The Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) had brought about significant changes in agriculture‚ mining‚ manufacturing‚ transportation and technology and subsequently established an era of unprecedented economic growth in capitalist economies. It was within this era that Karl Marx had observed the deprivation and inequality experienced by men of the proletariat‚ the working class‚ who had laboured excessively for hours under inhumane conditions to earn a minimum wage while the bourgeoisie‚ the capitalist
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Realism and Local Color The intent of local color writing was to show the culture and uniqueness of specific regions. Writers who wrote using local color were‚ in most cases‚ connected to the region they were writing about. Mark Twain‚ who is commonly known as being one of the greatest American writers‚ if not the greatest‚ used copious amounts of local color in his stories. In Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi he uses local color that gives the reader a better sense of what he experienced
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they experience excessive hardships that cause that an uprooting of many of the family members. Despite what they endure they hope for a bright future. Steinbeck uses different narrative styles and other elements to establish a strong sense of realism and authenticity to the novel. He uses intercalary chapters to give the readers a real grasp of what happened during the Great Depression. Steinbeck uses different language also. The characters talk very slang and improper which allows the readers
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the production/consumption of a film text • Particular film is rendered in a particular style; has to be addressed by consumer • Objectivity v. Realism Realism • Mode of representation that attempts a 1:1 correspondence with reality with how the subject is depicted (in film‚ artwork‚ etc.) — exactly how a person sees it • Never possible to have exact realism • Everyone’s reality is different • Ideology — relative truth‚ truth that can be verified in experience • Character — actions‚ dialogue — motivations
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loves books and it convinces Guy Montag‚ the main character‚ that maybe everyone else is wrong. In America‚ reading has gone down significantly and television has gone up extremely leading some people to think‚ maybe we live in Fahrenheit 451. The realism of Fahrenheit 451 is still very real today. The novel is a best seller‚ a winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award‚ the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal‚ as well as one of only four Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given‚ in
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While it is true that the marxism and psychoanalytic criticisms also suit The Great Gatsby‚ they do not suit it as strongly as feminism. The psychoanalytic criticism circles around the perplexing romantic relationships portrayed in the novel and discusses the pattern of psychological behavior’s stemming from the characters fear of intimacy that ultimately results in emotional devastation. While it does have some good points‚ I believe that it is the least fitting for the story. Not because I honestly
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“Flask‚ alas! was a butterless man!” (Melville 144). In the novel‚ “Moby Dick”‚ Flask is the lowest rank officer. The order of rank goes: Ahab‚ Starbuck‚ Stubb‚ then Flask. He is oppressed by the other two officers and the captain‚ and this shows marxism in modern literature.
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Nia Washington Marxism In Antigone by Sophocles‚ there are a lot of social class struggles that go on throughout the play. The conflict between the higher class and the lower class shows periodically and develops problems. The main character‚ Antigone‚ goes through a series of problems dealing with social class. Antigone does not want to marry the prince and live the life of luxury. The Sentry and King Creon go through some conflict with the way Creon is talking to the Sentry. Every character
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However‚ multiculturalism adopts a novel approach to such matters‚ one that departs from conventional approaches to social advancement‚ especially as represented by republicanism and social reformism. Republicanism (associated with classical liberalism) is primarily concerned with the problem of legal and political exclusion‚ the denial to certain groups of rights that are enjoyed by their fellow citizens. The key idea of republicanism is the principle of universal citizenship‚ the belief that
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Justice as Fairness John Rawls responds to the question of justice with his own theory of Liberalism. Liberalism utilizes a social contract as a conceptual basis from which moral reasoning can be considered just. Rawls claims that the best way to look at morality is by referring to the principles‚ which govern society‚ based on an initial situation of equality. He explains this initial situation of equality by proposing a hypothetical original position: “The guiding idea is that the principles of
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