than the Middle East. Bernard Lewis sought to dispel misconceptions about the region when he used original research to author The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. He begins not at the time of Muhammad, as most historians do when discussing the Middle East, but with Jesus, providing a more contextual view of the religion that pervades the area. Lewis proceeds to provide a comprehensive relation of the modern Middle East with emphasis on a historical perspective. Three key themes
2) Think about the two worlds, the Midwest and the East, as Fitzgerald describes them, and what they represent for Nick and Gatsby. At the end of The Great Gatsby, Nick writes the East as “exciting” but uneasingly shallow behind the guise of wealth. Meanwhile, he also describes his hometown in the Midwest, nostalgically identifying with its homely small-town life and proximity to family. For Nick, there exists a moral distinction between the two regions, and finding himself utterly unable to adapt
Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 historical fiction novel, The Great Gatsby, he draws many parallels between the East and the West and people and places. In the foreboding novel, Fitzgerald warns for a need to separate the values of the East and the West in order to reveal how society needs to preserve the morals of the West and eliminate the morals of the East. Gatsby and Nick both come from the West, a place where people express compassion, ambition, strength, love, and order. Nick immediately connects
studied such varying accounts of cross cultural encounters happening within the long nineteenth century, spanning from people from all over the East and the West, and all of them coming from different positions of power and backgrounds, with all of their observations being heavily punctuated by different motives and biases, helps one gain a lot of perspective over the entire situation. The impact that the dealings of these people have had on the world as we now know it also becomes clearly evident once
This intention will lead to all kinds of Eurocentric perspective of viewing the world, let it be the Americas, Africa or Asia. Eurocentricism suggests that something is acceptable (like 'modernity' or 'culturally progressive', 'civilized' etc.) only if it is in line with the Western perspectives. The objective of acultural theory or Orientalism is derived from this ideology. The West had the Imperial power to define the history of the East or the 'Rest of World'. They used this imperial power or
studies of the Middle East in the United State and Europe drastically, especially in literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, and comparative religion studies. His writings have been translated into 26 languages, receives lots of review including critics and enthusiasts, at blogs and published papers. During my reading, I can relate Orientalism to many situations that are still happening in Malaysia. There are numbers of descriptions and interpretations from the West that I find cliché and
questions discourses formed about women in the east about “not having self agency. Djebar demonstrates through these untold stories of her childhood that girls of the East are breaking down the system of women’s oppression. By writing telling the story from the little girls perspective, Djebar does not uses herself as the center point of the story but as to learn through their stories the different views of women in the East from both parallel worlds; east and
F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald 1925) is perfectly written with the intention of providing the reader a vivid view of the wealthy (from the perspective of Nick Carraway) during the Roaring Twenties. During this time in American society, the standards of living were challenged and changed by many different people managing to crawl their way up the class system created by the government. Fitzgerald's book intentionally uses symbols of wealth, love and setting to demonstrate
Modern Middle East In the early twentieth century most of the Middle East was mostly dominated by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was characterized as a multinational empire, an imperial power, mostly located around the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and whose existence covered the period between 1299 and 1922. For more than four hundred years the Ottoman Empire exercised his control over a vast territory, from the Balkan Peninsula in Europe to the Arab lands of South West Asia and North
Superficial resentment against each other cannot liberate East from the dominance of West. But the formation of a discourse can be a fit antagonistic force against colonial discourse. A basic motive of discourse usually discovers the regularities and constraints of the components of ideology and thoughts of the nation. It also