Nhattien Nguyen Ms. Haggerty Senior English 9 April 2015 Moral Analysis of the Canterbury Tales Temptation is an invisible hand that guides humanity towards its own demise. It lures people in by disguising its fangs and claws as their wants and needs. Many religions urged its followers to resist their temptations because they drive them to act uncontrollably and harm others. In the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, three lovers chase after one girl they use evil tricks on each other
After the analysis of the poems with central symbol of parent – mother and father, this following analysis explores another symbol – the image of child represented by both authors in their poems. Dylan Thomas wrote “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” in 1945 in his Deaths and Entrances. Thomas is known for operating with the imagery of death in his works. This particular poem deals with the death of a child that have been attacked and killed in London during the World
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
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