Due to the high unemployment rates following the great depression, the working class were vulnerable to the unjust exploitation of power. Curley is portrayed as a character who lacks integrity and an oppressor of the economically autonomous dream of George and Lennie. Through a juxtaposition between power and helplessness, Curley is depicted as inhumane. The simile ‘like a terrier’ contrasts Curley’s docile and aggressive nature with Lennie who, with the animalistic imagery ‘huge paws’ and ‘bleated’ is likened to a passive and weak creature. Through an accumulation of violent images, ‘slashed’, ‘smashed’, ‘terror’ and ‘slugging’, the lack of justice and ethicality through power exploitation is exemplified.
The valley of the ashes represents the moral and social decay that results from unreached pursuit of wealth. George and Myrtle Wilson live on this land, and they represent the difficulties of the poor. The results of unreached goals is what is reflected when one thinks of this horrid place. It is dusty, clogging up car engines, perhaps also representing the numerous regrets of not reaching personal and financial goals. The valley of the ashes connects with Gatsby’s failure in obtaining the American Dream because it is obviously is the root of a lack of success.
A Low Moral Hero The “Bonnie and Clyde” film reflects the reality during the time of depression in the twentieth century. It is a new Hollywood cinema that focuses on the character’s development. This essay will discuss on Clyde as a low moral hero and as a victim of disorder from both external and internal influences. The external factors are poverty and corrupted law, while the internal factor is from within him self for being fallacious (Mollet 40). The film is focusing on the beauty of deconstruction, mistakes, and changes.
However, he was a weak ruler and failed to rule his people properly * he treated opposition with violence and the Okhrana (the secret police) * Political repression; compared with other countries democracies; Tsar was VERY WEAK and easily influenced. Long term –economic • Size of peasant landholdings fell- they were angry- little father isn’t helping them • 1892,1898,190- harvest failures= famine- still squeezing the peasants • Backwards agriculture compared to Europe • Rapid growth of population of towns & cities- crowded- would work for less because want work Russo Japanese War- Catalyst o R underestimated Japan-Jan 1905- forced to surrender-J- better tactics & more modern army • National humiliation- why would they be proud of a Tsar that conducted such an army?- it was his fault he had not modernised • J- knew position of R ships & when they would arrive • Unrest against the gov • Economic
Owen compares soldiers fighting in war to sick old men because it shows that soldiers are like outcasts from society. At the top left of the poster, the image shown represents the difficulty and the terrible physical outcomes, soldiers found travelling on ground particularly in sludges as Wilfred Owen states in the first stanza: “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” The use of the word Knock-kneed is alliteration for emphasis, a hard, staccato sound to echo the harsh mood of these lines and soldier’s misery. It stresses echo the brutality of the soldiers’ destruction, their transformation from healthy young men into ‘beggars’ and ‘hags’. The use of the word coughing compares men to sick women, showing how they are unrecognisable; they have lost their masculinity, youth, health and therefore are now deemed to be outcast’s within the society. The word sludge is onomatopoeia to imply how heavy and difficult the ground is to cross for soldiers.
In John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, chapter 25 portrays the cruelty and heartlessness of the owners and how they manipulate the fruits. The narrator manipulates language to convey human’s harmful corruption of nature. The use of figurative languages such as similes, the variation in poetic and, the harsh description adds on to the destructiveness of humans. Chapter 25 is one of the shortest chapters in the novel but extremely powerful. California is the “promised land” that supposedly brings a better future to the migrant workers but because of the corrupt owners, migrant workers are paid low wages and forced into poverty.
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens is a novel set in Victorian England, specifically when the poor laws of 1864 were in effect. The laws helped to make a harsh divide between the upper and lower classes. The poor majority were subjected to harsh and inhumane conditions, while the rich minority lived a life of luxury. Dickens, using the novel shows the reader that the poor laws were not helping the country but dividing it. He shows us the cruelty that the paupers endured, and how the ignorance of the rich allows it to continue.
Passage Analysis Page 26-27 This passage is primarily concerned with the lost hopes and illusions of the American Dream that dwell within the uninterrupted desolation that is the Valley of Ashes. Referencing the monstrous eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and the aggressive and possessive nature of Tom Buchanan, Fitzgerald contrasts the grim wasteland and poverty of the Valley of Ashes, to the hedonism of the Eggs, and of New York City. The Valley of Ashes is a desolate wasteland, symbolic of the moral decay hidden behind the beautiful facades of the Eggs, and suggests that under the embellishment of West Egg and the mannered charm of East Egg, lies the same ugliness found in the Valley. “The motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.” The inclusion of the railroad symbolises progress; a pathway out of the dump that is the Valley of Ashes, and the longing for wealth and class by those who wish to “shrink away” from the reality which they cannot and do not want to accept. But these lower class patrons are left to “stare at the dismal scene” of the Valley of Ashes, on “waiting trains” demonstrating not only their failure in trying to grasp the American Dream, but the reality in which they can’t escape.
This not only shows his carelessness for money but that he means to act smug about it. His arrogance shows how money has deteriorated how he interacts in a social setting; he is unable to relate to others and resorts to sarcastic remarks. The inhumanity in his actions and how he expresses himself represents high society’s social superiority. Tom also portrays racist attitudes, adding to his list of inhumane attributes. Racist tendencies exude
In the poem "Two Scavengers..." the poet Ferlinghetti uses various language, techniques and sentence structure to create effects on the reader. I believe the poet is trying to show the differences between the lives of the rich and the lives of the poor, whilst also showing that America, which is meant to be a rich and just country is not as excellent as it appears to be. Many readers can immediately see the differences in the culture between the two classes by simply looking at the title. From the word "Scavengers", we assume that these bin men are unstylish, foul-smelling and in poverty. One reason for this is because when we think of a scavenger, some readers would instantly think of tramps, who forage through people's bins and beg on the street just to get the necessities they need.