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- 1611: Invisible Man
- ... they would be astounded to see him. But to his surprise, they "only ‘K look at [him] oddly"(Ellison 416) To those two, his fame is his notoriety because they do not like his race philosophy. The narrator works for an ideology that promotes equality among all humans, whether black or white, male or female, while the two black fellows hold an opposing ideology, a popular conventional belief in blacks at ...
- 1612: Inherit The Wind
- ... God didnt exist -- I wouldnt want to. Turn around 360 degrees and you are back facing the same direction, now science lies in front of you where religion so recently resided. Politics, science, philosophy, theology, technology -- its so easy to become confused. Science is a truth, no matter how adamantly we decree it otherwise. If we were the center of the universe (as the Bible mandates), if we ...
- 1613: Hard Times
- ... their behavior which I believe (below the surface) was more existential than his. Since most existentialists believe that man is free to reflect, make decisions, and set goals, the circus definitely leaned more towards such philosophy than did an entrepreneurial man who created a strict curriculum of facts with barely any emotions. The circus members were more free to roam and live life "day by day". Examples are the sudden emotional ...
- 1614: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... complete with tattoos on the limbs of victims, systemized selection and annihilation, virulent regimentation, and engineered reproduction to produce a prevailing Caucasian race. Confession, the fourth determinant, is an autobiographical revelation of private life or philosophy intended as a psychological release from guilt and blame through introspection and rationalization. Like the weeping survivors of the doomed boy-kingdom in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Holden Caulfield rehashing his ...
- 1615: Greek Tragedies
- ... In this it brings to mind another famous philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. He was the most radical philosopher the Western tradition had ever produced; he posed a fundamental challenge to the rationalism that has dominated Western philosophy since Plato. Trained in classical linguistics, Nietzsche in his earliest work described two conflicting "spirits" in Greek culture. The Dionysian after the god Dionysis spirit was passionate and communal. By contrast, the Apollonian after the ...
- 1616: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... paper that had information concerning the need for pickers in California. When they asked a gas station attendant about work, he said that all of the work had moved south. The attendant also gave his philosophy on the handouts, he told the Joads that the man needed eight-hundred pickers. Now to make sure that he got all eight-hundred pickers, he would print five thousand. And for every five thousand ...
- 1617: Faust
- ... poem, that Faust has very strong beliefs and a tight moral code that is deeply rooted in his quest for knowledge. Sitting in his den, Faust describes his areas of instruction, "I have, alas, studied philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine, too, and, worst of all, theology with keen endeavor, through and through..." It is obvious that through his studies he has valued deep and critical thinking, however with the help of Mephisto ...
- 1618: 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.
- 1619: Emily The Fallen Rose
- ... Thoreau believed that answers lie in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, "Whoso would be a [hu]man, must be a non-conformist." Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily ...
- 1620: Dawn
- ... went to Paris and that is where he met Gad. He was offered asylum in France. He wanted to learn the language and go to school. but Gad came into his life. "The study of philosophy attracted me because I wanted to understand the meaning of the events of which I had been the victim." (12) "In the concentration camp I had cried out in sorrow and anger against God and ...
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