Analysis Of Pierre Boulle's Planet Of The Apes

When it comes to apes, monkeys, gorillas, etc., in visual and literary works of art we really get both ends of the spectrum. We see them as childlike in Curious George and we also see them as loving and compassionate and very much a community in Tarzan. I wouldn’t count Tarzan as portraying them as advanced because they can verbally speak, just because of the fact that in the majority of Disney movies there is at least one talking animal. I would count Planet of the Apes though for showing them as advanced creatures. In Planet of the Apes you see them performing very human like tasks in a research facility like we saw in the video that was assigned this week. The conditions of the lab in the movie were quite awful though and opposite from

Zitkala-Sa’s autobiography informs her readers of the damaging and traumatizing effects of assimilation by utilizing her life experiences as a narrative, demonstrating how living under an oppressive and dominant culture was an internal struggle between society's expectations and her own cultural identity. Sa’s experience is especially unique considering her mixed heritage as well.

The movie that I choose to watch is “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. In class we learned that primates have different categories. The categories include; movement, reproduction, intelligence and behavior patterns. In the movie, the main ape, Caesar, as well as the other primates in the movie shows examples of these categories. Although, like most modern day movies, some behaviors and characteristics are not true and do not relate to the material that we studied in class.

Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones -- not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.” This is his final example to show that human beings are the lower species. However, I disagree with this experiment, I do not believe that the experiment would end this way. People of different backgrounds are able to live alongside each other, and even become friends. Twain’s theory is disproved by communities great and small, neighborhoods, countries, and the world. If people were truly as evil and violent as Twain makes them out to be, we would have no civilization, no law, and no

The book I chose was “Planets Without Apes” by Craig B. Stanford. The book was published by The Belknap Press (Harvard) by Harvard University Press, in 2013. I think that the book was a good factual read and that there was a lot of good information but with that said, I think it was a bit jumbled with too much information. I say this because there are many, many different large ideas. It is like a tree with the trunk being the idea of a planet without apes and off the trunk are the branches which symbolize the smaller information about what would happen without apes then off of the branches are the leaves which are small little bits of information that all resemble the idea of what would happen with a planet without apes. The way that Stanford portrays his information is great but eventually can be hard to follow.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel explains how dehumanization occurred during a weak point in human history.

Growing up I was always told “be a leader, not a follower” and “treat others how you want to be treated”.As a child i thought these were just words i would recite to me dad every morning not knowing that he was teaching me to stand out, in others words, marginality. assimilation on the other hand is something most of us try to avoid nobody wants to be “just another one” and playing by someone else’s rules. In the three works “The Fire Next Time”, A james Baldwin photograph, and “Para Teresa” i found evidence of marginality and assimilation for all different kinds of worldwide issues toda. I’ll explain.

Dehumanization can be thought of as the process of losing one’s humanity. It can further be thought of as a way to make one’s “pain and [...] individuality irrelevant” (Garvey, 141). Dr. Moreau wanted to manufacture more humans through the trampling over of the animalism in the animals he experimented on. In order to succeed in his plans, Dr. Moreau must devoid himself of all natural, human, empathy.

To be born human is to suffer endlessly in the hands of other individuals, this suffering knows no bounds. From the inception of the Upright man, and onward into the twilight future of uncertainty, there lays death and destruction in its path. The human capacity for empathy can transform into manifested hatred with words and actions of a minority few. This behavior is not just exclusive to people, aggressive ant species such as fire ants will relentlessly assault other ant colonies to compete for scarce resources and to take slaves, an action that mirrors human behaviors. Even humans’ closest relatives, the chimpanzee, will often raid and injure other primates to annex new territories. Although these measures can be regarded as warlike, there is no granted exact definition of war, and there is a myriad of casus belli for the escalation of a conflict. Broadly speaking, in a general term, war is

In Joseph Conrad’s book, Heart of Darkness, the globe is imagined as one where there are those that are civilized and those that are considered “savages” and “barbarians” by the civilized people. These civilized people are the Europeans, and the so-called “savages” are the African slaves.

We live in a time where we experience more freedom in the way we enjoy life, among human’s, and new cultural habits that have been developing throughout years. Technology is making humans’ life easier and more enjoyable, filled with new access to reaching new opportunities that would have been impossible in the past. Technology has facilitated today’s way of living making it faster and more efficient, but it has also affected our society. In the films, Planet of The Apes the original version and the version in 2014, both illustrate how technology has had an affected on our cultural society by supplying a higher demand for violent in everyday life as in films becoming icons for today’s way of life. Providing audience violence which is increasing in which is becoming accepted in today’s and becoming part of our cultural society. In Planet of the Apes produced in 2001 and the remake version produced in 2014, both films illustrate changes in today’s cultural living. In addition Planet of the Apes illustrates an air force astronaut who crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking Apes dominate a race of primitive humans. While the Remake Film named Dawn to the Planet of the Apes illustrated in 2014 consisted of A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar (main character,) is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. Dawn to the Planet of the Apes show how Hollywood has made advencements in technology

The European mind at the fringes of "civilisation," when confronted with this Otherness, cannot settle on one or the other of these alternatives. "European reactions to other cultures tend to oscillate between these two poles, and thus the same culture can seem simple, authentic, concrete, or, on the other hand, odd, uncanny, and arbitrary" (ibid.). While this paradigm of shifting viewpoints is exemplified by Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it seems to find its resolution in Sigmund Freud's assertion that in many ways the modern man is the primitive man.

As most people would agree, the 20th century contained some of the bloodiest and most gruesome events ever recorded in history. Why do words such as Hiroshima, Rwanda, The Final Solution, A Great Leap Forward, The Great Purge and so many more spark such vivid images of blood, torture and murder in our minds? And despite those horrific images, what is it that causes us humans time and time again to commit such crimes against humanity? Those are the kinds of questions Jonathan Glover, a critically acclaimed ethics philosopher, tries to answer in the book he had spent over ten years writing, Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century. Through Humanity Glover tries to answer those questions in a way which will give a solution as how we can

Inherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and loss of self that leads us to discover more about our true selves, often causing perceived madness by those who have yet to discover their own self.  Joseph Conrad’s book, The Heart of Darkness is a story about Man’s journey into his self, the discoveries to be made there and about

The conquering of a place and its people does not just affect the land and its resources; it also affects those inhabiting it. Marlow describes the Congolese’s spirituality being oppressed, “The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking is away from those who have a different complexion of slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.” (Conrad, 69). Marlow discusses his aunt’s thoughts on the process, “She talked about weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways.” He watches the Europeans using their own laws to control and oppress the people of the Congo, for example, he sees an ugly chain-gang at the first station, which does not seem as though they are criminals. Nevertheless, the European law had decided for the natives, Marlow describes, “like shells from the man-of-war, like an insoluble mystery from the sea. (Conrad, 12). The Congolese appointed to work on his ship, he describes as, still belonging, “to the beginnings of time,” but “as long as there was a piece of paper written over in accordance with some farcical law or other made down the river, it didn’t enter anybody’s head to trouble how they would live. (Conrad, 33-34). Skulls of then men judged by the European law were set on stakes around Kurtz’s