Criticism Of Practical Application Of Utopia In "Brave New World"
.... home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit
hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with
emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene
relationships between the members of the family group! (37)
In an earlier passage, Huxley shows the effects of Mond's explanation on
one boy, "The Controller's evocation was so vivid that one of the boys . . .
turned pale at the mere description and was on the point of being sick" (36).
In reality, the family unit is the core of society. Huxley realizes the
importance of the home and family. .....
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Alex's Analysis Of Any Abject Abuse
.... to
the "lightness" of the social life of the privileged, he also recognizes their
sincerity in attempting to be polite and well-mannered and pretend to recognize
where the true values lie.
Pope satirizes female vanity. He wrote the poem at the request of his
friend, John Caryll, in an effort to make peace between real-life lovers. The
incident of the lock of hair was factual; Pope's intention was to dilute with
humor the ill feelings aroused by the affair. He was, in fact, putting a minor
incident into perspective, and to this end, chose a mock-heroic form, composing
the poem as a "take-off" epic poetry, particularl .....
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Critique Of "The Invisible Man"
.... Mr. Norton was a well educated but very ignorant
man. He felt that the college was doing all of the good that could be done. He
had no idea of the evils that dwelled upon the grounds. Dr. Bledsoe, the head
of the college, had arranged for Mr. Norton to go for a tour of the grounds, but
didn't expect for him to see “everything” at the college. Mr. Norton asked to
see some of the more unseen areas of the college, so the driver had to oblige
him. Their they met a man with an incestuous past. Mr. Norton was dumb founded,
he had no idea something like this could happen at his college. This just shows
the many evils we come acr .....
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A Critique Of "Gone To Soldiers" By Marge Piercy
.... strong enough to resist him and his womanizing ways. Piercy gave me a much
better understanding of the cultural and social issues of the World War two era.
I learned about the little struggles of working American women, such as the
unavailability of stockings and society's negative attitude towards women
wearing pants. These issues were ones that I had never thought about before.
It amazes me that only fifty years ago a woman could not wear pants to work.
Ruthie's friend was sent home to change for wearing loose fitting red pants
because they were considered racy. It is equally surprising to me that women
still have to wear hos .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country: Stimulating A Change
.... of the respect that
other blacks hold for him, because he is a man of God, though, in the city, his
social standing demonstrates little significance. This may be taken as a sign
that the idea of a God may be questioned or less acceptable to the people, when
they have positions in a society that are cruel and not beneficial.
Kumalo does find assistance when he asks for help from an older man, who
kindly escorts him to the Mission House. The contrast that Paton creates here is
the fact that not all blacks think with the same purpose, a common
characteristic of stereotypes, which Paton feels the people should rise above.
He see .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown And Rebuilding Of South African Society
.... used to reside where the
land is so good that it could be even referred to as “holy, being even as it
came from the Creator.” (pg. 3). In the rural areas such as this the decay
comes as a result of making the blacks live in confined areas where the land is
so bad it can't be farmed any more, and the taking of the strong males out of
these areas to go work in the mines were things are unsafe and people rarely
return. Because of this, the people leave the tribe to go on the roads to
travel to Johannesburg, because “All roads lead to Johannesburg.” (pg. 10).
As Kumalo arrives in Johannesburg he finally realizes what a problem h .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Power
.... His very
first bet though was that he could get the best of nurse Ratched within the week,
and he did. She wasn't going to back down though. To try and stop all the
gambling going on she rationed the cigarettes, so they no longer had anything to
bet, but that never stopped them, they used money instead.
The patients admired McMurphy because no one had ever stood up to her
before, and he would do things for them such as arranging basketball games. He
was also the one who enabled the patients to use the tub room for card games,
and so they could get away from that horrifying music that the nurse always
played. The tub room .....
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The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love
.... and everyone that
she surrounds herself with, including her daughter, seem to accept this as mere
fact with her. She lives in one of the most elite neighborhoods in the state, in
one of the most elegant houses described in the book, and intends very much for
her daughter to grow up much like she has. "And I hope she'll be a fool --
that's the best thing a girl can be in this world today, a beautiful little
fool." (Fitzgerald 24) She raves repeatedly of boats and large windows and halls
where many a extravagant party is held. This only stands remind of her reliance
on material goods and her stories of her gowns and home furnishing .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Wife Of Bath
.... the Wife states that ther are no other arguments “Eek wel I
woot he [Jesus] saide that myn housbonde/Sholde lete fader and moder and take
me,/But of no nombre mencion made he [Jesus]--/Of bigamye or of octagamye” (P30).
She maintains her position and dismisses the one contention in the Bible by
stating in relation to the above quote “Wat that he mente therby [she] can nat
sayn,/But that I axe why the fifthe man/Was noon housbonde to the Samaritan?/How
manye mighte she han in mariage?/Yit herde I nevere tellen in myn age/Upon this
nombre diffinicioun” (P20). A true account of her brashness is when she states
that sex organs are .....
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Dandelion Wine
.... confronted Douglas. There were many deaths,
Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were
friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff,
moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for his father. Also,
Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was no information on what
kind of illness he had. Douglas took these problems hard. To many things where
going bad in too short of a time. His family was always there for him. He got
well and soon forgot about the deaths in his life, he knew that there was
nothing to be sad about and he was thankful that .....
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Critique Of "Death Of The Author"
.... have read the story,
absorbed its content, and would not have given it a second look. The story
could be summarized into 3 lines and thus reduce the amount of paper it is
replicated on the amount of bandwidth required to transmit it, the space it
takes, and the time it takes to read it. I came to this conclusion after reading
"The Death of an Author" for the fourth or fifth time. I began to wonder why
does this man write this way? What caused him to have so much distrust toward
the critics? Those are the thoughts he was trying to persuade us not to think.
Barthes wanted the author of the story to be no more than a name pri .....
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Cooper's "Deerslayer": View Of The Native Americans
.... for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
of life which are embodied in these two woodsmen" (cited in Long, p. 121).
Critic Donald Davie, however, disagrees. His contention is that the
plot is poorly developed. "It does not hang together; has no internal logic;
one incident does not rise out of another" (cited in Long, p. 121). But
according to Robert Long, Bewley ha .....
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