Bradbury’s dystopic representation of the urban environment can be seen as a result of his mid twentieth century American context. Bradbury suggests that cities are antithetical to community and socialisation, and compares the lack of social activity to death. He writes, “The tombs, ill-lit by the television light, where the people sat like the dead, the grey of multi-coloured lights touching their faces, but never really touching them”. Bradbury’s use of the words with undesirable connotations such as ‘tombs, dead, grey’ position readers to view the city and also technology negatively. He explores the impact that technology has made on the zeitgeist of society, specifically the lack of connection
Mishima’s choice of negative diction presents Chiyoko as a miserable and gloomy character, insinuating the author’s disapproval of her characteristics which is the result of modern influences from the city. Chiyoko “disliked having the islanders greet and speak to her”, which reflects her despise for
Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance. In the play, ignorance is apparently portrayed and paralleled to the compact majority. The compact majority can be compared to un-educated people who are generally seen in many developing countries. Compared the Bath to technology development or social development, the city cannot accomplish this development surely since the compact majority is ignorance. Ibsen, faithfully, wrote the play as a way to criticize Europe society at the times when people were not interested in any technologies and truths.
Susbsequently poems like Rhapsody remain relevant. Hopelessness as a Modernist idea evolved due to a lack of faith and the poor quality of 20th century urban life. Eliot depicts this idea throughout Rhapsody, writing "Every street lamp that I pass/ Beats like a fatalistic drum." The negative tone, created through the connotations of "fatalistic" create an atmosphere of foreboding for the reader. Moreover the simile
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Dystopias provide for unsettling reflections on ourselves and our world. To what extent is this idea reflected in you chosen text? As the world became exposed to periods of war and political unrest, society’s belief in humanity has been conflicted due to the corruption and deprivation that has arisen. This has resulted in writers to foreshadow a perverted world by further exploring the damaging effects of such upheavals, labelling the world as a Dystopia. Dystopia refers to a fictional society whereby the conditions of living are exceedingly low, in many cases due to oppression, greed and prejudice.
So too in the third stanza of “The Hollow men” are we confronted with a vision of a desiccated, hopeless landscape- “this is the dead land”. This disillusionment and questioning of the modern lifestyle, of Eliot's time, is also alluded to in the first stanza of the preludes, a poem whose entirety deals with the sordidness and decay of city life where “a lonely cab-horse steams and stamps”. Eliot’s 'The Waste Land’, deals with the idea of a lack of renewal, and death in each of his five parts. The distorted images of nature and the cycle of life that is portrayed conveys a lack of renewal both in the physical environment and spiritually
Hester, being an outcast of society, experiences the most evident and apparent form of isolation and alienation. As a symbol of sin, Hester is viewed by the strict Puritanical town as an outsider, a presence of evil, and, ultimately, one who is detested by God. The town's harsh condemnation of Hester is revealed through a local woman's comment,
William Blake’s view of London. William Blake has a very negative view of London and uses many literary devices in ‘London’ to convey this view. Firstly, the oxymoron ‘the chartered Thames does flow.’ shows how the Thames has been unnaturally channelled to make profit through trade. There are also ‘marks of weakness, marks of woe’ in everyone’s faces. This may link to the fact that a large amount of the population has contracted syphilis which leaves facial scars.
He then takes us back to the dark night full of nightmares and beasts. Overall, his poem is definitely not bright and cheerful. It mostly describes someone’s nightmare. However, because of his provocative words, the readers cannot help but fall deep into this horrifying world Yeats created. Moreover, as for “Leda and the Swan”, seems even more disturbing than “the Second Coming”.