We are tempted to think that the soul purpose of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible was to create an outlet that exposed the mass hysteria of the McCarthy era , however to say this you would be ignoring the central themes that have allowed this play to reach universal audiences. Among themes such as the abuse of power, conflict with authority and mass hysteria The Crucible deals with the importance of identity and the individual conscience. These two themes are closely linked because until you complete your journey in finding yourself you are unable to have an individual conscience. Miller uses one of the central characters in the story, John Proctor, to explore the journey of individual conscience. This theme combined with a unique structure and language allows him to creature a play that addresses the social and political concerns which are essential to every human existence.
Detroit: Gale, 1998. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay [Image Omitted: ] Full Text: [In the following essay, Millhauser considers Frankenstein's monster in relation to the tradition of the “noble savage” in literature.] The estimate of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein familiar to us from literary handbooks and popular impression emphasizes its macabre and pseudo-scientific sensationalism: properly enough, so far as either its primary conception or realized qualities are concerned. But it has the effect of obscuring from notice certain secondary aspects of the work which did, after all, figure in its history and weigh with its contemporary audience, and which must, therefore, be taken into consideration before either the book or the young mind that composed it has been properly assayed.
The means justify virtuous ends. JAMES MADISON: The last thing this new country needs is another Shays’s rebellion. We needed to vaguely define this broad power to prevent anarchy, and a repeat of the Articles of Confederation. Thomas wishes to literally read the clause, but it should not be read that way. The clause reflects compromise over an ideological question of sovereignty.
Parrothead Margaritaville and Buffett’s Corporitaville: Audience Action and the Negotiation of Culture By John Mihelich Abstract Jimmy Buffett’s entertainment and Parrothead practice reflect contested cultural terrain involving hegemonic incorporation and resistance. I discuss how Buffett-ism incorporates Parrotheads into dominant cultural forms and, through “thick description,” demonstrate that Parrothead practice and Margaritaville imagery produce alternative cultural forms addressing identity, community, and existential concerns. Although the alternative forms are not articulated structural challenges to dominant culture but nonetheless inject alternatives, Parrothead practice constitutes “embedded resistance.” Because alternative forms provide the attraction and promise of popular culture, I articulate the forms Margaritavile imagery offers, grounding the analysis in the ideas of Stuart Hall, Max Weber, and Herbert Gutman. Wasted away again in Margaritaville/Searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt. Some people claim there’s a woman to blame/But I know it’s nobody’s fault (Jimmy Buffett, Margaritaville, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, 1977) In 1977 Jimmy Buffett's song "Margaritaville," from his album “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” hit the pop music charts.
This means early experiences play a critical role in our lives. Freud believed the human mind has both unconscious and conscious areas. The unconscious part is seen as being dominated by the id, a primitive part of the human personality that seeks only gratification and pleasure. It isn’t concerned with social rules, only with self-gratification and it is driven by the ‘pleasure principle.’ It is said psychopaths are ID led. The disregard for our consequences of behaviour is referred to as ‘primary process thinking’.
Gattaca, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 essay "A blueprint, a mirror, a warning or simply fanciful entertainment" what is the purpose of utopia and dystopia texts you have studied. Utopias and Dystopias are alternate societies created to serve as a platform to highlight the values associated with the contexts of their respective times. While they may be antonymous concepts, utopias and dystopias are ultimately a critique of the events of a certain time or the attitudes and values of a society, thus such a text offers a vision of how cultural values have changed through the process of appropriation as a result of the changing connects that shape these texts. This is illustrative in the text 1984 a novel by George Orwell published in 1949, Andrew Niccols 1997 Gattaca film and Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them. Through a variety of literary and visual techniques, all texts concurrently present themes of technology and physiological manipulation revealing the disgusting homogeneity of a superficial utopia.
Cosi marked a turn by Louis Nowra to more personal, autobiographical material, and the turn from the social to the individual is evident in the play itself. Through the use of psychiatric patients in the play, Nowra presents a rebellion against social norms. In terms of the play, however, this entails a rebellion more against “politically correct” attitudes than against conservative notions. This is reinforced by their juxtaposition against Nick and Lucy, Marxists whose concerns with social change and justice are undermined as the play progresses, reinforcing Lewis’s preference for the more “universal”—read, bourgeois individualist—concerns of the opera being presented. The play functions to some extent as a validation of the conservative rejection of socialist ideals.
It differentiates them from other life forms in that humans display an awareness and emotional response to life as part of their intrinsic nature, which forms part of the natural rhythms of life. The dystopic stance of the texts warns the audience of the dangers of humans passively accepting and being defined by technological progress and thus, in the words of William Blake, subjecting themselves to "psychic slavery". The composers, through the settings of their texts, offer views of highly technologically progressed societies with spiritual emptiness on one hand; and primitive societies with pre-technological misconceptions and values on the other. Despite the different time periods in which the texts were composed, these binary opposite worlds reveal the composers’ concerns about the social dislocation of humans due to violations of their free will to choose to live between these extremes and exist in a natural state of humanity. The environment of the World State in Huxley's Brave New World illustrates the insanity of technological advancement for the simple reason that "progress is lovely".
The outsider is self-destructive and reflective. One can see these characteristics within the characters Holden and Meursault. I would argue that J.D. Salinger presents ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as the bildungsroman novel with a prevalent satirical tone in order to demonstrate the cult of the ‘outsider’ teenager; however Albert Camus displays ‘The Outsider’ as a novel of the Absurd infused with his existential philosophy, for which he is renowned for such as his work ‘The Myth of Sysiphysus’. The main comparison which can be illustrated between Meursault and Holden is that they both have different thoughts to those within their society, Holden sees himself as a “goddam madman” due to his thoughts differing from his peers such as Stradlater and Ackley, Meursault rather than viewing himself as strange, views his thoughts as normal as he passes no sideline comment to the observations he makes with the exception of Marie and the sun.
This theory was very different from Freud’s as Jung believed the human mind has innate characteristics “imprinted” on it as a result of evolution. ‘The form of the world into which a person is born is already inborn in him, as a virtual image’ Evolution and Literary Theory (Carrol, p. 156). He thought that fear of the dark, or of snakes and spiders might be examples of a universal predispositions stem from the ancestral past, even more important than isolated tendencies are those aspects of the collective unconscious that have developed into separate sub-systems of the personality, this he called these ancestral memories and images archetypes. Perhaps one of the most widely accepted and invaluable contributions to personality theories came from Abraham Maslow. With his creation of the Hierarchy of Needs, Maslow changed the way psychologist look at human behavior.