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- 241: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 242: Censorship
- ... is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity and the products of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school ...
- 243: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time. "Way of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy. Ed. Sue Walker and Eugene Hammer. Mobile: Negative Capability, 1991: 39-49. Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "Evil, Apocalypse, and Feminist Fiction." Frontiers 7.2 (1983): 74-80. Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. "Mothers Tomorrow and Mothers Yesterday, But Never Mothers Today: Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid's Tale. Ed. Brenda O. Maurrent Riddy. Knoxville ... Miall, Charlene F. "The Stigma of Adoptive Parent Status: Perceptions of Community Attitudes Toward Adoption and he Experience of Informal Social Sanctioning." Family Relations. 36.1 (1987): 34-39. Orr, Elaine. "Mothering as a Good Fiction: Instance from Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." The Journal of Narrative Technique. 23.2 (1993): 61-77. Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time." New York: Fawcett Crest 1976. Shands ...
- 244: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... mistakes. Again, when one choose to discuss Vonnegut s literary tools and how he uses them in Slaughterhouse-Five, one must remember the complexities of this particular novel. Because this story is a blend of fiction and non-fiction, Vonnegut's narration can be seen as both third person and first person. Due to the fragmentation of time there is no past, present or future in Slaughterhouse-Five. This view of all time existing ...
- 245: The Bronte Sisters, Jane Eyre
- ... because of the uninhibited violence and graphic imagery. Over time, however, people soon began to recognize the books for the great masterpieces they were. Charlotte and Emily s passion swept over the pools of Victorian fiction and roused them to storm. These disruptions have been present in literature ever since. Perhaps the most wonderful fact about the Bronte sisters is that the liberation of English fiction from the chains of conventionality was brought about by these "little provincial Puritans" (Gosse 62). In the modern world of literature, both are equally hailed as the precursors of feminist novelists for their originality in ...
- 246: Death of a Salesman - Willy
- ... life, love, death, and eternal fate in heaven. These two brilliant writers have given two magnificent poems. Pope exhibits many characteristics of a narcissistic human being. His independence in life shows through his writings in fiction. Which inevitably portray his deeper feelings of life. Popes' efforts here are of outezding quality. However, his poem did fail to convince Arabella to résumé her engagement to Lord Petre. Most of Pope's efforts ... each writer's mind is the idea that one can be g-d through their own scripture. Each must be excused for not always being able to know what is still real and what is fiction in life. Their expensive minds have brought their own personal truth to light. Can they hear the crying of their love sick pasts? In classic style, Pope has brought dreams to reality. While Keats has ...
- 247: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... example, two friends of different nationalities may become bitter enemies only because their respective countries are at war. I think the novel All Quiet on the Western Front is a well told story, mixing both fiction and non-fiction into a powerful novel which forces people to think deeply about war and all of its possible repercussions. The book makes me think of all the lost talent that was lost during the war. Even ...
- 248: Stephen Crane
- One of Stephen Crane’s greatest short fiction stories is “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane views fate like it is inevitable, and sure it is. Who can get away from their destiny, their fate? No one can get away from it. This ... trying. The odds were against him. Even if he really wanted to reach ashore he could not make it, because his fate was waiting for him. Stephen Crane has written not one but many short fiction stories like this one and as one keeps reading them you get a better understanding of who Stephen Crane really was and where he comes from. It is not surprising for an author’s background ...
- 249: Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
- ... example of this is in the character Wintergreen who intercepts mail between the generals and doctors thereby allowing him to change orders to his liking. On this subject Burgess commented in his work on contemporary fiction by saying "His approach [Heller’s] is not merely satirical it is surrealistic, absurd, even lunatic, though the aim is serious enough to show . . . the monstrous egotism of the top brass" (Burgess 140). This example ... Contemporary American Novel and It’s Intellectual Background. 1970:156-159. Rpt. in. "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Eds. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1975. 229. Burgess, Anthony. The Novel: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction. 1967:53. Rpt. in "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973. 140. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Dell, Aug 1963. Heller, Joseph. Good as Gold. New York: Simon ...
- 250: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... we will be introduced to later). But because the phrase is first uttered by Vonnegut writing as Vonnegut, each "So it goes" seems to come directly from the author and from the world outside the fiction of the text. Chapter One also hints that time will be an important part of the fiction to follow. The author was going around and around in circles trying to create a linear narrative. He felt like he was stuck inside a children's song that continued indefinitely, its last line maddeningly ...
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