Edward O. Wilson writes The Future of Life to give different views on the issue of environmentalism. Wilson argues that environmentalists and people first supporters have unproductive disputes with the use of parallelism to demonstrate the childlike behavior and unsupported assumptions each side makes about one another. Wilson’s use of rudimentary language enforces satire in his work. In the very first lines of each side, name calling is used. The People First call the environmentalists “eviros” while they rebuttal by calling the people first “brown lashers.” The naiveté of each group throughout each rant illustrates Wilson’s view that each group has an exaggerated view of each other.
The Great Gatsby: Is Gatsby Truly Great? In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. He starts off as an ordinary, lower-class citizen, but Gatsby dreams of becoming wealthy. After meeting Daisy, he has a reason to strive to become better. Throughout the book, Gatsby gains the title of truly being great because he’s in the military, he never stops loving Daisy, and he makes a life for himself.
As he is describing the green chile, the visual images are both beautiful and powerful (lines 15-18): Ah, voluptuous, masculine, an air of authority and youth simmers from its swan-neck stem, tapering to a flowery collar… These four simple lines suggest just how much their culture admires their tradition, along with the things in it. The admiration of the green chile represents the significance it has behind it. Santiago also describes the way his grandmother cuts into it with a “mysterious passion on her face” (line 32). In their culture the green chile is just as important as killing an animal for its meat, or any other food. The way they take care of the green chile only goes to show how much they actually care for their cultural tradition.
Robert Gray’s poem ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ is a didactic poem in which the reader is warned of the consequences of humanity’s devastating overindulgent materialism. Gray makes heavy use of allusion, symbolism and imagery, but also uses irony and personification to emphasize and develop his warning. The most effective technique implemented by Gray in ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ to warn the reader is imagery. The city is described as being ‘driven like stakes into the Earth’, symbolizing the merciless and violent imposition of humans on their world. This is also ironic, as humans themselves are a part of the earth and nature, yet are destroying it for their own ends.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a fantastic piece of American antitranscendentalism because in that it shows that humans are naturally evil, sinful, and guilty. Hawthorne's protagonist, Hester Prynne, shows in excellent example how human nature can be sinful. Although she is depicted as beautiful, angelic, and almost the epitome of perfection, Hawthorne reveals in his story how eyes are deceiving and humans are sinners by nature. Hawthorne writes, "Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne," (Hawthorne, 39). Prynne commits adultery in the novel, one of the most unforgivable sins.
With West Egg, the home of Gatsby, being across the bay of East Egg there is a clear view of a bright green light coming from the Buchanan’s dock. The bright green light represents a clouded future, and Gatsby also “believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (149). But the green light also embodies Gatsby's delusion of Daisy and their romantic past that he wants back more than anything. Gatsby “wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy” and he became so desperate that “his life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was” (125). He lost himself when he lost Daisy so he franticly tried to get what he had with her back.
In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals of people are challenged through the use of flashbacks, symbolism, irony, syntax, and diction in order to depict the dissimilarities of the social classes. As an illustration of the period of the story, Fitzgerald contradicts
For example, Gatsby's gold and silver ties represent his wealth. Also his yellow/gold car shows that he lives extravagantly. The color green is symbolic for hope. Gatsby's hope for Daisy's love is shown in the green light at the end of her dock. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us" (189).
Both supported each other and both were very smart. “Abigail aligned her responses to fit alongside her husband’s own internal odyssey toward the inevitable. Her only political ambition was to “reign in the heart of my husband”. That is my throne and there i aspire to be absolute. On the other hand, if he was elected to the presidency, it would be a flattering and glorious reward for his lifetime of public service, and he would obviously need a wife to hover about you, to bind up your temples, to mix your bark and pour out your coffee.” (page 176) Abigail Adams supported her husband in every possible way; even if it was not something she believed in.
What are your feelings about Fitzgeralds description of Gatsby as ‘great’? Support your answers with details from the novel. The portrayal of Gatsby as ‘great’ in the novel is done through the way the American Dream is presented. He embodies it, the ambition he has and the focus and dedication he kept to in hope of achieving his life long dreams and goals. You sympathise with Gatsby as he spends his life chasing a woman who ultimately, when it comes down to it, chooses class and stability over love.