A Reality Check With the use of symbolism, Aldous Huxley creates a beautiful novel that in essence warns his audience of the future. Huxley’s clever use of symbols in the Brave New World, is often apparent, but just as often, they are deeper and less apparent. With his satirical references to sex, drugs, technology and the naming of his characters, Huxley relates his novel back to his readers and their future. Without recognizing these symbols, the readers could find this novel confusing and ridiculous; but with each symbolic object and person comes a clearer picture of what Huxley us really trying to convey. When reading the Brave New World, the sexual references are often the first things that stand out to the audience.
Critical Response Essay Within the stories A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury and Nethergrave by Gloria Skurzynski, science fiction is used very strongly. Ray Bradbury’s story shows how much of a small act can have a huge impact on the future. Both stories use technology to portray science fiction. A Sound of Thunder used a time machine to go back thousands and millions of years ago, and Nethergrave using a computer that a vortex appears on to show the main character, Jeremy, a game that seems 3D. In both of these stories, the thing I noticed the most was how tone was used.
Twain makes good use of his satirical writing style in this novel, but it’s not always what it’s cracked up to be. There's just one 'humorous' episode concerning a bull that interjects during this part of the book and it seems disconcertingly false -- kind of corny and cartoonish in a not terribly clever way. Perhaps the sort of thing he could bring life to in his famous lectures with his drawl and deadpan, but I remembering thinking...'uh oh', and boy was I right. The book continues to have some marvelous episodes as Twain continues his western adventure, but they are stretched out with a prodigious quantity of flimsy material. Comic set pieces with caricature-like characters get stale before they've begun, and he spins them out as if he was being paid by the word.
Examples of the Chaos Theory is not just found in mathematics, science, or mechanics, it is used in many literary pieces. In Ray Bradbury’s extraordinary time travel short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” Bradbury illustrates the Chaos Theory in the midst of time travel. In the middle of Ray Bradbury’s short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” Eckels(one of the main characters) mentions that if Lesperance came back in time to mark the T-rexes with red paint, then he must have seen their expedition and known whether or not it was successful. Travis thus explains to Eckels that “that’d be a paradox.”(Bradbury 5) Time travel does not permit a man to meet himself in a different time period. There is no way for them to determine if the expedition was a success or if the group made it out alive.
Literary Trait Comparison of The Sound Of Thunder and Nethergrave Ray Bradbury’s, “The Sound of Thunder,” and Gloria Skurzynski’s story, “Nethergrave” are two good works of science fiction. They both develop their stories through the use of technology, which is the key element in any science fiction story. In Skurzynki’s, Nethergrave, a boy named Jeremy chooses a virtual world over the real world because in reality he feels clumsy, bullied, uncomfortable and alone (Skurzynki, 314-324). In Bradbury’s, The Sound of Thunder, we meet Eckels, a man who views himself as the ultimate hunter and decides to go on a time travel safari to shoot a Tyrannosaurs Rex but when faced with the reality of the beast, he becomes terrified and flees. As he scrambles away he goes off the Path and changes the course of history, and in turn, the future forever (Bradbury, 288-300).
The green light to Gatzby was the symbol of his dream, which was to marry Daisy. In Death of a Salesman, Willy is also illusionary, and frequently has flashbacks of better times in his life. In one situation, Willy is “talking” to Ben, his dead brother, and his family is confused. “What’re you talking about” (Miller 46)? Willy often confused other with his flashbacks; Charley in this situation.
In both of these stories the authors use imagery to help drive home their main points, although in a somewhat different manner. In “Desiree’s Baby" Chopin uses imagery to hint at the “truth” and lead up to the ironic ending. While in Carver’s “Cathedral” imagery is used to reinforce his main theme of don’t judge a book by its cover. Now we will take a closer look at imagery, and examine the intricacies of how these great authors use it in their works. So what is imagery?
The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald uses symbolism in order to reinforce the theme. Gatsby’s view of the green light and the valley of ashes are symbols used to support the theme. Fitzgerald uses the green light to show desire and the valley of ashes to show the loneliness in the work. Gatsby often looks towards the future and just gives up on the past. For example, Gatsby is foreseeing his dreams and desires for the future.
A Sound of Thunder is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. I’m going to be focusing on of the themes of this story, being how a small act can have big consequences. Bradbury’s work is full of childhood dreams, fantasies, nightmares and time travel. His fantasy stories are often warnings against blind faith in science, but they are positive. By giving strange twists
Tyler Marshall In both stories regionalism was very protuberant and played a very important role in describing much about each story’s characters, setting, and theme. They both had some similarities as for as how regionalism was used to describe certain things in the stories, but they also had many differences. The story “The Outcast of Poker Flat” regionalism focused on its climate, moral features of each character, and setting. While the story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” mainly focused on using literary device such as tall tales, hyperboles, and local colors. Both stories used regionalism to its fullest but I feel that “The Outcast of Poker Flat” used it the best because the author used more vivid words to describe.