Essays on Book Page 96

Word Count: 1600In his book Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote a satire about communism. It also dealt with the Russion Revolution of 1917. A satire is a literary work that makes fun of the stupidity or vices of individuals, groups, institutions, or society in general. The animals on Manor Farm developed Animalism. They came up…

The novel Candide by Voltaire is a great peice of satire thatmakes fun of the way people in medievil times thought. The book is about aman, Candide, and his misfortunes. Throughout the book Candide hascountless things go wrong in order to show that this is not “the best ofall possible worlds” Voltaire is trying to…

Dust in The Great GatsbyIn the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates many different themes, but the most prevalent message is that of the impossibility of the American Dream. Fitzgerald writes of two types of people: those who appear to have the ideal life and those who are still trying to achieve their…

xpect the best outcome in any circumstance and Voltaire encourages this optimism. Voltaire intends that the general goodness of the worldprevails over the coexisting evil. Although Candide took an optimistic view to support himselfwhen encountered with calamity, his optimism was devastated by ignorance and credulity. Hisconsequent miseries were conciliated by Pangloss’s philosophy that the greater…

Fear, worry, anxiety, curiosity, distress, nervousness; all emotions of a young, naive soldier entering war for the first time. To the reader, this is exactly what Henry Fleming represents. Because Crane never tells us what he looks like, just how old he is, or exactly where he comes from, and usually refers to him as…

Jane Austens novel, Pride and Prejudice presents five married couples. No two are alike. From the pure love which was experienced through Elizabeth and Darcy. To the love and attraction shared by Jane and Bingley. The convenience of marriage was portrayed through Charlotte and Mr Collins while Lydia and Wickhams marriage was based on their…

Lord of the Flies”A thing was crawling out the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. ” This so-called beast that emerged from the forest was Simon, one of the boys who was stranded on the island. After he emerged from the forest, Simon discovered…

Throughout every major time period and every piece of literature there has come to be a stance in the community of the church and how it was displayed to the public eye. The novel, The red badge of courage by Steven Crane, has this imagery of the church and its religion, which is evident in…

Othello – A Racist Play?Although there are lots of things to suggest this is a racist play I don’t think that racism actually dominates the play, even though it has a racist theme. There is a romantic union between black and white which gets destroyed because most people think the relationship is wrong. At the…

In his article “The Survival Lottery,” Harris suggests a situationwhere a possible course of action would be to kill a healthy person and use hisorgans for transplantation, thereby saving several lives at the cost of one. However the argument Harris presents, which he claims to be rational, doesintuitively raise a certain moral repugnance. The issues…