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- 281: Dune
- Dune The book Dune has a science-fiction story line that associates two major themes frequently in the book. The title and the setting of the book are used to establish the bleakness and isolation of the planet Arrakis. The plot and resolution ... The planet has no source of water on it except that of underground, which is very hard to come by. As you can see, "Water is precious there." (pg. 30) The plot of this science-fiction story deals almost entirely of the two major houses that at this time are sworn to destroy each other and the emperor. The two major houses want control of the spice on the planet of ...
- 282: Aztec Indians 2
- ... to understand the Aztec civilization as a whole, it is necessary to look at the role myths played in developing and maintaining the Aztec way of life. Myths are a mixture of historical fact and fiction which can be used to explain the structure of social and political organization, and the significance of warfare and human sacrifice among the Aztecs. Myths will provide a gateway into the complexities of the Aztec ... Each day that the sun rose was a battle to be celebrated by the Aztec people, for the god of life has reigned. As has been stated before, myths are a mixture of fact and fiction. This is enough to make one wonder how much truth there is in the myths that have been discussed in this paper. It is the decision of each individual to decide what they want to ...
- 283: Understanding Holden Caulfield
- ... 89.5: 1065- 1074. Bungery, Hans. “Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye: The Isolated Youth and His Struggle to Communicate.” Die Nueren Sprachen 27.17: 208-217. Carpenter, Frederic I. “The Adolescent in American Fiction.” The English Journal 46.3: 313-319. Chugnov, Konstantin. “Soviet Critics on J.D. Salinger’s Novel, The Catcher in the Rye.” Soviet Literature 16:5: 182-184. Costello, Donald P. “The Language of The ... s The Catcher in the Rye.” Western Humanities Review 11.1: 188-190 Laser, Marvin and Norman Fruman. “Studies in J.D. Salinger: Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye and other Fiction.” New York: Odyssey Press, 1963. Lee, A. Robert. “‘Flunking Everything Else Except English Anyway’: Holden Caulfield, Mandel, Siegfried. “Salinger in Continental Jeans: The Liberation of Boll and Other Germans.” Critical Inquiry 6.2: 227-245 ...
- 284: Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was a very powerful and imaginative writer. In a "Room of Ones Own" she takes her motivational views about women and fiction and weaves them into a story. Her story is set in a imaginary place where here audience can feel comfortable and open their minds to what she is saying. In this imaginary setting with imaginary ... can be broken, and to encourage more women to write. An example of this is in the very first line when Woolf writes, "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction what has that got to do with a room of one s own(719)?" Why did Woolf start her story of like that? Maybe it was to show how different women really were from men ...
- 285: Lysistrata Of Aristophanes
- ... around the age of fourteen to a much older man. The purpose of marriage was to have legitimate children. Athenian women held very restricted lives: in Greek literature, however, women play very prominent roles. In fiction, one might see her as heroic, vivacious, splendid, and beautiful. But this woman is fiction. In reality, she was beaten, flung about, locked up and practically insignificant. The domain of Athenian aristocratic women was the house(oikos). While the men worked in a public space, women worked in a private ...
- 286: The Life and Work of Chaim Potok
- ... 1975. Then he wrote The Book of Lights in 1981. In 1985 he wrote Davita's Harp. In 1990 he wrote The Gift of Asher Lev which won him The National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Which brings us to his most recent novel I Am the Clay from 1992. Chaim Potok also wrote a couple of children's books The Tree of Here and The Sky of Now in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Chaim only published one Non-Fiction book called Wanderings in 1978 about the history of the Jewish people. He wrote three plays one of them, Out of the Depths, is a two act play that premiered in 1990. The other two ...
- 287: Amadeus Dramatic Vs Historical
- ... order to be a biography of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, much more than this, Peter Shaffer wrote it as a story, rather than a history. In his story he was free to insert fiction to make the play more interesting to a wide audience, as well as to fulfill his purposes. However, musicologists and historians have written several articles claiming that Peter Shaffer “trashed this immortal”. What none of them can see is that in “Amadeus” there are situations that are plausible while others are “fictional ornament”. In this paper I will make an attempt to point what is fiction or untruth. The center of the play lies on the character of Antonio Salieri and his obsessive jealously of Mozart. To convey this plot, it was necessary that Salieri had motives enough dislike Mozart. So ...
- 288: Comparison Of Brave New World
- ... way (not as much in BNW, though) through the use of satire. Also, for GATTACA, the director incorporates the traditional elements of movie - a murder-mystery tied in with a love story PLUS a science fiction touch - very effectively. Satire in Huxley's novel is glaringly obvious (mockery of the education system and the morals of today along with many more topics), as he writes with the purpose of teaching and ... everything in today's world, wheras Niccol's view of a futuristic world is not as satirical but it seems like it is, rather, a warning. In their separate ways, however, these two pieces of fiction are extremely effective in relaying the message about the possible outcome of society's strive for perfection in the genetic world. Vincent Freeman says in the movie that "there is no gene for the human ...
- 289: Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman
- ... to include dreaming in their pieces because basically anything goes. Grotesque can easily be placed in any dream no matter what the plot of the story is. In fact, even if the story is non-fiction, the author can choose to add a little excitement to the story by having one of the characters fall asleep. This option can give the author a chance to tell the story from a dream ... scenes it is clear that it takes true imagination and true talent to incorporate a good illustration of grotesque into a novel or movie. Edgar Allan Poe is probably one of the most renowned horror fiction writers of all time. The one word that is most associated with Poe is death. In J. Gerald Kennedy’s analysis “Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing,” he makes some very interesting analyses on ...
- 290: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions to Classical Mythology
- ... in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ed. Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985. 16:208-12. Beebe, Maurice. "James Joyce: The Return from Exile". Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts: The Artist as a hero in fiction from Goethe to Joyce. New York: New York University Press, 1964. 260-95. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ed. Sharon K. Hall. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982. 8:163-164. Booth, Wayne C. "The Price of Impersonal Narration, 1: Confusion of Distance". The Rhetoric of Fiction. University of California Press, 1961. 311-38. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ed. Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985. 16:222-25. Brandabur, Edward. A Scrupulous Meanness: A Study of Joyce's Early ...
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