Existentialism: Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett‚ father of the American hard-boiled genre‚ is widely known for producing a suffocating world of realism in his works (“Hard-boiled fiction”). According to Paul Abraham’s “On re-reading The Maltese Falcon‚” the realistic atmosphere of Hammett’s third novel is reactionary to the post-war turmoil in which the work was born (97). This provides the ideal foundation for subtle philosophical concepts of existentialism such as‚ quests
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Geography H/W – The Disappearing Aral Sea This essay intends to first introduce the disappearing Aral Sea‚ which due to the extensive agricultural activities devised by the Soviet government in the region‚ the former fourth-largest lake of the world is now the world’s eighth largest lake. This has resulted in perhaps the world’s most prominent man-made ecological disaster‚ giving its location and background knowledge with a map‚ and then describe its future in terms of how it is going to be utilized
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“Sin: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law” (“http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sin”). How does one fall into the category of being sinful? In the novella Anthem‚ Ayn Rand portrays Equality to be sinful because of their appearance‚ according to the society they live in. Prometheus does not understand this and uses his sin to an advantage. Prometheus is marked as being “sinful” because he is not physically and mentally equal as his society wants him to be. Because
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Existentialism is a chiefl y philosophical and literary movement that became popular after 1930 and that provides a distinctive interpretation of human existence. The question of the meaning of human existence is of supreme importance to existentialism‚ which advocates that people should create value for themselves through action and living each moment to its fullest. Existentialism serves as a protest against academic philosophy and possesses an antiestablishment sensibility. It contrasts both
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The Existentialist school of thought poses that humans live in an irrational universe and try‚ to no avail‚ to forge meaning out of the chaos and stress. Franz Kafka expresses this sentiment in his novella‚ Metamorphosis‚ in which Gregor Samsa awakes to find he has transformed into a human-sized dung beetle and struggles to maintain that which makes him human. Through Kafka’s expression of Existential ideas of living-for-others and isolation‚ the author encapsulates Gregor’s descent into animalistic
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The Village by the Sea The Village By The Sea (1982) is a novel written by the popular Indian American writer Anita Desai. It is based on the poverty‚ hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural community in India. {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Plot The Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 km (8.7 mi) from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among the four siblings‚ is thirteen years old. Her twelve-year-old brother Hari is the only person with whom
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Simone de Beauvoir: Feminism and Existentialism Simone de Beauvoir talks about women through the eyes of an existentialist in her book The Second Sex. Specifically‚ de Beauvoir’s views on how woman is “man’s dependent” shows the Subject and the Other relationship‚ a solution she gives to abolishing the oppression of women is that we need to abandon the idea that women are born feminine‚ second‚ weaker and not made‚ and the responsibility that she puts on herself and women for accepting the roles
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Riders to the sea is written by famous Irishman drama writer John Millington Synge as one of his magnum opus. Riders to the sea was written in 1903 and performed on 1904 at Irish National Society. It is a one-act tragedy with four characters: Maurya(mother)‚ Bartley(son)‚ Cathleen(daughter) and Nora(another daughter)‚ based on how Irishmen struggle with the ferocious sea and being hopeless. The whole play talks about one main story: the family’s struggle with the sea because their income money for
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In the Heart of the Sea Jason Barker In the novel “In the heart of the Sea” Nathaniel Philbrick introduces the reader to Nantucket Island located in the east coast. He establishes the importance of the whaling industry in relation to the island. Philbrick does an incredible job of telling the story of 20 regular men doing their jobs whaling. They set sail on a renewed ship called the Essex. The Essex took a beating from a storm before it finally met its match an angered sperm whale. The whale rammed
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