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 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. In the opening lines of The People-First Critic Stereotypes The Environmentalists, the language is informal and demonstrates a one sided opinion. This is shown in the quote, ‘The wackos have a broad and mostly hidden agenda that always comes from the left, usually far left.’ Wilson’s satire is effective as its shows the ‘hidden’ motives of environmentalists while discrediting the speaker by making him seem ignorant. The over dramatization throughout the two passages demonstrates the unproductiveness as it seems that each side tries to outdo the other. This behavior is demonstrated by the environmentalists as well.
When Oka declares that in order for them to survive they must cross the cold, high mountains to find food Toklo is delighted. When Tobi suddenly dies while crossing the mountain, Toklo’s mother takes her anger and grief out on him. Leaving him near a river, Oka strands him in the wild. Will Toklo be able to hunt and find food without starving in this strange, inhospitable place? Lusa, her parents, and two other bears are happy living in the “bear bowl” at the zoo, but when a strange new bear is put in a cage nearby, Lusa is anxious to make friends.
Indicating he is fearful and in shock. Also referring the monster to a ‘wretch’ indicates how unpleasant it is in creating an unfriendly petrifying image of the creature in the readers
I also encountered a hideous, metal snake called the Alaskan Pipeline built in the 1980s to transport oil. Its ugliness sucks the beauty from its surroundings. It cuts through the wilderness like a lumberjack fells trees. If this country were to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea off the northeastern coast of Alaska, the effect would be felt statewide. We must stop the government from allowing oil companies to drill for oil here.
Following the recent Cold War, capitalist America’s controlling nature typically victimised plebeians on the basis of their political perspective. Through the employment of mise-en-scene where the campfire is placed in the middleground of the dark Atacama Desert, Salles creates a salient point which emphasises the disassociation of the Chilean miners from society. Ernesto’s authorial voiceover ‘tragic and haunting faces’ in conjunction with a close-up shot of their dirt-stained faces, the mining couple are presented as politically dispossessed. This draws sympathy from the audience towards the couple as they are victimised and oppressed due to American capitalism. Moreover, when being chosen by the mining company, the unsteady camerawork and constant switching of perspectives highlights the controversial nature of the conversation and presents Ernesto as an authoritative figure fighting the inhumane treatment of the impoverished in South America.
“Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned on the lever.” “Delirious” can only refer to his lack of propriety which leads to the death of another human. He has abandoned civilised thought and become an evil beast willing to disregard human life just because he has the power to. Without the restraints of civilised society we may lose touch and let our inner evil take control of our action. This may lead to us committing horrendous crimes. We need civilisation and its restraining forces to protect us from this horrific
The society breeds ignorance of the physical change of a “true image” that is not subsequently developed, influences the fear of deviations. Firstly, Joseph Strorm is very strict and examines differences in appearances thoroughly to send people to suffer in the fringes afterwards. Joesph was struck when David stated
If we do violate natural laws, we will suffer from everything that is against the nature. In this essay, I will discuss Epictetus’s arguments about what to do to be happy and will give my personal opinion about the given excerpt. First of all, according to Epictetus, the violation of any natural laws always leads to being upset. This is due to dominance of Nature over human-beings and therefore, we have to live with the correspondence to the