Based merely on the fact that Sylvia Plath had a complicated relationship with her own father, you are able to assume that the speaker within this poem is Sylvia Plath herself, who takes the role of the Jew or Victim when faced with her “Nazi” father. This harsh metaphor of the holocaust for her own father taken from the line “I thought every German was you” emphasises the strong hatred the speaker has for her dad, which is then especially emphasised when the poem reads “Not God but a swastika”. This makes the reader take the poem a little more seriously, as you’d expect a child’s view of her own father to be similar to a person’s view on God, but instead this father figure is being described as having similarities to the Nazis. Other lines within this poem read “I could never talk to you”, which may explain the reason why the hatred for her father is so strong, as the reader feels completely unimportant and rejected by him. Maybe the references comparing him to a Nazi, and referring themselves to a Jew is the closest comparison the speaker has to describe the relationship that has formed between the speaker and the dad.
Both of them have no good reason for sentencing people to death but more just want it to happen because they have the power to do it as Giles Corey points out in “The Crucible”. “Say nothin' more, John. He's only playin' you! He means to hang us all! (Miller 91) It is clear that Danforth has an absolutely senseless reason for killing people because he chooses to believe that witchcraft is real like Hitler chooses to believe that Germans are a superior race and Jews cause all of the worlds problems.
'Enoch Powell’s infamous rivers of blood speech was made in opposition to the passage of the first Race Relations Act in 1968.' Photograph: Getty Images Diane Abbott didn't even use all of her 140 characters, but she still managed to provoke a backlash that speaks volumes. After tweeting, in an exchange with Bim Adewunmi about the political implications of the "black community", Abbott commented that "White people love playing 'divide & rule' We should not play their game #tacticasoldascolonialism". Twitter is a poor medium for reflecting on the complex history and contemporary structures of race. Abbott captures a central political fact, which is that white people in western societies have benefited from their histories of colonial exploitation.
Otto Von Bismarck (Hitler’s hero).in 1871 Otto Von Bismarck established Germany as a country by winning the Franco Prussian war. And doing that created Pan German nationalism. Another pan Germanic idol was Martin Luther, he protested against catholic churches as he thought they were flawed and wrong due to indulgencies (buying your way into heaven), he strongly expressed his anti-Catholic views by hammering his 95 thesis (problems with the Catholic church) to the door of a church. This began the protestant reformation. The Volk were also very fond of Beethoven, a German composer, however Hitler’s favourite composer was Richard Wagner and he used his music in death camps right before they would be killed.
(Jeffries) In response to all these tangible and emotional losses, criticism to religion and Islam in particular crop up in his writing quite often, including his latest fairy tale novel Luka and the Fire of Life which was written for his adolescent son Milan and as a sequel or companion book to Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Salman Rushdie conveys anti religious sentiments in general and Anti Islamic sentiments in particular in his novel Luka and the Fire of Life through clever use of words and phrases. He decides to call the most notorious villains of his novel the ‘Aalim’, he declares that Gods have no power of their own and are
The cartoon “Rendezvous” was commissioned on the 20th September 1939, approximately 3 weeks after Britain and France declared war on Germany, illustrating the relationship behind the Nazi-Soviet pact formed in August 1939 between the bitter enemies, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. This cartoon portrays a very negative outlook on the pact however David Low himself was very critical of the Nazi-Soviet pact, suggesting that the source could be biased, which leads to the question, how accurate is the cartoon “Rendezvous” by David Low? The source depicts Stalin and Hitler, bowing and raising their hats to one another and smiling garishly. From first glance, it seems as if the politeness is genuine, however this is contradicted by the dialogue above them. Hitler is stating “The scum of the earth I believe,” to which Stalin replies with “The bloody assassin of the workers I presume.” This gives the idea that the bowing, smiling and lifting their hats is superficial politeness and their friendship is staged.
Gwyneth Roberts says in her article about Nineteen Eighty-Four that, “Some of Orwell’s Newspeak vocabulary (Newspeak itself, Big Brother, doublethink) has entered the English language; certainly his vision of a drab totalitarian future has entered the general consciousness, although it is difficult to know whether his warning [have] been fully understood” (Roberts). George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, presents his defeatist perspective on modern society formed by his experiences in life, his experiences in the historical wars which he participated in, and his knowledge of Joseph Stalin. Many characteristics of Nineteen Eighty-Four put it under the dystopian genre, but two continuously stand out: a worshipped figurehead and a dehumanized state. Big Brother, the worshipped figure of Nineteen Eighty-Four has a, “is [always] watching you” (Orwell 6) every citizen of Oceania with a strong, “black mustachio’d face” (Orwell 6) and, “dark eyes” (Orwell 6) that look deep into the soul. This more symbolic than physical leader represents the face of the party, also the antagonist group of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who ultimately control Oceania.
Through her use of symbolism, she revealed the battle between good and evil, and morality versus reality in the confines of an oppressive society. Chopin wastes no time introducing evil. In the first paragraph, the narrator mentions Calixta's husband and son, Bobinot and Bibi, then describes "the child's attention to certain sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west, accompanied by a sullen, threatening roar" (1.1.2). So from the start, the use of sombre, sinister, and sullen may evoke a dismal feeling of depression, darkness,and evilness for the reader, or perhaps a symbol of Satan. In the next scene,
A desire to rewrite history, leads the characters in Crabwalk towards “Negationism”. Crabwalk is essentially a historical novel in which Grass employees the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff, the ship to reveal the history of Nazi Germany and attempts of its second generation to forget it. In this novel Grass makes his readers as well as characters go through a process of self evaluation. Thus the historical event of the sinking of the ship becomes a minor incident in comparison to the hatred and racial prejudice which had been affecting Germans, Russian and Jews on a larger level. In Lukács words “What matters therefore in the historical novel is not the retelling of
Hitler didn't think that any other races should be allowed in the German society. Whereas Mussolini believed that birth into an Italian cultural family was enough to be accepted into the society. Hitler was also much more of a racist than Mussolini, who in fact had Jews in high office before he came under Hitler's influence. Many fascists seek to turn back the clock to a period of past national grandeur. This could be done in different ways, Mussolini favoured a return to the customs of ancient Rome, as well as to create a social-economic system modelled after medieval guilds.