Recommended: Duality in literature
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the point of view of an indecisive, self-conscious young man is given. He is constantly questioning himself and has a fear of introducing himself to people and into relationships. The author illustrates the difficulties of overcoming self-doubt and insecurities by using personification in order to stretch the boundaries of reality and make the poem more understandable, using similes to create distinct images throughout the poem, and using symbols to connect the speaker’s thoughts together in one piece, all conveying the damage one’s mind can cause to their own personal image. Eliot begins by deploying personification in order to further the reader’s understanding of the poem and convey the speaker’s perspective of life around him. Specifically, the speaker uses personification whenever he personifies the yellow fog as a cat-like creature.
Finally, their inability to change the society because of the people around them is shown by the deaths of their identities. Even though all three works, The Catcher in the Rye, Othello, and Rebel without a Cause, were published more than 50 years ago, the limitation and marginalization by the society of abilities of people due to their unique identities still happen
Black Diggers is a play written by Tom Wright about the indigenous Australians who fought in World War II and their previously forgotten stories. The Ideas and themes involved in the text circle around two main points. The first is the inferiority of non-indigenous Australians in the play which can be seen by all the non-indigenous characters who aren’t called by their names. The second is the injustice shown towards non-indigenous soldiers due to discrimination and violence throughout the play. These arguments are evident in the old soldier’s monologue which was set in 1956.
The mainstream ideologies that are being represented and challenged by the composer is present in the text,'Blackrock', published by Nick Enright in 1995. He created the play to raise social awareness and to also inform the audience to revaluate our social attitudes in order to sustain a safer, better environment for its people. This can also be seen in the poem, 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow', composed by Les Murray, the text intends to change the social attitudes people value and raise concern for one's social welfare. The visual image given also explores the similar ideas to what Blackrock is critiquing. The major mainstream ideas that are being represented and challenged are masculinity, mate ship and
As a college student, Emily Vallowe wrote a literacy narrative with a play on words title: “Write or Wrong Identity.” In this work, she told the story of how she believed her confidence as a writer developed; however, she was becoming dubious as to her distinctiveness as an author. Although I have never been a self-proclaimed wordsmith as Ms. Vallowe obviously had been for years, I related to her journey. Not only did she grow up in Northern Virginia like I did, she never considered herself an inept writer—a possibility that I could not fathom about myself. Then, at some point, we both began to question our own ability and to question who we really were.
In modern society, there are an endless number of situations and outcomes that any one person could face in their lives. How this roadblock is dealt with or the perspective it is looked at with, decides the path on which the person will maintain and follow. The poem, Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver is powerful because the author uses strong imagery to create a more personal experience for readers while focusing on the human tendency of responding to limitations. Through the narrator in Wild Geese, Oliver presents the idea that people face limitations everyday, yet they should not hold themselves accountable and that these should not restrict how a person experiences everything around them or views their self-worth.
Don DeLillo’s White Noise provides an immense amount of commentary on narratives and the postmodern condition. His protagonist, Jack Gladney narrates a brief portion of his and his families lives. Jack uses narratives to try to make sense of his identity, and the world of simulacrum in which they live. However, the grand narrative that Jack desires to help him make meaning of both his life and his death is out of place in the postmodern order. Through exploring this conflict, White Noise demonstrates how society is in need of a contemporary narrative that encompasses our ever changing world.
I was very skeptical of John Green’s other books because of his acclaimed fame from The Fault in our Stars. Reading the cover of the book you can gain a small connection wit the main character Miles, because as teenagers we need to find ourselves through every flaw. From the very first chapter it captures you, because at one point in our lives we have all searched for ourselves and a not-so-minor-life. This book is 100 percent real life, written out in this book is the actual difficulties of growing into a better you, facing your fears, and the fears of all the people around you. John Green shows the ugly truth of life and growing up, it was hard not to feel connected.
On the chance that one is born in to a world of godless gloom, without religion and no path to salvation, a bleak and heavy hopelessness is bound to be engrained in the way of the land. T.S. Eliot paints a picture of a woeful world of despair where the “hollow men” live solely with religious reverie and of salvation in slumber. By joining literary methods of imagery, tone, and diction in his poem, “The Hollow Men,” the hopelessness is visible all over the whole poem, and is established as the poem’s theme with the utilization of the previously mentioned literary techniques. First, T.S. Eliot employs the poetic instrument of imagery in “The Hollow Men,” which performs the purpose of conjuring the sense of hopelessness to the audience to express the hopelessness of the world. The imagery presented paints a prospect of perishing and purification.
In Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, we meet many characters such as Ugwu, a village boy, Odenigbo, a professor and Olanna, who is an educated woman, in a relationship with Odenigbo. Through many ways, the language used is linked to what the characters represent. For instance, Olanna and Odenigbo represent different aspects of women and men respectively, while Ugwu encompasses village boys who have sexual desires and who also have dreams. The events of the war gradually change the mindset of the characters and this is perceived through how Adichie makes use of language. Igbo, being not only a language, but a culture in itself is thoroughly present in the text.
Toni Morrison, the first black women Nobel Prize winner, in her first novel, The Bluest Eye depicts the tragic condition of the blacks in racist America. It examines how the ideologies perpetuated by the dominant groups and adopted by the marginal groups influence the identity of the black women. Through the depictions of white beauty icons, Morrison’s black characters lose themselves to self-hatred. They try to obliterate their heritage, and eventually like Pecola Breedlove, the child protagonist, who yearns for blue eyes, has no recourse except madness. This assignment focusses on double consciousness and its devastating effects on Pecola.
Ayn Rand’s character Howard Roark possesses a strong devotion to his title as a creator who refuses to let his work or himself reflect the world and rather lets the world reflect him. His persistency comes across (reword) unrealistic to people as his capability to not let his true human spirit to be compromised by the world, people’s collective opinions, and societal norms is perceived as unattainable by people. A true expression of oneself, whether it be through music, writing, architecture, or any other forms of art, has never failed to become tainted and impressioned upon by society; Roark’s second employer Henry Cameron understood the importance of a man’s true ideas without the presence of worldly influence, how an idea kept protected
The consequences of the aestheticism movement and more specifically, self-indulgence, are not only prominent in the novel but also in Wilde’s own life.
Although Eliot contested feminism in her time, claiming to be “a daughter of the fathers” (Mitchell 14), her novels nonetheless strive to give a realistic depiction of social outsiders and small town persecution .Rather than creating “silly novels by lady novelists [who] rarely introduce us into any other than very lofty and fashionable society” (Eliot 1856), Eliot challenges the representations of dark women in traditional English society, much like a late Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea, detailing their hardships and unpleasant endings. Therefore, in analysing what Philip terms as Maggie’s “long suicide” (Eliot 429), I aim to uncover the years of societal abuse dark women endured in European society,
Green in contrast to the blue of the sky.” Water, sky and earth are integral parts of this remarkable, profound novel about the complex emotional adaptation to the ramifications of a
