Alcoholic Vail In many Hemingway novels and short stories‚ excessive drinking generally plays a major role in the relationships between the characters. This is very apparent in “Hills Like White Elephants” and The Sun Also Rises. The alcohol provides a gateway for the for the characters to forget about their personal problems‚ as well as‚ act out against their problems and short comings. In “Hills Like White Elephants‚” both the girl and the American man drink alcoholic beverages all throughout
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10 Literary Criticism approach An Overview of Approaches The Three-fold Purpose of Criticism: To help us solve a problem in the reading. To help us sift between and resolve conflicting readings. To enable us craft interpretative‚ yet scholarly judgments about literature. 1. Historical / Biographical Approach: Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times). H/B approach deems it necessary to know about the
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The relationship between the characters Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes in the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway can be viewed as a tragic relationship‚ or one with elements that make the relationship complicated for those involved in it. These two fictional characters are living in Paris during a time between the first and second World Wars‚ prior to the Great Depression that struck Europe and the United States. These characters’ infatuation with each other is limited due to a war injury
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Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is an American veteran of World War I who lives and works in Paris as a newsman. Jake Barnes is the typical Hemingway Code Hero in this novel‚ but he does fail to meet certain aspects of the code. First‚ he is not a man in the traditional sense of the word. Due to a wound in WWI‚ he is essentially sexless. The Hemingway code hero indulges in all aspects of the word pleasure‚ mainly those of alcohol and women. Second‚ he breaks the Hemingway code
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Pragmatic Literary Criticism Pragmatic criticism is concerned‚ first and foremost‚ with the ethical impact any literary text has upon an audience. Regardless of art ’s other merits or failings‚ the primary responsibility or function of art is social in nature. Assessing‚ fulfilling‚ and shaping the needs‚ wants‚ and desires of an audience should be the first task of an artist. Art does not exist in isolation; it is a potent tool for individual as well as communal change. Though pragmatic
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or subliminal messages hidden inside of kids movies and books. However what is the point in these hidden objects if the story isn’t even understood itself and it hasn’t been viewed in a different literary lense? The movie “The Lorax” could easily be used with any of the four lenses of literary criticism. The story is most likely going to be viewed by Marxist critics because the dictators and leaders in the movie and how they impact the story much more significantly than the others. The story has
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The Moon Also Rises. What if it would not? An essay on the effects of the moon on the earth‚ life‚ humanity and modern society. “Just like moons and like suns‚ With the certainty of tides‚ Just like hopes springing high‚ Still I’ll rise”‚ writes Maya Angelou in 1978‚ believing in the certainty of the moon spinning endlessly around the earth‚ giving us light in the darkest of times. Could you even imagine a world without a moon? A world in which the black of night would only be interrupted by countless
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In Perry Westbrook’s literary criticism on Kurt Vonnegut‚ Westbrook states that Vonnegut emerged as one of the most influential and provocative writers in America during the 1960s. He supports this point by using examples of stories written by Vonnegut and giving a summary of each story he provides. Westbrook also talks about recurring ideas and themes in Vonnegut’s stories and Vonnegut’s ideals. The first point he brings up is how Vonnegut describes himself as a total pessimist and his stories
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Both Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” relate to the theme of hopelessness during the lost generation. Remarque’s story is set during the war from a younger German soldier‚ Paul‚ through him the suffering and difficulties are presented as fruitless and with out a main goal to look forward to when they return home. Throughout the military travels of the younger soldiers like Paul‚ Remarque’s view on wars disadvantages on people are clearly stated through
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The sun also rises is a book about people that live in France that visit Spain. Most people of the groups have been affected by world war II whether it is physically or mentally. The main characters were named Robert Cohn‚ Jake Barnes‚ and brett. Two of the three have been affected by the war. Robert Cohn was the control group of the book because he was the only one of the group that didn’t go to war. Robert Cohn went to college instead of the war “Oh‚ cut out the prep-school stuff.”(HEMINGWAY‚ 47)
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