Daniel Stewart 5/24/12 3rd Anthem vs. The Giver Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem and Lois Lowry’s The Giver both take place in a dystopian society in the distant future with differences in their societies. The society in The Giver is more about the importance of emotions and about experiencing and living life to the fullest, while Rand’s is about individuality and egoism; despite the fact that the themes are differing from one another the novels have several other similarities including the characters, plot, and settings. The main characters, Equality 7-2521 from Anthem and Jonas from The Giver, are similar in the way that they are different from the other people in their societies by their appearance, actions, and decisions. Combined with Equality’s individualism he is a tall, strong, and slim man with blonde hair which ostracizes him from his brothers.
According to King, it is impractical because it slows the process of ending the oppression for all, and it is immoral because it seeks humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding. So, violence destroys community and brotherhood by planting hatred rather than love. The third way based on King is nonviolent resistance. He believes in this way no individual or group need give in to any wrong, nor need anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong. According to king, this is the method that oppressed people must follow to win against the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
Christopher Mcandless, although driven to find true isolation, came to the self-realization at the end of his journey that loneliness was not the true solution to his problems, but that true happiness comes from the love of others. Before he came to this realization, Christopher’s motivations for happiness and isolation derived from his disconnection to his family, his hatred for society and the structure that forms it, and finally Christopher’s desire for a natural life. Christopher’s disconnection to his family was one of his motivations to search for total isolation. Chris had next to no relationship with any of his family members besides his sister, which evidently was not enough to keep him from leaving. He had no similar interests with them and their lifestyle was one that he didn’t like or want to be a part of.
Deformation of Beliefs & Values The Time Machine is a futuristic novel written at the end of the second half of the XIX century by H.G Wells. In this novel, several social topics are implied with a futuristic touch. The main theme or focal point is changes in the societal order and its ability to deform beliefs and values over time. Theme and characters are important for this novel, because as they change through the plot, beliefs and values also change and affect the message of the novel. Distortion in the belief of natural selection and the value of equality, marked in the transition from present to future represent the anguish of characters in the storyline’s present time of a society’s change in the future according to their conception of communism.
Baba raises Amir alone and in Amir’s words, “molded me to his own liking, in the same way that he molded the world to his own liking seeing the world as black and white and deciding too what was white and what was black”. Baba wants Amir to be like him who hunts and plays football, but Amir would rather stay home or play with his friend Hassan, recite poetry, read a book or write stories. Baba’s cold attitude as a parent makes Amir unable to love his father and in the process sort of “fear him too and hate him a little”. As a result Amir quietly defies his father and decides he will not succumb to his father’s “molding” ways. The silent animosity between father and son ends when Amir joins and wins a kite-flying contest and ties his own father’s record in the number of kites he cut down.
Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate.” (Achebe 208-209). The commissioner intends to write a book documenting the Ibo culture. He is unaware, and likely uninterested in knowing the full story of Okonkwo’s life. “one must be firm in cutting out the details.” (Achebe 209) Okonkwo had just realized that his tribe was doomed because of their weakness. He decided to take his own life as a result of a lifelong struggle to help his clan by being a strong and hardworking man, in an attempt to distance himself from his weak and unsuccessful father’s reputation.
Since he was unhappy with his life, Peter decided to take matters into his own hands. He did this by doing whatever he pleased. Work was the main source of Peter’s unhappiness, so he chose not to go to work. In “Self Reliance,” Emerson explained that “the doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when it pulses and whines” (Emerson 1). Peter shows how he hates work, so the key to his happiness is just not going.
Nietzsche says, in his second essay, the primary objection to ascetic ideals is that ascetic priests must deny the value of this life; he portrays it as a link to the next life, rather than appreciating life as an end in itself. An objection to this claim, being unselfish, caring for the weak, loving one’s neighbor, submitting to “god,” might be better for the health of the community and may even have evolutionary benefits, even though in nature it does seem like the weak get “chosen”. As far as a moral life, they are at the same time a weak people because they have denied life for so long. In the long run the ascetic
Eventually, Balram takes advantage of Ashok’s grief and his weakness as a master. He always wanted his masters affection and always wated to serve him in any way that he could possibly do so. When he was unable to gain Ashok’s kindness, he decided that in order for him to survive in harsh India, he must forcibly take what he can to prosper, which lead him to kill Mr. Ashok and take his wealth and identity. Balram’s character is one of nonidentity, uneducated lower class. He came from a poor caste so therefore had no higher education as he was taken out of school at an early age.
Page 107) Gregor basically is beginning self-alienation, he believes he is something hideous physically but mentally still holds onto his human conformist mindset. But as Walter.H.Stokel wrote that Marx said “ self-alienation implies the individuals estrangement from humanity” This means that he finds work so unbearable that it serves no