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- 321: Around the World In Eighty Days: Summary
- ... in London on time. The one part that I would change is when Passepartout and Fogg are separated on India and then they meet up again coincidentally in Japan. I know that this is science fiction, fiction being the important word but still it is to something that is almost impossible to happen in real life. While Fogg and Passepartout were in the India jungle, they saw a woman, Aouda, who was ...
- 322: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... crime, and is high-spirited about beating the elderly and raping the defenseless (Bergonzi 85). This trend can be seen in other books as well. One critic summed it up rather well by saying "His fiction is peopled with lapsed Catholics, failed poets and musicians, ineffective teachers, linguists who cannot adjust to the world as easily as they do to the word, and other intellectual misfits." (Friedman 1). And so, in this manor, Burgess used the setting in which he lived to create the characters of many of his fiction novels. One of the themes in A Clockwork Orange even seems to have a strong connection to Burgess's early life. The "conservative and pessimistic view of human nature" portrayed in A Clockwork Orange can ...
- 323: Rand's "Anthem"
- Rand's "Anthem" Anthem, a science fiction novel, deals with a future primitive society in which the forbidden word "I", which is punishable, has been replaced by "We". Anthem's theme seems to be about the meaning and glory of man's ... are shackled to the weakest and dullest ones among them." Once free from their restrictive society, they rediscover the knowledge of the Unmentionable times, they discover the self and free will. Ayn Rand's science fiction novella Anthem shows intense emotion. The story takes place in a futuristic world of collectivism where the word "I" has been forgotten. The achievements of the past have been lost until one man feels his ...
- 324: Grunge Literature
- ... is it which prompts it to be labelled as "grunge literature"? And why do so many authors of books which fall into this genre object so strenuously to the label? Grunge is the literature and fiction of young people living in inner cities around the world, it is not a new genre as publishers would have us believe, but traces its roots back through the history of the novel. There is ... to America. It's not hard, she knows she'll meet him. She trusts Fate, but she gets distracted. The book, inspired by Ettler's own voyage of discovery in New York merges fact and fiction through recollection and cyclic re-interpretations, the air hostess slyly reads Marilyn's journals and so begins to re-enact Marilyn's life in preference to her own, The fictitious re-telling begins. Marilyn uses ...
- 325: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... and returned home to find that his mother had committed suicide the previous evening. Edith Vonnegut had grown increasingly depressed over her family's lost fortune and her inability to remake that fortune by selling fiction to popular magazines of the day. "She studied magazines," her son recalled, "the way gamblers study racing forms." Although Edith was a good writer, Vonnegut noted that she "had no talent for the vulgarity the ... Saab dealerships in the United States. With his short stories, and novels like Player Piano, published in 1952, and The Sirens of Titan, released in 1959, Vonnegut was often typecast by critics as a science fiction writer. "The feeling persists," Vonnegut has said, "that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city." It was ...
- 326: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... attending Modesto Junior College, Lucas studied film at the University of Southern California, where a film he made won first prize in the Third National Student Film Festival (1965). Lucas reworked that film, a science-fiction fantasy that portrayed a grim, dehumanized world, as his first feature, THX-1138 (1971). Lucas enjoyed his first major success with American Graffiti (1973), a nostalgic look at American adolescence in the early 1960s, which ... Sugarland Express (1974). The movie was a limited success, but the following year Spielberg made Jaws (1975), which set box-office records. It was followed by Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a science-fiction fantasy, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), an outlandish adventure tale, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. In 1985 he directed the film version ...
- 327: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary: Comparisons
- ... remarkable only for an unusual defiance of natural feelings (Flaubert 152). People even say that the myth surrounding the figure of Emma Bovary is so powerful, that one has to remind oneself that she is fiction and not an actual person (De Man vii). By reading this book, and accurately analyzing the author's significant events, one can plainly conclude that Flaubert actually did tie in those events with the theme ... Gustave. Madame Bovary. New York, New York, 1964 Kunitz, Stanley J., Vineta Colby, eds. European Literature ( of European Literature. New York: The H.W. Wilson Co., 1967 Magill, Frank N., ed. Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series. vol. 2; New Jersey: Salem Press Inc., 1984 Magill, Frank N., ed. Cyclopedia of World Jersey: Salem Press Inc., 1958 Thorlby, Anthony, ed. The Penguin Companion to European Literature. New York: McGraw ...
- 328: Dune
- ... average to me. They were evil and hated all that was good. The author should of added a bit more “ spice” to their characters. This would of made the story more enjoyable. Otherwise, this science fiction novel is like it says on the cover, “A world beyond your experience, beyond your imagination.” The emperor sent the Atreides to Dune for one purpose only. Their destruction. He joined forces with the Harkonnens ... Paul in turn strikes back with brute force that many have not seen throughout their existence. The Harkonnens and the Emperor were annihilated and Paul's vengeance was paid. I must say that this science fiction book did create a sense of reality meaning that this situation could happen in the future. A boy or girl born in the future who is destined to be the almighty ruler. He/she will ...
- 329: Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman
- ... to include dreaming in their pieces because basically anything goes. Grotesque can easily be placed in any dream no matter what the plot of the story is. In fact, even if the story is non-fiction, the author can choose to add a little excitement to the story by having one of the characters fall asleep. This option can give the author a chance to tell the story from a dream ... scenes it is clear that it takes true imagination and true talent to incorporate a good illustration of grotesque into a novel or movie. Edgar Allan Poe is probably one of the most renowned horror fiction writers of all time. The one word that is most associated with Poe is death. In J. Gerald Kennedy’s analysis “Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing,” he makes some very interesting analyses on ...
- 330: Amadeus Dramatic Vs Historical
- ... order to be a biography of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, much more than this, Peter Shaffer wrote it as a story, rather than a history. In his story he was free to insert fiction to make the play more interesting to a wide audience, as well as to fulfill his purposes. However, musicologists and historians have written several articles claiming that Peter Shaffer “trashed this immortal”. What none of them can see is that in “Amadeus” there are situations that are plausible while others are “fictional ornament”. In this paper I will make an attempt to point what is fiction or untruth. The center of the play lies on the character of Antonio Salieri and his obsessive jealously of Mozart. To convey this plot, it was necessary that Salieri had motives enough dislike Mozart. So ...
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