Dr. Strangelove is based on the serious novel Red Alert by Peter George. Kubrick decided to turn the story into a comedy. Two movies, “Dr. Strangelove” and “Fail-Safe”, have similar stories but in terms of characters and how they solve similar problems, they have nothing in common. On one hand we have “Dr.
“Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most well-known postmodernist, satire, dark comedy, and science-fiction writers of our time, with his science-fiction works being more famous for works amongst authors and hardcore science-fiction fans. One of his most famous pieces was a science-fiction short story published in 1968; it was called “Harrison Bergeron.” The setting of the story takes place of the dystopian future in the year 2081, where the United States of America has established and enforced the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments where everyone has been declared equal, and those who are superior to others are given handicaps such as lead ball bags and masks to be “equal”. These insane and humiliating “handicaps” are used
Haunan Mahmood Ms. Tyndorf ENG4U1-09 April 23, 2012 Somewhere in Between Joy and Pain History is evidence that supplying the government with absolute power is like handing over a bottle of whiskey along with car keys to a teenager. Brave New World and The Crucible are two powerful literary texts warning about totalitarianism and control. Even though one author sets his novel in the future and the other sets his play in the past, the two texts share numerous similar concepts. Huxley and Miller depict totalitarian states which keep their citizens in control through the abuse of power, social status and fear. Both writers express the importance of theology as a means to control the people.
Bentley and Ziegler, authors of a history textbook, objectively tell us what NATO served to do—its expressed purpose and intent. “The creation of the U.S.-sponsored North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact signaled the militarization of the cold war.” In addition, they state, “The intent of the alliance was to maintain peace in postwar Europe through collective defense,” (Bentley and Ziegler 1057) which indicates the belief that the creation of these two powers was not simply out of military advantage, but perhaps signaled something more, like peace. Harman, however, takes a different perspective, pointedly saying that the US “banned a massive range of ‘strategic’ exports…while…Russia insisted on ‘the unreserved subordination of politics, economics, and ideological activity’,” (Harman 546). Harman points out that military spending on both sides
They have a slogan which is written on most things written as: “War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength” and it basically highlights many of the important themes throughout the novel which include totalitarianism, physical control and psychological control. “War is peace” is the first line of the slogan and it highlights that, through reverse reasoning, war
t Brave New World The dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley is portraying the world in the future. As the most of the books this one is based on a permanent comparing and contrasting of the things, in this case on two parallel worlds : the Savage Reservation , representing the real world, and the New World . In his novel Aldous Huxley compares and contrasts various characters. Bernard Marx and John the Savage had been chosen for this purpose. Do they really have much in common ?
The author, John Steinbeck, in this passage from chapter fourteen of Grapes of Wrath uses the three Aristotelian Appeals in his writing; logos, with his citation of historical examples, ethos because of his scientific and mathematical analogies, and pathos in his analogy between poor families movies west and fighting a war. In the second paragraph of his passage, Steinbeck uses logos to appeal to the rationality of the upper class land owners and banks. He uses analytical language such as “causes,” and “results,” to make his argument logical and reasonable and references the historical figures of Paine, Marx, Jefferson, and Lenin to give examples and back up the claims he is making. His choice of historical figures is another logos trick, Marx and Lenin both have a negative connotation, evidence of how bad a successful revolution can turn out. This makes the reader think of the negative effects of a revolution and might make the land owners think harder before doing something that could bring on such a revolution, i.e.
Critical Theory Analysis Ubik by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novel that conforms to Northrop Frye’s “The Educated Imagination”, a text that examines patterns in literature. Frye discusses the pattern of loss and regain of identity as well as repetition seen in all forms of art. Northrop Frye states that “The story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature”. He then adds “[writers] spend a good deal more time on the misery, frustration or absurdity of human existence”. Throughout the novel Ubik, the main character Joe Chip is lying in a state that is between life and death called half life.
“Science Fiction is a literary genre in which fantasy, scientific discoveries and developments, environmental changes, space travel or life on the other planets forms part of the plot or background.”(Wikipedia.) That definition is the most common definition on the Internet and for books. On the other hand according to Frank Herbert “Science Fiction represents the modern heresy and the cutting edge of speculative imagination as it grapples with Mysterious Themes such as time, linear or non-linear time.” The writer Frank Herbert was born in October 8 1920, successful American science fiction writer. Dune saga is his well known novels. He used to handle on his novels about human survival, ecology and evolution.
“The Great Gatsby” Teddy Gomes 5th Period A famous American science fiction writer once said: “For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.” (Johnson, George Clayton). F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the book “The Great Gatsby”, uses his writing to create another look at “infinity” and specifically in this excerpt he uses diction and figurative language to create that magical tone, and generate a sense of fantasy, characterizing in full depth how Gatsby’s parties were like. In this paragraph, Fitzgerald uses diction in a fantastical