To begin with, the science fiction dystopian adventurous film, The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, inspired a novel, written by Suzanne Collins. Published in 2008, The Hunger Games was one of the first novels in the sequence, where it presents to the readers and audience a future dystopian society, where a government that's overpowering controls the people and resources...
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Romanticism was an artistic movement created in the 18th century in which writers were encouraged to adulate emotion, imagination, free thinking, the supernatural, mystery, optimism, and love. This period produced the most impeccable place for author, Edgar Allen Poe. Poe constructs a chilling and sinister tone through his writing to generate suspense and frighten the reader. He desired to make...
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Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë and published in 1847. It tells the story of what had been happening at the Wuthering Heights manor but through a servant's experience called Nelly Dean. This servant says what she knows and what she saw in the past to Mr Lockwood, a man who wants to rent the place. The...
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Lady Macbeth is cunning and manipulative. When first introduced to her in the play she is already plotting the murder of the king. Her ambition to be Queen and her power-hungry nature pushes her to manipulate her husband, Macbeth. Lady Macbeth calls her husband’s manhood into question, taunting his lack of courage when he begins having second thoughts on committing...
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Victorian literature was dominated by female writers; the Brontë sisters. The three of them, Charlotte, Emily, and Agnes made a name for themselves with several novels of their own, debuting with many unique traits. Despite the others’ popularity, Wuthering Heights, Emily’s novel about a post-gothic heart-wrenching drama stood out the most. Because of its complicated composition, Emily Brontë succeeded in...
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A continuous theme in Dracula is marriage and the gaining of status following it, starting with letters between Mina and Lucy. Their correspondence takes the reader back to the novel’s starting moment, giving us another angle into the lives of these characters, then tangled together with the main Gothic storyline through the plot’s development (McCrea 254). But even before these...
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There are different reasons to send and receive roses. Certainly, they are not only used to convey sympathy and love, but they are even more present in events of tragedy and sorrow. Moreover, A thorny rose needs a special way to deal with it. In William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily” the word “rose” rarely appears but an attempt to...
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Identity is a fickle thing it could lead you in a straight path through life or lead you to your death. Shakespeare creates doubt in both his play Hamlet and the character Hamlet in regard to identity through a form of self-referentiality. Shakespeare, the author himself, struggles with his identity that ultimately affects the identity of the play. Hamlet’s hamartia...
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It could suggest that the past is not ‘dead’, due to its emphasis and depth of portrayal, as well as its common reoccurrence throughout both texts. Ishiguro and Williams both use their first-person narratives to explore themes and central character depictions, by creating a retrospective, backward-looking tone, reflecting the strong emotional attachment characters have to their past. ‘Never Let Me...
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Introduction Emily Brontë's novel, "Wuthering Heights," is replete with complex characters and intricate narrative structures. Among these, Mr. Lockwood serves as both a peripheral character and a crucial narrative device. His role as the initial narrator provides a lens through which readers first encounter the tumultuous world of Wuthering Heights. Lockwood's seemingly detached and often bewildered perspective is instrumental in...
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John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is a novel that explores and highlights modern gender roles of the decade and also portrays Steinbeck's modernized ideology towards the traditional patriarchal system during a time of great change. The proletarian novelist displayed his ability to perfectly portray the hardships faced during his experience of The Great Depression, allowing his readers to...
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The play Antigone is a great example of Greek tragedy which can be directly related to today’s life and provides valuable lessons. Although the play is named after Antigone, I believe that Kreon is the character who delivers the largest emotional response to the audience. This is due to both Kreon’s and Antigone’s stubbornness. Also, Kreon is a more dynamic...
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In the novel, the first dilemma that black women face in growing up is racial discrimination. Margaret has been living with her grandmother in the Blacks of Staples, Arkansas since she was 3 years old. There was complete segregation, with black and white living areas sharply divided. Like other black girls, Margaret is in a crisis of identity. On the...
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of The House of Usher”, the character Madeline is subjected to sexist treatment by her brother, Roderick as well as his friend, who is the unnamed narrator. As Madeline falls ill, the men fear her because she does not embody feminine qualities. She is not spoken to by the men, but portrayed...
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A dystopia is a futuristic society, usually fictional, that is unpleasant and terrifying. the characteristics of a dystopian society are the use of propaganda to control, a person or concept worshipped by the citizens, the restriction of independent thought, information, and freedom, Citizens under constant surveillance, and dehumanization, and the citizen's fear of the outside world. The novel The Hunger Games...
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Katniss and Peeta have to work even harder to overcome the bias against them and win the hearts of the sponsors and the crowd. Being as poor as they are comes with some benefits and some disadvantages. They have been underfed most of their lives which means they are skinny and weak compared to the other tributes. Living in District...
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” is an enthralling dystopian story whose appalling end contains an underwhelming surprise. When we discover, along with the narrator and other characters, the reality of the society they live in, we may or may not be surprised, depending on how carefully we have been reading the story and keeping track of details such as...
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Our cloned future. Has the arrival of a new science era created ethical anxiety about cloning? What is Fear? Is it an emotion; thought or perhaps an illusion? This week's ‘New Scientist’ will explore the value of human life, or rather, a cloned human life by examining two different texts. Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” and Michael Bay’s “The...
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For years upon years, cultures have been discriminated against by those in positions of power for the sole reason of their being different. Key examples are racial segregation in the United States of America, the apartheid regime in South Africa, and most notably, the segregation and massacre of Jews and undesirable types in Nazi Germany. Even in the sovereign lands...
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Chapter One Chapter one is about breaking down and analyzing some of the main decision-making points in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy. Game theory is about studying the interactions between rational decision-makers who can be called players, and it considers these interactions as games. Whenever a player is making a choice, he is making a decision and choosing according to...
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The canning jars of fruit represent Minnie’s concern for her marital and household responsibilities due to the pressure society has placed on her. She is taught to fear the judgment of men if she does not complete her habitual role as a housekeeper. This fear is justified as the men mock her hard work while also rebuking the other woman’s...
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In the Anna Funder Stasiland (published 2003) non-fiction text explores the oppression through distressing events caused by the GDR and the impact it had on German citizens. Through investigating the inner conflicts of everyone, Funder acknowledges the GDR’s behavior by exposing, the abusive, manipulative actions that caused eternal grief and anguish. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go (published in...
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Introduction Dystopian societies have long fascinated readers and scholars alike, serving as cautionary tales of the potential consequences of unchecked political power, technological advancement, and social decay. Defined by characteristics such as oppressive government control, surveillance, and a lack of personal freedoms, dystopian settings offer a grim reflection of contemporary societal anxieties. These narratives, exemplified by George Orwell's "1984" and...
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A Rose For Emily Diagnostic. The title holds a powerful significance for the story as it represents and foreshadows features of the main character Emily’s life story. A rose is frequently symbolized as love, therefore, maybe the rose can be linked to Emily’s love life or her aspiration for love. Nevertheless, Emily can be identified as a depiction of the...
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While “nature” refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence people, “nurture” refers to all the environmental variables that impact people including early childhood experiences, social relationships, and culture. Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, gives the reader an opportunity to see examples of how nature and nurture influence one’s character. Capote introduces two criminals to...
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The Romantic movement expressed the assertion of the self, the power of the individual, and nature of the universe. The writing praised the power of nature and the spiritual link between nature and man, and was often emotional, marked by a sense of liberty, inner contemplations, and scenes of love. An example of nature is when the narrator explains how...
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Director Matt Edgerton writes ‘Great plays provoke us they disturb and confront us’. Macbeth continues to have relevance to audiences today because … of the universal themes that are still relevant today. Two of the biggest themes in the plays are the corrupting power of the unchecked ambition and guilt and remorse. Both can be found widely across our current...
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'Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, is about a girl named Emily. She is not very social, and some would even call her crazy. She has been isolated from the world for the majority of her life. Her father isolated her from the world. Even after his death, she continued to isolate herself. Due to the isolation, she has been...
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In the world literature, the British writer Bronte sisters play a significant role. Their works “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights” have been translated into dozens of languages and hundreds of versions, which are widely loved by world literature lovers. “Jane Eyre” with its strong subjective color and unrestrained characteristics, was well received by readers at that time. Wuthering Heights adopted...
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is centered around the fleeting nature of life as it is cherished through memories of the past. In a setting that imitates human existence, the characters exist awaiting their end. The novel depicts the ultimate submission of love, art, and other human endeavors to mortality. The euphemistic nature of the clones' lives serves a...
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