|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 121 - 130 of 1131 matching essays
- 121: Brave New World - Summary
- ... the book. This story was written in a novel form. There were paragraphs and chapters, not lines and scenes. This book was not based on fact. This was not a factual book, it is science fiction novel and was created in the imagination of the authors head. Mood/ Tone/ Setting- The mood was straightforward, dark, and cold; it was not a pleasant book to read because the mood of the book ... been a happy ending, where both John and Lenina ended up together, or that the Utopians would of changed their ways of life. I would recommend this book to someone whom likes to read science fiction books about the future, because this book could be a possibility of how the future will be. Also a science fiction book like this would be enjoyed by people who like to read science fiction books because it is a very technical and realistic novel, written by a descriptive author. In the year of 1932 ...
- 122: A Room of One’s Own: Cranial Spelunking
- ... s writing (To the Lighthouse, for example), but for all intensive purposes, A Room of One’s Own, will suffice. In A Room of One’s own, Woolf is asked to talk about Women and Fiction. Instead of actually addressing the issue, what is instead written, consists of the thoughts that occurred while thinking about the subject. At the start of the book she ponders the meaning of women and fiction as she says “I sat on the bank and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to ... Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Elliot; a reference to Miss Gaskell and one would have done“(7). She then continues to go on listing all the possible interpretations of the phrase women and fiction. Her writing comes rushing at you, inundating and surprising you. It is extremely tedious to read. So much comes at you at once, Woolf’s thoughts don’t stop to take a breath and ...
- 123: The Island of Dr. Moreau
- The Island of Dr. Moreau The Island of Dr Moreau, by H.G. Wells, is not an ordinary science fiction novel. It doesn’t deal with aliens or anything from outer space, but with biologic science that exist on this earth. The novel was about a character, Edmund Prendick, that gets involved with an island ... lying. As a result, the beast begin to believe him and order remains once again. A development of the protagonist can be clearly traced. The narrator, Edmund Prendick, is the obvious protagonist in this science fiction novel. At first, this character was stranded on the ocean and picked up by the generous Montgomery. When the captain dropped off Montgomery and his “belongings,” such as animals, Prendick was forced to go with ... original “Chapter Two,” Wells labeled them differently, like “Chapter The Second.” In conclusion, the novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, is best understood through plot, character analysis, theme, style, and setting. H.G. Wells science fiction novel is fascinating because science had many areas where there is little or no knowledge about it, especially in the nineteenth century. This novel seems so out of the ordinary back then, but almost ...
- 124: Stephen King
- Stephen King Stephen King is a well-known and talented horror/fiction author who has published over eleven books in the last two decades. His great stories of horror and fantasy have been enjoyed by kids and adults starting from his first best-seller, Carrie. King's ... s life has not been an easy one. he was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland Maine(Bleiler, 1038). His father left when he was two and gave him only a collection of supernatural fiction stories(Bleiler, 1038). By age twelve, he was submitting short stories into different magazines such as "The Glass Floor", in 1967(Beacham, 747). After his graduation from the University of Maine with a B.A ... story about Billy Halleck, a man cursed "thinner" by a gypsy for hitting his nephew Thadius Lemke with his car. King believes that "A story must be paramount, because it defies the entire work of fiction." and "Theme, mood, and language are secondary." King has written many enjoyable books throughout the years and if he continues at the rate he is going , will be the most popular horror/fiction author ...
- 125: William Faulkner
- William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer ... are almost identical"(Volpe 16-17). "Faulkner is too complex a writer to explain in terms of a single idea, much of his work can be understood by recognizing that at the center of the fiction is one crucial experience: the transition of a boy to manhood"(Volpe 17). Faulkner often unified his stories by writing about the same families (Volpe 30). His novels and short stories are supposed to not ... be called his stereoscopic vision, his ability to deal with the specific and the universal simultaneously, to make the real symbolic without sacrificing reality. He is unquestionably the greatest of the American regional writers. His fiction is as Southern as bourbon whiskey (Volpe 28). Faulkner used the people of Yoknapatawpha County to play roles in several of his writings. His southern upbringing also played a major role in his work. ...
- 126: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora's fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces (Hinton, 5). Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville (Hemenway, 13). Hurston's most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston's frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to 'jump ... I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'(Conjured into Being, 4)." This is one of many examples of Hurston's emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 127: Humor in Wonderland
- ... was no exception. Many people have pondered whether their children would be able to distinguish the fictitious would of Wonderland from the reality of the real world (Avery 321). Alice in Wonderland has proven that fiction and reality can be separated and has become a renowned piece of literature not only loved by children but also by adults. The fiction incorporated in Alice in Wonderland also portrays a sense of humor as shown in no other fairy tale. Humor in Wonderland is balanced between the animation of animals, Alice's thoughts, and the fluctuating differences between the worlds of reality and fiction. The animation of animals becomes humorous from the very beginning of the story when Alice encounters a white rabbit. Alice finds that the rabbit is not ordinary "when the Rabbit actually took a watch ...
- 128: Metadrama In Shakespeare
- ... Brutus, Cassius and others as actors, self consciously fashioning Roman politics as competing theatrical performances the play enacts the representation of itself to ideology, and of ideology to subjectivity. Moreover if the subjects within the fiction of Julius Caesar are radically unstable by virtue of their representations then so is the theatre whose function is to stage this instability. This means that Julius Caesar fits within this essay’s definitions of ... other but also differently from themselves over time. In a wonderful self-reflective, self parody in Twelfth Night Fabian says, “If this were played upon a stage now, I could Condemn it as an improbable fiction.” (Act III, scene iv, line 126) Shakespeare overtly foregrounds the artificiality of his play. This emphasises the humour and absurdity of the farcical nature of the torment of Malvolio. Shakespeare enjoys toying with conventional theatre ... Patricia Waugh also provides a comprehensive definition by describing metafiction as "fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality" BIBLIOGRAPHY Scholes, Robert. "Metafiction." Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie. New York: Longman, 1995 (Shakespeare’s Tragedies - ‘Fashion It Thus, Julius Caesar and the politics of representation’ John Drakakis, MacMillan Press London 1998) (Jefferson. ...
- 129: Their Eyes Are Watching God
- ... almost all of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora’’s fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces. Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville. Hurston’’s most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been read, adored ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston’’s frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to ‘‘jump ... happy child of Hurston’’s your: ‘‘I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul." This is one of many examples of Hurston’’s emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 130: Health
- ... regretting the decision. After his expulsion he entered a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. His story MS. Found in a Bottle was considered to be the one of the world s first science fiction stories, he won both the $50 prize and acclaim for its 24-year-old author. (Internet source) He would then work at several different editorials, none of which really worked out for him. His dream ... made Edgar Allen Poe? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now associate as the father of modern diabolic fiction. (Internet source) The first of the tragedies to plague him would be the abandonment by his father. He would grow never knowing who his real father was. His father had left his family when Edgar ... at times he was slightly romantic (with a satanic sort of twist). None the less his poems, stories, and tales all fell into different varieties. He was said to be the father of all diabolic fiction and the writer of the first science fiction story. The different categories that his writings fell into were Romanticism, Gothicism, symbolism Decadence, and Surrealism. All in all what ever it was that sparked his ...
Search results 121 - 130 of 1131 matching essays
|
