While no major events take place in the opening chapter of Ulysses, it remains an important one because it introduces the elements that will play out as the novel continues.
While no major events take place in the opening chapter of Ulysses, it remains an important one because it introduces the elements that will play out as the novel continues. In relation to the rest of the novel, the opening chapter raises a series of questions that the reader expects the remainder of the novel to build on. The full significance of many of these events are not apparent in the opening chapter, but they reveal their importance as the novel progresses. These elements introduced include the characters of Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, the major problem of Stephen Dedalus, and the setting. Each of these will now be considered in turn, both describing how they are presented in the opening chapter, and how this links to the remainder of the novel. Joyce also highlights the relationship between Mulligan and Stephen: In the opening chapter of Ulysses Mulligan links his arm in Stephen's....both listed as characters for the Telemachus episode on one of the Ulysses note-sheets, an indication of the importance Joyce attached to Stephen's association of the two companions.1 Buck Mulligan is the first character introduced in the Telemachus episode, he is the flatmate of Stephen and in many ways, represents an opposite to Stephen. He is extroverted, has little self-awareness or conscious, and appears to be much better off with this character than Stephen is with
Discuss the language of religion in Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" in relation to one another and to the various uses of language in general, taking into account the importance of this language
Discuss the language of religion in Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" in relation to one another and to the various uses of language in general, taking into account the importance of this language in an Irish context. When attempting to formulate concrete lists that define the usages of language, one of the first usages that frequently arises is 'language to inform'. Another frequently mentioned usage is 'language to persuade', and the list goes on for far longer than this besides. Along with various forms of media, as well as human speech itself, religion is no stranger to the use of language (written and spoken) to its own advantage. When combined with the 'language question', which is constantly up for discussion in Irish history, the issue becomes further convoluted. There is much to be said about how James Joyce and Frank McCourt treat these issues in their respective novels (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [hereafter referred to as Portrait for brevity] and Angela's Ashes), even though this is by no means the principal topic of either novel. The main discussion shall centre on the language of religion and how both authors present it, but for some of the paper, the importance of the Irish language itself in a religious context shall be given due attention. In terms of language and Christian belief, one
Orwell & Marx Animalism vs. Marxism
Orwell & Marx Animalism vs. Marxism ³Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism, quotes George Orwell in the preface to the 1956 Signet Classic edition of Animal Farm. The edition, which sold several millions copies, however, omitted the rest of the sentence: and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.² It is in Animal Farm, written in 1944 but not published until after World War Two in 1945, which Orwell offers a political and social doctrine whose ideas and ideols can be seen in all of his proceeding works. In an essay published in the summer of 1946 entitled Why I Write,² Orwell claimed to have been motivated over the preceding ten years by a desire to make political writing into an art.² In the essay, he states that in Animal Farm he had for the first time in his writing career consciously tried to achieve this goal ‹ to harmonize political concerns with artistry² (Twayne, 17). Orwell, however, for reasons such as the omitted portion of his preface and misreadings of his novels, has been mislabeled a traitor of Socialism or a hero to the right wing by theorists and critics. His book, besides a parody of Stalinist Russia, intends to show that Russia was not a true democratic Socialist country. Looked at carefully, Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions
A literary and linguistic comparative study of three treatments
A literary and linguistic comparative study of three treatments of the theme of the dichotomy that exists between country and city life, especially with regards relationships. Texts used for this study: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City Word Count 3601 INTRODUCTION The dichotomy that exists between city and country life is a theme that many writers have been drawn towards across the centuries, not least since the Industrial Revolution. Typically, the country is associated with idyllic life, a place with a strong sense of community, where relationships are wholesome and meaningful and life ambles past at a leisurely pace, uncomplicated and relatively trouble free. In contrast, city life is most often portrayed as being full of complexities, where individuals work hard and play hard, and where life is self-orientated and relationships are often futile. Through a literary and linguistic comparative study of their works, Great Expectations, The Waste Land, and Tales of the City, respectively, I will attempt to show how Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Armistead Maupin deal with this theme, showing to what extent the depiction of city and country life within these texts corresponds or contrasts with the stereotype. In so doing, I will concentrate most fully on the relationships hat exist between the
Moll Flanders essay - marriage and wealth, a moral issue.
MOLL FLANDERS ESSAY: MARRIAGE & WEALTH: A MORAL ISSUE Moll describes the dark fate of children of criminals. Without any system to protect them, they are thrown into the world with no training in any subject and no goal other than starvation or the same life of crime that ended so badly for their parents. Moll's mother had been sentenced to death for having stolen three pieces of cloth. Moll herself was very lucky to be taken in: the parish, the area served by one church, were under no obligation to take care of penniless children who were not born there, or had no other particular claim to charity: "I was not a parish charge upon this or that part of the town by law." Indeed the parish officers tried to find the gypsies in order to send Moll back to them, even though they were unrelated to her and she did not like them. Legally, they could have sent her out to starve: she was saved only by their compassion. Once Moll was taken in, her troubles had not end. An eight-year old child could be made to work all day as a powerless "drudge to some cook maid," learning no useful skills and earning no more than an almost suitable income. Sewing and spinning was not much better: even working all the time, a woman could not earn a living. Moll's pay, "three pence when I spin, and four pence when I work plain work," would not even pay for her food, much less room or clothing. When her
Compare and contrast the way imprisonment is presented in The Bell Jar and One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest
Compare the ways in which imprisonment is presented in The Bell Jar and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both of these books are 'products of both the personal experiences of the author...and the specific culture in which they were written.' Thus both reflect on the gender roles during the 1950's and the struggle the protagonists had to endure in a struggling society. Ken Kesey, the younger of two sons, was born in on September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. While at Stanford, he participated in experience involving chemicals at the psychology department to earn extra money. These chemicals included psilocybin, mescaline and LSD. It was this experience that fundamentally altered Kesey, personally and professionally. While working as an orderly at the psychiatric ward of the local VA hospital, Kesey began to have hallucinations about an Indian sweeping the floors. This formed the basis for 'Chief Broom' in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. In 1953, Sylvia returned home to her Boston suburb after working at a fashion magazine internship, where she made her first suicide attempt and was hospitalized for psychotherapy; these events, among other biographical details, are paralleled in The Bell Jar. One flew over the Cuckoo's nest explores the themes of individuality and rebellion against conformity, ideas that
Both the film 'Snow Falling on Cedars' directed by Scott Hicks and the novel 'The Sea and Poison' written by Shusaku Endo embody and expose issues of racism and give the reader or audience a sense of the consequences of such hatred in different ways.
Essay Both the film 'Snow Falling on Cedars' directed by Scott Hicks and the novel 'The Sea and Poison' written by Shusaku Endo embody and expose issues of racism and give the reader or audience a sense of the consequences of such hatred in different ways. Hick's film is about a trial that reveals the prejudice that people have towards Japanese-Americans. A community that concentrated a variety of ethnicity, among them was both Whites and Japanese. As a result of the racial differences, racism has come into existences and has impacted the life of both children and adult in that isolated island called San Piedro. It is responsible for the internment of Kabuo, Hatsue, and their families to the camps during World War 2, the break-up of Hatsue and Ishmael, Kabuo's loss of his land, and perhaps for his indictment for murder. Whereas Endo's novel uses the case of the vivisections performed on the US POW to symbolise the brutality, of such uncivilised prejudice. Although both challenge racism face-to-face, Hicks' film cannot be underestimated with the effect it has. Not only is the theme of racism present within the central story of the film but it is also seen within the smaller romantic and social stories. Endo's novel on the other hand does convey strong racial themes but to the reader there are also issues relating to ethnic bias which in some parts tends to overwhelm the
Compare 'The Woman's Rose', 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Necklace'.
GCSE: Pre Twentieth Century Prose Essay. Compare 'The Woman's Rose', 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Necklace'. In a time where woman's views were seldom heard Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin and Olive Schreiner give life to three woman's struggles against the patriarchal society they live in. The writers three different views, which are compared in; 'The Necklace', 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Woman's Rose' help shed light on the experiences of women in the nineteenth century. I will focus on comparing the treatment of love and romance, the way society is structured and the way it looks upon these three women and their personal expectations at the time. I will look at how the writers develop hope and surprise in their stories, how they use symbolism and to what affect is it used. Then I shall compare the writer's styles and the purpose to which they use literary techniques. I shall finally conclude my essay by stating the main arguments of my essay and what the reader learns about the percentage of women in the nineteenth century. The theme of love and romance is prominent in all three stories however there is a negative view on it in each one. In 'The Woman's Rose' the unnamed woman does not like the way women are proposed to without being in love and is completely dissatisfied with the way in which the romantic attention she gets is superficial as the reader can see
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Emotional Education in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice “Words don’t come easy”: Emotional Education in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Bettina Rad BA in English Studies University of Pannonia Author’s note: Faculty of Modern Philology and Social Sciences Institute of English and American Studies Consultant: Dr. Andrea Szabó F. Abstract This study sets out to investigate non-verbal communication, generally underestimated, with a view to the theme of emotional education in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I claim that body motions, paralanguage and self presentation occupy a pivotal role in how Austen’s heroine teaches her hero to express his emotions, faithful to the novel’s generic indebtedness to the female gothic romance. First, I will give the definitional framework of my analysis relying on G.W. Porter’s theory of nonverbal communication. Second, I introduce the categories of physical and aesthetic nonverbal communication. In the next section I provide a close reading of the nonverbal interactions of Austen’s main characters, such as body-language, gestures, postures, music, and dancing. As a conclusion, I claim, that nonverbal communication proves to be an integral part of the novel’s discourse; no wonder, it has served as a blueprint for generations of readers in “speaking without words”. “Words don’t come easy”: