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- 1921: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... make all other modes of thought impossible."(246) By limiting the choice of words available to a bare minimum, the language accomplishes its purpose of diminishing the range of human thought and expression. (Gardner 49). Big Brother's entire fictitious existence is devoted to the principle of thought reduction that Newspeak embodies. By eliminating even the possibility of thoughts considered heretical by Oceania, thoughtcrime becomes impossible by definition (Howe 32). The ...
- 1922: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- ... Bennet conspicuously lack. What happens in Pride and Prejudice happens to nearly all of us, embarrassment at the foolishness of relatives, the unsteady feelings of falling in love, and the mortify of suddenly realizing a big mistake. The psychological realism of the novel is revealed in the quick recognition we have of how the characters feel, there is a very convincing view of how an intelligent, feeling person changes, the sensitiveness ...
- 1923: In Contempt by Christopher Darden: A Review
- ... teased about having false teeth as a child. As he writes and talks about when he gets older the mood changes and gets more serious. He writes a lot about his brother who was a big influence on him when he was young. Darden retells stories of how he and his brother, Michael, would salvage old, broken radios from the trash and repair them and then sit on Saturday nights listening ...
- 1924: Human Nature: Exposed
- ... of many literary techniques such as symbolism and satire. "But what is the significance of all this?" you might be asking yourself, well frankly if one thinks about it hard enough, if we take one big step back and look at the world as a whole, we can see it is in fact flawed. Perhaps, when we read novels such as this one, it can help us to more completely understand ...
- 1925: Huckleberry Finn Learns He Must Grow Up Fast If He Wants to Survive Life
- ... hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn't want to, but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me, en it uz sich a big sac o'oney she couln' resis'. (pg 50) This shows that even Miss Watson promised Jim, she would break her promise, just for money. This is something Jim is very scared of, and decides to ...
- 1926: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbols
- ... hit it. The driver of the truck works for a large company, who try to stop the migrants from going west, when the driver attempts to hit the turtle it is another example of the big powerful guy trying to flatten or kill the little guy. Everything the turtle encounters trys its best to stop the turtle from making its westerly journey. Steadily the turtle advances on, iron ically to the ...
- 1927: A Rose for Emily: Fallen from Grace
- ... are even remotely representative of their former splendor. Just as their physical characteristics, Faulkner uses the Grierson house as a symbol for Miss Emily's change in social status. In its prime, the house was "big," and "squarish," and located on Jefferson's "most select street" (69). This description gives the reader the impression that the residence was not only extremely solid, but also larger than life, almost gothic in nature ...
- 1928: To Kill A Mockingbird: Childhood Experience
- ... have a very similar characteristic. It is the way they describe a person's childhood experience, and their feelings and new knowledge that come out from those experiences. This characteristic, however, has given me a big revelation after reading the two novels. The novels show that the childhood experience of a person has a great positive influence on his personality, behaviour, and ways on dealing with others. This idea has been ...
- 1929: The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical
- ... fondness for children can be inferred when he tells her that, at some time in the future, he wants to be the only grown-up with "all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all." He'll stand on the edge of a cliff and catch anybody who starts to fall off the edge of the cliff. He got this image from his misinterpretation of ...
- 1930: Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism
- ... the discrediting of CO-leader Snowball. Snowball is the idealist, faithfully considering the welfare of all the animals while Napoleon is the pragmatist, ready to achieve his purposes with violence. So the technique of the big lie and constructed evidence results in Snowball's being driven out from Animal farm, leaving Napoleon in sole command. The discredited Snowball can now be blamed whenever problems arise. Here Orwell is paralleling the conflict ...
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