In the short stories “The Pedestrian” and “The Whole Towns Sleeping” by Ray Bradbury the idea of conformity is shown with the usage of characterisation in the short story “The Whole Town’s sleeping” with the characterisation of Lavinia Nebss. Similarly in the short story “The Pedestrian” the usage of imagery is portrayed through the description of the deserted town and the enslavement of people due to the introduction of television to present the idea of conformity.…
The book starts off by explaining about how a fence, New York City that was built to protect the Colonial settlement against the French and Indian raiders. Dutch Village of New Amsterdam was an expanding town in Manhattan Island that guarded homes, gardens, and churchyards. A graveyard, north from this town, stood, that was assigned to African Americans that’s labeled, “Negros Burial Ground.” In 1990 the city of New York sold the burial ground for African American to the government to use as an office building, not knowing what was underneath. Scientist, from Howard University, formed a team to examine the graveyard in 1992, finding 420 remains of men, women, and children. A black musician, Noel Pointer, teamed with local groups to collect more than 100,000 signatures on a petition seeking landmarks status for the burial ground. Suffering from pain and not seeing thoughtful promises, the black heritage, in Colonial America, searched for a safe arrival and seeks help for survival in the strange new land.…
“ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” , “Nothing Gold can Stay”, and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” are modernist works. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner and Night are contemporary works. Modernism is modern thought, character, or practice. It is the modernist movement in the arts, the sets cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. Contemporary works are set and written in the time it was written. It makes use of literary styles or techniques. It works in a non traditional form, comments on itself, and can be personal.…
“ Vanity, it may be chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands” (Hawthorne 83). Some people put on these fancy clothes in order to cover up their own vanities and ugly inside hearts. It reveals the ugliness of the world also contrast with Hester helps the poor with her needlework but from her sincere motivations. From historical lens, it gives the readers an insight people were sought for their own goods and will regardless what others have to suffer in that period of time. Also it reveals how dark that age is and how many people play hypocritical roles while hurting others dramatically without noticing. From psychoanalytic lens, that author describes all the un-human natures in order to suggest the fully human conscience. Also it will reveal his own way to portray romantic objects and cherish human’s kind nature.…
In Erik Larson’s “Devil in the White City” his character Olmstead said “that we are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety.” This quote directly resonates with my life and how I subject myself and my body to physiological symptoms of anxiety, especially towards things that are not that serious. One task that causes me to feel uncomfortable is calling a stranger on the phone. I will delay making the call even if it’s regarding a minor question such as finding out the opening and closing times for a store. It’s on the edge of becoming a professional handicap, because calling is a useful way to get a faster reply. Still, I would rather opt for sending an email regardless of how time consuming it will be to get a response.…
Through the text ‘A Clean Well-Lighted Place’ we can very clearly see the ideas of Loneliness and living life in despair. I think that these themes are very relevant to the society around us. A lot of people are unable to form connections or lose connection in their lives. This leads to people being lonely, much like the main character in the story. An example of this in the text is when the two waiters at the café are sitting down, and talking to each other, they begin to talk about the old man, “He’s lonely. I am not lonely.” This is the younger waiter referring to the drunken old man; the only reason for the man being lonely is because he struggles with making connections as he is deaf.…
Other than dealing with the elitist society, the story also displays many features of modern literature. The main character’s obsession for material items and desire to gain wealth was another aspect of the story that made it very modernist. At a young age, he thought he was too young to work as a caddy and strived to obtain greater wealth. This was one of the main qualities of characters in the Modernism time.…
The young single working women experienced time and labor similar to men’s rather than married women’s. They needed to, as Peiss puts, “carve a sphere of pleasure”, out of daily life in the harsh conditions of the shop floor and the tenement. These young women found pleasure in dance halls, amusement parks, and movie theaters. The young women were not content with recreation at home so they went for “organized entertainment”. Dressing up nice, strolling the streets and staying late at amusement…
Strange New Land, offers a seemingly vast view of the presence of African Americans in present day North America. Mr. Wood describes the harsh and often brutal fate of African Americans during the colonization of America.…
The plot actually starts depicting a man, Utterson, who has been completely twisted by the very nature of the way the Victorian’s were in a very understated way, because even in his home he wasn’t comfortable to be who he was…He had to carry on being the person people expected him to be. ‘He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages.’ This is saying that he was very strict with himself even in the comfort…
The Victorian Era dress was very important. The men didn't have any kind of way they had to be dressed , but the women did. The women couldn't show their legs and had to be dressed properly before they went outside. The men could go out in public with her legs showing and not get in trouble for it because the Victorian Era wasn't really fair. To go outside women had to have children and they had to be a perfect women. If you weren't a perfect you couldn't be accepted into the Victorian Era…
Discussing his long poem “Letter to Lord Byron,” W.H Auden comments that Byron is “the right [recipient for the poem], I think, because he was a townee … and disliked Wordsworth and all that kind of approach to nature, and I find that very sympathetic.” This interest in the urban world manifests itself throughout Auden’s poetry. In “Letter to Lord Byron,” for example, Auden describes “tramlines and slag heaps, pieces of machinery.” In “Stop all the clocks,” he lingers over an image of “aeroplanes [that] circle moaning overhead.” In “Dover,” he modernizes his picture of a Norman castle with the descriptor, “flood-lit at night,” and in “There is no Change of Place,” he describes how “metals run, / Burnished or rusty in the sun, / From town to town.” Filled with trains and factories, vacant lots and city streets, Auden’s poetry is grounded not in the more timeless pastoral landscapes of his Romantic and Georgian predecessors but rather in an industrialized world shaped and re-shaped by the works of man.…
"from floor-length drapes which close out the world, from padded bras and rented suits, from any object in which horror is concealed." These few lines portray the reader seeking redemption from things that society uses to conceal the natural. The floor length drapes block out the sunlight and any curious eyes. They block out the outside that the speaker is seeking to glorify. The padded bras and rented…
In Victorian era, corset was seen as part of women’s life, as the narrowness of their waist defines their beauty. The discomfort brought was offset by the compliments from others, as the image of being weak and needing for protection could greatly increase their female charm. This phenomenon shows the importance of corset in women’s daily life and their self-identity. Before Victorian era, in the 17th century, even though corset was popular, it was only worn by upper-class women. In the18th century, even men in upper class would wear corsets to maintain the silhouette of their bodies and create the smooth lines that were seen as most fashionable during that time. These young men are called Dandies and the phenomenon is called Dandyism (d’Hamilton,…
He was alone in the work of AD2053. The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadows as he moved. In th e short story, the pedestrian Leonard lives in a society which being different could symbolize craziness and insanity. This is a society that is very strict and it believes in unity. Mr. mead’s society people who are different are not accurate. In the story because of andy’s royal jacket, 2 couples didn’t help him also. They were about to help Andy until they realized the royal letters on his jacket. Two couple didn’t help Andy because they don’t want to get into trouble. The jacket stands for the conflicts between gangs, the conflict between Andy and himself in terms of his identity.…