In winter afternoons, lights are dazzling, and they can be reflected by the surface of various stuffs, implying the light is powerful and it leaves people a sense of dysphoria and powerless. Therefore, the winter light brings a sense of oppression. In “Heavenly Hurt, it gives us- / We can find no scar,” (5-6), Emily Dickinson uses personification because actually, lights cannot hurt people. To some extent, the Emily Dickinson uses metaphor in these sentences too; she compares the things that
Whereas, with Frankenstein Shelley’s allusion to Dante’s Inferno “became such a thing that Dante could not have conceived” arguing that like Dante, Victor experiences hell, purgatory and finally paradise. The idea of Victor’s amoral behaviour of a lack of responsibility is evident with the hell that the “fiend” gives him; the death of his loved ones which was an "agonizing [ordeal Victor] endured." Shelley's intention of this turn of events leads
of an imaginary place where “all is well”. The society of is described as an ultimate utopia, and therefore, ideal. Candide, an innocent, naive, character, is blinded by the isolation and nobility of Westphalia, and therefore believes it to be paradise on earth. However, his worldly experience and awareness in traveling throughout the world proves that in his search for something more than wealth and fame, such a perfect utopia is in fact, non-existent. Candide begins the novel as an innocent
modernist movement. He employs a hope for the future through the characterisation of Freder and his awakening political consciousness. While in contrast to Winston, Freder is a member of the elite, however he exhibits the same disdain for the systems of oppression that are enforced in his world upon the members of the working class. Freder's disgust, shown through the use of highly stylised movement to illustrate the pain and human suffering caused by the divide between classes; a technique fulfilling the
presiding there. Even while the natives struggled to maintain their culture., the dominating power almost always forced them to bend to their inexorable will. However, while prominent in the threads of history, authors incorporate such distinct themes oppression and assimilation in their works of literature. Notably, in the well-noted novel, A Brave
novel, bread is simply a means of nourishment for Ivan, as it makes up a majority of the prisoners daily ration. Like many inmates, Ivan admits that he has never really thought much of his religion, “he tells the Baptist Aloysha, 'I don't believe in paradise or in hell ... ' [20] But, as he himself says, he is not 'against God' and he is ready to believe in Him” (Ollivier). Ivan’s bunkmate, Aloysha, teaches Ivan about the importance of religion. Ivan goes through a sort of spiritual transformation
Analysis of Lucy Aikin's Epistles on Women Analysis of the Epigraph Oh! What should beauty learn from crabbed books? Sweetly to speak and sweetly smile be thine; Beware, nor change that dimple to a line! The poet implores women to stop being subordinate to men because they are inherently, physically, and mentally gifted. It is a sad occurrence that societies have traditionally expected women to seek advice from men. Patriarchal societies attempt to pigeonhole women and exalt women when the opposite
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings and philosophy of life have been subjects of academic debates and a bourgeoning area of research. Critics of Shelley’s philosophical vision of life have generally been divided into two polarised camps. The one maintains that Shelley was “a falsetto screamer, a sentimental narcissus, a dream-ridden escapist, an immoral free-love cultist with a highly inflammable nature and particularly, in the present age, as the weakling author of the lyric called ‘The Indian serenade”
Some humans still stubbornly believe there will be the rewards of immortality and paradise for their ‘goodness’ do not seem to want to accept that without the fall, there would be no human race and Adam and Eve would still be the only people on earth living forever in solitude. Eve, even still today, is treated as the eternal scapegoat
The society of 1984 believe they live in a utopian paradise, but they actually live in a dystopian nightmare. A utopia is defined as “an ideal place or state” and “any visionary system of political or social perfection” (Dictionary). A dystopia is “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (Dictionary). Utopias and dystopias are polar opposites, a utopia is the perfect place for anybody, but a dystopia is a hell for everybody. Utopias are often corrupted