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- 721: Bypassing the Truth About Reality
- Bypassing the Truth About Reality Often authors in literature tend to avoid situations in everyday life which portray controversial issues. Many authors avoid the reality and truth about what is really taking place in the world, because its frightening for many people to ... means one has to be conscious of the problems society faces and be willing to make an attempt to change for the better. Its extremely transparent to people after reading Baldwins works of literature that the main objective of his writings was to make the reader come to grips with the reality about what main problems society faces in the world. To enable the reader to foresee what the ...
- 722: Brave New World 5
- ... by John the Savage , in Aldous Huxley s Brave New World. The nature of John s conflict involves his personal beliefs and the contrasting Utopian s beliefs. Being from a world of art individuality, and literature, John is in great disappointment upon his arrival at the boring, ordinary Utopian world. Art, individuality, and literature do not exist. There is lack of variation among the refined social class. Sex is rather a pastime event and is not something that is cherished or appreciated. Also, stress and illness are not felt ...
- 723: Walter Whitman
- ... country, and later exhibited this in his writings. He also was not a man to follow others. "Self-reliant, with haughty eyes, assuming to himself all the attributes of his country, steps Walt Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book, or such a being as a writer" . Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published on the ... that this paper has meant to communicate. Whitman truly placed his heart in his pen as few poets have. In short, it looks as though Whitman's haunting figure will remain a presence in American literature he will be lurking there, waiting to see if the "poets to come" live up to his expectations expressed in the "Inscription" poem addressed to them: I myself write but one or two indicative words ...
- 724: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... conventional morality is tied to the myriad tensions that form twentieth century America. To examine Williams's outcasts is to open avenues toward understanding those tensions. Dianoia, the meaning of a work or works of literature, includes the symbols and archetypes that exist in the society that produced the texts (Frye 357). In iterating the dianoia of Williams's outcast characters, I will extend our understanding of the social and spiritual ... discovering the poet was gay, withdrew his acceptance. "Ransom thought homosexuals such as Duncan should 'sublimate' their problem, let the delicacy of subtlety of their sensibility come out in the innocent regions of life and literature" (65). 4) For Williams, "sensitive non-conformist," "outcast," and "fugitive" appear to be interchangeable terms.
- 725: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Analysis
- ... non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from the perspective of the indigenous population, The American Indian. That in itself makes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee an important work of literature as it is one of the few books supporting the Indian cause. This is done through the use of council records, autobiographies, and first-hand accounts. Each of the book's nineteen chapters deals with ... only tells the beginning of what was done in the name of manifest destiny and war profiteering. Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a wonderfully written and insightful piece of American literature. The author asks us to confront our past, which may make us uncomfortable. But there are two sides to every story, and Brown shows us the side that we rarely see. By forcing us to ...
- 726: Virginia Woolf
- ... conflict, her life was cut short by suicide. Her role in feminism, along with the personal relationships in her life, influenced her literary works. Virginia's relationships throughout her life contributed, not only to her literature, but the quality of her life as well. Perhaps the greatest influence in Virginia's life is her mother, Julia Stephen. "Julia Stephen was the most arresting figure which her daughter [Virginia Woolf] tried to ... of values, particularly related to women, and her fiction became a vehicle of her criticisms. (Transue 2) Woolf felt her father was a tyrant and she became "the voice against male tyranny" (Bond 52). Her literature was a voice for suppressed women. She spoke out not only against her father, but against her mother as well. She blamed her father for her mother's death because he expected her to dedicate ...
- 727: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... as drug use and homosexual sex. These topics hadn't been written about so openly, without some sort of literary masking before. Ginsberg's far-ranging, wildly expressive style greatly impacted the evolution of modern literature. His literary odyssey created a vast legacy of poetry and the publication of many books of poetry and prose. Perhaps most notable, "Howl," was published in 1956 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore in ... the works of Herman Hesse, in addition to classical Buddhist texts such as the "Surangama Sutra." What seems to have had the strongest influence on Ginsberg's new writings of this period, however, was not literature but rather the painting of Paul Cezanne. Studying biographies of the painter and color reproductions of his work, Ginsberg sought to understand how Cezanne "juxtaposed planes and made use of what he called 'petite sensation ...
- 728: Beowulf Man Or Myth
- Beowulf Man or Myth Many of Old English poems glorified a real or imaginery hero and tried to teach the values of bravery. Beowulf was written during the Anglo-Saxon period of English Literature. The Anglo-Saxon period was a time of fierce battles in which human strength was measured by the ability to control the reaction to fate through evil and courage. Beowulf was written in Old English ... Well the fact is he is a myth, because no one person can possess all the characteristics that Beowulf has received. Also the time period proves itself that during the Anglo-Saxon period of British Literature, the authors used a style of Epic writing, in which characters were made up for entertainment, using exaggerations. People during the Anglo-Saxon period belived in multiple gods, Superheroes, giants and dragons. Thus, the idea ...
- 729: Writers Block
- ... and is not acceptable, what is expected and what are success and or failure. We are all shaped and trapped by the popular opinions of our time. We are not free to indulge in art, literature, or even our daily lives with out the watchful eye of society s scrutiny. It is necessary to test these opinions in order for society to grow up and accept change. From a small child ... a great artiest by society when he was alive; in fact he was considered a failure. This is true of many artists who were unable to efface their own visions or expressions in art and literature. Only after death and change in public opinion are their works truly appreciated or valued. The media and politics drive macro-level social structures, which shape public opinion. This serves as the foundation for society ...
- 730: The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
- ... brings the mothers to the foreground. In other words, the heroines of the Joy Luck Club are the mothers such as Suyuan Woo for they try to help their daughters with life. In most American Literature, it is the mother who sits quietly in the background. On the other hand, Tan's Joy Luck Club mothers speak assertively. They disagree with popular assumptions that the Chinese people are discreet and modest ... powerful stories share the irony, pain, and sorrow, of the imperfect ways in which mothers and daughters love each other." The Joy Luck Club also has an authentic dialogue which distinguishes from most Chinese-American literature. The way she writes makes a difference and alters the way we understand the world and ourselves that will later on transcend topicality. As a result, Suyuan and June's problems were solved. The attempt ...
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