“Words from the basement: Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.” Notes on Contemporary Literature: From Literature Resource Center. 41.1 (Jan. 2011). This writer talks about the importance of the different roles that the Hubermann’s cellar/ basement plays in the novel. The basement is a refuge and a sanctuary for Liesel (with her books and words) as well as for Max (a Jew in hiding). The writer of this article talks about how the basement isn’t just a hiding place for a Jew or a refuge to learn but it is a place to rebel against authority when Max transforms it into a setting for creative/political activity by painting over Hitler’s Mein Kampf erasing Hitler’s authority and becoming his own authority.
Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits is a family drama where there is a strong influence of Feminism and Magic Realism, it has the multigenerational family sagas using autobiographical elements, and the families are divergent into race, class and gender. This essay will investigate certain characters in both novels who struggled to cope with power and the ways in which they either succumbed or retaliated to the authority. Desire, Rape and Race are some of the main themes of Disgrace. J.M Coetzee’s novel dealt with the after-math of the Apartheid in Africa, his bold statements implicated to the tension and social issues that was occurring in most rural areas and was neither documented nor acknowledged at the time. Coetzee’s bold statement earned him critical acclaim in the literal world but also flak from his home country: “Coetzee’s fiction has, as we have noted, always had a mixed reception in South Africa, and
Jane Eyre Final Essay In many novels, readers often do not know how to indentify a character as being purely evil or purely good. Morally ambiguous characters are at the heart of many works of literature. In Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester is characterized as a morally ambiguous character through his actions, his significance to the novel, and his multi-sided personality. Morally ambiguous characters usually play a pivotal role in a novel. Mr. Rochester’s actions determined Jane Eyre’s reaction, which shaped the whole novel.
In the recently read novel by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there were many points about society that were judged. The way authority uses its control, as well as the way people react to those rules makes us all question; are they fair, or are they not fair? Are they truly out to make you a better person, or are those rules there to dictate you? Themes presented in this novel include; the Relationships between People v Authority Figures, The Process of Controlling Human Behaviors, and Societies Role on People’s Lives. The character of McMurphy represents the people of society that the government doesn’t want.
This refusal leads the characters to an ultimate conflict with an individual closely related to the government. This government individual is used to point out the irrationality of the governments rule. The exploitation of technology and power the government obtains in both novels is a harsh glance into
Conflict hurts the powerful and powerless Conflict is a constant momentum hurting the powerful and powerless on a multitude of levels. Conflict is interpretations, beliefs and violence, held between numerous factions, which can contradict morals and righteousness. Conflict can hurt the powerful and powerless, fiscally and ethically. Segregated morals is a conflict which has the ability to hurt the powerful and powerless; in a disagreement, where an action of an individual can represent their acceptance by society. People usually exist in a society with both prevalent and cultured morals, which can oppose ethics held by wider society.
It could also be a chivalrous gesture against an evil tyrant, even if it is not sincere like in “A & P” by John Updike. “Quote here.” (Updike). Any point in a story where two or more characters have opposite goals that they are trying to accomplish, and it creates a problem for the characters involved. Every character has a Voice in which they speak, and a Point of View in which they see the events of the story and think about them. There is no way to have a story without keeping each character's voice and opinion unique.
A Dystopian Society: The Chrysalids and V for Vendetta After viewing the film V for Vendetta and reading the novel The Chrysalids, it is evident that these two pieces are perfect examples of a dystopian society. This type of society could be defined as a futuristic imagined universe in which oppressive social control and the illusion of a perfect society is maintained through many different ways. Ways such as propaganda, appalling treatment of thoughts who are different, and a controlling government that puts its people under constant surveillance, and uses social fear to maintain its grip on society. Propaganda is a main controlling factor within these societies. In the chrysalides, at a young age children are embedded with stories
Because of Who They Are One always looks to blame someone for the way that they have chosen to live their lives or for the way they have acted. Such is what occurs in the fiction novel Once in a Promised Land written by Laila Halaby. Halaby’s novel incorporated the ways in which the characters in her novel were either individuals or outcasts of their society and the manner in which culture seemed to affect such relation after the tragic 9/11 events. Each character, such as Jack, Jassim, and Salwa, faced a different problem in society, though all issues seemed to originate from the effects of two cultures colliding, American and Islamic. While two of these characters attempted to make one culture by combining their two cultures, the other
The nature of power may be explained as the possession of domineering influence. Such influence is brought upon by the exploitation of certain factors which as a result espouse fear or question in the minds of those being exposed to power. The beholder experiences, change in mind set, and values. Through the study of my chosen texts, the nature of power will be deconstructed to divulge the legitimacy in which the fickle nature of power results in the fact which, humanity rejects the pinnacles of our ethical values for other forms of power. It is the allusive factors between power and rationality which dramatically affects the stability of decisiveness.