“With their tongues cocked and loaded:”The power of language and dialect in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
«Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist for her own culture. She spent much of her life recording the stories and saying of the people around her, both in Harlem and abroad in the American South. She poured her energy into representing...» Document abstract
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SummaryZora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist for her own culture. She spent much of her life recording the stories and saying of the people around her, both in Harlem and abroad in the American South. She poured her energy into representing people the way she saw them, or heard them, as the case may be. Her use of vernacular language is powerful and convincing in her fiction and non-fiction. It is one of the most distinguishing features of her work. Language was important to Zora as a writer, but also as an anthropologist. To Zora, the language and speech patterns of the characters in the story were just as important as the story itself.
«n the Preface to Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes, “The last thing I should promise would be to “improve” mankind.” Although it was not Nietzsche’s aim to improve life for the majority, it was the main focus of many of the writings of his predecessors...» Document abstract
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Summaryn the Preface to Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes, “The last thing I should promise would be to “improve” mankind.” Although it was not Nietzsche’s aim to improve life for the majority, it was the main focus of many of the writings of his predecessors and contemporaries. Nietzsche’s writings focused mainly on the contributions of great individuals to society and culture. On the other hand, philosophers like Kant and Marx focused on improving the conditions of life for the majority of citizens.
Owning Perfection: The Struggle between Science and Nature in
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark.”
«In many love poems written to praise the beauty or virtue of a woman, the woman or the woman’s love is often seen as a material possession or a thing to be owned. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” the woman is seen as something to be...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn many love poems written to praise the beauty or virtue of a woman, the woman or the woman’s love is often seen as a material possession or a thing to be owned. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” the woman is seen as something to be improved upon and perfected. Love is not only something to be possessed; it is something to be invested in, like any other expensive material thing. Hawthorne’s story is not only about love within a materially driven culture, it is about dominance and dependence. It is also about the struggle between nature and science, the obsessions produced by this struggle, and how the struggle resolves.
«In 1975, Seamus Heaney came out with his fourth book of poetry, North. Although the third volume, “Wintering Out” foreshadows many of the same themes, it is North, according to several critics that develops these themes, and establishes a turning...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn 1975, Seamus Heaney came out with his fourth book of poetry, North. Although the third volume, “Wintering Out” foreshadows many of the same themes, it is North, according to several critics that develops these themes, and establishes a turning point in Heaney’s poetry. According to Anthony Thwaite, journalist for the Time Literary Supplement in 1975, the book is not only “mature” but “noble” as well.
«Euripides’ Trojan Women exemplifies the cruelty and painful consequences of war, and how they affect women by leaving them powerless and without choices. Several episodes in the play illustrate this loss of choice and power, the death of Astyanax,...» Document abstract
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SummaryEuripides’ Trojan Women exemplifies the cruelty and painful consequences of war, and how they affect women by leaving them powerless and without choices. Several episodes in the play illustrate this loss of choice and power, the death of Astyanax, the sexual slavery of Cassandra and Andromache, and the ultimate irony of Hecuba’s slavery to Odysseus.
The death of Andromache’s son Astyanax is symbolic of the final death of Troy and her brave heroes. Talthybius tells Andromache and the other Trojan women that “A hero’s son could not be allowed to live.” (Euripides, The Trojan Women. page 274) By this Talthybius means that the Greeks will spare no aspect of Troy. It also seems to show some fear on the side of the Greeks, that Astyanax may grow up to carry on Hector’s legacy. “What were you afraid of, that it made you kill this child so savagely? That Troy, which fell, might be raised from the ground once more?”
The death of Andromache’s son Astyanax is symbolic of the final death of Troy and her brave heroes. Talthybius tells Andromache and the other Trojan women that “A hero’s son could not be allowed to live.” (Euripides, The Trojan Women. page 274) By this Talthybius means that the Greeks will spare no aspect of Troy. It also seems to show some fear on the side of the Greeks, that Astyanax may grow up to carry on Hector’s legacy. “What were you afraid of, that it made you kill this child so savagely? That Troy, which fell, might be raised from the ground once more?”
«At the time, Hughes was in the Soviet Union, touring its various countries and
struggling to put together the film “Black and White” with some fellow writers and actors. The manuscript Hughes sent Van Vechten that spring was some of Hughes’ most...» Document abstract
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SummaryAt the time, Hughes was in the Soviet Union, touring its various countries and
struggling to put together the film “Black and White” with some fellow writers and actors. The manuscript Hughes sent Van Vechten that spring was some of Hughes’ most radical work. It praised Soviet government and ways of life while criticizing America’s hypocrisy and pride. Van Vechten’s criticism, however, was less about the actual content of the poems and more about Hughes’ apparent naive revolutionary fervor. He seemed concerned with Hughes’ lack of poetic imagery and the overall impression it would make on his readers. “It even seems a little ironic to me to ask a capitalist publisher to publish a book which is so very revolutionary and so little poetic in tone,” Van Vechten wrote. Hughes disagreed with Van Vechten’s impression of the manuscript, saying of the
poems, “I like some of them as well as anything I ever did.”
struggling to put together the film “Black and White” with some fellow writers and actors. The manuscript Hughes sent Van Vechten that spring was some of Hughes’ most radical work. It praised Soviet government and ways of life while criticizing America’s hypocrisy and pride. Van Vechten’s criticism, however, was less about the actual content of the poems and more about Hughes’ apparent naive revolutionary fervor. He seemed concerned with Hughes’ lack of poetic imagery and the overall impression it would make on his readers. “It even seems a little ironic to me to ask a capitalist publisher to publish a book which is so very revolutionary and so little poetic in tone,” Van Vechten wrote. Hughes disagreed with Van Vechten’s impression of the manuscript, saying of the
poems, “I like some of them as well as anything I ever did.”
«Through the use of the character Daniel Quinn, author Paul Auster is arguing against the idea that identity is static and also against the idea that surveillance is perfect. This paper explores the complex life of Quinn by taking a good look at...» Document abstract
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SummaryThrough the use of the character Daniel Quinn, author Paul Auster is arguing against the idea that identity is static and also against the idea that surveillance is perfect. This paper explores the complex life of Quinn by taking a good look at every character that he tries to become. It starts out by speaking about the fake author name that Quinn created to write under, William Wilson. Then it moves to speak about the character of Max Work who Quinn idolizes. Work is everything that Quinn wishes he was and from living through the eyes of Work for so long, Quinn knows how to act like a detective when the time comes for him to impersonate Paul Auster. The final character that Quinn lives through is the before mentioned Auster. He takes on a case pretending he is this man and the experiences he has change his emotional and mental identity very drastically by the end of the novel.
The next section of this paper focuses on how surveillance is never 100% effective. Author Auster illustrates that this is his viewpoint by having Quinn do some surveying of his own. Quinn has problems from the beginning of his detective work when he is trying to follow the elder Peter Stillman around the city. He then goes on a long stakeout where Quinn has the trouble that any person on stakeout would have – not being able to see everything at every second. These are the two most noteworthy instances that are referenced in this paper and point out how surveillance can never be counted on to work.
The next section of this paper focuses on how surveillance is never 100% effective. Author Auster illustrates that this is his viewpoint by having Quinn do some surveying of his own. Quinn has problems from the beginning of his detective work when he is trying to follow the elder Peter Stillman around the city. He then goes on a long stakeout where Quinn has the trouble that any person on stakeout would have – not being able to see everything at every second. These are the two most noteworthy instances that are referenced in this paper and point out how surveillance can never be counted on to work.
«Domestic and social propriety are the most important concerns of wives of the era exemplified in The Canterbury Tales. Volumes of texts -- also known as deportment books -- are used to expound on domestic and social propriety and to teach young...» Document abstract
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SummaryDomestic and social propriety are the most important concerns of wives of the era exemplified in The Canterbury Tales. Volumes of texts -- also known as deportment books -- are used to expound on domestic and social propriety and to teach young women the expectations of women in general, and in the confines of marriage. The information in these deportment books cite laws, social mores, and the Bible to procure the husband’s position as head of the household. In The Franklin’s Tale Dorigen exhibits a form of social propriety that is most congruent with the social mores of the time in which The Canterbury Tales was written. On the other hand, Alisoun, The Wife of Bath, exhibits none of these conventions, and instead uses her own financial success and personal experience to invalidate the conventions set forth by the church and men in power. Dorigen and Alisoun are archetypal extreme opposites in the spectrum of domestic and social propriety.
«When China Ruled the Seas is a discourse on the histories of China’s naval prowess. The book begins with early Chinese history, detailing China’s first ships, and the somewhat disputable evidence of China’s colonization and exploration of places...» Document abstract
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SummaryWhen China Ruled the Seas is a discourse on the histories of China’s naval prowess. The book begins with early Chinese history, detailing China’s first ships, and the somewhat disputable evidence of China’s colonization and exploration of places such as Japan, North America, Australia, and the Pacific Isles. It even mentions possible evidence that China may have made great impacts on Central and South American cultures. This is all outlined with histories of great migrations of peoples within the Chinese states.
«According to Jane Donawerth in Frankenstein’s Daughters, the only way for women to write science fiction, is for them to change the rules. This is certainly the case with Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”. In Butler’s Nebula award winning short story,...» Document abstract
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SummaryAccording to Jane Donawerth in Frankenstein’s Daughters, the only way for women to write science fiction, is for them to change the rules. This is certainly the case with Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”. In Butler’s Nebula award winning short story, Butler tells the tale of Gan, a young boy who has been raised to bear the children of a controlling alien species. Although the subject of human slavery and surrogate mothers is nothing new to science fiction, men bearing children is. If you look at “Bloodchild” through Donawerth’s eyes, you can see the many changes that Butler had to make to ensure her story would be enticing enough for the average science fiction reader.
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