The narrator claims that the hallway of the building in which Winston lives “smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats”. This initial image exposes the dilapidating condition of this society, for it is a world that smells and is offensive to its citizens. Not only does this society offend the sense of sight. The imagery of the “rotting nineteenth – century homes,” suggest that the society of Oceania is not moving forward because it is still trapped in the past. The citizens of Oceania are made to feel the decay of the society in their own body.
In the catcher in the rye the tones on sorrow and anger reflect the misguided structure of Holden’s adolescent life. Despite Holden’s availability for a substantial “ all American” teenager, Holden destroys himself with self conflict. Salinger still shows the hypocrisy between Holden and structured society even after anger and sorrow takes place into Holden’s life. Salinger’s diction brings out the isolation that Holden makes him self have with the social world. Holden, who goes to pencey prep with “hot shots” that “jump over fences with horses” makes things harder for himself.
On one level The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald comments on the careless gaiety and moral decadence of the period in which it was set. It contains innumerable references to the contemporary scene. The wild extravagance of Gatsby's parties, the shallowness and aimlessness of the guests and the hint of Gatsby's involvement in crime all identify the period and the American setting. But as a piece of social commentary The Great Gatsby also describes the failure of the American dream, from the point of view that American political ideals conflict with the actual social conditions that exist. For whereas American democracy is based on the idea of equality among people, the truth is that social discrimination still exists and the divisions among the classes cannot be overcome.
Due to the high unemployment rates following the great depression, the working class were vulnerable to the unjust exploitation of power. Curley is portrayed as a character who lacks integrity and an oppressor of the economically autonomous dream of George and Lennie. Through a juxtaposition between power and helplessness, Curley is depicted as inhumane. The simile ‘like a terrier’ contrasts Curley’s docile and aggressive nature with Lennie who, with the animalistic imagery ‘huge paws’ and ‘bleated’ is likened to a passive and weak creature. Through an accumulation of violent images, ‘slashed’, ‘smashed’, ‘terror’ and ‘slugging’, the lack of justice and ethicality through power exploitation is exemplified.
Still unaware of his role as the hero, he begins to gather visual information that further proves to him the need for change in the world. Iris, a prostitute no more than thirteen years old, briefly gets in his cab before being pulled back out to the “dark side” by Sport, her pimp and boyfriend. The audience is uncomfortable with the fact that Travis just sits there,
The Great Gatsby Chapter 2 Unlike the other settings in the book, the valley of ashes is a picture of absolute desolation and poverty. It lacks any sort glamour and lies halfway between West Egg and New York. The valley of ashes symbolizes the moral decay and reality disguised by the ‘fairytale palaces’ of the Eggs. The valley is created by industrial dumping and home to the poor and just basically is everything the ‘American dream’ isn’t. Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s ‘gigantic’ eyes gazing down from their billboard makes the reader wonder what significance they hold in the story.
The image of ash also paints a very bleak, gray image as the colour gray is typically associated with ash, it appears to be very dark and lifeless. The ash is so abundant that the author states the the "ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys," and we can say that the ash is the most prominent thing instead of the actual houses. The valley of ashes seems to mark the separation between the older American aristocracy, which once occupied East and West Egg, and the new urban Americans. The ashen quality of the setting can also represents the moral and social decay hidden by the West and East Egg. Also, as the valley is created through industrial dumping, it suggest that the moral decay of human hearts was due to the growth of materialistic desires as a result of the high standards of living of these people, revealing the hollowness of the upper class
The dark and gloomy mean streets emphasise the film noir aspects present in the film, and the slow eerie Vangelis music and constant acid rain is used by Scott to create a melancholy ambience. In contrast, the Tyrell Corporation is depicted as a majestic Mayan inspired pyramid. This dreary and depressing landscape shows audiences the impact of technology and mass consumerism on the environment. Both Brave New World and Blade Runner depict chilling dystopic futures where the materialistic scientific and economic ways of thinking have been allowed to quash the humanistic morals and values, in the name of progress. Through language features and film techniques, stark pitiful visions of a future devoid of nature and humanity are presented to question
Sometime after Tom and Daisy came to Gatsby’s party Gatsby was invited to Daisy’s house. This is the time when Tom became very uneasy he saw Gatsby and his wife Daisy hugging and kissing each other in his house. Tom decided that they should all go to town because he was very, very disturbed. Tom and everyone finally stopped a hotel and then Tom started pointing at Gatsby saying he knows what he’s trying to do steal Daisy. Then Gatsby tried to force Daisy to say “Just tell him the truth-that you never loved him-and its all wiped out forever”(139).
The story is an exploration of the difference between the savagery and civilization, and the colonialism and the racism which makes the imperialism possible. So it connects directly to modernism because modernism shows all the terrible and harmful destruction of the nature and the society. Heart of darkness’ style was very wordy and long, and the modernist literature style was also the same.