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- 261: Tomorrow When The War Began
- ... The War Began, discuss the ways in which particular issues, themes, or attitudes are conveyed via the medium of the literary text. John Marsden s Tomorrow when the war began is a gripping work of fiction. The book deals with various themes, issues and attitudes that are present in our society throughout the medium of the novel, we learn that war is not only stupid but it is devastating for those ... the series. The style used catches a lot of reader s attention and makes them want to read on with enthusiasm. Conclusion John Marsden s Tomorrow when the war began is a gripping work of fiction. The book dealt with various themes, issues and attitudes which we learn about throughout reading the novel, these attributes are present in our society throughout the context of the novel. We learnt that war is ...
- 262: Psychological Doubles
- ... contemplate. The society of men is Stevenson s main focus and is evident in the number of ways in which he presents Hyde in terms of society. If Jekyll and Hyde is characterized in Gothic fiction s exaggerated tones of late-Victorian anxieties concerning deterioration of social status, and the idea of criminal man, , it invariably situates those concerns in relation to the practices and discourses of lawyers like Gabriel Utterson ... with him. Edmunson writes that the unfortunate heroine is not meant to break free of the beast (Edmunson 48). She is meant to sustain the man by ignoring the monster. Richard Hocks said of James fiction that it at once reinvents the very genre of double literature and simultaneously condenses rich and multitudinous levels of meaning into an economy of form" (in Thompson 192). For example, Marcher finds in May a ...
- 263: Censorship
- ... is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity and the products of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school ...
- 264: Stephen King, Bio
- Stephen Edwin King is one of today s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen Edwin King was born in ... the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced (Beaham 22). In many of Lovecraft s writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional ...
- 265: Constructive Criticism
- ... Internet newsgroups abound on the world wide web. Newsgroups, or Usenet forums, are servers designed for the sharing of ideas between thousands of individuals, with different perspectives, each day. Topics range from romance to science fiction and beyond, yet on any given topic there is never a universally accepted constant. Every individual's views on what is romantic or what is realistic in science fiction are different. Usenet groups are an excellent example of criticism in many forms, as they possess a huge amalgamation of opinions derived from perspectives from many different countries. Frequently, a person's tone is misunderstood ...
- 266: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 267: Stephen King
- Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is one of today s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known ... the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced (Beaham 22). In many of Lovecraft s writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional ...
- 268: Genetic Cloning
- ... car accident. He loses both of his arms. Instead of going the rest of his life he has new arms attached to his body. Sounds like something that could only be true in a science fiction novel, right. Wrong. This is something that could be quite possible in the near future. It can all be made possible through cloning. The question that must be asked is; is human cloning ethically right ... Committee Report). State representative Charlie Brown authored legislation that would ban the practice of human cloning in Indiana. He said “Just one year ago, this bill would have seemed silly, cloning was the stuff of fiction, no more likely to happen than having Scotty from ‘Star Trek’ Beam us up to the USS Enterprise”(Unkown). He States “Human cloning is no longer the subject of imagination. It is something that is ...
- 269: D.H. Lawrence
- ... teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between his parent’s was a recurrent motif in Lawrence’s fiction. David Herbert was ranked among the most influential and controversial literary figures of the Victorian Period. In his more than forty books, Lawrence celebrated his vision of the natural, whole human being, opposing the modern ... grew up. His most original poetry, published in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, flowed from his own experience of nature in the southwestern U.S. and the Mediterranean region. Also, the most significant of his early fiction, Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another wonderful example of the nature in D.H. Lawrence’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the ...
- 270: Cloning
- ... car accident. He loses both of his arms. Instead of going the rest of his life he has new arms attached to his body. Sounds like something that could only be true in a science fiction novel, right. Wrong, This is something that could be quite possible in the near future. It can all be made possible through cloning. The question that must be asked is; is human cloning ethically right ... Committee Report). State representative Charlie Brown authored legislation that would ban the practice of human cloning in Indiana. He said “Just one year ago, this bill would have seemed silly, cloning was the stuff of fiction, no more likely to happen than having Scotty from ‘Star Trek’ Beam us up to the USS Enterprise”(Unkown). He States “Human cloning is no longer the subject of imagination. It is something that is ...
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