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- 161: Frankenstein: The Subjectivity of the Character "Safie"
- ... that her subjectivity is more clearly dependent on her religion and the culture of her nation. Contrasts can be made between the Orient and the European society which attempts to interpret it. Often, this creates stereotypes such as western feminists that have viewed "third-world" women as "ignorant, poor, uneducated, tradition-bound, religious, domesticated, family oriented, (and) victimized"(Mohanty 290). Of course, some of these things could also have said of ...
- 162: A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
- A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes Thesis: The five main characters in John Knowles' A Separate Peace represent social stereotypes, according to some people. In his book A Separate Peace, John Knowles represents jocks with Phineas, a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is more of a sportsman than a ...
- 163: "Down and Out Paris and London"
- ... personality of a person who lives below the poverty line. Through the author we get a very keen insight into this area of human experience. Orwell feels that beggars and tramps have unfair labels and stereotypes attached to them. For example, most people think of tramps as being dangerous. About that Orwell says: "Quite apart from experience, one can say a priori that very few tramps are dangerous, because if they ...
- 164: Lord of the Flies: The Theme of Religious Persecution
- ... t care how he got it. He too used propaganda to turn the former leadership of Germany into a group of people who sympathized with the "evil" Jews. Both Hitler and Jack took advantage of stereotypes to assume power and dictatorship. Jack and Hitler spoke of bettering their societies by cleansing them of unpopular beliefs. Jack promised to rid the boys of Ralph's petty fire concerns and Hitler promised to ...
- 165: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... this is a powerful indictment of all synthetic pleasures? Don't they rob us of our humanity? Not really; or only on the most malaise-sodden conception of what it means to be human. Media stereotypes of today's crude psychopharmacy are not a reliable guide to the next few million years. It is sometimes supposed that all psychoactive drug-taking must inherently be egotistical. This egotism is exemplified in the ...
- 166: Invisible Man: The Narrator
- ... character goes through many situations trying to discover himself. The main character, the narrator, thinks that he is a very important person. He thinks that his ideas will put an end to all the racial stereotypes in the world. The narrator does not realize that he is virtually nonexistent to everyone. The narrator goes through three states of sociality: invisible, translucent, and visible. At first, the narrator thinks of himself as ...
- 167: Baldwin's "Fire Next Time"
- Baldwin's "Fire Next Time" We always say "Love conquers all" is commonly said and heard in our daily lives. Ironically, this is necessarily not true as James Baldwin views our society. He illustrates the stereotypes of both Blacks and Whites. In his argumentative autobiography, The Fire Next Time, the author brilliantly perceives the idea that love, instead of fear, liberates society. To truly "liberate" society, one must discover his/her ...
- 168: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... to his family that he will kill a Sheperdson, another human being. This mentality has developed because of a feud thirty years ago, that no one can remember the origin of anyway. In addition, Twain stereotypes religion as hypocritical. He is not saying that religion in itself is hypocritical, but rather the people who comprise of the different religious groups. Another example is again the feuding families. On the final day ...
- 169: Harper Lee
- ... her hometown, Monroeville. The Radly Place was modeled after an old abandoned house which the children believed to be haunted and used for a clubhouse. Other characters in the novel are based on people and stereotypes which she saw during her youth. The book was written in the dialect of a small southern town, like Monroeville, which was what she was accustomed to throughout her childhood
- 170: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... different. From her work we get a sense that she was a strong - willed, open - minded, and creative individual, which were extremely rare qualities found in women during her time. She put to rest the stereotypes that women, especially middle - class women like herself, were only good as housewives and mothers. She was a woman who took control of her life and didn’t let the public influence her actions or ...
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