Which difference(s) can we observe in the ways he deals with them? In considering the antagonism of the concept of fellowship that naturally comes from the very concept of The Canterbury Tales and the issues of isolation and loneliness developed inside them, one can wonder about which purposes Geoffrey Chaucer intended to reach; what did he may intend to reveal by dealing with those subjects? To answer these questions, an exposé divided in two fields of analysis will be proposed with a first part introducing the various cases reporting situations of isolation and loneliness that appear in The Canterbury Tales*. Then, a second part will provide possible propositions to interpret the way Chaucer decided to deal with these themes in his work. As mentioned in the introduction, the concepts of isolation and loneliness are expressed through different forms in the tales.
They take clear stands on issues. What is Huxley’s specific criticism of escapism? How does escapism contribute to a dystopia. Write something like: “ Huxley uses foil, symbolism, and irony to illustrate how escapism breeds a passivity in society that enables the rise of a dystopian regime.” Remember that your thesis needs two parts: a topic and a specific opinion. In this thesis, the topic is escapism; the specific opinion is: escapism breeds passivity which leads to dystopia) In Brave New World, John the Savage and Lenina Crowne serve as foils to display the effects of escapism in human beings .
Perspective is a complex matter, as it is derived from each individuals’ context and understanding of the nature of the issue. Thus, the concept of perspective is relative, meaning that each person’s views will be different from another, which creates, but does not necessarily impose, conflicting perspectives. For the purpose of this speech, the poems The Minotaur by Ted Hughes and Daddy by Sylvia Plath will be used to example the extremities of conflicting perspectives created. The Minotaur shows how Plath was a violent and manic person through the allusion of the myth about the Minotaur, a creature from Greek mythology, throughout the poem. Imagery is used to show Plath as an aggressive person, such as through the line “smash it into kindling”.
English Assessment Task- Module C- Representation and Text Distortion of the truth can alter the ways conflicting perspectives generate diverse and provocative insights. The ways that truth is altered is presented through the role reputation plays in The Justice Game’s chapter the Trials of Oz, by Geoffrey Robertson, and in The Crucible, a film by Nicholas Hytner, based upon the play of the same name by Arthur Miller. Another way distortion of truth arises is when deception prevails and triumphs, shown in the chapter Michael X on Death Row, by Geoffrey Robertson, and again in film version of The Crucible. The idea that Justice is a game also provides conflict and diversity that challenges perspectives of the truth. Finally, a cartoon about the Occupy Wall Street movement describes how the truth can mislead and warp meaning, thus creating perspectives that generate diverse and provocative insights.
The episode is predicated by the idea of how people are so desperate to find meaning within text that they impose their own ideologies into it, even if completely absent from the text. "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" ultimately serves as a satire of literary criticism. This begs the questions, how should literary works be critiqued? What is literature? Different approaches, or theories are used when analyzing any given literary work.
“Money, Love and Aspirations in The Great Gatsby” by Roger Lewis attempts to tour the foundations of the characters in the original text by F. Scott Fitzgerald by replicating Gatsby’s world, and adding to it an anthropomorphic sheen that interrupts the novel’s didactic resonance and disconnects love, money, and aspiration. Lewis tries to argue that many of the characters have a sort of “doubleness” about them, meaning they fit two or more opposing stereotypes. Gatsby can be considered a scoundrel with dirty money and at the same time a helpless romantic, for example—he can aspire for love and money, while the journey for each inhibits the other. He asserts that Gatsby is a man aware of his own “doubleness”; disregarding the fact that Gatsby is, in reality, nothing more than ink on a bound stack of paper. Lewis also claims that, since Gatsby “sprang from his own Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald, 98), Gatsby is “in a paradoxical position” where he “knows everything about [himself] that can be known, and yet the significance of such knowledge is unclear, for no outside contexts exist to create meaning” (47), forcing him to look to the past for purpose.
Browning’ poetry explores the consequences of obsession. How effectively does F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby deal with this issue in a different context and form? An idea that continually preoccupies and intrudes on a person’s mental and physical state is a term referred to as 1obsession and can lead to a character’s salvation or undoing. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, composed in the Victorian age of unparalleled power and industrial revolution, reflects significantly on the ideas of obsession and it’s ramifications through figurative language, poetic devices and techniques. Ideas such as idealistic love and societal expectations are heavily embedded within the Petrarchan sonnet form, which, on the
9/19/12 Madness in Literature Several authors utilize the aspect of “madness” to emphasize a point, to warn of a maleficent force, or to simply entertain. Two such examples of this technique being used are “Macbeth,” by William Shakespeare, and “Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Bronte. Within these stories, one main character of each story, Macbeth and Catherine Earnshaw, respectively, undergoes a change in nature to become “mad.” The madness of the characters illustrates an argument for the “unnatural” impetus yielding “unnatural” results. In both of these two works, the impetus that leads to each character’s madness involves a deviation from their natural state or behavior that is never resolved, but instead is allowed to compound, causing
It will then discuss Psychoanalytic Theory and its relevance to Fanon’s damaged sense of self, paying close attention to the discrepancy between the ‘I’ that he takes himself to be, and the image of himself, altered by reality, that he came to understand in France. Lastly, a discussion of Jacques Lacan’s theory of the ‘ideal ego’ and the ‘ego ideal’ (Easthope 62) will allow a more detailed understanding of Fanon’s experience of cultural alienation, along with his discovery of his social limitations that only became apparent in his mirror version of his identity- identification from ‘the Other’. Ultimately, this essay aims to analytically explore the way that Fanon’s damaged sense of self was a result of the unconscious wearing of a white mask on a coloured face. Here, it is important to
The use of psychoanalytical perspective in order to analyze a literary work enables the reader to examine what motivates the characters. Why they are the way they are and why they do the things they do. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago’s actions are fueled by his hatred of Othello and his resentment of Cassio. Iago is portrayed as the ultimate villain. Iago is furious at Othello for appointing Cassio to the position of personal lieutenant instead of Iago himself.