The time is the late 1950s, and tension is high from the city to the suburbs. All eyes are either on the American south or Russia. Billy Bibbit and other patients at the psychiatric hospital are not the center of attention, and are greatly misunderstood both in the realms of healthcare and morality. As one of the tragic figures in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Billy is not concerned with any of the aforementioned issues- his greatest mountain is his mother’s wrath and the fear of facing
The cultural concept I will be discussing is that of Wabi-sabi and how I came to see it as not only engrossing, but increasingly relevant in Westernized culture. By no stretch of the imagination have I ever considered myself perfect. I have flaws and short comings that often fall beyond my control. When I look at myself, I see beauty. But the beauty I see does not always agree with the visual experiences of others. As I get older, my flaws are maturing and have started to show signs of age. Extra
reference. While he shares the other’s excitement, he also realizes the grim importance of remaining sensible in order to adapt to life on the island. Even as they explore further, he attempts to describe their surroundings when his peers lack the words to, thoughtfully supplying that the plants are “[l]ike candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds” (30). Initially, the three of them are fascinated by their new discovery, yet Ralph and Jack quickly lose interest because the plants are useless and inedible
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and