All threats of revolution were taken seriously. The authorities hastily assembled an extensive spy network. The most famous threat of a revolution was in August 1819 when a large crowd assembled at St Peter’s Fields in central Manchester to hear a pro-reform speech from Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt. Fearing uncontainable disorder, and perhaps even revolution, the Manchester authorities over-reacted and sent in troops to disperse the crowd by force. Eleven people were killed and the radicals were given a huge propaganda boost by referring to the event as ‘Peterloo’, in a grim analogy with the Duke of Wellington's famous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo four years earlier.
The Highwaymen were the scandalous criminals that patrolled the highways and traffic roads to scavenge for useful goods. “With the use of the Hydrogen Bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the good Samaritan” (page 84). After the many atomic bombs destroyed Orlando and other major cities, the survivors went against each other and become either hostile criminals or bystanders trying yo avoid to confliction. “Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan” (page 132). The villainous Highwaymen, drug addicts, and gangsters all came apart at the seams when their lifestyles changed for the worse.
His aim was to shed light on what the conditions of were like in “War to end all wars” and its trench-warfare. He didn’t live to see his poems published and the fame they wrought him as he was killed not long after recovering and returning to the front six days before the treaty of Versailles came into effect on the western front on November 4th 1918. Wilfred Owen laid out his poem “Dulce et decorum est.” with details about the men and their state of mind first, with the pace building and the action unravelling. In the second stanza the action is at full pace with gas shells (or Five-nines) dropping behind and around them, the fumbling and panic of fitting a gas mask and eventually the effects of gas on someone unfortunate enough to have not been able to fit his mask in time. The third stanza starts with the man being thrown into a wagon and driven away.
However, in the present time, the Orwellian London lives under the fascist government of chancellor Adam, and V will fight against his regime, using the power of powder, blowing up important buildings. Evey will be chased by the secret police, thinking that she's the accomplice of V, who will accomplish Fawkes' mission of destroying the Parlament on the 5th of November, in this mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, George Orwell's 1984 and Batman. Written by Alejandro Frias (source: imdb.com) Themes Present in Animal Farm: ■ The Societal Tendency toward Class Stratification: Animal Farm offers commentary on the development of class tyranny and the human tendency to maintain and reestablish class structures even in societies that allegedly stand for total equality. ■ The Danger of a Naïve Working Class: One of the novella’s most impressive accomplishments is its portrayal not just of the figures in power but also of the oppressed people themselves. Animal Farm demonstrates how the inability or unwillingness to question authority condemns the working class to suffer the full extent of the ruling class’s oppression.
He worked really hard at both his music (which he hoped had pleased God) and also his political skills until he reached where he wanted to be. At sixteen years of age, Salieri made a bargain with God to make him become a famous composer. The exchange of the deal was to live life in virtue, help other composers and to honour God through his music forever. (Salieri: “Signore, let me be a composer! Grant me sufficient fame to enjoy it.
Not only does Mildred leave, but as her final act of betrayal, she calls in Montag`s illegal books into the police chief, who then forces him to burn his own books and house. This is not only the main turning point in the book but would also make for a dramatic preview, should this book be made into a movie. Another scene that would make a suspenseful preview would be Montag`s reaction to the news of Clarisse being hit by a car and killed. Also, the scene were the government declares war and begins bombing the city would make a very dramatic and enthralling trailer. I consider this scene the most suspenseful scene and after the city have been bombed, Montag and his new friends go in search of survivors to create a new and knowledge filled society.
Tyler then comes to reality and realizes all the things that he had really been doing. A huge percentage of the area now were his followers, and just as he realizes that he is Tyler, he finds out about the bombs he planted in local credit card company buildings too late to save them. Although Tyler learns of how he really is Tyler, the imaginary Tyler still is trying to get power over him and keep doing bad stuff. This is what the reader may call the climax of the book, when Tyler overcomes his split personality by shooting himself. The thought that he did that killed the other side of him, and he also ends up surviving the shot in the head, bringing the story to an end where Tyler is in a mental institution, and inside of hear he answers a phone call from Marla instead of hanging up right away and talks about how he can finally sleep, and he is happy for once, showing that he can live his own life, and not just one who lives based on consumer
Billie Selichnow Mrs. Graber English 11 4 December 2012 The Existence of Technology In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, technology has captured and completely manipulated the people and the way they think. The novel opens in a futuristic society where firemen start fires, rather than put them out and books are banned and burned upon discovery in order to prevent disruption in society. The main character, Guy Montag is a fireman by trade, burning books that have been deemed illegal by the government, as well as the homes of those who house such works of literature. Guy encounters Clarisse McClellan, a seventeen year old girl whose curiosity and outlook on life encourages Guy to question his own ways of living, ultimately leading to his
Like the original Frankenstein he plans to create a race of superior beings who will wipe the entire planet of civilization. He calls this new superior race " The Community " and once this job is complete he will kill them all and leave himself to be the only creature left on earth. So it's up to Deucalion and the detectives to put a stop to him again. So as you can see these three books did have alot in common but they were also different by the characters and conflicts. Dean Koontz is a brilliant author and all his other series can be compared and contrasted in the same way.
The Nazi party now forced to think tactically and with the burning of the Reichstag building through a communist Hitler was able to blame the extremist party for the beginning of a revolution and with President Hindenburg's approval he arrested the ‘enemies of the state’. With this fortunate accident, the ‘missing’ SPD party and the agreement with Zentrum Hitler was able to get his two thirds majority to pass the Enabling Act which entitled him to pass laws without parliamentary approval. Although on the surface Hitler seemed to have a lot of control, this was not complete, due to the fact that President Hindenburg could over rule him and perhaps even terminate him as chancellor. This power, however, led to multiple sudden adjustments to Germany, after becoming a one party state by July 1933, through making the SPD party and all other competitors illegal, he continued to set loose on Germany’s very powerful and threatening trade unions. Trade unions posed a strong threat to the NSDAP due to their power in Germany, considering their support for the SPD and even KPD.