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- 911: Brave New World 3
- ... World: Oh, my God, my God! In 1932, Aldous Huxley first published the novel, Brave New World. During this time, the ideas that Huxley explored in his novel were not a reality, but merely science-fiction entertainment. Brave New World confronts ideas of totalitarianism, artificial reproduction, anti-individualism, and forever youth- ideas which were not threatening in the 30 s. In the 1930 s, the high ethical standards people maintained and ...
- 912: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... and you have to give the other man a hefty kick to get it out (p74). The German soldiers attack the enemy with extreme instinctive brutality. With the butt of his rifle, Kat smashes to pulp one of the machine-gunners We bayonet the others before they can get their grenades out (p84). The use of poison gas is also a very brutal practice throughout the novel. Baumer describes this while ...
- 913: A Tale Of Two Cities - Critica
- ... of Two Cities. In A Tale, Dickens writes about the French Revolution, and relates the events in the lives of two families, one French and one English. In addition to writing about a very interesting fiction plot, Dickens also tied in a wide variety of important themes and sub plots that keep the reader interested as well as portraying very valuable lessons for us even today. He chose very archetypical characters ...
- 914: An Autobiographical Portrayal
- ... s tenacious character and lust for wealth and women was so real and graphic, that it could only be expressed by someone who had actually endured such feelings. For in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses fiction to tell his own story-- reflecting on the superior and brutal qualities of the rich and on the impossibility of becoming one of them (Meyers, 123). REFERENCES Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London: Penguin ...
- 915: Anne Wilkes In Stephen Kings M
- ... If Annie is an image of King's readership, "How do you think he feels about his readers?" (http://www.faf.buffallo.edu/html/willbern/misery/mis_stud.html). Misery is about the powerful hold fiction can achieve over the reader, as personified in Annie Wilkes. Annie comes to embody a mother, goddess, and audience image in the novel. Whatever the circumstance, Annie's crea-tive force will live on. Her ...
- 916: Cather In The Rye - Language
- ... Bloom, HB. Major Literary Characters: Holden Caulfield. Chelsea House Publishers. New York, 1990. Costello, DP. The Language of the Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield. Cambridge, New York; Cambridge University Press, 1990. Gwynn, F. The Fiction of JD Salinger. University of Pittsburg Press. 1958 Salinger, JD. The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Co. Boston, 1951. Salzman, J. The American Novel: New Essays on the Catcher in the Rye. Cambridge ...
- 917: Candide By Voltaire
- ... respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable and respectable. Another technique Voltaire uses in Candide is that of taking actual people and events and weaving into his work of fiction. He often does this to mock or ridicule his political and literary adversaries, as shown in the conversation between the abbe' and the Parisian supper guests (page 1593). The abbe' mentions two critics who in ...
- 918: Call Of The Wild
- Dear Jake, I will be glad to tell you about a really great book I read lately. It is called Call of the Wild, by Jack London. It has 104 pages and is a fiction book. The Call of the Wild has a very interesting plot. It is centered around a St. Bernard and Scotch Shepard mix, named Buck. At home, which was a large house called Judge Millers Place ...
- 919: A River Runs Through It By Nor
- ... Mcleans A River Runs Through It explores many feelings and experiences of one turn of the century family in Missoula, Montana. In both the movie, directed by Robert Redford, and the original work of fiction we follow the Mcleans through their joys and sorrows. However, the names of the characters and places are not purely coincidental. These are the same people and places known by Norman Mclean as he was ...
- 920: An Essay On Romance And Love
- ... they might seem repulsive to you, are actually romantic to some. The actual definition of romance has been significantly altered in the minds of men as time progressed. The original definition of romance is: a fiction; a falsehood; a love affair. Now I am sure that you all know that everyone has a different definition of love. Some see love as being able to endure me, some see love as being ...
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