‘Things We Didn’t See Coming’ suggest that our moral choices depend on the circumstances we find ourselves in. Do you agree? ‘Things We Didn’t See Coming’ is discontinuous novel consisting of an array of speculative stories converging as one. An unnamed Everyman protagonist narrates the story and introduces a new world order; a dystopian world in its most cataclysmic situations. Set in a recognisable time, the story showcases the complications of life caused by family breakdowns, treacherous weather, unstable governments, pandemic virus attacks, technology run amuck and other uncertainties of the future.
In the play “Twelfth night” it is set when Christianity dominated England and when we had divine order. Casablanca on the other hand was set during World War 2 when the world was in a state of uncertainty over who was in control. Love as a cause of suffering is a huge concept in “Twelfth Night”. Shakespeare writes to show love can cause pain and many of the characters seem to view love as a curse and suffer painfully from it. Orsino depicts love as an “appetite” that he cannot feed.
Moreover, the different mediums enable the audience to explore the performative nature of identity and the individualistic nature of ambition and how the different contexts respond to and portray this. Ambition and identity in Richard the Third are overwhelmingly portrayed in a negative light, ultimately resulting in dire consequences; in an Elizabethan context individualism and ambition reflected a person striving to grasp what was not due to them - ultimately, opposing God’s will. Richard, in the play, is represented as both villain and protagonist. We are made aware of Richards duplicitous nature and his evil aspirations as early as Act 1 Scene 1 where he states “I am determinèd to prove a villain” a self referential (and metadramatic in nature) pun which brings about questions of determinism and free will, themes that are explored throughout the play; there is ambiguity around whether or not Richard actually has autonomy over his nefarious deeds, which he goes about plotting. In keeping with his Elizabethan context, Shakespeare can not be seen to oppose the chain of being, the hierarchical chain of the period where a king was at the top,
Frankenstein driven by romantic imagery and set in historic context, that analysis the European divide in society perpetuated by superficiality. Contrastingly Blade Runner is consumed by commercialism that reflects the dystopian globalised world that omits normal societal values and morals. Both texts challenge the morality of artificial creation that is motivated by the characters' relentless ambition. The texts employ techniques such as allusions and tactical characterisation to depict the disconnection to nature and the manipulated visions of the characters as well as introducing the question of 'what it means to be human?' Character is emblematic of the ideas within the both texts.
The American government went out of its way to portray communists as scarier and more not the same as what Americans were. They propagandized the scary aspects of the Soviet totalitarian system. Socialist Soviet became bigger when the World War II created a strong anti-communist movement that was irritated by propaganda. It made American’s fearful and stronger movement to help the United States to against communist states. Anti-communist propaganda brought America several medium including books, pamphlets, comics, films, and radio during the Cold War.
Both events contained false accusations, wrongly gained power, and a breakout of mass hysteria. Arthur Miller hoped that his novel would reveal the mistakes society was currently making in the 1950’s and allow society to fix them. Rather or not we improved because of him specifically depends on who you ask, but a better question may be, will it happen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Societal changes of the nineteenth century instilled a common fear that mankind’s newfound perversion would lead to the downfall of Western European culture. This “panic,” inspired popular novelists like Robert Louis Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A recurrent theme being that underneath an educated man lays an uncultured barbarian. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde portrays the detriments of the modern cultural, intellectual, and scientific changes. The nineteenth century technological innovations spurred the Second Industrial Revolution.
The author specifically focuses on the history of a judicial analogy coined by American Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The analogy is that some supposed acts of free speech are not protected by the First Amendment because they are simply harmful and panic-causing like screaming the word “Fire!” in a crowded theater. The author begins picking this analogy apart first by showing its irrelevance in the initial free-speech case it was coined during. Holmes compared a man handing out non-violent anti-draft pamphlets during World War I to the equivalent of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater. This analogy was used in Holmes’ statement to justify the sentencing of this man to prison for issuing a pamphlet.
Joe Vitale Mrs. Reganato English III – Academic 9 April 2014 Effects of Guilt Guilt, by definition, is an emotion that occurs when a person believes that they have violated a moral standard. It is the single driving force that can push someone off the edge thus into a spiraling downfall of tragedies. Through numerous centuries of literature, guilt has been one of the key themes repeatedly stressed. In this way, the morals of mankind are accentuated, explored and disturbed. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, guilt plays an immense role in the lives of Macbeth and his Queen; guilt is the single attribute that pushes them to the edge and tests their sanity.
* Joseph Marie Eugene Sue (1804-1857) * French novelist at the time of Romantic Movement * His sympathy for the poor. * Victor Hugo (1802-1885) * Poet, novelist, * Les miserables (1862) offer another indictment of the conditions of the poor through the injustice of the era * From the roots of these works, we see a canon of characters, situations and tropes, which explore stories in VULGAR fashion. * That is, though their emphasis on our emotional connection to the events portrayed. * Arising between the Romantic period and the industrial revolution, melodrama as a genre appears to have been well suited to express the crisis of its time. * The persistence of melodrama in popular culture suggests a fascination the evolving nature of the social, political and ideological crisis of the day.