes." The characters in this film had different ways in which they lost their innocence: Lara had relations with two men she wasn't married to, Yuri committed adultery but remained ignorant of his loss of virtue, and Pasha--though he remained committed to the idea of a revolution--gradually strayed from the true meaning of the rebellion.

1. In the movie // Dr. Zhivago, // Lara is protrayed as an easily corrupted and deluded young woman. 2. Lara decides to marry Pasha and become a nurse to treat the injured soldiers. 3. Years later, Lara and Yuri meet again in the middle of the war and establish a temporary hospital for the injured. 4. Lara and Yuri see each other at the library in Yuriatin. 5. Komarovsky visits and Lara and Yuri have to flee from Yuriatin. 6. Later, Komarovsky returns. 7. How the poem "Loss of Innocence," by Casey Stewart, relates to Lara's life story. "Curiosity grows, finding new ground   Temptation breaks all resistance    Dark discoveries flood in    Innocence swept away Sinful satisfaction sweeps over Curiosity laughs, temptation has won  Sources change, sin remains Innocence is dead, replaced Solemn days, no surprises The sun shines over cold flesh A warm heart beats, needing joy Content for now, a mind wanders Innocence has been lost... " 1. At the beginning of // Doctor Zhivago, // Pasha is portrayed as an idealistic young man with great hopes for reform.  2. Pasha comes to Lara and asks her to hide a gun for him.  3. The war begins and Pasha joins the army.  4.Yuri is captured on his way back from Yuriatin. He is taken to Pasha, who is now Strelnikov, the leader of the Red Army.  5. After the war, Pasha is captured on his way to Yuriatin and killed.  6. Connection to "No Other" by Zakk Wilde 1.In the movie // Doctor Zhivago //, filmed by David Lean, Yuri Zhivago is a quiet young man who has been raised by the Gromekos since the death of his mother.  2. Yuri is studying to become a doctor when he has his first encounter with Laura.  3. Yuri is heartbroken when Lara must return home.  4. On the way home from Yuriatin, Yuri is ambushed, and after escaping he tries to find his family. When he cannot find them he goes to Lara in Yuriatin. 5. Connection to Tyler Perry's film, // The Family that Preys //.
 * B. Lara's Loss of Innocence **
 * We meet her on a trolley while she is returning to her home. After a short rendezvous with her friend Pasha, who is handing out fliers for a "peaceful rebellion," she arrives at her house and is intercepted by her mother's friend, Victor Komarovsky.
 * Komarovsky treats her to a taste of the "sweet life" and takes her out to dinner. She later kisses him in the carriage.
 * They take their relationship further and after numerous encounters, Lara consents to Komarovsky.
 * Lara and Pasha talk with Komarovsky and they leave to live out on the battlefront.
 * Komarovsky and Lara's relationship ends for the time being.
 * Lara and Yuri have no relations at the time, but are attracted to one another.
 * At first Yuri wants to be with Lara, but she persuades him not to do anything and tells him to think of Tanya. She doesn't want him to have to lie to Tonya.
 * Lara leaves when their work is done and Yuri is distraught.
 * Lara and Yuri go to Lara's apartment house and they begin their affair. Yuri finds out that Lara has a daughter.
 * Yuri continues to secretly visit Lara in Yuriatin and hides his affair from Tonya, his wife.
 * Eventually, Yuri begins to hate himself for what he is doing and tells Lara he will never return to her. She doesn't believe him and upon his journey home, his is ambushed by the White Army and he becomes a war doctor once again.
 * When Yuri finally breaks away and returns to Yuriatin, he discovers that Tonya is gone and Lara is still there.
 * Komarovsky drops by with the news that the armies are coming for Lara. Yuri and Lara are angry and upset and Yuri forcibly removes Kamorovsky from the house.
 * Yuri and Lara leave Yuriatin and go to live in the house that the Gromekos--Yuri's father- and mother-in-law--own.
 * Komarovsky returns and relays to Yuri that Pasha is dead. He convinces Lara to leave with him, but Yuri stays behind.
 * On the train, Lara tells Komarovzky that she is carrying Yuri's child.
 * Years later, Yuri is on a trolley and sees Lara walking down the street. He tries to chase after her, but dies of a heart attack and she never sees him.
 * This short poem portrays many aspects of a person that relate to Lara. The poem goes as such:
 * Lara's character can be shown through the words of this poem and it seems as though the poem was written just for her. Where it says "temptation breaks all resistance," it can apply to when Lara tried to resist Yuri, but eventually gave in to the temptation of sleeping with him.
 * Also, the line "sources change, sin remains" allows us to connect this poem to the movie due to the fact that Lara had relations with Komarovsky and Yuri both, but though the person changed, the sin was the same.
 * The last line is probably the most powerful and it really adheres to the belief that Lara's "innocence has been lost" for good.
 * C. Pasha's Loss of Innocence **
 * This is illustrated by Pasha's excitement over the the nonviolent protest that will soon take place.
 * However, the protesters are violently run down by the police and many are wonded, including Pasha.
 * When Pasha says, "there will be no more peaceful demonstrations", it is evident that a change has come over him.
 * At this point, he and Lara have gotten married and have a child.
 * During the war Lara becomes a nurse so that she may search for Pasha.
 * Pasha's transformation from a young idealist to a corrupt leader is complete this is shown by his change from Pasha to Strelnikov.
 * He no longer wants to be seen as the man he once was with a wife and child.
 * During Pasha's conversation with Yuri he tells him he used to admire his poetry, though he shouldn't because one could see it as "absurdly personal".
 * He also tells Yuri that ,"The personal life is dead in Russia."
 * This completes the idea that Pasha no longer wants to have any ties to his old life or family.
 * He now calls himself Pasha and refuses to answer to Strelnikov.
 * He is on his way to reunite with Lara.
 * Pasha's change after the end of the war shows that he realizes that he doesn't like who he had become and wants to return to his old ways.
 * He seems to have two different personalities both Strelnikov and Pasha are the same person physically but emotionally they are completely different.
 * The line "Oh, I've lost myself along the way Oh, yeah, ain't got nothing left to say" relates to Pasha losing himself in the process of becoming Strenlikov.
 * In the song, the narrator is talking about how he loses himself after doing drugs, and how he feels that there is no other way to solve his problems. Pasha feels the same way about the rebellion. That nothing can be solved peacefully and everything must be done through violence. Thinking this, he becomes Strenlikov.
 * D. Yuri's Loss of Innocence **
 * Encouraged by the Gromeko's, Yuri marries their daughter Tonya, after she returns from her stay in Paris.
 * Yuri first encounters Lara when he is at her house to take care of her mother,who has tried to commit suicide. He later encounters her a second time at a party, where he will later announce his engagement to Tonya.
 * Yuri and Lara meet again while they are treating injured Russian soldiers. Lara is serving as a nurse in order to find her husband, Pasha Antipov.
 * Yuri is married to Tonya Gromeko. They live with Tonya's father and their son.
 * Yuri goes to Yuriatin one day to see Lara. He is overjoyed to see her. This is a major breaking point for Yuri's morality.
 * Yuri develops a scandalous relationship with Lara, and often finds excuses to go to Yuriatin to see her.
 * Tonya becomes pregnant, and Yuri decides that he needs to stay with Tonya, and goes to Yuriatin to tell Lara he cannot see her anymore.
 * Lara tells him that Tonya has been there. She leaves a note telling Yuri that they are leaving. She also leaves the his mother's balalyka signaling that they will not be reunited.
 * With the help of his brother, Yevgraf, Yuri hopes to reunite with Lara. He is traveling on a bus in the city when he sees her. He panics and attempts to get off the bus.
 * While trying to get to her he has a heart attack and dies.
 * In // The Family that Preys //, William Cartwright is a successful business man that begins to cheat on his wife, Jillian, with his employee,Andrea Pratt-Bennett.
 * As their relationship progresses, his wife and co-workers find out.
 * Determined to live with William, Andrea leaves her husband.
 * However, William has come to his senses and he knows he could never leave his wife Jillian. William tells Andrea to never come into his life again, and leaves her.
 * This scene relates directly to the scene in "Doctor Zhivago," when Yuri visits Lara. Yuri has seen that his wife is pregnant and he knows that he cannot leave her, so he goes to tell Lara that their relationship is over. In both movies, Andrea and Lara take the news badly.
 * E.Conclusion **
 * The theme of loss of innonce in clearly displayed in //Dr. Zhivago.//
 * However, it is a universal theme that has been portrayed in many different works.
 * Loss of innocence is a theme often portrayed in many different forms of media including cinema, literature, and music.
 * Though a different characters loss of innocence is portrayed in different ways, they often can be connected.

NEW WIKI Theme: War affects people in all sorts of ways, even if good or bad.

Thesis:While all people are affected by war, these effects are manifested in different ways.

Intro Paragraph: While all people are affected by war, these effects are manifested in different ways. In Boris Pasternak's //Dr.Zhivago//, directed by David Lean, Yuri is an idealist who manages to retain his innoncence by seculding himself in his own world. However, Pasha hastly embraces reform. Pasha and Yuri offer opposing aspects of the way war affects people.

I. Pasha A.Pasha's Life 1.Pasha is a young idealist who takes his first wrong turn when he decides to become heavily involved in politics. 2. Pasha joins the war, and when he returns, he is not only alive, but he returns as a military leader named Strelnikov. 3. His status as Strelnikov eventually leads to his arrest, and this leads to his suicidal death. B. Connection to "At the Ebb" 1. In the poem "At the Ebb" by Robert Nichols, Pasha's view of life is almost related to the melancholy tone of the poem. For instance, the line "there fades from me the light,"relates to Pasha's view on life because the life has drained away from Pasha's soul. 2.He is transformed from an idealist and determined young man to a corrupted military leader that eventually took his own life. 3.He helpes himself lose his own innocence when he allows the war corrupt to him. 4. Pasha does not feel anything and when the poem states, "My life has ebbed: I neither see nor feel: I am suspended between life and death.," this directly corresponds to the emptiness that Pasha was feeling once he became Strelnikov. C.Connection to //Lord of the Flies// 1.In //Lord of the Flies,// Ralph is a strong-willed boy with many similarities to Pasha. 2.Ralph pushes the boundaries of his group.In the beginning, he is able to retain his sense of morality, but he is corrupted by his own bloodthirsty desires. 3.Ralph becomes increasingly violent which helps him to gain more control of the group. Authority and violence make him feel powerful but they also corrupt him. 4.Pasha is also corrupted by his desires for power and authority. 5.Pasha wants to be a part of the reform but this makes him ruthless. 6.Both Pasha and Ralph lose sight of their original goals of a cohesive and effective society and instead focused on their own rise to power.

II. Yuri A. The Similarities Between Yuri and Finny 1. In //Dr. Zhivago//, Yuri, in a state of disillusionment, refuses to acknowledge the atrocities of war. He just wants to keep on living his life as he has always been living it without the stress and horror of the war bearing down on him. 2. Likewise, in the book //A Seperate Peace//, Finny ignores the fact that there is a war playing out right in front of his nose and chooses to pretend that everything is how it has always been. B. The Innocence of Yuri and Finny 1. One of the biggest factors contributing to the delusion of both Yuri and Finny is their innocence. 2.Throughout //Dr. Zhivago// and //A Separate Peace//, the innocence of Yuri and Finny causes turmoil to their friends and loved ones and creates uncomfortable situtations in which their naive mindset becomes a hindrance for the people around them. 3. Both Finny and Yuri use denial as a way to cope with things--like war--that they are afraid they will not be able to handle. They hide behind their front as if it would protect them from the dreaded war that was infiltrating their happiness. C. Relationship between //A Seperate Peace// and //Dr.Zhivago// 1. In //A Separate Peace//, Finny denies the war because of an injury he attains. Succumbing to reality would make him admit to himself that he will not be drafted with his friends and will be left behind, all because of a broken leg. When he tries to run away--both literally and figuratively--from the cause of his injury, he breaks his leg again and dies. As a result, his refusal to accept reality ended up being the cause of his death. 2. In //Dr.Zhivago,// Yuri has led a secluded life among the rich and because of this he feels like he needs to shelter himself from the evil ways of the world. 3. His undiscerning thoughts often keep him trapped inside his own head, making him seemingly oblivious to the world around him. Though he is actually quite sensitive to what is going on. However, he doesn't allow himself to think about the awful things happening around him. Instead, he puts up an internal shield that prevents him from dealing with these issues.

III. Comparison between Pasha and Yuri A.Psycological Effects 1. While both Pasha and Yuri were affected the war, each was affected quite differently. 2. Pasha was physcologically consumed by the war. In a sense this caused him to be his identity of Strelnikov. 3.However, the war caused Yuri to go into a phsycological hibernation of sorts. His inability to accept the war and it's attrocities made him feel secure. B.Lifestyle Effects 1.Pasha becomes a leader during the war. The army life becomes his life. 2.Yuri only acknowledges the effects of the war when they affect his lifestyle. After returning from his stint as an army doctor, he finds his house has been taken over by the government and allocated to twenty other families. He and his family are forced to move to the countryside to flee the dangers of the city. C. Corruption and Death 1. Pasha was corrupted and lost himself in the war. When he went back to find Lara, he realized he had lost her and himself in the process of becoming Strenlikov and didn't feel the need to live anymore. So in a way, the war was the reason for his death. 2. Yuri was completely different. He was able to survive through tribulations, and even though he lost Lara and Tonya, he continued to live. He eventually died of a heart injury in the street

Conclusion: In the end, the stress of war affects people in different ways. Some like Pasha, are corrupted, and believe that fighting is thee only way out. While others like Yuri ignore what is happening, and they continue on with their everyday life. Without a doubt, war affects everyone, but these effects can be expressed in many different ways.