Mary Shelley’s prose fiction novel, Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s science fiction film, Blade Runner 1982), view the change in value of the pursuit of knowledge that leads to the moral ramifications of the creators Victor and Tyrell. Both texts accentuate the audacity of man playing God, in juxtaposition to the creations humane acts, leading to the questioning of what it means to be human. Shelley challenges the values of the Enlightenment era in the 1800s, forming Victor’s ambition to pursue the secret of life, whilst Scott criticizes the abuse of capitalism in the 1980s, deeming Tyrell’s drive for commodification. Although they were composed two centuries apart, both texts treat similar thematic concerns. By comparing their approaches to such ideas, however, it is evident that context affects meaning in complex ways, as both Frankenstein and Blade Runner reflect the values and anxieties of their times.
It claims a new calendar will soon be needed for commerce and the trades, and arts and history. It says that the new calendar shows the character of their revolution. This document is also biased though, because it is a decree of the National Convention (Document 5). The National Convention thought a new calendar was
The investigation will address the question from a positivist approach, analyzing various sources, including books, websites and documentaries. The two sources selected for evaluation, The Storm Of War by Andrew Roberts, and How Hitler could have won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Lead To Nazi defeat, by Alexander Bevin, will be evaluated for their origins, purposes, values and limitations. B: Summary of Evidence “The Stalingrad campaign in Russia in 1942 is one of the most poignant examples ever recorded of a ruler engineering his own destruction” (Bevin 145). The campaign started with Operation Blau. Blau was the next step in Operation Barbarossa, created to focus on the invasion of the Caucasus and Southern Russia in the summer and autumn months (Preston 132).
Priestley uses the Inspector to present his own views and outline the lack of social conduct. The play was performed just after World War Two. This means that when it was written and performed, there was much more known about the war and what had gone wrong. Priestley uses the morals in the play to make the audience see that if things had been different before the First World War, things might have been different as a result. Towards the end of the play, the Inspector makes a speech, which outlines his political views.
This mirrors the subject matter as Cohn discusses the use of language such as “collateral damage” (217) to refer to human death. In this sense, the speaker’s voice builds on the feeling of being removed from the gravity of so much destruction that defense language aims to accomplish. Examples of this defense language are plentiful in the text but their purposes are mixed and not fully realized. Cohn explores the use of sexual language revolving around nuclear war by interpreting comments such as “thrust-to-weight ratio” (218) as a means of conveying the masculine need for power that the possession of nuclear arms represents. Another quote, “pat the missile” (219) is interpreted in the sexual context, but also as a way of “minimizing the seriousness of militarist
I found the author’s chronology out of order and thus, a little confusing. Fash first describes the ruins of the great city before describing the city as it was in its heyday. I think it would be better from an illustrative point of view if he painted the picture of Copan at its zenith and then compared that to the sculptures and ruins we see today. Fash continues with prior and recent investigations on the city and then moves on to the political evolution and my favorite part of the book - The rise of Copan chiefdom. He describes how there were two distinct socio-economic levels in the Copan society and how the “elite” lived in plaster-coated structures in close proximity to the decorated public buildings in the Principal Group, and had access to fine imported goods.
“Fascism also recruited admirers from the ranks of the political theorists who sought an alternative to the representative model of liberal democracy and a radical prescription against the alleged decline of western civilization” 36. “In central and eastern Europe, fascism was markedly racist and anti-Semitic. In Hitler's Germany the genocidal "Final Solution" was the consequence” 37. “The fundamental structure of fascism is sometimes taken to be an authoritarian, centralized state apparatus sustained” 38. “A revival of Latin American fascism is possible, perhaps in response to the swallowing up of national economies in globalization; violence will undoubtedly remain endemic” 39.
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1886 NARRATOR · Omniscient CLIMAX · The major climax of the novel occurs in chapter XII when Ivan Ilych is suddenly struck in the chest and side and pushed through the black sack into the light. Ivan finally discovers the right way to live and realizes the error of his past life. PROTAGONIST · Ivan Ilych ANTAGONIST · Bourgeois society in general, which may take the form of Schwartz, Praskovya, Peter, or a professional colleague. SETTING (TIME) · Late nineteenth century SETTING (PLACE) · Petersburg and the surrounding Russian provinces and cities. POINT OF VIEW · The novel is from the point of view of the omniscient narrator, although action occasionally progresses from Ivan's point of view.
This freedom also opened doors for abuse. Armies, necessary to protect freedom, were able to bully other nations. There were two safeguards against the menacing instability. The first safeguard was a doctrine and it stated: wars were made by hungry, arrogant, ignorant, oppressed men. It was thought that the new world would get rid of the need for war.
Explain how death and dying have changed with the shift from premodern to post modern societies? According to some Death and Dying has evolved into a modern society of self denials around the issue of death. “From a psycological perspective individuals use denial as as a defence mechanism when confronted with events of a potentially tramatising nature” (Freud, 1940). It can be viewed that since death is no longer witnessed in modern lives that some have become afraid and would rather deny the reality of death. “The British socail anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer and the French historian Phillippe Aries are recognised as early proponents of the idea of the existence of death-denying societies” (Walter, 1991).