The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Igby Goes Down by Burr Steers are both displayed as rites of passage texts. The texts are overtly didactic and both composers’ present the notion of non-conformity. Salinger and Steers express how individuals are pressured to conform to society’s values and beliefs. The two protagonists are anti –heroes and demonstrate non-conformity; they rebel against the apparent hypocrisy present in their respective societies.
In conformism the narrator lost his sense of direction. He became so engrossed in his act, his previous identities were but fading remnants of a distant past. I believe individuality is amongst, if not the most important human trait. I also believe in the tangibility of will power, and the immorality in using it to urge conformism, and in the next paragraph, I will summarize my reasoning using George Orwell’s piece as my reference point. It was clear, the author felt a sense of dirtiness/immorality in being the enforcer of imperialism.
The Great Gatsby: Rhetorical Analysis The novel, The Great Gatsby, gives at least two examples of how Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson are developed. One character is completely different from the other. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the rhetorical device of “anaphora”, and an intricate choice of detail. With this Fitzgerald gives life to either character, and helps one see the true colors of their self-beings. To put this in simpler terms, Myrtle Wilson is soft, and delicate, while Tom Buchanan is a slob, cheater, and a jerk.
Through this, Mary Shelley illustrates different forms of power as an unchecked capability of society, and expresses their dangers to humanity. In understanding her context, we see Shelley’s intention to compose a didactic message regarding the limitless ability of nature and man, and the threats it poses to humanity. Blade Runner, created almost two centuries later, was composed under vastly different circumstances, yet still voices the same concerns. Through its discussion, we see how Ridley Scott evolves from Shelley’s ideas to present a speculative, dystopian film where humanity has failed to adhere to Shelley’s message, and warns of the consequences when the power she describes is not used responsibly. One of the most dominant concerns shared between Frankenstein and Blade Runner is humanity’s defiance and disrespect to nature and the environment.
Isn’t true that Sigmund Freud is responsible for the breakdown of his relationship with Carl Jung because of Freud’s dictatorial ways and lack of flexibility? In this paper it will be shown that the functionalists are correct. Functionalists argue that Carl Jung is a victim of Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, and Sabina Spielrein. Marxists and feminists argue that Carl Jung is an aggressor and manipulator in his relationships with people. As a person in a position of power, he is responsible for his actions.
This is the most likely as Hobbes justifies the state by explaining that as humans are by nature are selfish, unsocial creatures driven by two needs: survival and personal pleasure. Life is characterized by constant struggle - strife and war - in which individual is pitted against individual in a battle for self-preservation. Hobbes believed that life was nasty brutish and short in the state of nature and this necessitates a state formed by hypothetical consent to a social contract. By consenting this state you surrender your natural rights to an absolute sovereign and in return you are granted rights in the form of positive law. Locke also gives a justification for the state, for one a state would give a firm, clearly understood interpretation of natural law, unbiased judges to resolve disputes, and it would resolve the problem that personal recourse to solving problems is unjust.
The fundamental belief of metaphysics solely relies on the belief in oppositions of values. But Nietzsche questions this, ‘all is to be doubted,’ asking how do opposites originate – why is truth and deception or selfless and selfishness evil opposites? What if “value for life … [is] … ascribed to deception, selfishness, and lust”? [§2] There is a fundamental faith in opposites here that has never been questioned, these ‘highest values’ originated from where? Nietzsche asserts this prejudice is the first major fault philosophers make, these provisional perspectives identifies held prejudices, priori beliefs upon which they build theories of ‘truth’.
(words: 956) In his essay The Underclass Myth, Adolph Reed Jr. suggests that the notion of an Underclass allows for and is shaped by the notion of ‘culture’ as having destructively innate qualities within the Underclass. This “naturalization of ‘culture,’” as he terms it, defies traditional contentions of what ‘culture’ means in that it is infused with the idea of ‘nature’ of the nature/culture dichotomy, and in that it works counterproductively for the group it describes. When it is used to describe or explain the disposition, attitudes, values and behavior of the Underclass, the word ‘culture’ serves to aggregate supposed members of the Underclass as a degenerate ‘people.’ It projects a set and quality of values, attitudes and behavior onto the Underclass collective in such a way that not only defines it, but also predicts its course. Citing the conventional Victorian ideas of race and class as interchangeable terms, Reed claims the innateness that the Victorians associated with both terms resonates in the modern discussion of the Underclass. In this way, applying a ‘cultural’ cause and nature to the idea of the Underclass necessarily takes away its ability to help itself (because innateness cannot be reversed), while it absolves those outside the Underclass of responsibility for it, in that it suggests a causal relationship between the plight of the Underclass and its own deficiency.
In fact Marx's writing on estranged labour is a repudiation of private property- a warning of how private property enslaves the worker. This writing on estranged labour is an obvious point of basis for Marx's Communist Manifesto. The purpose of this paper is to view Marx's concept of alienation (estranged labour) and how it limits freedom. For Marx man's freedom is relinquished or in fact wrested from his true nature once he becomes a labourer. This process is thoroughly explained throughout Estranged Labour.
Outline the postmodernist view of the role of Education Postmodernists take a diversity approach when considering the role of education. They argue that the Marxist view is outdated and that society has entered a new postmodern phase. Marxists believe that capitalism cannot function without a workforce that is willing to accept exploitation. They also see education as reproducing and legitimating class inequality. Postmodernists reject this view of Marxism, that we still live in a two-class society and the claim that education reproduces class inequality.