“The consumer is powerless against the modern advertiser” How does the poetry of Bruce Dawe reinforce this statement? Consumers are extremely vulnerable to the modern advertiser. We are constantly bombarded with images and products that we are led to believe we “need”, if we are to fit in with society. The powerlessness of the consumer can be seen through Bruce Dawe’s poems ‘Americanized’ and ‘Televistas’. Dawe allows us to see how man is forced to succumb into the materialistic world.
The Reluctant fundamentalist shows us that nostalgia is a poison In Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, apparently is shown the other aspect, despite the beneficial side as a salve, but the far lethal side of nostalgia. The astonishing issue---the September 11, undoubtedly turns the USA’s theme from “openness” to “nostalgia”, and as a dire turning-point to be in the story, triggers subsequent changes. The same as America, Erica, who is assumed to be a symbolic character reflects the USA, also gets lost into the endless reminiscence of the bygone affections with Chris, finally destroy her. Nevertheless, these remind Changez of his relatives, who are addicted to nostalgia as well. Strikingly, Hamid sets these enormously realistic and secular scenes to the readers in order to substantiate the havoc of odious recalling back, which is with blindness and narrow-vision, septic grudge and mutiny, like a chronic but fatal poison.
Probably because, despite all the radical social changes that have taken place since Jane Austen's time, people haven't really changed all that much. It has been argued that Jane Austen's novels all have the same plot; on a superficial level, there is a germ of truth to that argument. However, the true greatness of Jane Austen's work lies not in the basic stories but in the ironic and occasionally bitchy cultural observations that suffuse those plots and bring them to life. Scriptwriter and director Amy Heckerling has followed admirably Jane Austen's example by making a film that, on the surface, seems like another mindless teen flick but is actually a multi-layered social commentary. She took Austen's novel Emma, the story of a spoiled child of the 19th century English leisure class who thinks she knows everything, and turned it into the film Clueless, the story of a spoiled child of the 20th century American leisure class who thinks she knows everything.
K. L. Going’s Saint Iggy is a wonderful piece of young adult fiction that definitely kept my attention. It was just about the day to day life of a boy, but Going’s writing style made the book hard to put down. I would say it could easily be considered realistic fiction. More often than not, I do not find realistic fiction to be very grasping, but this book was certainly an easy read. All 272 pages were like being in the mind and life of someone else.
Frankenstein driven by romantic imagery and set in historic context, that analysis the European divide in society perpetuated by superficiality. Contrastingly Blade Runner is consumed by commercialism that reflects the dystopian globalised world that omits normal societal values and morals. Both texts challenge the morality of artificial creation that is motivated by the characters' relentless ambition. The texts employ techniques such as allusions and tactical characterisation to depict the disconnection to nature and the manipulated visions of the characters as well as introducing the question of 'what it means to be human?' Character is emblematic of the ideas within the both texts.
Critics minds have been influenced and undecided over the years with many in the beginning saying, "his story contained material that put it well outside the moral boundaries" (Hook, 63) and headlines in the New York News Paper declaring, "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Latest a Dud" (Hook, 70). Nevertheless, as time continued on so did the reviews, new perspectives were taken on the book and eventually became a tend, shooting the book to its masterpiece status, with some insisting that, "the story, for all its basic triviality, has a fine texture, a careful and brilliant finish" (Mencken, 157) and William Troy, The New Yorker, pointed out that "Gatsby" is "one of the few truly mythological creations in out culture.". "The Great Gatsby", was seen ultimately as a example of the brilliance behind Fitzgerald's novel and acknowledge the dramatic use of modern features of a certain time
Well, let me set you all straight: not every Chick Lit book is a winner; some of them really are boring, predictable and just a plain waste of time! However, some earlier novels are exciting, light and frankly a breath of fresh air for anyone who wants escapism with a practical sense of reality. And as the genre evolves, the standard of writing has too. Writers such as Lindsey Kelk and Scarlett Bailey stride ahead with novels that are glamorous but realistic and genuinely get their audience excited about what they are reading. Sub-genres such as; “Marriage Lit” and “Christian Lit” have started springing up across the literary
“Maus Written in Comic Form” Art Spiegelman’s Maus I and II were the first graphic novels to win the Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Pulitzer Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in American journalism, literature, or music. Lots of attention is given to Spiegelman’s new genre of writing. Genre can be defined as a piece of literature, marked by a distinctive style form or content. The mix of genres raises questions about the classification of the book, but also about the nature of classification itself; an important issue in terms of its subject matter.
In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals of people are challenged through the use of flashbacks, symbolism, irony, syntax, and diction in order to depict the dissimilarities of the social classes. As an illustration of the period of the story, Fitzgerald contradicts
In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. In this extremely satirical novelHuxley gives us a picture of what kind of life would be in the future. One example includes the fact that babies