the idea of equality was taken to the extreme. Satire is also used to exaggerate how awful equality is to persuade readers to believe that total equality will violate human rights. Kurt Vonnegut also uses symbols such as handicaps which make everyone equal and Harrison Bergeron to display the lack of freedom present in a world of total equality.
In “38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” heard and witness a woman getting murdered. The citizens do too little to help the victim. The majority of residents do nothing to help the victim. When the residents finally did something, it was too late. Martin Ginsberg’s “38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” argues that society has moral apathy.
In an excerpt from her novel We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates uses disorganized syntax, detailed imagery, and repetition to characterize the speaker, Judd Mulvaney, as a young, curious boy, coming-of-age and suddenly aware of his maturity and of the realities of life. In the excerpt, Oates uses disorganized and unusual syntax to display the enormity of Judd’s revelation, thus alluding to his sudden awareness and depicting him as a young boy shocked by the brevity of life. As Judd comes to terms with the fact that one day he will die, he becomes disturbed by the reality that death is inevitable and his heart rate quickens. He interrupts his sentence to describe its rhythm: “ONEtwothree ONEtwothree!”.
.”(6). The climax of the novella correlates to this too- it is when Equality 7-2521 finally discovers the word “I” and starts using it when he says, “I am. I think. I will.”
“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal”1 is a statement that in the mouth of the American writer should sound at least victorious. However, Kurt Vonnegut in the opening line of his dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron creates a highly ironical declaration, which he later ridicules by the following story. The author who gained his fame by writing the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, describes the world supposedly equal and free, but entirely bound by the laws that command the lives of people. That describes also fairly well the second short story 2 B R 0 2 B, which title refers to the famous phrase “to be or not to be”2 from William Shakespeare 's Hamlet, as mentioned in the text, “the trick telephone number that people who didn 't
We” (2-3. 4-6). The poem also seems to show symbolism with the number
Firstly, the speaker is the one who is telling the poem
"We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever’”(Rand 19). In Ayn Rand’s dystopian novel, Anthem, the citizens are trained from birth to think only in the plural, to the point where they cannot even conceive of individuals, but only see each other as part of the whole group. Rand’s protagonist, Equality 72521, begins the novel as a street-sweeper who is devoted to the group, but begins to move towards individuality as he progresses towards pure selfishness, as Rand believes we all should. Rand uses the words “we” and “I” to represent Equality’s journey from being dependent on the group, to being utterly independent of everyone.
Through the poem’s tone, metaphors used, and symbols expressed the poem portrays that fear can make life seem charred or obsolete, but in reality life propels through all seasons and obstacles it faces. The poem begins with a tone of conversation, but as it progresses the tone changes to a form of fear and secretiveness. The beginning and ending line “we tell
Each section contains a different tone and advice. Rilke meticulously picks specific words and phrases to effectively put together the first letter. The word choice used portrays a message connotatively and denotatively. Throughout “Letter One,” two central ideas emerge: individuality is the most important thing in writing and beauty comes from within your soul. Rilke’s word choice develops the two central ideas and establishes tone throughout the three sections.
A particular phrase used constantly by Didion in her essay is I. The phrase I is the basis on which Didion develops her essay on. The title itself revolves around the subject I, negating all other opinions. Didion mentions that “writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people”. Similarly in writing, the phrase I is an unambiguous word that gives the authority to the writer so that the writer can share their story.
The story, “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of a world where there is controlled population, old aged and diseases were overcome, and the world was seemingly positive. In this place humans call their home, certain people volunteer to ie, and the population continued to stay controlled. The Wehling family are expecting three triplets, but they must need to find 3 people to sacrifice. Dr.Hitz, Leora Duncan, and the father of the newborn children are killed, with the painter creating an amazing mural willing to be killed after seeing all the deaths unfold. This leads to the question, is the world really worth sacrificing yourself for others?
Therefore, he does not agree with Emerson that the two souls must be on the same spiritual level because you can connect to anyone who has a body and since everyone has a body, you can and should connect to everyone. The last part of this quote also reinforces the importance of self-acceptance and your sense of self because nothing, not even God, is greater than yourself. He also continuously sees himself in others and identifies with everyone throughout his poem, showing the importance of relationships and connectedness which arises from his belief that the self is both soul and body. Overall, self and identity are intriguing topics that many people want to know more about. Everyone wants to know who he or she is, and your identity allows you to understand yourself better.
His use of words like “battering ram” and “boom burst” are creating even more suspense. As a woman, I found the poem very unsettling. He writes about rape in a very blunt way, he is very expressive and that made the poem quite disturbing to
Whitman’s experience as a wound-dresser at the time of the war gave him a unique perspective of the men and women on the front lines. One way he shows the realism is through his free verse style that doesn’t have a rhyming pattern or many other traditional poetry rules. This gives his poetry sort of an edge that lets the realism come through. The way Whitman gets the audience’s attention in his free verse style is through repetition of words that rhyme but with no necessary order. One example of this is his use of the first-person pronoun I in “The Wound-Dresser” for example at the beginning of most stanzas Whitman starts out by saying “I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep, … I dress the perforated shoulder, … I am faithful, I do not give out” (Levine 78).
