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- 1021: Criticism Of Brave New World
- ... what the world would be like in the future. Aldous Huxley gives us a glimpse into one possibility what the world might be like in his novel Brave New World . I have read many fantasy-fiction novels that talks about this subject, such as Fahrenheit 451 , but none has caught my and really our society like Brave New World . The book quickly caught my attention when it described how babies were ...
- 1022: Identity In Sula
- Many works of contemporary American fiction involve one individual's search for identity in a stifling and unsympathetic world. In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals. In Nel and Sula, Morrison creates two individual female characters that at first ...
- 1023: Influence Of Realism On Litera
- ... the spiritual nature of men and the value of his society and institutions." (1337) Like realism, modernists focused on changes on society (Elliott 699) and used symbolism, although in this case spiritual, to draw their fiction (Bradley 1340). Modernist writers, like most Americans, were amazed at the destructive power of war on the common man. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald spearheaded the modernistic renaissance by ...
- 1024: Heart Of Darkness
- Heart of Darkness A lie is an untruth. It can be a false statement or a statement left unsaid which causes someone to be misled. In life lies are told for many different reasons. In fiction they thicken the plot. In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow dislikes lies and therefore only tells two, both in extraordinary circumstances, and the lies show the following about Marlow: even though he has been ...
- 1025: Comparison Of Mark Twain And W
- ... the characterˇ¦s search for the meaning of life. We may find in the end that, just like Oedipa, we ended up in our search at where we started. Furthurmore, this alternation of reality with fiction, such as the description of the ˇ§Peter Pinguid Societyˇ¨(p.49), acts to confuse the reader to such an extent that the reader is forced to rely upon Oedipa to decipher what is reality from ...
- 1026: Crying Of Lot 49
- ... the characterˇ¦s search for the meaning of life. We may find in the end that, just like Oedipa, we ended up in our search at where we started. Furthurmore, this alternation of reality with fiction, such as the description of the ˇ§Peter Pinguid Societyˇ¨(p.49), acts to confuse the reader to such an extent that the reader is forced to rely upon Oedipa to decipher what is reality from ...
- 1027: Beowulf
- ... that cannot be proven and established on these elaborate theories cannot be verified and are therefore assumed. The only thing that can be acknowledged is what has been left behind. Beowulf is a work of fiction, centered on a character and his fights with monsters. The hardships and problems that Beowulf undergoes can almost be compared to the fights that people are put through in life. Giant monsters of course do ...
- 1028: Beloved
- ... best read with a compassionate eye. Michiko Kakutani of the NY Times wrote "there is a contemporaneous quality to time past and time present as well as a sense that the lines between reality and fiction, truth and memory have become inextricably blurred". She goes onto say "This is a dazzling novel." Margaret Atwood said "If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her ...
- 1029: Brave New World
- BRAVE NEW WORLD BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant ...
- 1030: Growth Of A Chrysanthemum
- ... are not only flowers of the autumn: they are the autumn itself . . . This man knows what he wants. He sees the scene of his story exactly. He has an authoritative mind. (Ford 257) As a fiction editor, he is quite receptive to Lawrence’s descriptive gifts. He is impressed with Lawrence’s sense of purpose. But readers needn’t assess the short story by Ford’s methods alone. Modern readers have ...
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