Utilitarianism is fine if your among the winners justice is better if you are not Utilitarianism is the moral philosophy that the morally right action is that which leads to the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. The term justice means getting what you deserve both good and bad. However there is significant disagreement between justice theorists as to what causes who to deserve what. In this essay I will be discussing John Rawls’ concept of contract justice and Robert Nozick’s
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into the literature world as brief‚ single sitting stories‚ yet containing an exclusively developed subject. A short story is packed with descriptive details that form together to grab the reader’s attention in a short amount of time. The authors indulge in rich details to create the narrative into a jaw dropping meaning story from the beginning to the ending. The author begins with constructing the story with the building blocks of literary devices. Short story authors apply the literary techniques
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Modernism in Literature Introduction The horrors of World War I (1914-19)‚ with its accompanying atrocities and senselessness became the catalyst for the Modernist movement in literature. Modernist authors felt betrayed by the war‚ believing that the institutions in which they were taught had led the civilized world into bloody conflict. They no longer turned to these institutions as a reliable means to decipher the meaning of life but instead sought for the answers within themselves. Thus‚ the
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works. As a critic comments that “his war experience proved so shattering and nightmarish that his life and writings were permanently affected” (Chang Yaoxin 226)‚ war has always been a significant subject for him and has influenced the style and themes of his works. Hemingway’s short story “In Another Country” is based on his experiences in Italy during the First World War. It depicts the life of a wounded American soldier and other Italy officers who receive therapeutic treatment in Milan
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prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal events described in a narrative. Probably the most famous allegory in English literature is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)‚ a
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Literary Lexicon Allusion A reference to a literary‚ mythological‚ or historical person‚ place‚ or thing. Irony A contrast between appearance and reality – usually one in which reality is the opposite from what it seems; when one thing is expected to happen or be‚ and the exact opposite occurs. Symbol The use of any object‚ person‚ place‚ or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself‚ such as a quality‚ attitude‚ belief‚ or value. Foreshadowing
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LITERARY THEORY A Very Short Introduction Jonathan Culler Chapter 2 What is Literature and Does it Matter? What is literature? You’d think this would be a central question for literary theory‚ but in fact it has not seemed to matter very much. Why should this be? There appear to be two main reasons. First‚ since theory itself intermingles ideas from philosophy‚ linguistics‚ history‚ political theory‚ and psychoanalysis‚ why should theorists worry about whether the texts they’re reading are literary
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Komb American Literature Section 4 15 April 2011 Nature as a Character in Hemingway ’s Work The great respect Ernest Hemingway has for nature is manifested as an important character in his works. Although Hemingway cut down his prose to the minimum necessary to convey the action of his characters‚ he carefully advanced the theme of nature. Hemingway describes trees‚ leaves and needles‚ water‚ rain and bodies of water‚ rocks‚ wind and breezes and animals as part of the theme of nature. In so deliberately
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poet imitate nature‚ thus‚ a work of art is a reflection of nature. However‚ they have different views on the functions of imitation in art and literature. Plato believes in the existence of the ideal world‚ where exists a real form of every object found in nature. A work of art –which reflects nature is twice far from the reality it represents. Aristotle‚ on the other hand‚ does not deal with the ideal world‚ instead he analyses nature. He argues that a work of art does not imitate nature as it is‚
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Comparative study into European literature curricula 1 LESSONS IN LITERATURE A comparative study into the literature curricula in secondary education in six European countries Master thesis of: M.G. Slager (1465775) m.g.slager@student.rug.nl Master of Science in Education Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences University of Groningen August‚ 2010 Supervision: dr. R. Maslowski dr. T.C.H. Witte Comparative study into European literature curricula 2 Abstract Students
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