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- 1961: Animal Farm - Power Corrupts
- ... guard dogs and were silenced. In one situation, young pigs protested Napoleon's leadership. "But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again." Violence worked perfectly to drive away any opponent Napoleon might have had. Without any opposition, Napoleon is free to do his own bidding. As a result, Napoleon again is drowned with power and pride because the ...
- 1962: A Clockwork Orange 3
- ... twenty-first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice...". One must remember that this after word was written for an edition in which the important twenty-first chapter was missing. In that chapter, Alex himself states: Youth must ...
- 1963: Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
- ... gentle until Wright almost spits out the line, " the blind head butting in the dark ". In the final stanza she turns from her joyful contemplation to face harsh reality. This image is suggestive of the violence implicit in labour as the child's head is thrust against the neck of the womb. The poet and her audience see the potential danger that exists in childbirth. The tone of "Woman To Man ...
- 1964: A Clockwork Orange
- ... In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess takes us into the future where violent criminals are forced to be good, and introduces us to Alex, a young teen who engages in a life of rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven with his droogs, or friends, and talks in the slang language of nadsat. He goes through various phases in his life, evolving into a more mature level of thinking; each of these phases ...
- 1965: Animal Farm
- ... wwas, and still is, one of these powerful persons in our lives. Yet dr king is a prime example of how one can use power in a positive way. He persuaded "brainwashed" those who used violence into using less abraisve methods. Dr King, Orwell's Major, used their intelligence and power toward more democratic ends. Fortunately, the novel reminds us of this option. When people are blinded of what they need ...
- 1966: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and super-ficial -- I believe that we are lost." This quote exemplifies his thoughts that the war, and even human violence in general is a lost cause.
- 1967: A Look At Poes Evil
- ... man must ultimately answer to himself and his own subconscious for any actions he takes. I think Martha Womack said it best about Poe's characters propensity for evil when she said, "The capacity for violence and horror lies within each of us, no matter how docile and humane our dispositions might appear." Works Cited Basuray, Ashish. "An archetypal approach to his writings." The Poe Analysis(1996): n. pag. Online. Internet ...
- 1968: Animal Farm 2
- ... wwas, and still is, one of these powerful persons in our lives. Yet dr king is a prime example of how one can use power in a positive way. He persuaded "brainwashed" those who used violence into using less abraisve methods. Dr King, Orwell's Major, used their intelligence and power toward more democratic ends. Fortunately, the novel reminds us of this option. When people are blinded of what they need ...
- 1969: An Analysis Of Roddy Doyles Wr
- ... ought to be riveting into a boring book. I find it strange to be bored by a novel about pain, especially since the story Doyle tells contributes to the exposure of the scandalous epidemic of violence against women. (Keen 21) However, in my opinion, the confusion that this novel is written in is the reason that Doyle so clearly is able to make his point. The confused writing is equivalent to ...
- 1970: A Modern Version Of Oedipus Ki
- ... come when all the decades of peace and joy would come to a stop bringing a cold blooded leader full of greed and hate that would bring the tribe close to its end through the violence of his soul. This would not be the end thou, because some time after his death his own son would be sacrificed and consumed by sadness in order to end the dark era of his ...
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