The purpose of chapter one, Fitzgerald introduces the reader the key theme of the novel, which will become prevalent throughout: the division between gender and social class. Furthermore, Fitzgerald introduces us to the major characters through Nick’s narration and perception. The first character we are introduced to is Nick Carraway, the narrator. The reader immediately knows that they are reading from his observation and perspective and so the novel is written through Nick’s memory. Fitzgerald aims to build a sense of trust and so portrays characters as well educated and enlightened, as such that Nick is ‘inclined to reserve all judgments’ and being ‘privy to the secret grief of wild, unknown men’.
Explain briefly why your admiration increases and – in more detail – discuss how the writer achieves this. In your answer you must refer closely to the text and at least two of: characterisation, these, key incidents, structure or any other appropriate feature. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a character whom the reader grows to admire as he plot unfolds. The writer draws our attention to the elements of Atticus’s personality which are admirable us with use of characterisation, and key incidents. By analysing these techniques used in the novel, we can increase our appreciation of Atticus and the novel as a whole.
When opening up the speech, Faulkner describes the type of writer he is by incorporating antonyms. Because of the occasion, Faulkner saw the importance of telling the audience his true intentions of writing. He does this not only to state that winning the Nobel Prize was not a goal to him, but an honor that has been “trusted” upon him, but so he can clearly relate to his audience. By incorporating antonyms, such as when he says “Life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for the glory and least of all for the profit,” he creates juxtaposition between his character and the inimical character of other authors. There are writers who write for the pure satisfaction of writing and there are writers, who write for the fame and
It is a humorous story because one would not think that an office truly runs on the system illustrated in the story. When in truth this is what reality has come to, a circus. The author introduces the story with a skewed sense of humor. He is trying to mock the system by setting up a list of rules that must be abided by or else “you may be let go”(484). “Orientation” meets the criteria for Goldwag’s rule of postmodern fiction story telling due to the way the character contradicts himself within the same sentence, “ This is your phone.
This definitive statement from Meursault depicts his shift in perspective as he decides on the little importance of imperfection in his life, settling into the routine of a prisoner. By presenting this absurd attitude Camus explores a search for meaning that concludes at one revelation: that imperfections in life only add to the pointless conflictions of existence. Josh: “wow some pretty deep stuff there, but its true and Hopkins..” Another theme that answers some of the search for meaning is Hopkins exploration of Epistemology, that is what we really know to be absolute truth. Hopkins suggests that as humans we can quench our thirst for knowledge in God’s beauty, a vehicle for his revelation to mankind. “He fathers-forth whose
The Great Gatsby Passage 2 Commentary F. Scott Fitzgerald gave his novel The Great Gatsby much more depth than is first observed by the reader. One can read the novel, and be completely enthralled by the story without noticing the complexity it contains. A closer look at the novel reveals so much more to the reader than could be imagined, by examining the careful word choice chosen by the author. In this passage, Fitzgerald makes particular use of his language to make evident the theme of pride. Pride can be a good thing, but it can often have negative connotations.
The very human impulse to order, "to break things down,...to separate and classify" as Babette puts it, is an integral part of establishing an identity (192). Jack Gladney is, thus, ironically a critic and a victim of this very dilemma. Technology distances Jack from death as well as life. The scientific method upon which technology is based begin with a fundamental assumption of objectivity. Observation at a distance is necessary to form legitimate conclusions, to construct knowledge of an "invisible... impressive... disquieting" truth (46).
The question is absurd: / Had anything been wrong, we should certainly / have heard”. With these last lines comes the deeper meaning of the poem, and the realization of the death of the irony. Verbal irony, for instance, depends on our noticing the incongruity between the speaker’s words and their meaning; an ironic point of view, by contrast, plays upon a discrepancy between the author’s attitude and that of the speaker; dramatic irony requires us to compare the limited knowledge of the speaker or character with our more complete and far-reaching knowledge.” It becomes clear that the citizen is only “unknown” to the speaker because in this statistical gathering of data a man’s individuality and identity are lost. This bureaucratic society only bases their knowledge of a person off of external, easily-catalogued modes of
Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The American Dream Willy believes wholeheartedly in what he considers the promise of the American Dream—that a “well liked” and “personally attractive” man in business will indubitably and deservedly acquire the material comforts offered by modern American life. Oddly, his fixation with the superficial qualities of attractiveness and likeability is at odds with a more gritty, more rewarding understanding of the American Dream that identifies hard work without complaint as the key to success. Willy’s interpretation of likeability is superficial—he childishly dislikes Bernard because he considers Bernard a nerd. Willy’s blind faith in his stunted version of the American Dream leads to his rapid psychological decline when he is unable to accept the disparity between the Dream and his own life.
Voltaire uses Candide to throw his beliefs in the reader’s face with the radical extremes of his story. Kaufman mischievously uses laughter to win the minds of his reader, and then slips a lesson in while they’re not looking. Perhaps the best example of this is found by comparing a main character from each novel. Candide is the main character of the like-titled book by Voltaire; hence he has perhaps the greatest lesson of the book. At first we see Candide believing unwaveringly in Pangloss’s teachings, that “all is necessarily for the best in this best of all possible worlds” (Voltaire, 4).