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- 2401: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... Whether it is intentional or subconscious, an author can not help to include some aspects of the time period in which they are in. The Romantic Period had a tremendous influence on Marry Shelly's writing of the novel, Frankenstein. The Industrial Revolution in England during the late 1700's was a time of great change. The populace was moving into cities, and people were disillusioned by the destruction of nature ... is one of the most important literary periods in history; affecting the literature, music, and art of the period. It encouraged spontaneity, and acting with emotions, not common sense. In the more classical style of writing, writers addressed their books to the upper class, but now writers addressed the common man and his problems. Their was a new feeling of spirituality. People were seeking eastern concepts of nirvana, transcendentalism and being one with nature. People wanted to experience life, not study it. They seeked extreme emotions, whether they were good or bad. Marry Shelly used all of these philosophies of the Romantic Period in writing, Frankenstien. Victor Fankenstien is a man with great ambition, he is obsessed and self-centered. His life is the mirror of a Greed Tragedy. In his case, the flaw is his excessive pride. This ...
- 2402: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... brave new worlders practise. But a regimen of soma doesn't deliver anything sublime or life-enriching. It doesn't catalyse any mystical epiphanies or life- defining insights. It doesn't in any way promote personal growth. Instead, it provides a mindless, inauthentic "imbecile happiness" - a vacuous escapism which makes people comfortable with their lack of freedom. If Huxley had wished to tantalise, rather than repel, emotional primitives like us with ... hatchery. They are conditioned and indoctrinated, and even brainwashed in their sleep. They are never educated to prize thinking for themselves. In Brave New World, the twin goals of happiness and stability - both social and personal - are not just prized but effectively equated. This surprisingly common notion is ill-conceived. The impregnable well-being of our transhuman descendants is more likely to promote greater diversity, both personal and societal, not stagnation. This is because greater happiness, and in particular enhanced dopamine function, doesn't merely extend the depth of one's motivation to act: the hyper-dopaminergic sense of things to ...
- 2403: The Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- ... These themes are true in the novel and are also true in everyday life. [Nelle] Harper Lee was born and raised in the heart of the south. Lee's life and time period influences her writing. Like her father and Atticus Finch, Lee went on to study law. She left school in 1950 so that she could go to New York and become a writer. "Her law studies proved to be ... setting of her novel; an old house where a mysterious recluse might live, the courtroom, and the lawyer's office" (Matuz 239). This environment and her southern background proved to be the perfect combination for writing a story about life in a quiet town in Alabama. The only way to be a good writer is to write from experience, and since she lived most of her life in the setting of the story, her writing proved to be good. The timing for the release of To Kill a Mockingbird could not have been more perfect. "In a time of the burgeoning civil rights movement, her book was met with ...
- 2404: Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
- ... way that people are laid down for their final resting. The Epitaph shows , properly titled, the lot about how people are being brought up and brought down in a dark sort of way. Someone's personal epitaph is just a place where their head rests and Even "Fair Science frowned" on the aspects of the person's life and now the incapacity that they have toward this world. Their one and ... dead, it is just that he was not blessed with as much life. Gray probably knew someone who died at a young age and it had a traumatizing effect on him, then he turned to writing of dark and dreary times and those of the epitaphs and of graveyards and the beliefs of gods and how they relate to life and death. Thomas Gray's The Epitaph shows the way that ...
- 2405: The Concubine's Children: An Analysis
- ... recount the story as an omniscient narrator. The author has told the story in a detached fashion, with the narrator rarely reacting personally to the events, even when they recount horrific events. This style of writing often cheapens the content of the story, making it seems rather impersonal, even for nonfiction. The book itself was written recently, using the author's grandfather's letters as a guide. The author wrote the ... these events didn't happen in 1996, than they can make adjustments. My main dislike with the book was the fact that it was presented with such indifference. I think more of the author's personal input would have been helpful. Certain events that the author obviously had to embellish due to lack of information were poorer than the rest. Due to inconsistencies and a general atmosphere of monotony, I couldn ...
- 2406: The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter
- ... a bane to her soul, for by admitting her crime to the crowd, her soul is freed from two hells: first, the fiery pit where she would otherwise go after death, and second, the own personal hell Hester will create for herself if she had chosen to hide her sin in her heart. Though it was ordered for Hester to wear the letter, it was still her own choice to make ... plain and nondistinct color, to escape the townspeople's disdain. By displaying her guilt however, she is granted the opportunity to face her punishment bravely, thus through her public humiliation, she achieves freedom from the personal guilt of not suffering enough for her crimes. Furthermore, "the scarlet letter, forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red-hot." The scarlet A's glowing embers, scorching they ... means of atoning her sin and achieving salvation, and as the scarlet letter "A" rests on her sin-stained heart, it mends instead of causing more damage. Its scarlet fire thus exorcises Hester Prynne's personal demons, so that in the Afterlife she can finally attain her peace.
- 2407: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to "demonstrate...that native materials could inspire significant imaginative writing" (p. 13). In addition his writing, specifically The Deerslayer, present a unique view of the Native American's experiences and situation. Many critics, for example, argue that The Deerslayer presents a moral opinion about what occurred in the lives of ...
- 2408: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
- ... the one narrator that is unable to view Sutpen objectively. The first chapter serves as merely an introduction to the history of Sutpen based on what Miss Rosa heard as a child and her brief personal experiences. The narration of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a coded activity. Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning at chapter 2. It ironic that one of Faulkner's greatest novels is one in which the ... explain Sutpen on two very different planes of significance. Sutpen, through the narration of Mr. Compson, becomes the tragic hero and a pragmatist (Duncan 96). After this, Compson switches his approach to one of more personal involvement. The beginning of chapter 4, Faulkner displays this with the use of phrases like I believe or I imagine Mr. Compson begins to use a more humane approach to the telling of the story ... existence. The fact, interpretations, speculations and conjectures are now woven together. It appears that Faulkner's question of historical recollection is not what we right down. It is instead a collection of human situation, complex personal relationships, analytical skills used to reconstruct the facts and a creative look into the past. The reader doesn't merely look at the past, the reader has to reassess the past. The reader is ...
- 2409: The Irony in "The Lottery"
- ... of views, situations, and the title are all ironic to the story "The Lottery." The point of view in "The Lottery" is ironic to the outcome. Jackson used third person dramatic point of view when writing "The Lottery." The third person dramatic point of view allowed the author to keep the outcome of the story a surprise. The outcome is ironic because the readers are led to believe everything is fine ... reader gets to the end of the story, he finds just the opposite to be true. Jackson shows every day as if it is any other summer day. Jackson foreshadows the events to come by writing: School was recently over for the summer . . . Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; . . . eventually made a pile ... been as interesting as it was. If these were not included then the story would not be the same and would not keep the readers' interest. Work Cited Jackson, Shirley. "The lottery" Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Third Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1997. 309-16.
- 2410: Mernissi
- ... did not follow al-Bukhari's example but allowed themselves to be bought for a price and fabricated Hadiths for the politicians. Even Companions of the Prophet fabricated Hadiths in order to promote their own personal views. In the case of the Hadith which states, "Those who entrust their affairs to a woman will never know prosperity", Mernissi argues that this Hadith was never uttered by the Prophet and probably made up for personal reasons of Abu Bakra, who claimed to have heard the Hadith spoken by the Prophet. First, she finds out from research that he must have had an excellent memory because he recalled the Hadith about ... veil, as a division of public life and private life to the veiling of women in Muslim society. On the contrary, I really liked the way she pointed out in chapter seven how Muhammad's personal life and the example he gave went totally against the mistreatment of women and male superiority. She makes a good point in how men were caught by surprise when it came to the dimension ...
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