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Paradox :Paradox
Visual Examples :Visual Examples
Slide 3:Many many years ago when I was twenty three,I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.This widow had a grown-up daughterWho had hair of red.My father fell in love with her,And soon the two were wed.This made my dad my son-in-lawAnd changed my very life.My daughter was my mother,For she was my father's wife.To complicate the matters worse,Although it brought me joy,I soon became the fatherOf a bouncing baby boy.My little baby then becameA brother-in-law to dad.And so became my uncle,Though it made me very sad.
Slide 4:For if he was my uncle,Then that also made him brotherTo the widow's grown-up daughterWho, of course, was my step-mother.Father's wife then had a son,Who kept them on the run.And he became my grandson,For he was my daughter's son.My wife is now my mother's motherAnd it makes me blue.Because, although she is my wife,She's my grandmother too.If my wife is my grandmother,Then I am her grandchild.And every time I think of it,It simply drives me wild.For now I have becomeThe strangest case you ever saw.As the husband of my grandmother,I am my own grandpa I’m my own grandpa.
It’s funny I know but it really is so.
Slide 5:“Some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better. ... “
Autonomy and Freedom of choice are critical to our well being, and choice is critical to freedom and autonomy. Nonetheless, though modern Americans have more choice than any group of people ever has before, and thus, presumably, more freedom and autonomy, we don't seem to be benefiting from it psychologically.
—quoted from Ch.5, "The Paradox of Choice", 2004
Definition :Definition Paradox - an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight.
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Two kinds :Two kinds Two Kinds:
1.) Local “I can resist anything except temptation”
- Oscar Wilde
2.) Structural
Slide 8:Local = short, pithy statements which verge on the epigrammatic.
From Hamlet – “I must be cruel only to be kind”
Description of woman who plays hard to get from playwright William Congreve’s play “Amoret”
– “Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected.”
Slide 9:Structural - Using paradox as a means to structure an entire poem or idea.