Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), as the title suggests, is a memoir, which portrays the individual experiences and personal lives of the authoress and her students in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution 1979. In addition, as the subtitle suggests, Nafisi’s work constructs this personal memoir using various fictional texts such as Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and Daisy Miller. Through the act of reading the above mentioned fictional texts, the individuals
psychoanalytic theory argued that human behavior was composed of three fundamental parts of the mind such as the id, ego and the superego. The protagonist in the book the Catcher in the Rye depicts some traces of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. In the narrative The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a perturbed adolescent who isolates himself from the world and has a difficult time being a part of society, much like the author himself. Holden begins his psychoanalytical experience
Both versions of ‘‘The Crimson Candle’’ fit the rhetorical definition of narrative, since both involve a teller and an audience, a progression by instability (each husband seeks the promise, each wife gives it, and each fulfills it in her different way) and a series of developing responses by the audience. But Bierce’s version has a higher degree of narrativity. What is striking to me, however, is that this difference is not simply because Bierce’s version introduces a more substantial instability
As political and societal ideologies take shape, so do the creative narratives surrounding them. Texts will always be a product of both the composers personal context as well as the societal context of the time and thus texts will always expose their audience to the nature of popular and alternative perspectives in the realms of society and its political discourse. A comparative study of Fritz Lang's film “Metropolis”, and George Orwell's novel “1984” illustrates the impact oppressive regimes have
very meaning of architecture. He was a precocious artist and musician in high school. His exploratory, questioning attitudes probed in a poetic manner the inner meaning of architecture. For Kahn, the designing of buildings went well beyond just fulfilling utilitarian needs. He searched for "beginnings" and wanted to discover what a particular building "wants to be". In creating a building Kahn first sought to understand its "Form," or inner essence, which he considered to be "immeasurable". Once
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in View of the Reading of Life of Pi I observed how Pi went through a retrogression in his empathy towards animals. This move, from empathy to absence of empathy, or suspension of it, receives an inverted treatment in Do Androids. Rick Deckard holds the position of hunter, though, unlike Pi, his prey is not animals, but androids. If, at first, his job requires his indifference towards those artificial beings, it is clear that at the novel’s conclusion he has changed
is labelled as a juvenile delinquent it becomes part of their social identity. They may have only committed a few crimes, but the label itself may prompt a troubled child to take more stereotypically deviant behaviors in earnest, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, and turning the original unfair label into a true
in Literature Toni Cade Bambara “The Lesson” The lesson is a novel story published on 1972 by Toni Cade Bambara. Born in 1939, she graduated in 1959 from Queens College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Literature. The lesson is written in first person narrative. It follows the life of Sylvia living in Harlem New York, and it is through her various interactions and observations that the reader can analyze her immediate environment. (Di Yanni, 2000) The story is set in the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s
during his three years as an inmate in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust in his novel, Man’s Search for Meaning. His novel is divided into two parts: the first section, “Experiences in a Concentration Camp”, is a narrative description of Frankl’s personal as well as his inmate’s experiences in the concentration camp and how he evaluated and interpreted those experiences which led to the development of his theory. Throughout his time in the camps, Frankl witnessed an enormous amount
unfinished cannot lead to new achievements. In order to attain the dreams in the contemporary times, the problems of the present are needs to be addressed and questions regarding the contemporary scenario need to be asked.Throughout the book, his narrative comprises all those words and arguments which he hears from potential constituents and those ideas form the backbone of this