Exploring the Irony of The Age of Innocence Title In the aftermath of the First World War‚ Edith Wharton wrote the timeless novel The Age of Innocence‚ serving as a flashback to the period in which Wharton herself was raised. The Age of Innocence story takes place in upper-class New York society during the 1870s and highlights the distinctive social codes of the aristocratic class. Choosing the title The Age of Innocence to represent Wharton’s story is highly ironic due to the sinister characters
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Loss of Innocence in Lord of the Flies Every child will lose their innocence one day and it is something that is unavoidable. This happens when a child explores the real world and that they realize that it is nothing like a fairy tale. In the novel Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Golding‚ a group of English kids (five to twelve years old) are stranded on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This was caused by a horrible plane crash. They are stuck there with no help or any adults
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time that was the case. When the Creature kills a young boy‚ he is overjoyed. He did not know until then that he could kill. "I gazed on my victim‚" the Creature said‚ "and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands‚ I exclaimed‚ ’I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death shall carry despair to him‚ and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.’" The Creature thinks the boy is
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In Catcher in the Rye‚ the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is introduced to the readers as a troubled young who desperately wants to protect his youthful innocence. Because Holden constantly faces harsh realities of adulthood and world‚ he is even more compelled to protect innocence. He wants to protect not only his‚ but also those around him. Holden feels that childhood is something to be saved and kept‚ instead of learning the truth of adulthood since the adult world is an impure place that corrupt
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Innocence‚ or the loss of innocence‚ is a theme that permeates many great works of literature. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is no exception. The novel compares many of its characters to mockingbirds‚ a symbol of pure innocence. Two of the most prominent of the novel’s mockingbirds are Tom Robinson‚ a black man wrongly accused and convicted of rape‚ and Boo Radley‚ an outcast from society who spends his days like a hermit locked up in his house. Tom provides something beneficial to society
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In The Age of Innocence‚ Edith Wharton uses the minor character Ned Winsett‚ to contrast with the protagonist‚ Newland Archer. Newland Archer is a young lawyer from a rich New York family‚ living by conventions and sticking to the social order‚ on the other side of the spectrum is Ned Winsett‚ an unconventional journalist. While Archer is rich‚ Ned is poor; Archer thinks Ned is free to do whatever he pleases and is not held down by a strict social life like him. Ned Winsett serves as a character
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War Destroys Innocence Even though a book has far more space to talk about its thematic reason‚ there are many commonalities between books and poems. “All Quiet on the Western Front” was written by Erich Maria Remarque. The theme of the novel can be related to the theme of “Peace” by Rupert Brooke. The theme of both the novel and the book is “war destroys innocence”. The poem and the novel both display many examples of this. In “All Quiet on the Western Front” it explains how even though in
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the Flies and “Pilgrims” lose their innocence because they do not have authoritative figures in their life‚ but this eventually causes and leads to tragedy in both situations. In Lord of the Flies the majority of the boys’ loss of innocence transitions into the brutal savagery demonstrated‚ causing two deaths‚ which stems from the lack of adult authority. As the boys’ belief in the beast gradually increases‚ their innocence decreases. This descent from innocence ends with a catastrophic tragedy: the
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“Boys will be boys‚” a commonplace phrase that constitutes a diffusion of responsibility away from the male perpetrators of aggressive attitudes and behaviors‚ supports a dangerous rhetoric that a young male transitioning into adulthood will perform acts of aggression‚ display a detached and uncaring disposition‚ and develop attitudes of intense homophobia and sexism as part of a biological norm of that stage of adolescence‚ a stage of life comprising a larger and larger part of young man’s life
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and the snowman helped to develop the underlying idea of social and racial prejudice in the text. This idea showed how prejudice can become ingrained within a community and how that can affect innocent people subsequently presenting the idea of innocence. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of how prejudice‚ when ingrained within a person‚ can cloud and impair their way of thinking. This novel is set in the mid 1930’s in the fictional town of Maycomb. This was an era where racial prejudice
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