«The past can be a daunting thing. From personal memory to history at large, the past has the power to bury those unable to establish a healthy relationship with it. One can easily become trapped – paralyzed – in the past through guilt, regret, or...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe past can be a daunting thing. From personal memory to history at large, the past has the power to bury those unable to establish a healthy relationship with it. One can easily become trapped – paralyzed – in the past through guilt, regret, or nostalgia, emotions generated based upon socially-constructed ideological frameworks of absolutes. James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, represents an ideal relationship with the past in its narrative, its structure, and its form, a relationship in which history acts as a base from which to build a future. By presenting the paralyzing dangers of becoming trapped in history and highlighting how one might grow towards the future while maintaining a relationship with the past through the character of Leopold Bloom, his relationship with Stephen Dedalus, and the experimental, multi-styled form of the novel itself, Ulysses combines numerous elements which add up to something radically new, but something deeply grounded in the work and history of the past.
Table of Contents- The novel opens on Stephen Dedalus, protagonist of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
- The novel of Ulysses goes to great lengths to portray absolute value systems.
- The novel also looks down upon a complete ignorance of the past and a lack of any sort of regret.
- Besides his strong relationship with the past, Bloom is also an extremely forward-thinking individual.
- More than just the narrative of Ulysses , however, presents this ideal relationship with the past.
- Joyce wrote and came of age in the time of the Irish Literary Revival.
«The adage “history repeats itself,” like many adages, sometimes seem disingenuous; they are neatly packaged concepts that lack any definitive details that would give one a context to consider them properly. In Corregidora, there is an expansion of...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe adage “history repeats itself,” like many adages, sometimes seem disingenuous; they are neatly packaged concepts that lack any definitive details that would give one a context to consider them properly. In Corregidora, there is an expansion of this idea of history and repetition. Gayl Jones uses a variety of catalysts to examine how the past manifests and affects characters in the present. These catalysts – the historical, biological, and reproductive contexts – tend to focus on the unwanted and uncalculated consequences of internalization.
Keywords: Ursa, Ann duCille, Ethical Ambiguities, Living the Legacy
Keywords: Ursa, Ann duCille, Ethical Ambiguities, Living the Legacy
Table of Contents- Early in the story Ursa discovers the nature of internalization of the past.
- That is not to say that she is not justified in wanting to have a record of Corregidora's tyranny.
- Further in the text Ursa has dreams that hybridize the Corregidora stories and events in her life.
- The historical phantoms emerge first with Mutt, and their sexual encounters.
- I had originally thought it a falsehood to draw relationships between rape/torture/slavery and Ursa's so-called consensual encounters.
- The repetition of the historical phantoms in Corregidora shows the traumatic effects of forced internalization.
«“Otherness” describes a person engaging in the reflexive act of defining their identity in reference to another person. In this way, Otherness is a definitive means of exploring the relationships between social castes and gender relationships. In...» Document abstract
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Summary“Otherness” describes a person engaging in the reflexive act of defining their identity in reference to another person. In this way, Otherness is a definitive means of exploring the relationships between social castes and gender relationships. In Hard Times, these two types of Otherness – social and gender relations – not only exist, but appear in a hybridized and utterly complex way character of Charles Dickens’ work.
Keywords: Tamise Van Pelt, Gradgrind, Louisa
Keywords: Tamise Van Pelt, Gradgrind, Louisa
Table of Contents- For the purposes of analyzing Hard Times, I will use the term 'Other' as described by Tamise Van Pelt.
- The environment that produces Louisa is shown to be one of calculated reason early in the text.
- Louisa's initial interactions with Bounderby in Hard Times are marked by coldness.
- Stephen Blackpool shares the same self-destructive fate in his own loveless marriage.
- In Hard Times, Charles Dickens presents a text that exemplifies Tamise Van Pelt's representation of the 'Other,?.
«The theme I select to examine in A Byzantine Novel Drosilla And Charikles, is the power of love. Love in the time of Drosilla and Charikles was an entirely different concept. Especially from what we are accustomed to today. Loving someone fifty...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe theme I select to examine in A Byzantine Novel Drosilla And Charikles, is the power of love. Love in the time of Drosilla and Charikles was an entirely different concept. Especially from what we are accustomed to today. Loving someone fifty years ago, isn't even close to how we love a person today. Theses differences have always fascinated people and continue to fascinate them today. The books The Notebook and A Byzantine Novel Drosilla And Charikles are about powerful first loves.
Table of Contents- In Drosilla and Charikles you see three basic types of love.
- Drosilla and Charikles are the couple the book is named after.
- Neither mother nor son in the end get what they want.
- Their reunion starts not with a dream but a story in the newspaper.
- Love like the kind all these people shared is not common.
- When it comes to love you are powerless to a point.
«The technology in our world has been both a beneficial force and a destructive one. On one hand, technology has made our world a much simpler place to live in, and it is hard to imagine the world we live in today without it. Just about everything we...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe technology in our world has been both a beneficial force and a destructive one. On one hand, technology has made our world a much simpler place to live in, and it is hard to imagine the world we live in today without it. Just about everything we do, from shopping for groceries to paying your bills, to even sending your friend a letter in the mail, is driven by the technological advances in the world today. However, technology is also a huge cause of the world’s problems we face today. Nuclear weapons are a threat to the planet’s future, and a person can detonate a bomb in a subway station or a building from miles away. Nevertheless, in the 21st century, technology remains a huge factor in the way we now live our lives. This dependence on technology was not as important in the past however.
Keywords: Mark Twain, Hank Morgan
Keywords: Mark Twain, Hank Morgan
Table of Contents- Mark Twain was a huge advocate of technology and improving the technology of his time.
- Towards the end of the novel, Hanks technological advances had grown to be incredible.
- Hank Morgan's corrupt motives can also be traced back to Twain's personal history.
«The Women of Renaissance Florence, Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence is a collection of three essays by Richard Trexler that give the reader insight into the experience of women in Florentine society by examining three major groups of...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Women of Renaissance Florence, Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence is a collection of three essays by Richard Trexler that give the reader insight into the experience of women in Florentine society by examining three major groups of women; nuns, prostitutes, and widows. Trexler is a Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghampton, and has an impressive resume of fellowships and publications. Trexler is also known as one of the leaders in the study of ritual in a historical context.
Table of Contents- Celibacy in the Renaissance: The Nuns of Florence.
- Florentine Prostitution in the Fifteenth Century: Patrons and Clients.
- By early in the 16th century, prostitution came to be considered just as much of an evil as homosexuality.
- Trexler frames his argument around several main sources.
«Tourists visiting New York City have one major complaint: the rudeness of everyone in the city. The tourists are not entirely to blame, though. The skyscrapers, steam rising from the streets, and the immense amount of concrete would make any non-New...» Document abstract
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SummaryTourists visiting New York City have one major complaint: the rudeness of everyone in the city. The tourists are not entirely to blame, though. The skyscrapers, steam rising from the streets, and the immense amount of concrete would make any non-New Yorker uncomfortable. Observers of New Yorkers would say that they are the city, and that their coldness reflects the icy winters and blank concrete. In 1914 the Irish modernist James Joyce published a collection of short stories that examines the city of Dublin entitled Dubliners. In Dubliners, Joyce’s characters represent the city, each cementing an overall composite citizen and exposing idiosyncrasies simultaneously. The best portrait of Dublin in the collection is “A Little Cloud.” In the story, Joyce examines Dublin as an inferior city through the personifications of Little Chandler as Dublin and Gallaher as London, whereby Dublin is a metaphorical bully that inhibits Dubliners from progression and Gallaher is a symbol of progression. Little Chandler’s epiphany at the end is also Dublin’s; showing the reader the true nature of the city and its people.
Table of Contents- Humans have a love-hate relationship with their hometowns.
- The personifications of Chandler and Gallaher also help give color and depth to Dublin.
- Joyce diverts attention away from Chandler for one reason: to focus the reader on Dublin.
- After the first read of Dubliners, the reader may feel an overwhelming sense of empathy and sorrow for Dublin and its people.
«All throughout time, since man was first given the ability to write, countless novels have been written on almost every subject conceivable. When it comes to literature on history, an infinite number of subtopics become available. Some examples...» Document abstract
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SummaryAll throughout time, since man was first given the ability to write, countless novels have been written on almost every subject conceivable. When it comes to literature on history, an infinite number of subtopics become available. Some examples include, war, peace, types of governments, autobiographical accounts of world heroes, etc. Even these few subtopics can be broken down much further. The same idea that links all of these pieces of literature together is the concept that everything is based upon a single question. All books strive to consider a unique question, define it, and then finally, come to some sort of conclusion based on it. That was the goal of this book report; to decide what the main question was, to explain it and then finally to reveal its answer and greater significance.
For my project I decided to read "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Arguably the greatest war novel of all time, Remarque takes the reader on a journey as we view life through the eyes of a young man, twenty years of age. This boy, Paul Baumer, enlists in the German army alongside several of his close friends, during World War I. At first, they are eager, but as the novel progresses the truth about war settles in. Baumer begins questioning the opinions of many, as he encounters horror day in and day out in the trenches. Over the years of battle, which pass by extremely sluggish, Baumer maintains one ideal: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly puts young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other. That is the question this novel is asking. Why is such a dehumanizing event such as war necessary?
For my project I decided to read "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Arguably the greatest war novel of all time, Remarque takes the reader on a journey as we view life through the eyes of a young man, twenty years of age. This boy, Paul Baumer, enlists in the German army alongside several of his close friends, during World War I. At first, they are eager, but as the novel progresses the truth about war settles in. Baumer begins questioning the opinions of many, as he encounters horror day in and day out in the trenches. Over the years of battle, which pass by extremely sluggish, Baumer maintains one ideal: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly puts young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other. That is the question this novel is asking. Why is such a dehumanizing event such as war necessary?
«In her novel, He She It, Marge Piercy questions ideas of gender and gender roles in a futuristic society. Piercy sets the stage of her story in a temporarily safe haven called Tikva, a Jewish slum where matriarchy holds a subtle but evident power. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn her novel, He She It, Marge Piercy questions ideas of gender and gender roles in a futuristic society. Piercy sets the stage of her story in a temporarily safe haven called Tikva, a Jewish slum where matriarchy holds a subtle but evident power. The story's central character is Shira Shipman, a highly educated recent divorcee, who has lost custody of her son to her ex-husband. While the deterioration of the marriage may mirror modern circumstances, the decision to give custody to the father is definitely a creation in Piercy's arcane world. Already, the reader is greeted with a gender role reversal. Typically, almost every society views the mother as the more crucial parental unit. Most American divorces result in children going with the mother, with fathers on weekends. Additionally, American society is replete with dead-beat dads or fathers who walk out on their families. In Norika, Josh is awarded custody of Ari simply because he has higher credit earnings, which would roughly translate into having more income in today's society. Motherly guidance and love is not an issue that the Multis comprehend, and neither does Josh, who grew up an orphan for most of his life. In fact, Norika inhabitants do not grasp the idea of "love" they way we do today. Shira seems to be the only character to possess romantic notions, evident in her previous relationships, and most importantly with Yod. To Shira, Yod is the man she never had, the child that was taken from her, and the epitome of safety and comfort; too bad he was a cyborg. Their relationship also tests typical gender roles and teaches about the importance of human perception.
«Readers love the story of the predator and the prey, regardless of where or with whom the sympathy falls. A tale of survival or near-survival keeps us craving more, and if the creator or messenger of that story can secretly divulge wisdom along the...» Document abstract
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SummaryReaders love the story of the predator and the prey, regardless of where or with whom the sympathy falls. A tale of survival or near-survival keeps us craving more, and if the creator or messenger of that story can secretly divulge wisdom along the way, then both reader and author benefit.
Using a similar objective and a common motivation for their pieces, we can see that both Plumwood and Stark’s essays seek to educate their reader, while masking this behind a veil of entertainment. Furthermore, both pieces use contrasting writing styles to portray their stories of fight or flight, and to portray a theme that mankind needs to humble itself in regards to nature. Peter Stark’s essay “The Sting of the Assassin” seeks to relate a story of one of the world’s more deadly jellyfish, the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri). Stark weaves his informative essay with a purely fictional tale regarding struggling newlyweds. Val Plumwood’s essay “Being Prey” contains none of the dialogue that “Assassin” uses, but the story may even be more powerful as the reader knows this story not only could happen, but did.
Using a similar objective and a common motivation for their pieces, we can see that both Plumwood and Stark’s essays seek to educate their reader, while masking this behind a veil of entertainment. Furthermore, both pieces use contrasting writing styles to portray their stories of fight or flight, and to portray a theme that mankind needs to humble itself in regards to nature. Peter Stark’s essay “The Sting of the Assassin” seeks to relate a story of one of the world’s more deadly jellyfish, the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri). Stark weaves his informative essay with a purely fictional tale regarding struggling newlyweds. Val Plumwood’s essay “Being Prey” contains none of the dialogue that “Assassin” uses, but the story may even be more powerful as the reader knows this story not only could happen, but did.
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