His use of ‘withered’, heavy with negative connotations, implies the harmful potential of urban environments. Furthermore, Eliot’s structuring of the poem - which refers to a diverse range of people and experiences throughout its four stanzas - conveys the fragmented nature of the urban landscape on the people immersed in them. Eliot also conveys this fractured society through a use of disconnected limbs, such as “feet” and “hands”, the fragmented body parts a metaphor for urban civilization – never to be whole. Similarly, Bradbury positions the reader to view the city in a negative light, through his language used to depict and describe the city. He writes, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry”, utilised list of words such as ‘silent and long and empty’ to illustrate through implication his interpretation of the city.
10th Grade Common Writing Assessment #1 In “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. uses irony to illustrate how enforcing absolute equality would require a ridiculously totalitarian society. This story begins with introducing George, who is forced to wear handicaps the government from thinking or having physical abilities above average. His wife Hazel is not handicapped and to the reader seems unintelligent. Their son Harrison has been taken away by the government and on his own revolts. Vonnegut uses the characterization of Harrison, Hazel, and George to show how conformity stifles individualism and is detrimental to society.
In the current day and age, people rarely pick up a book before they fall asleep, and most people probably could not explain what Aldous Huxley wrote. The way of life in Bradbury’s dystopia was to employ firemen to burn intelligence and promote mass ignorance in an act to create an equilibrium of knowledge. Montag’s wife, who was hospitalized after their house was bombed, was scrutinized by robots and robot-like humans to extract every bit of knowledge (human blood) inside of Mildred and replace it with mechanically administered blood. (Bradbury 17). This act showed society’s need for ignorance and a “don’t ask questions, that’s just the way it is” type of system.
In Cat’s Cradle, science leads to the end of the world by the creation of ice-nine by Felix Hoenikker. The destruction comes about despite efforts of people such as Bokonon, who try to get people to live their lives by loving one another. Felix is a character representing science and does not deal with the abstract. In contrast, Mona represents religion by believing the lies of Bokononism and treating everyone with love and equality. Dr. von Koenigswald is a “bad scientist,” who represents the hybrid between science and religion.
In one review the author states, “In an important scene in Ray Bradbury's novella Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty (the leader of the firemen tasked with burning books in a futuristic, dystopian society) articulates for Montag (the protagonist) the fundamental idea underpinning the laws and norms of this oppressive and ignorant society” (Brown). Literature or words in general are forbidden and against the law. This loss of literacy and knowledge hurts society, yet they believe that this is for the
At the time of its establishment, little was known about the surrounding areas, and a theocratic government was created in an attempt to unify and protect the people of Salem. Reverend Parris justifies the witch-trials to other people, and perhaps himself, by saying that “We are here… precisely to discover what no one has ever seen.” However, Parris’ true intentions are easily seen in his eagerness to encourage the witch-trials, and thereby destroy people, such as John Proctor, who threaten the strict
The story underneath was brief, saying only that the fire department had ruled out arson. The elevator clattered and groaned through its slow descent. It was precise and sweet, a rich embroidery of poetry and math, and Hood wandered when Susan had learned it. Billows of wet fog brushed against them, like huge, ethereal cows. Rows of headlights prowled an invisible highway a hundred yards
Comparing the city to death is a strong comparison, it emphasises on the dramatic silence of the city which deepens our understanding of the setting. Effective poetic devices such as metaphors are used to potray the setting successfully. “The car moved down the empty river bed streets” the writer describes the streets as “empty river beds” which implies they are, like rivers, suppose to be fully and busy but the streets are deserted and unused because no-one is interested in going out due to the fact they don’t need too. The writer’s use of imagery is very effective in potraying the setting. The writer furthers the idea of the dead city by using a successful metaphor such as “if he closed his eyes and stood very still, frozen, he could imagine himself upon the centre of a plain, a wintry
Sabrina Branham Mrs. Kathryn Brackett English 102-85 23 February 2015 Symbolism in “The Lottery” “The Lottery” is a great example of literary symbolism. Symbolism is used in this story to help the author reflect on how the human nature is flawed and impure, no matter how pure a person thinks they are, or how pure their environment may seem. “The Lottery” is a very effective story which raises many questions about how pointless the nature of one’s humanity about violence and tradition actually is. This story is clearly an expression of how the author, Shirley Jackson, feels about mankind and the evil nature one has hidden behind rituals and traditions. Her coldness and her lack of compassion is obvious.
A good real world example of our current operating system, Motivation 2.0, is the encyclopedia face-off with Microsoft and Wikipedia. Motivation 2.0 suggests that Wikipedia, the giant online all-voluntary encyclopedia, shouldn’t even exist because it defies the laws of behavioral physics. This chapter greatly contributes to the knowledge of