person. The theme is continued when he talks about the fencing team blaming him for loosing their fencing equipment. Pencey Prep‚ the school Holden attends is used within the novels setting to convey the theme of isolation‚ and can be seen as a Microcosm for society. Holden being expelled represents society rejecting Holden for his failure to conform. Holden is critical about education as a whole‚ and dislikes Pencey because‚ in his view‚ everything is phony Holden uses the word phony to identify
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American Gothic Fiction From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction American Gothic Fiction is a subgenre of Gothic Fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rational vs irrational‚ puritanism‚ guilt‚ Das Unheimliche (strangeness within the familiar as defined by Sigmund Freud)‚ abhumans‚ ghosts‚ monsters‚ and domestic abjection. The roots of these concepts lay in a past riddled with slavery‚ a fear of racial mixing (miscegenation)
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story is about what happens during their stay on the Island. In the first chapter the boys are all introduced‚ they are absolutely different to what they are like at the end of the novel. William Golding uses the Island symbolically making it a microcosm. The first sign of things going astray is in chapter 1 when Ralph starts to make fun of Piggy’s name and then tells the rest of the group of boys the name “Piggy” when he clearly told him not too. Already they break a simple rule in the ordinary
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Casablanca Introduction to Film English 225 Professor Stave September 29‚ 2008 Casablanca The movie‚ Casablanca‚ based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick’s‚” still captivates audiences around the world. This movie was a pleasurable afternoon of great movie watching. The setting of the movie is Casablanca‚ Morocco during the Second World War. Casablanca is the jump off point to get to Spain and then to America. I think that all four factors of a setting have an
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Double Indemnity The movie that I watched this week is a 1944 American film called‚ Double Indemnity. This film was directed by Billy Wilder‚ produced by Buddy Desylva and Joseph Sistrom and co-writen by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. The script was based off a 1943 novel with the same title and was written by James M. Cain. The film stars Fred MacMurray as Waler Neff an insurance salesman‚ Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson a housewife who wishes her husband dead and Edward G. Robinson
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The Modernist era was a time in which an array of cultural movements established substantial changes in the Western world‚ introducing an industrial society and challenging traditional cultural customs. T.S Eliot has been one of the most daring innovators of twentieth-century poetry‚ and believed that poetry should aim at a representation of the complexities of modern civilization. His poem ‘Preludes’ looks at the decay of the city as a result of ritual‚ futility and the effects of technological
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is the importance of the moral voice and how it can impact on the innocent minds of the children. “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960 and it reflected on the Civil Rights Movement. Maycomb‚ the setting of “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ is a microcosm of American Society as the Americans were amidst the Great Depression. Also‚ Martin Luther King referred to this time as being ‘sweltering’ with oppression. Since people at the time were trapped by other people’s opinions and developed a strong system
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of laws. Being surrounded by mysterious creatures in an unknown land‚ the stranded boys are left for dead. In the small world without adults‚ the boys slowly corrupt in to follow their instinct to satisfy their immediate desires. By being in a microcosm of society with no rules or restriction‚ the boys begin to seek absolute power. By setting the novel in an island without adults‚ Golding shows how civilization can quickly deteriorate into savagery. The theme of peace and democracy is thoroughly
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Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written in 1962‚ introduces us to Randall McMurphy. He too struggles with inner demons and mental illness. He is not found in a castle‚ but psychiatric ward which represents a microcosm of American society in the 1960s. McMurphy gambles‚ swears‚ and makes sexual remarks‚ all in which are forbidden. His defiance symbolizes a spark for change creating a ripple effect. McMurphy refuses to cooperate with the rules in his enclosed society
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Gender is a social construct‚ as in what is considered normal for each gender is determined by society‚ not nature. Thus‚ it is not strange to say that it is performed by both men and women. The performative nature of gender becomes very literal when considering that all actors‚ or players‚ during Shakespeare’s time were men‚ with female roles typically assigned to boys and younger men. This is also emphasized in The Taming of the Shrew‚ with the inclusion of an acting troupe in the outer plot of
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