The only good human being is a dead one.’ Snowball is a ruthless leader who is committed to the revolution, so committed in fact that he indicates he’d be willing to die for Animal Farm. This arrogance towards the distressed horse Boxer and the commitment he displays mirrors that of Leon Trotsky in Russian society, it is this lack of empathy that differentiates him from the others animals, yet his hope and high ambitions ultimately contribute to his exile, but these traits are initially what made him a good leader. Orwell is using the character of Snowball to reflect the ideas that essentially, knowledge and ruthlessness is power. Trotsky was intelligent and ruthless just like many
However, Gilgamesh’s intentions were in the interest of the people, as he moulded the sons into warriors to protect the city. From this, one can assume the perspective that Gilgamesh was not as self-motivated as the modern day reader believes. However, the susceptibility of information to alternate interpretation allows for Gilgamesh to be perceived negatively from a contemporary perspective. Gilgamesh’s adventure for immortality offers readers an insight into the human condition, the innate naivety, greed and arrogance in all of us. This means that theoretically, all human readers
They were not inventing anything new but reclaiming something ancient. This is why governments tend to fall apart, because people often want to come together freely and be themselves, rather then fit a mold that is presented for them. Hobbes foretold that it was a human condition that war fought by each against each, making it hard for anything good to come out of it, or learn
CD Docs The opinion towards England changed from America admiring them and following them blindly to genuinely not caring. They were very angry with the war and not being reimbursed and the taxes. Franklin says that England will have to use weapons and military force in order to get America to start paying taxes. Their attitude says that they would rather wear ratty, old clothes until they can learn how to make their own rather than pay extra taxes on clothes made in England. Dickenson wrote everything as “a farmer” so people could see he was normal, just like them.
Voltaire shows how Candide slowly realizes this logic when he encounters constant conflict and disaster after leaving the Baron’s castle and his old “perfect world”. Candide sees how almost everyone in this world acts selfishly only to reap benefits for themselves and take away from their fellow humanity. Some people probably think that Voltaire may come off as a pessimistic, but he really is just trying to show how foolish optimistic people and corrupt religion can be when you live in a world that constantly challenges you and makes you suffer so much. Essentially Voltaire is trying to tell us that the happiness of humanity is impossible, because the only “real” life is the life where you endure good things and bad things and not the life where you live in the best of all worlds and have no problems and everything is handed to
The first technique that I will be discussing is rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is a question asked for effect that neither expects nor requires an answer in the poem Exposure there two rhetorical questions and they both go back to Owens hatred of war the first quote is “what are we doing here?” even though the soldiers know they are here to fight for the war they have started to question it due to the fact that they are now facing a new war on which they dislike very much, this new war is the war against the weather the other rhetorical question is “is it that we are dying? ” during the war the soldiers wanted out of the war so badly the wanted to die. The hatred they felt for he war was flowing through there veins “but nothing happened” they were freezing cold and getting shot at by the enemy who would not want out of that? The next technique that I will be showing is repetition.
Thoreau also says the government “is equally liable to be abused to be abused and perverted.” This is yet another example of how Thoreau thinks the government is turning away from what its original intent was. 2. Thoreau believes the army is worthless. He compares them to horses and dogs by saying, “They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs.” He doesn’t agree with hoe they are forced to take orders, which takes away from their moral and what they think is right/wrong and what should be done about it. “He gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish.” One who just takes orders is useless and Thoreau believes one should only give himself “partially” so they can be considered beneficial to the army.
The way Petruchio behaves with Katherine is typical of the Renaissance; he tries to humanize what for him is not human because she does not conform to the rules of society as he knows it. There is never any question of whether such rules are right or wrong, and the process of 'humanisation' is a violent, ruthless one, where the object has to lose everything in order to gain a new identity; exactly how Europeans were behaving towards native people in America during the same period of time. But we are different now; we respect other cultures, and we have feminism. So why bother putting on The Taming of the Shrew? There is so much else in the Canon, so much more worthy, with so much more to say to us… This 'pleasant comedy' set to 'frame [the] mind to mirth and merriment' (as the play itself is announced in the Induction) is oddly, fiercely and brutally unsentimental.
ritique of power- Americans “innocence” and ignorance, fighting a war they know nothing about - must have an in depth knowledge of country and people and tailor it to their needs - democracy= little value in an agricultural country that has functioned without democracy for so long- world with different conccepts different circumstnaces, not a material world - applies to personal level of Phuong and political level - people can be blinded to strict adherence to ideology • even in love pyle is determined to his ideology- views love in a intense romantic sense rather than through phuongs eyes as a need for financial security, sex and companionship • pyle falls in love as an attempt to help someone mirrors need to help Vietnamese as a nation
In this story, irony is used to show lack of equality, no matter what the original intent was, can result in oppression. Orwell used three types of irony in his story, dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony. Dramatic irony is inherent in speeches or a situation of drama which is understood by the reader but not gasped by the characters in the story. A scene in the story that shows the irony is when Boxer “the horse” is sent off to be slaughtered by Napoleon. The animals are told by squealer that he is being sent off to the hospital, but the readers know that he is not being sent to the hospital.