Michael Dandridge P6 M5 4/18/08 Joseph Heller’s novel, Catch-22, is one of his most remarkable as well as well renowned novels. Unlike other World War II works such as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Letters from Iwo Jima”, in which both promote patriotism though the horror of violence and death of soldiers, but Heller’s novel takes a totally different approach. In the novel, Catch-22, Joseph Heller takes a satirical approach to denounce warfare as revealed by the main character Yossarian, the other characters that surround Yossarian, and the effects of the missions on the squadron. Heller uses satire in the novel Catch-22 in order to create a different kind of approach that ultimately changed the way readers were supposed to view a World War II story. Satire being irony, or sarcasm used to expose vice or a moral fault had became the idea for the novel.
The Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn Compare/Contrast Mark Twain, which is a pen-name for Samuel Clemens, encompasses an era in his novels. Using is famous wit and grasp of human vices, Clemens skillfully handles the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn delves deep into the major issues of society in the late nineteenth century, from the discerning of wealthy and the poor to the ethics of the time (racism, primarily. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the chief writer of the Roaring Twenties, also focused a lot of his writing on society's foibles. Fitzgerald's critically acclaimed story, The Great Gatsby, also explores social issues (but this time from the 20's), giving insight on the same issues Clemens spoke about in Huckleberry Finn, though updated and rejuvenated for a new generation but just as timeless.
And then there is New York City, which is chaos, and in which Nick sees the “quality of distortion” that he frequently speaks of (Great Books: The Great Gatsby. 2003). All of these things lead up to one of the main themes of The Great Gatsby: the spirit of the 1920s, combined with the conflict between social classes. A symbol of this is Jay Gatsby himself, in both his personality and how he changes throughout the course of the story in the same fashion that America does during the 1920s. He seems to be putting on a show, composing a character out of himself that is defined by the rich things he owns to impress Daisy.
The function of government in society ought to be only regulating and therefore as simple as possible. Not surprisingly, but nevertheless remarkable was his call for the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 is influential. Another sign of his great influence is the number of loyalist reactions to Common Sense. In his pamphlet Common Sense what type of language did he use? Firstly the pamphlet the Common Sense was a literary nonfiction persuasive essay, in the pamphlet Common sense he used lots of figurative language and rhetorical devices such as simile which means a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared using the word "like" or "as" followed by a figurative example, metaphors which means is a word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or
“The Truth about the Justice System in King Arthur’s Court” In both Lanval and Wife of Bath’s Tale, the justice system of the Arthurian court is featured as a crucial part of the story. Chaucer, a male author having grown up in service to the crown, and Marie De France, who was a member of the court of Henry II, both were likely educated and inspired toward their observations of justice and injustice within their contemporary courts. As it clearly would have been dangerous to criticize their current courts, the authors likely used Arthur’s court, still regarded with some nostalgic mystique as an avenue for expression of their ideas related to justice within a royal court. Both authors, despite their different backgrounds, present King Arthur as passive concerning the decisions pertaining to justice. Within the trials featured in Lanval and Wife of Bath’s Tale, the queens use their power and position to influence the court’s decision both directly and indirectly.
Balance of power and natural rights were also ideas birthed during this period. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense embodies each of these ideas from the Enlightenment period. These ideas helped him not only create this literary work, but were the bases and formulation in which he wrote it. The first key idea from the Enlightenment period embraced in Paine’s writing is the idea of freedom from oppression. He tells a brief story of how the British government is being unfair, and treating its people poorly by taxation and other unjust tactics.
Hunter Benson Essay Benjamin Franklin is considered a uniquely American writer in terms of both style and content by using satirical phrases addressing the social issues of his time. His concepts and lessons were written with both humor and plain language, so that even the most “common man” could understand. Franklin had the ability to provide the reader with an important lesson while using ridicule to expose truth. These forms of writing can be seen in three of his most known literary works; The Way to Wealth, A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, and The Speech of Polly Baker. In 1758, Ben Franklin summarized his own work, Poor Richard’s Almanac, in The Way to Wealth.
Yvonne Young British Literary Tradition II (EN246OC) Professor Abma May 29, 2011 The Truth in Heroic Allegory: S. Johnson’s “Truth, Falsehood and Fiction: an allegory” The word allegory, coming from the Latin allegoria meaning “veiled language, figurative”, is an effective literary device used by many writers to communicate messages by means of symbolic figures and extended metaphors. As it turns out, Samuel Johnson used just that in his esteemed allegorical work “Truth, Falsehood and Fiction: an allegory” where abstract concepts of human nature (good versus bad) are cleverly woven into an epic tale full of mythological and worldly characters. In this, Johnson is able to place a “mask” of figurative language over intangible, sober subject material, effectively catching the reader’s interest, while at the same time providing a deeper understanding of the true significance behind the narrative. In his essay, allegory is used to personify human concepts into tangible characters providing a deeper understanding of its teachings. For instance, the word truth can be described as honesty, reality, sincerity etc, but the heroine TRUTH, “daughter of Jupiter and Wisdom”, causes readers to envision a “majestic”, “towering” woman “conscious of superior power and juster claim” who must fight to win the hearts of men.
His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth". Nathanael was a well-respected man and even Author Herman Melville dedicated his great novel Moby Dick to Mr. Hawthorne. I learned many interesting facts about Mr. Nathanael Hawthorne, but the one thing I absolutely loved was he was intelligent, inspiring, exhilarating, and inspirational when he wrote. The one novel I love and happened to read was The Scarlet Letter, It was about a red letter “A “being sewn onto a woman’s dress for adultery and was considered sinful. Can you imagine if we had the scarlet letter now days?
Critics thought of him and his work as a good poet and an even better writer who made a major difference in the Harlem renaissance. Harold Bloom thought that “Thomas hardy, with his acute sense of life’s ironies, might have admired Sterling Brown’s Rain Which Precedes Robert Penn Warren in reviving Hardy’s Sprit” (5). Blyden Jackson a critic of the time likes Sterling Brown because he is a great poet and how Brown uses dialect with precision. David Littlejohn said that “Brown Attempted to do for the south what Langston Hughes did for the north” (Bloom 19). People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times.