Herr and O’Brien Vs. Vietnam and Objectivity When reading selected short stories‚ novels‚ and plays from any literary time period‚ there is always a number of patterns that can be spotted in the subject matter that the writers of the time choose to discuss in their stories. During what is generally referred to as the “post-modern” literary movement‚ which is usually considered to be from after the Second World War until present day‚ an obvious subject is the Vietnam War. There have been many different
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her own mind as well. Her walk around London’s streets becomes a walk through her own mind. The text is told from a third person narrator and from the nineteen year old main character Ellie’s point of view. The short story is told with a stream of consciousness technique which gives the reader an insight of Ellies mind. The story is full of bad language and swearwords‚ rhetorical questions and incoherence for example‚ “Fuck”‚ “Jesus” and “what‚ really‚ was there to be reverent to? To whom? To what
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struggle between those who consider themselves to be “shushers” and those who do not like to be solitude in public. The author tries to convey this message mainly through writing this piece in first person while using the literary style of stream of consciousness. Periodically throughout the piece‚ the author shows his thoughts as it places him as the main character in the footsteps of a “shusher”. He talks about many past experiences that he’s encountered‚ explaining the many different interruptions
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Virginia Woolf: Simplistic Vs. Innovator Virginia Woolf is recognized as one of the most adamant novelists’ and greatest innovators of modern fiction. Her expertise with point of view and her use of stream of consciousness have influenced many writers after her. Woolf based her literary traditions and writings on her education and upbringing. Her views of the gender roles in her Victorian childhood and her ideas in contemporary society influenced her writing greatly. Both Woolf’s novels and her
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properties that “block” consciousness from occurring in these worlds (Chalmers 2010‚ 163 – 165). In this case‚ physicalists are able to agree that the possibility of these zombie worlds is indeed possible (Lauenberger 2008). I find fault in this approach to the subject matter‚ however‚ as in the scenario as it is not consistent with the physicalist view that conscious or mental states are identical to that of ones physical state. If physicalists are to present the idea of a “consciousness blocker” it needs
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with the story of this single day‚ time is constantly flowing from present to past or to future. These flashbacks constitute the major psychological moments of the novel‚ most of them being represented by the stream of consciousness technique. This essay will explain how this flow of consciousness is interrupted by a chronological time represented by the strike of clocks. In fact‚ Woolf introduces a contrast between internal and external time. Moreover‚ the novel as a whole can also be considered as
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The two documents we are presented with here both deal with the notion of bereavement and especially bereavement of a loved one. The first document is a poem‚ written by Tony Harrison in 1984 and entitled Long Distance. The second one is an extract from a short story entitled Stone Trees‚ written by Jane Gardam in 1983. They both intend to give us a glimpse of how different people react when confronted to the passing of a relative. Through two completely different approaches and using two different
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how the city can affect a person‚ who stands alone without any support or care from other people. The narrator is third person and omniscient. The narrative technique can be described as a “streams of consciousness” which is a technique that writer and feminist Virginia Woolf use a lot in her work. This “stream” can be very confusing‚ because it describes the situation by every little thought of the person‚ who in this case is very distractive and unfocused as a result of the drugs as the story is
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All great science starts with certain opinions and methods. These processes come to shape a hypothesis that in turn becomes a theory. Structuralism and Functionalism are the theories of many opinions and methods that came to form schools of thought. Structuralist’s believed psychology was the science of conscious experience and immediate thought and in contrast Functionalists believed in practical results of the mental processes. Structuralism and Functionalism served their unique purpose in the
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Basking Shark : commentary By : Maaria Chehab Basking shark by Norman MacCaig is a free verse poem‚ that might have been written to question the ‘evil’ natures of humans‚ using sharks metaphorical renaissance for the idea. The narrator introduces this un-intuitive question in line 13‚ quite bluntly by saying “ So who is the monster? The thought made me grow pale….” MacCaig uses figurative language‚ syntax‚ and diction to create this artwork. The poem starts off in a body of water‚ with the narrator
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