Post-Apocalyptic Hierarchies: A Marxist Criticism of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road The storm of post-apocalyptic novels has taken much of the literary world by storm in the past century or so. This does not stop just there‚ of course‚ it branches so far into other media that the storyline of a human life following the collapse of the world as we know it is not at all an unfamiliar one. Movies‚ video games‚ and the traditional books have all taken their own look at this interesting offshoot of (science)
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Authors often use their works to convey criticisms of society. Such works of literature do not directly criticize specific real people or events. They do however present a sense of the writer’s concern with issues of social injustice and misguided values. Two strong examples of social criticism through literature are Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In both novels the writers project their social criticisms to the reader through the use of characterization
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Critics of the New Deal The New Deal aroused criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. The right criticized it for not being extremely socialist. Meanwhile‚ the left believed it was not liberal enough. Before the New Deal‚ the government did not intervene with the economy massively. The conservatives were supporters of such concept because they believed in the laissez-faire economics. Nonetheless‚ when president Roosevelt proposed the New deal‚ they felt the president was aiming to impel
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In tandem with literacy‚ literature has become one of the leading vehicles for social criticism in American history. It amplifies the author’s voice‚ reverberating it throughout the nation‚ molding the history of America by changing the opinions of the people on certain issues. It can induce cries of hope and merriment‚ like John Winthrop’s sermon A Model of Christian Charity‚ which speaks about the optimistic prospect of America as the “City upon a Hill” (Winthrop‚ 84). But it can also elicit the
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Philosopher Robert Louden presented a criticism of virtue ethics. Rather than arguing that virtue ethics as a moral theory is wrong‚ Louden argues that the agent-centeredness of values ethics fails to provide adequate guidance for the action of the agent‚ thereby making the theory useless and disregardable. Louden’s first criticism is that virtue ethics does not allow for actions to be viewed separately from the agent (Louden‚ 228). This focus on virtues and not actions result poses a problem when
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spilled over the question of whether the world-view of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic or not‚ and appropriately so. To my mind‚ this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity‚ from a philosophical perspective‚ it must address such issues. True cinematic geniuses (e.g.‚ Bergman‚ Antonioni‚ Wertmuller‚ Hitchcock and Cronenberg‚ to name only a few) have something to teach us about the meaning of life
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There are rules‚ trends‚ theories even rubrics that clearly indicate what we believe is to be right‚ wrong‚ acceptable‚ and what is frowned upon. Yet it is a combination of these criticisms to which the world generally adapts to. Lois Gould’s short story “X” combines all of these aspects‚ by portraying various criticism such as psychoanalytical‚ cultural‚ and Marxist‚ through a scientific machine called the Superpsychiamedicosocioculturometer. Difficult to pronounce‚ this wondrous and well-trusted
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Essay of ‘New Criticism’ Approach and its Application on Jake Allsop’s “Gossip” Aditya Rizky Ramatio Yuni Astuti Edwin Yogi Andrean Laksmi Nuraningsih Literary Criticism Wednesday‚ 13.00 – 14.40 p.m. ‘New Criticism’ Upon close examination of these discussion questions‚ a distinct pattern or methodology quickly becomes evident. This interpretative model begins with a close analysis of the poem’s individual words‚ including both denotative and connotative meanings‚ and then move to a discussion
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Michael Prather 12/4/08 Essay #2 The Objectification of Women in “On the Road” A Feminist Criticism In On the Road there is an ever-present objectification of women. As a result‚ the woman loses her human qualities and can be compared to an inanimate object. There are several ways in which this objectification takes form in the novel. It is achieved through the act of gazing at women. The woman can also be used as a means to achieve something else‚ in this case sensual pleasure. Since the culture
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3. Method‚ Material and Source Criticism In this section the process of choosing cases will be presented. The method that was used will be included‚ as well as its pros and cons. Furthermore‚ the material will be described and a source criticism will be combined with this. 3.1 Comparative Method Comparative analysis means to weight two or more different aspects against each other in order to find similarities and differences. Within comparative analysis there is something that is called “lens”
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