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- 391: Comparison Of Brave New World
- ... way (not as much in BNW, though) through the use of satire. Also, for GATTACA, the director incorporates the traditional elements of movie - a murder-mystery tied in with a love story PLUS a science fiction touch - very effectively. Satire in Huxley's novel is glaringly obvious (mockery of the education system and the morals of today along with many more topics), as he writes with the purpose of teaching and ... everything in today's world, wheras Niccol's view of a futuristic world is not as satirical but it seems like it is, rather, a warning. In their separate ways, however, these two pieces of fiction are extremely effective in relaying the message about the possible outcome of society's strive for perfection in the genetic world. Vincent Freeman says in the movie that "there is no gene for the human ...
- 392: Symbolism in "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
- ... parable in which people can take their own meaning as well as predicte their own ending to the novel (French 126). The reader can see parable qualities of The Pearl by looking at the moral fiction of Kino or man in general, searching for the wealth, the security, and the freedom in life which is expressed in the novel (McCarthy 108). The moral fiction and it's contants are found under the catagory of the book's characteristics. The big characteristics of The Pearl are the appealing characters and the obvious allegory of man as a whole in relation ...
- 393: Summary of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" With Background About Steinbeck
- ... and the principal authorizes it. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, Monterey County, California. He was an American author, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. Steinbeck's best known fiction tells about the struggles of poor people. His most famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) won the 1940 Pulitzer prize. The novel tells the story of the Joads, a poor Oklahoma farming family, who ... of a family reflected the hardship of the entire nation. Through the labor the organizer, Jim Casy, taught the Joads that the poor must work together in order to survive. Steinbeck set much of his fiction in and around his birthplace of Salinas, California. His first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), is based on the life of Sir Henry Morgan, a famous English pirate of the 1600's. Steinbeck's next ...
- 394: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time. "Way of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy. Ed. Sue Walker and Eugene Hammer. Mobile: Negative Capability, 1991: 39-49. Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "Evil, Apocalypse, and Feminist Fiction." Frontiers 7.2 (1983): 74-80. Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. "Mothers Tomorrow and Mothers Yesterday, But Never Mothers Today: Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid's Tale. Ed. Brenda O. Maurrent Riddy. Knoxville ... Miall, Charlene F. "The Stigma of Adoptive Parent Status: Perceptions of Community Attitudes Toward Adoption and he Experience of Informal Social Sanctioning." Family Relations. 36.1 (1987): 34-39. Orr, Elaine. "Mothering as a Good Fiction: Instance from Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." The Journal of Narrative Technique. 23.2 (1993): 61-77. Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time." New York: Fawcett Crest 1976. Shands ...
- 395: Pride and Prejudice: The Summary
- ... real historical people in the text. The events in this novel very well could have taken place, but they did not. Many families might have had some of these crisis, but the characters are all fiction. One part of the novel, which positively happened in history, was the army coming to stay in the town. The militia regiment comes to town, Kitty and Lydia get caught up by the handsome, distinguished ... the death of Mr. Bennet. This, although an unfair tradition, is the harsh truth. This novel has given me a greater understanding of how families worked in eighteenth century England. Even though it is a fiction novel, it shows the traditions of the society, and how they effect the individuals. The idea in the time period that women were beneath the men, is displayed here very well through the interactions between ...
- 396: 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 ...
- 397: Heart Of Darkness 5
- ... Ocean, along the coast of Africa for over thirty years of his life as an explorer, and a businessman, much like he was portrayed in Heart of Darkness. Although his work is considered to be fiction, it is based upon his actual journeys to Africa, and over the years he wrote over 30 published novels, and stories. Conrad's sources are based purely on his own travels, and they only as ...
- 398: Harrison Bergeron
- ... is not where we want to be. Works Cited Schatt, Stanley. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1976. Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Harrison Bergeron . The Short Story and Its Writers: An Intro to Short Fiction, Fifth Edition. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 1332-1335.
- 399: Hamlet 9
- ... after the ghost s departure. Upon the departure of the players at the end of Act II, Hamlet confronts his shame at his own deficiency of action, having witnessed an actor more deeply moved by fiction than he himself is by reality. Hamlet demonstrates not only a great honesty and bravery in facing his own fears and doubts and condemning them, but his shrewd plan to discover the truth of Claudius ...
- 400: Heart Of Darkness 2
- 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 ...
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