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- 1311: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- ... world" become less human, but those who actively question the new values of society discover truth about the society, about themselves, and about people in general. An example of this is Huxley's views of drugs as an escape. The conforming members of society used widely a drug called soma, which induces hallucinations and escapes from the conscious world for two to eight hour periods. Those very few who didn't ...
- 1312: Eveline
- ... portrays his feelings about his family. He shows that he dislikes the relationship of his parents, but that he can not blame it wholly on them. He also puts part of the blame on the drugs that make his mother act the way she does and on the alcohol that makes his father act the way that he does (158). Once O’Neill left home and was dismissed from Princeton because ...
- 1313: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... a blood vessel while singing, and died of tuberculosis on January 30, 1847 after five years of illness. Then Poe himself became ill, he had a deadly addiction to liquor and his alleged use of drugs which probably contributed to his early death. In the summer of 1849 he revisited Richmond, lectured , and was accepted anew by the fiancée he had lost in 1826. After his return north he was found ...
- 1314: Crying Of Lot 49
- ... about what molecules were whereˇ¨ (p.105). Oedipaˇ¦s purpose in the novel, besides executing a will, is to find meaning in a life dominated by assaults on peopleˇ¦s perceptions through the use of drugs and the muting of communications. Entangled in this chaos, Oedipa has to do what the Maxwellˇ¦s Demon does: sort useful facts from useless ones. Pynchon involves his audience in that they also have to ...
- 1315: Conjure Woman
- ... wrote 36 novels and 5 short story collections. Philip K. Dick died in 1982 in Santa Monica, California. Philip had a rocky emotional life. He was involved in many bad marriages and was addicted to drugs. He would go through times of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldn't write at all. With all of Philip K. Dick's ups and downs, he continues to be highly acclaimed ...
- 1316: Brave New World
- ... that Huxley presents, everyone is happy. There are no differences. Everyone is brought up to be happy, and most do not even know what sadness or anger is. All is cured artificially through surrogates or drugs. Even happiness alone is not unique to the individual. Soma, the hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is used by all, even induces the same kind of happiness. The only variant is to what extent ...
- 1317: Brave New World
- ... is a European-born writer who, in the midst of his career, moved to the United States and settled in California. While in California, he began to have visions aided by his usage of hallucinatory drugs. His visions were of a utopian society surviving here on earth. In his literature, Huxley wanted to make this utopian society as much a reality as possible. "In framing an ideal we may assume what ...
- 1318: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... Carton overhears plot to kill Lucie, her daughter, and Dr. Manette and has them immediately get ready to leave the country. Carton, having spy contacts, gets into the prison in which Darnay is being held, drugs him and switches places with him. Lucie, Charles, and their daughter successfully leave the country. Sydney Carton, making the ultimate sacrifice, partly for Lucie, goes to the guillotine in place of Charles. Just before he ...
- 1319: The PRogression Of Violence In MUsic
- ... that goes beyond music or pop celebrity. Especially in the '60s, interpretations were made of the musical prophets of the day, with the Beatles being at the top of this list. Fueled and opened by drugs, the imagination spoke to reality and the lines were blurred. Music is often defined as that which moves or inspires a person, not what it moves that person to do. However, Manson claimed that music ...
- 1320: The Masters Of Puppets
- ... lost interest in the “new” Metallica. “Whenever the hits start getting to catchy, some serious young upstarts will come along and foul it all up” (DeCurtis, Henke, and George-Warren 46). With a history of drugs, alcohol, and personal despair, Metallica transformed the way society saw them, nevertheless may have lost some of their fans in the process. Metallica was considered to many the pioneer of speed/thrash-metal, however many ...
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