Mark Twain was and still is a literary idol for writers to always look up to, and the way he wrote he even became a political figure in America. To change his work without his permission, legal or not, is morally and ethically inappropriate. Carol Lucas said, “I think that if one is to edit Twain and omit what one might think is unacceptable, then one has to start in Shakespeare, the Roman and Greek comedies, most French and British comedies of the 18th and 19th centuries, and so on. Might as well rewrite all of history” (). Through this quote one can easily see how editing Twain’s masterpiece would be a queue for editors around the world to go and edit every inappropriate word of a dead writer’s work.
Meme Triiv Teachers Shitty Name Shitty Class Name 28 November 2010 An Analysis of the Cask of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe The definition of man is defined by many as someone who upholds the values of virtue, pride, and courage. It has been written that the fall of man is usually contributed to either greed or temptation. Both these statements are directly related to our story. Montresor by no means is a perfect human being. Though he has his many faults as our narrator/protagonist; we must wander into his story that reveals just enough reasoning for his actions.
Details and Delivery: An Examination of Rhetorical Devices in Whitman’s “Hours Continuing Long” The power of the spoken word often goes underestimated in the fast-paced lifestyle that characterizes the modern era in which we live today. Although essentially one may absorb the same ideas and interpretations by reading a certain work of literature from the page and then hearing that same work read aloud, these two separate means of reaching one similar conclusion are radically different experiences in their own. From history we may discern the prevalence and effectiveness of oral tradition before written poetry, and even today it is apparent that aural memory is stronger than any other type of sensory memory. The slight discrepancies of sound within poetry are each significant to the meanings one can gather from it and also the final, vocal delivery of the poem. The gravity of this spoken word is demonstrated in the work of Walt Whitman, who is frequently lauded as the all-American advocate of “democratic” poetry or the use of common language to join individual readers and evoke a sympathetic exchange of experiences.
Both texts revel the tension between idealism and reality. Analyse and compare how this shared idea is represented in the texts and evaluate the extent to which it is impacted by the composers’ context. When does our attainable dream of love, become an idealised fantasy? The universal conceptualization of love is a subject explored throughout history and literature. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s sonnet sequence Sonnets from the Portugeuse, explores the experence of idealised love in the patriarchal confines of the Victorian era, juxtaposed against F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, which comments on the unatanability of idealised love due to the corruption of the American dream.
i William O’Neil Dr. James Nutter ENGL 102—Honors 24 February 2015 Romanticism Unshackled: a Study of the Modern Prometheus Thesis: Frankenstein should bear the title of Romantic literature because the novel embodies trademark Romantic ideas, situations, and characteristics throughout the text. I. In an attempt to categorize any novel as Romantic, however, one must first attempt to identify what, exactly, makes a work Romantic. a. A group of poets, including the likes of William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron and—Mary’s husband—Percy Shelley, who are commonly credited as being the ground-breaking authors of the Romantic movement b. Lyrical Ballads moved poetry away from the times of the mythical and fantastical,
English 67 Comparison Sample Essay I Give It An “A” Many people argue that the book is always better than the movie. They will tell you that the written page offers something that the cinematic one can't, that a movie always leaves out details that the book contains, and that key elements of the original story are often missing in the film version. And these book lovers are often right. But in the case of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Will Gluck's Easy A (which is loosely based on Hawthorne's novel), the latter speaks to the modern audience in ways the original never saw coming. Yet, they share two very similar heroines, and offer messages about what it's like to be an outcast.
In this novel we begin much to slowly and continue in this way. Tolstoi was a thousand pages long and i read him without qualm so don’t think mere length or slower pacing is the trouble. Instead, like many Caribean authors, there is a formalism, almost trying to out-Brit the British that makes much of their work sound old, dry and very much of the past. This can be valuable until you realize that, of course, the past already has its voices and yes some of them are of color so why not go to those for whom such rigid codes were normal and more poetically used. I found this book dreary and dull
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Scott Ridley’s Blade Runner, although constructed in different contexts, are both instrumental in demonstrating the universal notion of the nature of humanity. Through the literary discourse of Frankenstein, Shelley is able to draw from the contextual influences of the Romantic Movement and Enlightenment, therefore exploring the valued notions of excessive knowledge and the role of creator in establishing glory. These universal notions have been appropriated and shaped in Blade Runner, to therefore present the way in which the contemporary capitalised society of America has led to a futuristic world characterised by the consequences of excessive knowledge and usurping the role of creator. Both Frankenstein
By using many quotes, statistics, and descriptive details Clarke makes the writing complete. It’s as if he gives a little taste of everything, but that miniscule amount is sufficient to feed one’s imagination. Clarke really makes a homerun, his purpose to demonstrate how well Kennedy’s speech was and how/why it was successful, also to demonstrate the genuine president that Kennedy was; in which he clearly accomplishes. Personally never paid much attention to any president’s speech nor wanted to read it, but after reading “Why JFK’s Inaugural Succeeded”, the motivation and very enthusiasm to read Kennedy’s speech was unavoidable. Amazingly an author can really engage his/her audience, but that really takes a lot.
True Tales from the Battlefield I’ve found the story How to Tell a True War Story to be a tremendous story with moments of gore, but nonetheless an attractive piece of work. I believe that this story is a representation of his entire story. It’s almost as though O’Brien is being completely honest in this story, and he’s divulging all of the lies and secrets that we will soon read, or have already read. One main idea that I believe O’Brien is trying to get across, throughout the entire story, is the fact that “of course, a true war story is never about war” (296). One line that continues to resonate in my mind is when O’Brien is telling the story of Rat shooting the buffalo, and the letter he writes to Curt’s sister.