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- 1541: Literary Study
- ... or conformity of the work from the era/culture in which it was produced. This teaches the student the values of the age in which the work was written. This entails immersion in the history, philosophy, and esthetics, the cultural world of the work. 2)study the contemporary historical records of the time, (court records, diaries, and plays). 3) study the various audiences of the writer. Archetypal criticism- the kind of ...
- 1542: Fahrenheit51 4 8
- ... vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred." he also said, "And they'll be happy, because facts of the sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy." The reason the firemen were burning the books is because different books said different things and contradicted each other. Some books upset different minorities ...
- 1543: Essay Comparison
- ... 1971, fourteen years before he died, the essay The Geese was written. Also, according to James Hart, Henry David Thoreau was a man of his own dignity. Just as his heritage was mixed, so his philosophy of life combined diverse strains, and he called himself a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot. (Hart, 662). At the age of thirty, Thoreau wrote his first book called Walden , in which ...
- 1544: Escape Towards Death
- ... flight, but a story that relates to everyone; with a variety of difficulties, all people may have their unique way of coping with them, but one odd method discussed in Song of Solomon is the philosophy of how death can perhaps hold one's peacefulness within the final "flight" to the unknown afterworld.
- 1545: Lord Of The Dead
- ... also depends on a narrow conception of what counts as “postmodern” (which in my view can include neopragmatism and other theoretical perspectives): in this essay Benhabib uses the terms “postmodern” and “poststructural” almost interchangeably. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ©1996 PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- 1546: Emerson 3
- ... of enthusiasm and anticipation though. He looks around him to see great things happening in all scopes of American life leading him to comment that: these facts are symbolical of the height to which the philosophy and poetry and religion of her inhabitants may one day soar. This isn t to say that Thoreau does not pay homage to the traditions started overseas though, he simply sees the move from east ...
- 1547: Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also
- ... the powerlessness of the bull in the face of its imminent cruel death, the characters' barrenness of emotion and lack of sensitivity, their ineffectiveness, alcoholism, and failure to work out some sort of meaningful "personal philosophy" and an "exhausted cynicism . Hemingway shows war wounds as the destroyer of love: Jake pursues love without sex and Brett pursues sex without love. Other themes found under the umbrella of impotence are: lack of ...
- 1548: Moby Dick
- ... all white traditional Nantucketers, Melville counters that with the characters of the three harpooners, - Queequeg, Tashtego and Daggoo. A savage, an Indian and a Negro, they represent groups that are not influenced by American industrial philosophy and are thought not to have accepted the American virtues. Prejudiced and discriminated against, Melville elevates these individuals (and their respective races) to a lofty plateau, showing that they too can contribute to the American ...
- 1549: Ethan Frome 4
- ... formerly the patient, became the caretaker of the two lovers. The wise person takes time to live, laugh, learn, and love, as well as to worship, work, and weep. God emphasizes the importance of the philosophy of moderation Ecclesiastes. It says that there is a time and a season for everything under Heaven. God outlines a healthy, and happy life as a life led in moderation. Unfortunately Ethan never had God ...
- 1550: Essay On Two Poems Of Carol An
- ... an idle mind is a devil s workshop is very applicable here since the thief has nothing to do, so to keep himself busy he breaks into people s homes. He has a rather ruthless philosophy of life that better of dead than giving in, not taking what you want . He steals not for money but for the pleasure. He tries to be part of families by collecting photographs of them ...
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