Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump are two demagogues who have inflicted fear upon Americans as a way to consolidate their own political power. A Junior Senator from Wisconsin in the late 1940s and early 1950s‚ Joseph McCarthy‚ intuitively understood that Americans tend to fear what they don’t understand. They fear those who don’t look familiar. They fear the unknown. During the Cold War he exploited American’s fear of Communism in order to create a cult-like following. Sadly‚ seventy years later‚
Premium United States World War II
Writers provide glimpses of other worlds‚ giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world To what extent do you agree with this view? The Road written by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy travelling down across what seems to be a bleak and dull land. In this book‚ we see a world that seems to have a bleak and dark future without a lot of hope. Land is somehow destroyed‚ perhaps by a natural cause. The cycle of seasons has been completely altered and
Premium Fiction Literature Short story
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels‚ spanning the Southern Gothic‚ Western‚ and Post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time‚ alongside Don DeLillo‚ Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth‚ and called Blood Meridian "the greatest
Premium
The Road written by Cormac McCarthy is a novel based on a post-apocalyptic setting. The story focuses on a father and a son. No names are given to either. But‚ the son does address his father as Papa. The father and the son are trying to survive not only by undertaking the constant struggle of getting the necessary means to live (water‚ food‚ etc.) but by surviving from the cannibals. The father and the son are traveling throughout the entirety of the novel. Before the wife had abandoned her husband
Premium Charlotte Perkins Gilman Short story Fiction
In this excerpt from The Crossing‚ by Cormac McCarthy‚ the subject has killed a wolf and is presently brooding over his feelings regarding the fallen creature. His thoughts are displayed in a rather convoluted manner‚ many of which offset one another‚ and can cause confusion for the reader. Fortunately‚ through the usage of diction‚ syntax‚ and imagery‚ McCarthy helps to convey the impact that the experience of the situation has on the main character. Diction plays an enormous role in expressing
Free Psychology Consciousness Style
you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them? While reading The Road‚ a novel written by Cormac McCarthy‚ I was jerked from the warmth‚ comfort‚ and safety of my home and thrown into a cold‚ dark‚ and desolate world‚ walking alongside “the man” and “the boy”. McCarthy composes his work so graphically that readers are drawn right into the story. I believe Cormac McCarthy wanted the
Premium The Road
Miller’s Reasoning on Writing the Crucible Both The Crucible and the McCarthy era were similar because Miller used the Salem Witch Trials of the Crucible to parallel what occurred during the McCarthy era. Miller was one of several writers that were blacklisted during the McCarthy time so he experienced being wrongfully accused of something‚ and he had no way to overcome the accusations. Miller wrote the Crucible to indirectly describe the events that were happening in the 1950’s‚ by showing the
Premium Salem witch trials The Crucible Witchcraft
“carrying the fire.” In the beginning of the novel‚ it’s clear that the only reason The Man is still alive is because he won’t “send [The Boy] into the darkness alone”constantly repeats this to his son to assure The Boy that he will not be alone (McCarthy 248). The Boy’s motivation for survival is his dad and being with his dad‚ he continuously insists that‚ “[The Man] won’t go away‚” and this helps him not feel alone‚ or abandoned like his mother had abandoned him soon after the birth of The Boy
Premium Fiction Literature The Road
imagine these feelings to the actual extent. In the book The Road‚ McCarthy is able to draw the readers in for them to experience the real emotions of living in a post-apocalyptic world. The readers are able to feel this fear and realness because McCarthy impersonalizes the two main characters and clearly depicts the differences of life before and after the traumatic experience. When speaking about the two main characters in the book‚ McCarthy uses no names. The small boy is referred to as “the boy”
Premium Emotion Feeling The Reader
1. How far do the sources agree about the amount of support that McCarthy had in the early 1950? It can be stated that there were 5000- 6000 fan letters sent to McCarthy‚ this suggest people were still supporting McCarthyism during the 1950‚ according to source A. However source A is a picture of a puzzled McCarthy with thousands of letters .As+ we cannot verify the supporting letters in source A ‚ it could also be said ‚ that the letters in the picture are hate letters. Thus the reliability
Premium United States Communism World War II