Main Idea When a society forces orthodoxy onto its citizens, human emotion and expression suffers as a result. In many dystopian stories, such as Brave New World, The Pedestrian, Acquainted with the Night, and the World Is too much with us, the idea of forced conformity leads to conflict with individuality, as well as the creation of outcasts. As uniformity...
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Just Mercy is an extraordinary book. Its a powerful truthful and story by Bryan Stevenson, Stevenson who is an attorney guides us through his life in Alabama and how he helps defend innocent, poor men and women on death row who were wrongly convicted. Throughout each of the cases, Stevenson shows us how messed up are system can be. In...
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The surroundings of someone has impact and influence on an individual's behavior, this is also referred to as “nurture.” These influences later eventually determine mental health and the roles in society one fulfills. Two short stories, James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues' ' and Daniel Alarcón, “The Ballad of Rocky Rontal” are great examples of two different men who are from two...
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Black comedy or dark humour is the kind of comedy that presents serious things in a rather light manner. The lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin Mcdonagh and The ‘Shape of Things’ by Neil Labute focus on the use of black comedy to evoke laughter and aim to manipulate the audience during the serious subject matters, which can be considered a...
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Introduction After reading a summary of the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, I found myself thinking about how deeply she digs into what happens when society takes "we" too far. The way she pictures a world where you cannot even say "I" really hit home for me. Rand wrote this story back in 1938, but it feels super relevant even...
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In “The Shroud” and “Sonny’s Blues” both the Grimm Brothers and James Baldwin created a very sympathetic story that conveys the messages of sorrow, loss and transformation but make peace at the end. There are many similarities in both of these short captivating stories and both stories are made to make the reader feel for the characters. Even though they...
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Adichie's Purple hibiscus is a novel based in post-colonial Nigeria where we are introduced to 15-year old Kambili who shares her narrative on the toxic family environment in which her father, an abusive catholic man oppresses and imposes his beliefs on his family. In the following essay, I will be discussing the key theme of defiance in Purple Hibiscus. To...
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This essay will argue how the combination of both comedy and horror genres have been successfully merged. It will also demonstrate how merging these genres has helped make the movie franchise Scream (1996) by Wes Craven a success. Success, for the purpose of this essay, will be measured by how comedy is used within the films narrative effectively, the popularity...
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Growing old is inevitable, but having the courage to mature is definitely a choice. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye follows the adventures of seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, a lonely outsider that struggles to find his place in society. Similarly, Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid highlights the coming of age and mother-daughter relationships of Annie John on the island of...
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Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner are well-known for their Southern Gothic style of writing. Their short stories like “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, ”A Rose for Emily”, and ”Good Country People” feature many elements that are characteristic of this genre of literature. Southern Gothic Literature was introduced early in the 20th century and eventually grew in great popularity....
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Can you imagine not knowing what true happiness was? In the novel, “The Giver”, Jonas was selected to be the next Receiver of Memory. His job is to hold the memories of the world, good and bad. Being selected to be the receiver is a great honor. There are many good parts of being the Receiver. Now Jonas has the...
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Media satire is a freedom of speech which has resulted in a perception that barriers our country and citizen. It is easier to communicate and share ideas easier than ever before. Furthermore, allow people to express their ideas and perspectives, comedic or not. This essay will examine the importance of freedom of speech that allows comedic satire to make its...
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As life begins to shift or change, people tend to hold on to things or traditions because they are not ready for a change that happens around them. In the story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the main character Miss Emily shows many signs of her not moving on with modern life and the shift of things around...
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Abstract A journey in literary criticism may have several connotations. A journey may be a physical one, such a thing happens when Robinson Crusoe, the main protagonist of the novel, leaves his family estate and goes out on a journey that finally brings him to the isolated island off the coast of Venezuela. A journey can be a psychological one...
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The setting of the play, The Way of the World, by William Congreve is the Restoration Era, and Congreve, as the author, has taken the help of his own drama to provide his opinion about this age. In the second chapter of the drama, William Congreve provides us a picture about the history of the Restoration Era. With the help...
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INTRODUCTION In an attempt to make a perfect society the people in the community lose their freedom and don't gain anything from it. Through her novel The 'Giver', Lois Lowry utilizes the aims, that the community tried to make a perfect society and gain a lot, by solving world problems. Firstly, Lowry explores the community controlling the weather. Secondly, the...
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Louis Lowery has created a place where there is no color, no choice; a place where individuality and freedom has been given up for sameness and security in her book The Giver. This place is thought to be in the future and is meant to be a kind of utopia where everyone follows the rules and obeys without question. There...
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A more elaborate understanding on the modes of narration is later on cleared as the narrator reveals how much he or she knows when said: “Already we knew” about the sealed room upstairs and what lies behind it; however, we never knew how he/she knew. More significantly, for one of the few times in the story the narrator uses the...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous The Scarlet Letter is a composition that held a lot of meaningful perspectives exploring the seventeenth century. The Scarlet Letter was originally published in 1850 by Hawthorne pointing out the hypocrisy that the Puritans did and the number of people who were condemned for life because of their sins. The novel The Scarlet Letter invokes the pretense...
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This essay aims to argue in favour of the category of ‘Irish Gothic’ with reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a film directed by Neil Jordan entitled ‘The Butcher Boy’. The themes of paranoia, Protestantism, anti-Catholicism and the desire or fear of the Other are typical of the reoccurring motifs found in Gothic literature generally (Hoeveler 2). Their inclusion within...
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In the post-war period, dystopian elements become more visible in literature. The Drowned Giant by Ballard and At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers by Rushdie are examples of post-war literature where dystopian elements play an important role. As the works of Rushdie and Ballard center their plots on dystopia theme some similarities can be found between these two short...
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The nautical adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants have delighted audiences since 1999. By giving his wholesome characters adult identities, Stephen Hillenburg earned the praises and viewership of adults as well as children for his masterpiece. Below the surface of its slapstick humor are concepts inspired by Cervantes' esteemed novel Don Quixote, and no episode is better suited for such an analysis...
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Introduction to the Theme of Fascination with Abomination Mankind’s “fascination with the abomination” (Conrad, 31) is the general theme which permeates both Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart Of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation Apocalypse Now; both stories follow a man’s fascination with the abomination, as well as his eventual initiation and descent into the ‘heart of darkness’. Both Conrad’s...
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The Giver and The Last Dog are two great examples of middle school literature, so they are naturally similar in many areas. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, touches on the subjects of emotions and memories, and The Last Dog, written by Katherine Paterson, explores the concepts of truth and emotions. A strength of The Giver is the word choice;...
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Introduction August Wilson's Fences and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman are two quintessential American plays that delve into the intricate layers of personal and societal struggles. Both plays, though set in different cultural contexts, share profound themes of unfulfilled dreams, familial obligations, and societal constraints. They offer a critical examination of the American Dream, revealing its complexities and the...
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Robert Stam, in his essay “Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation” has explained the concept of converting a single track medium (book) into a multitrack medium ( movie) and how now must take into consideration the various facts which revolve around such a task. A written work consists of a single material expression, the writer’s contemplations and is able to...
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I think that the novel “The Kite Runner” had a better ending than “A Complicated Kindness” It used the four elements of an effective ending more effectively. I really enjoyed the ending in the “The Kite Runner,” but the ending in “A Complicated Kindness” really disappointed me and I felt like it left me hanging. I think the ending from...
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Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we have had time to stop and question it. In every home, on every desk, in every palm, a black mirror of our 21st Century exist: a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone. First of all, the aim of this essay is to analyse and...
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ORIGIN OF THE TERMS The first of the two to appear was the term utopia. Utopia derives from the Greek prefix “ou-“, meaning “not”, and topos (τόπος), “place”, so a no-place, or place that does still not exist. The initial “u” can also be interpreted as the Greek prefix “ευ”, Ancient Greek for “good”, so the translation of utopia can...
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What is an utopia? And a dystopia? The complexity of these two intertwined topics is enormous but it also is difficult the future questions they can lead us to. This abstract will give a brief and not clearly defined explanation about them and how they relate with each other. An utopia is a future and imagined project or place where...
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