Envision a reality where people feared knowledge and would rather read books instead. A future is full of non-intellectuals that have no knowledge of their history, where all literature is banned by a totalitarian government. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury portrays a society that is forbidden from reading books that have been banned by the government to intentionally control their...
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A story that made an impact on history and influenced the civil war by showing the difference in treatment of people of color in the northern and southern states. It gave the north a front row seat to all the wickedness of southern slavery. This story formed human characters out of slaves who were treated like they were inhuman. Stowe...
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Imagine a world with no superior power and no rules. When a group of small boys’ plane crashes on a deserted island, they do not live with any of these. They have to survive and in the process many flaws in present society are pointed out. Certain objects can be used to show these connections and how they relate to...
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Guy Montag, a fireman in a technologically forward society, goes against the government to find true happiness. Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, takes place in a dystopian society in a futuristic America where firemen do not put out fires, but rather use fire to get rid of books. A futuristic society with faults and morals that we can correlate to our...
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Dystopian literature questions the power of language, both Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty - four’ showcases a variety of qualities necessary to advocate one’s freedom. Whilst both novelists share the common theme of language limiting both freedom and knowledge the two texts approach language in separate ways. Writers of dystopian literature emphasise the importance of language on...
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Tone is a very important piece when writing any type of work because it determines how the audience should feel when reading it. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a novel based in the Vietnam War. It is a compilation of war stories told by the narrator, who is also the author. The novel has many tones, but...
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The society described in Orwell's 1984 in known as a dystopia. A dystopia is a society almost enslaved to the power in charge. The “Party” from 1984 is an example of an extreme dictatorship, while America is perceived by the world as a society that has abundant civil rights and freedoms. Yes, they seem polar opposites, but when you compare...
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A dystopian world is one that is destructive, implying that the world of Fahrenheit 451 is, indeed, a world engulfed in the art of destruction. Destruction, in this world, is the action or process of disregarding human life, roles and value in a society. It results in irreparable damage through the harm perpetrated in a continuous and looping manner as...
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The Adventures of the Huckleberry Finn, narrated the fascinating story of Huck, an uncivilized and naïve boy who learns to grow and mature throughout his long and eventful journey on a raft to free Jim, a runaway slave. His journey proves to be more than a thrilling adventure to free Jim from slavery, it also serves as an unforgettable learning...
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Disloyalty and Redemption Disloyalty, which can be viewed as a type of wrongdoing, is suffering and winds up being repetitive in The Kite Runner. For the greater part of the novel, Amir endeavors to manage his blame by maintaining a strategic distance from it. In any case, doing this plainly does nothing toward making up for himself, and along these...
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The short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner depicts the underrepresentation of women in a small-town Jefferson where everyone respects Emily Grierson due to her aristocratic origin and disrespect her behind her back. The men of the town think that a woman like Emily with high-status should not marry a man like Homer who belongs to a northern...
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Have you ever realized how strong a relationship can be, in this case, how a brotherly relationship could be? Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival - Carlos P. Romulo. In the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and the novel Brother by David Chariandy both show a strong brotherhood bond that conducts us through the...
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In our lives, the society has always been controlled by adults, and the children have been considered fragile, immature, and unable to take care of themselves. William Golding’s novel entitled Lord of the Flies is a fictional depiction of the events that unfold after a group of schoolboys are stranded on a deserted island; however, it would be erroneous to...
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Revealing conscience that hooks readers throughout the story, Huckleberry Finn regretfully remarks, “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another,” as he witnesses the tar and feathering of the conmen which made his journey so much harder. The story’s focus on a runaway boy and a fugitive slave’s travels on the Mississippi River delivers the crucial meaning of freedom....
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Introduction William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a quintessential example of Southern Gothic literature, renowned for its intricate narrative structure and exploration of themes such as isolation, tradition, and resistance to change. Published in 1930, the story unfolds in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, and follows the life and death of Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman who becomes...
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Feminism is defined by Webster’s as organized activity on the behalf of women’s rights and interests aiming toward political, economic, and social equality of the sexes (“Feminism”). It would stand to reason an author of feminist works of literature would create characters and storylines based on struggles associated with these ideals. Feminist viewpoints and feminist works are quite common, if...
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Introduction William Faulkner, a luminary in American literature, is renowned for his profound exploration of the human psyche and the Southern Gothic tradition. His short story, "A Rose for Emily," serves as a quintessential example of Gothic literature, encapsulating themes of decay, isolation, and the macabre. In the realm of literature, the Gothic genre is characterized by its use of...
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Equality has been sought after by many and Americans have fought valiantly in order to bring equality within reach. The struggle for equality has been depicted by Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, in the way the characters battle against segregation in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the late 1930’s. While combating segregation, characters in the book...
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In most cases, feelings, emotions, and passions don’t seem to have a proper role in the truth that logic aims to achieve. Various logical fallacies stem from them, making such human experiences a nuisance to the pursuit of objective truths. We lose sight of the actual argument and topic because of argumentum ad hominem, and misericordiam, baculum and appeal to...
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“The Stranger” written by Albert Camus is a story revolving around Monsieur Meursault, an indifferent man with a peculiar way of viewing life. “Waiting for Godot” written by Samuel Beckett is a play revolving around two characters, Vladimir and Estragon. Like “The Stranger”, these two characters are unordinary, living life in an abnormal way. This essay will be exploring how...
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'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' is amusing to its name in light of the fact that the historical backdrop of the occasions that prompted the murder of Santiago Nasar and furthermore chronicles the social surroundings where the occasion occurred. In the novel, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reports through the depravity of the events that prevailed in Colombia during that...
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Written during the age of discovery, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is often regarded as an embodiment of British imperialistic values and is widely acclaimed by its narrative and realism in its depiction of the narrator’s psychological and spiritual development. In this essay, the major themes in this novel, that somewhat serve as divisions in the story, will be exposed and...
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Traumatic events and tragedies can heavily affect people and change the course of their lives. These traumatic events can be a result of a person’s fate or their lack of action taken to make it avoidable. Trauma can be experienced at any age, from childhood to adulthood. Some people handle trauma very well and come to terms with what happened,...
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The name Mark Twain is widely associated with being a very courageous writer, not fearing to go where many other authors will not go. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain does an excellent job of showing the important historical issue of racial discrimination and the poor treatment of slaves in the Antebellum South by using two men of the opposite...
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Nothing in The Catcher in the Rye flag Holden's twist of the importance of adolescence and adulthood more decisively than the title itself. As he wanders around New York City, Holden thinks about what he sees as the uncorrupted honesty of kids to the pietism of development. He considers pretty much every grown-up he meets to be a fake, and...
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Some think that life is a straight line. Two points, one point when you are born, and the endpoint is drawn when you pass away. Frankly, life is filled with several twists, turns and plunges. You never know what to expect next. Life is more like a rollercoaster. It’s unpredictable, scary at times, and inconsistent. There are times where you...
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Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” is an examination of human connection, a comparison of talking vs. communicating. The story’s setting, repetition of words, spare dialogue, and use of cognitive verbs establishes a textual pattern that develops the narrative's dilemma. The text further explores the power of dialect crashing down between two people and how what is unsaid...
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Humans live in a world where you are stereotyped just by the way you walk. Humans live in a world where you are silenced by having opinions. Humans live in a world where you are called names because of your skin color. Humans live in a world where society follows what the leader does. In the novel, The Adventures of...
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In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, where a mentally distant protagonist named Lennie inadvertently strangles a woman putting his best friend George in a precarious position where he has to put Lennie down. Due to these circumstances, George made the right decision in saving Lennie’s life because he would have been locked up forever or killed...
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I think we can all agree that heavy censorship as in Fahrenheit 451 is bad and not a society we want to live in. We see that when most individuals are limited in this way it brings not just themselves down, but the whole society and culture. This novel makes it fairly obvious what is happening. What is less obvious...
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