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- 61: A Time Of Prosperous Change
- ... Ruth is a character who is well developed who one can feel one with because of the fact that the author creates great depth to her as a character. In the Critical Survey of Long Fiction the author states that "In her fiction, Fay Weldon explores women’s lives with wit and humor. She is caustic in her implicit condemnation of injustice but avoids preaching by characters say and what they do"(Magill 3474). On the other hand Ericson has more of a formula to Weldon’s novels unlike the Critical Survey of Long Fiction. "The Weldon narrator is usually omniscient; she is wise, sad and cynical"(Ericson 1). which shows that the characters must be well developed to have such a personified personality. Magill rarely states how Ruth’ ...
- 62: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... who also had published a play based on Edgar's broken off engagement with Elmira Royster, Edgar was very occupied with his writing during this period of his life, and he had now turned to fiction, probably hoping to make some more money than he did on poetry. His first published tale appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post on August 13, 1831 and was entitled "The Dream". In the narrator ... stories he published in the Messenger was "Berenice - a tale", "Morella", "Lionizing - a tale", and "Hans Phaal - A tale". In creating "Berenice", "Morella", and similar stories Poe drew on a widely popular tradition of Gothic fiction. In "Metzengerstein" Edgar had been influenced by British, American, and continental writing from nearly half a century back. He was particularly influenced by the so-called `German Tales' featured in Blackwood's and other English magazines of the period. These tales originated among German romantic writers who gave English Gothicism their own twists and, disregarding probability, greatly exaggerated elements of the horrible and the supernatural. Gothic fiction aimed at creating the presence of something that suspends and calls into doubt the laws of the universe. Poe's influences from Gothic literature can be seen in his use of premature burials, animated ...
- 63: A Scientific Comparison Betwee
- Science Fiction, succinctly defined, is a literary genre generally characterized in form as a world of exaggerated drama which argues a social commentary using current scientific knowledge as its evidence. From the emergence in the 18th century of modern Science Fiction to the 'birth of the book' in the 19th century, each period is distinct, yet at times similar, in their respective techniques of elucidation. From the 18th century, Voltaire's Micromegas, in its highly ironical ... the time's combination of satire and alienation; while from the 19th century, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, is a parody of gothic literature and of Oedipus Rex. Ultimately, 18th century Science Fiction uses satire and alienation while 19th century Science Fiction deals mainly with a parody of the Oedipus Complex . In Micromegas, Voltaire uses science to present the philosophic notion that there is an absurdity to ...
- 64: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... Martial Chronicals, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy and inhumanity of modern society, rather than the technology. (Bryfonski, 68) Ray Dougless Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 to Leonard Spaulding and ... able to earn enough money writing that he could give up his job selling newspapers and devote all of his time to what he loved. (Candee 88) As some critics would agree, the term "science-fiction" does not apply to Bradbury's work. Most of his stories are more along the lines of fantasy with an intense understanding of human nature. In "The Green Morning", a man named Benjamin Driscoll arives ... next morning, he finds a Mars covered with trees over six feet tall, "nourished by alien and magical soil"(Bradbury 77), and producing a "mountain river"(Bradbury 77) of new air. As Bradbury says, "Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together...Fantasy fiction is the improbable" (Candee 88). Quite obvioulsy, that story is ...
- 65: Sci-fi Gibberish Or A Glance A
- Science fiction: gibberish or a glance at oneself? Since the very rudiment of mankind humans have dreamed Dreamed of understanding nature's phenomena, dreamed of finding out the secrets of the infinite universe and dreamed of perception of their own place in its vast continuity. These dreams, passed orally through the lips of generations eventually took form of what we now call a myth. Now, let's analyze what science fiction is. I think it wouldn't be hard to agree that it is a certain kind of myth adjusted to the current segment of time, but nevertheless containing essential features and elements of a classical myth. The question then arises: why science fiction is not treated and valued as such? The answer probably lies in the conservatism of the senile members of our society who are sickly attached to biblical legends. Times do change, people do change, ...
- 66: Frankenstien And Neuromancer
- Technology and its dangerous effects on nature and human life as perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand on our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science) 1 At first glance this topic could seem rather ... of technology. This is, in a way, a Gibson's interpretation and view on the consequences of a future Information Revolution. In doing so, he goes beyond the ideas of the traditional authors of science fiction and as the 'father' of cyberpunk literature, he makes a drastic departure from what some consider "glossy utopian views" of the conventional science fiction. Gibson presents a very, and perhaps overly, pessimistic vision of the future, showing the negative effect the forthcoming technologies might have on human life and the gloomy outcomes of technology that progresses faster than ...
- 67: Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
- ... viewer. He is giving the viewer of the story the History that he yearns for. As I said before, most of the pictures in the film are not strange or unbelievable. They are not science fiction, as is the story. Even the pictures of the time traveling experiments could, on second glance, be taken for some sort of Vietnam War photographs. What I am trying to say is that none of ... almost have picked up some random family album and simply mad up a story to go along with the pictures he saw. Of course, this is not what Marker did. The story, an utterly fantastic fiction, is well chosen. Through the irony of this impossible story and these entirely possible photographs, Marker is saying that though the photograph may be so forcefully clear, so completely fact, this “history” that we yearn for can never be true to the photograph. Instead, it will always be a story, and if we ask for the “history” of the photograph we will get a narrative fiction. Moreover, this history, being a fiction, and therefore blind to all the facts, will leave us wanting, with as many if not more questions than when we began. This is why so many things ...
- 68: The Power and the Glory
- ... A. What makes up the main theme 1. Setting 2. Characters 3. Symbolism B. A quote from a book VI - Conclusion In the novel “The Power and the Glory”, Graham Greene uses the elements of fiction to show a main theme. Some of the elements he uses are them, characters, symbolism, and setting. The way Greene uses these elements to show a main theme for his novel, is very good. The elements come together to show the theme, which is pity. Pity for a fellow human being. Setting is a major element of fiction. The setting of a piece of literature can set the mood of the scene. Setting, can also make the reader feel a certain way. Some of the scenes in “The Power and the Glory” evoke ... squalor ...”(15). Some critics think that the novel is “a melodramatic thriller about a policeman chasing a priest, romanticized by its religious significance and its exotic Mexican setting.”(Pryce-Jones, 58). Another important element of fiction is symbolism. Symbolism in a novel can bring some insight to what its theme might be. A lot of the characters, atmospheres, and objects contain symbolism in the novel. The liquor that the priest ...
- 69: The Has Been And The Never Was
- ... short of spectacular. They proved to all of Hollywood that they were A-list, bankable Talent, and deserved the professional respect accorded to people of this caliber. The movie that they appeared in was Pulp Fiction and the actors are John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. First, a few brief sentences about the film that many people call one of the greatest ever made (a simple search on the Internet brings ... the Hollywood scene. Even then he was in the background, along with Kirstie Alley, both of them playing the bumbling adults to the baby with an adult wit (whose voice, ironically, is supplied by Pulp Fiction co-star Bruce Willis). The film was a box office smash and led to two more sequels, Look Who s Talking Too and Look Who s Talking Now, which were both successful but did nothing ... tier of Hollywood for the longest time. He was repeatedly relegated to the roles of sidekick, criminal and bit player, but never a leading role. This all changed after his role as Jules in Pulp Fiction. Born Samuel Leroy Jackson on December 21, 1948 in Washington, D.C., he was raised by his mother and grandparents in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A very serious student, Jackson was admitted to Morehouse College in ...
- 70: Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury has written over more then five hundred published works and continues to keep writing. He is known as one of the best science fiction novelists and has won many awards and accommodations for it. After publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best works. There is a question to be asked, Where does ... susan, Ramona, Bettina, and Alexandra. During that same year he gathered much of his best material and published them as Dark Carnival, his first short story collection. His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950 which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, the constant thwarting of their efforts by the gentle, telepathic Martians, the eventual colonization, and finally the effect on the Martian settlers of a massive nuclear war on Earth. "Of twenty-two stories here collected, at most eight can be called 'science fiction" (Holmes 12). As much a work of social criticism as of science fiction, The Martian Chronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early atomic age of the 1950's: the ...
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