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- 121: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... with Orwell's 1984. The many different aspects of the novel, the many different angles that it takes for purposes of explanation and clarification make it difficult to categorize. Some categorize the book as science fiction, others label it thriller fiction, while others still dismiss it as feminist literature. The book has been broken into determinants, which are important to the success of the story. These include existential apologia, oral history, speculative fiction, confession, and dystopia. Existential apologia is a defense and celebration of the desperate coping mechanisms by which endangered women survive, outwit, and undermine devaluation, coercion, enslavement, torture, potential death sentences, and outright gynocide. Like ...
- 122: Brave New World - Summary
- ... the book. This story was written in a novel form. There were paragraphs and chapters, not lines and scenes. This book was not based on fact. This was not a factual book, it is science fiction novel and was created in the imagination of the authors head. Mood/ Tone/ Setting- The mood was straightforward, dark, and cold; it was not a pleasant book to read because the mood of the book ... been a happy ending, where both John and Lenina ended up together, or that the Utopians would of changed their ways of life. I would recommend this book to someone whom likes to read science fiction books about the future, because this book could be a possibility of how the future will be. Also a science fiction book like this would be enjoyed by people who like to read science fiction books because it is a very technical and realistic novel, written by a descriptive author. In the year of 1932 ...
- 123: Lewis' "Surprise by Joy": Analysis
- ... to say, there were three different vocations that Lewis fulfilled--and fulfilled successfully--in his lifetime. There was, first, Lewis the distinguished Oxford don and literary critic; secondly, Lewis, the highly acclaimed author of science fiction and children's literature; and thirdly, Lewis, the popular writer and broadcaster of Christian apologetics. The amazing thing, Barfield notes, is that those who may have known of Lewis in any single role may not ... sources, an attitude he opposed all of his life in reading others. We don't need the critics to enjoy Chaucer, he once said, but Chaucer to enjoy the critics. As it stands, both his fiction and theological writings have been endlessly anthologized and hyper-critically explored, creating a trail of footnotes and asides long enough to camouflage the essential viewpoints and facts about his life--thus discouraging even the most ... fundamental objectivity that accompanied such scholarly works as The Allegory of Love (1936) or A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942). Even though Lewis's circle of friends included a veritable who's who of popular fiction, among them J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Dorothy L. Sayers, only those who had a direct influence on his coming to faith receive specific citation or focus. In a word, Surprised by ...
- 124: Lady Audleys Secret
- ... a patriarchal world. Lady Audley evokes a fear of women s independence and sexuality. As a popular Victorian genre that trades on the power of the secret and frequently sexualized sins of its heroines, sensation fiction provides a resourceful perspective on the contradiction that frame these villainous victims who are simultaneously diseased, depraved, and socially and economically oppressed (Bernstein, 73). Lady Audley s ability to control the men in her life ... Robert Audley openly challenges Lady Audley with deceiving her husband about her past, she responds by threatening to charge him with madness. The fact that such a threat could be seriously entertained shows how far fiction had gone to accept the contemporary social concern about the mismanagement of the laws dealing with the insane (Reed, 205). Another part of the book that deals with madness occurs towards the end. Before Robert ... seemingly no real purpose in the novel turns out to be the key to unlocking the whole plot. This technique was very popular in Victorian mystery. By using the elements of both melodrama and mystery fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was able to create her most famous work of her long lasted career, Lady Audley s Secret. Her ability to construe a mystery and keep the reader involved in her work ...
- 125: Censorship And The Internet
- ... Spring 1996). 5 Bryan Bradford and Mark Krumholz, "Telecommunications and Decency: Big Brother goes Digital," Business Today, Spring 1996 : 12-16. 6 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). 7 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). 8 Shari, Steele, "Taking a Byte Out of the First Amendment. How Free Is Speech in Cyberspace?" Human Rights, http ... com/special/lawsuit. 17 Heather Irwin, "Geeks Take to the Streets," Hotwired.com, http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/rally.html 18 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). Bibliography Bradford, Bryan and Mark Krumholz. "Telecommunications and Decency: Big Brother goes Digital." Business Today Spring 1996 : 12-16. ...
- 126: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora's fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces (Hinton, 5). Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville (Hemenway, 13). Hurston's most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston's frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to 'jump ... I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'(Conjured into Being, 4)." This is one of many examples of Hurston's emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 127: Their Eyes Were Watching God B
- ... of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora's fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces (Hinton, 5). Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville (Hemenway, 13). Hurston's most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston's frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to 'jump ... I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'(Conjured into Being, 4)." This is one of many examples of Hurston's emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 128: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... arise and are dealt with as failure to communicate, ecological destruction, a contempt for art, and the government's inattention to important problems (Merrill 157). The experiences and trials of Kilgore Trout, an unknown science fiction writer from New York, and Dwayne Hoover, a Pontiac dealer from Indiana, show the suffering and unintelligibility of daily living (Giannone 107). Dwayne Hoover suffers greatly despite his apparent wealth and prosperity, being burdened with ... large part of the most successful corporation in all of Midland City, he is mentally disturbed and suffering from psycological disillusion (84). Kilgore Trout, poor and humbled by a troublesome life, is a struggling science fiction writer with only one fan (17). His books, mostly metaphorically representing American society, are rarely published. The few published works of Trout's appear in unsavory magazines and are changed and surrounded with pornographic pictures ... depicts in Breakfast of Champions is one of a country steadily moving towards complete self-anhilation (Broer 107). Works Cited Allen, William R. Understanding Kurt Vonnegut. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1991. "Briefly Noted: Fiction." New Yorker 12 May 1973: 146. Broer, Lawrence R. Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1989. Brucker, Carl. "Breakfast of Champions." Beacham's Popular Fiction in ...
- 129: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... became one of the most influential literary writers in American history. As a child, he wrote numerous poems, many which were later published. As a young adult he focused much of his attention on short fiction. He was credited with creating the detective story and known for his psychological and often violent thrillers. He is also known for his macabre themes and for having a fascination with death. Literary students should ... brother, Henry. Unfortunately, Henry died six months later due to alcohol poisoning. After his brother's death, Edgar began to write seriously again. Hoping to earn more money, he changed from writing poetry to writing fiction. He wrote his first published story, The Dream," which encompassed much of Edgar s past and was thought to have been inspired by his brother's death (Nilsson). In this writing, the narrator dreams that ... for White, and brought Virginia and Maria back to Richmond with him (Thompson). Poe advised White on articles, proofread for the magazine, and wrote some short stories. During this time his writings centered on gothic fiction. His writings were strongly influenced by, German romantic writers who gave the English Gothicism their own twists and, disregarding probability, greatly exaggerated elements of the horrible and the supernatural (Nilsson). Poe was especially fond ...
- 130: Robotics
- Robotics The image usually thought of by the word robot is that of a mechanical being, somewhat human in shape. Common in science fiction, robots are generally depicted as working in the service of people, but often escaping the control of the people and doing them harm. The word robot comes from the Czech writer Karel Capek's 1921 ... they are being developed to aid people who have lost the use of their limbs. These devices, however, are for the most part quite different from the androids, or humanlike robots, and other robots of fiction. They rarely take human form, they perform only a limited number of set tasks, and they do not have minds of their own. In fact, it is often hard to distinguish between devices called robots ... the probes that have landed on and tested the soils of the moon, Venus, and Mars, and the pilotless planes and guided missiles of the military. None of these robots look like the androids of fiction. Although it would be possible to construct a robot that was humanlike, true androids are still only a distant possibility. For example, even the apparently simple act of walking on two legs is very ...
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