Resistance As Resistance In Steven Pressfield's The War Of Art

Through the novel The Ink bridge, Neil Grant conveys the theme of the impact of war and the effects it has on refugees, as well as the intolerance shown towards refugees. Neil Grant expresses the topic of the impact of war by using descriptive language to help readers visualise, he also mimics feelings of non-fictional refugees to further illustrate his point. The running constant of intolerance throughout the story is presented to readers with characters specifically designed to invoke thought about racial issues in Australia, as well as the hate shown towards asylum seekers and refugees. With these themes, Neil Grant shows us the hardship that refugees (especially children/teenagers) go through, when transitioning to a new country.

In everyday society cruelty is faced, weather yet another person is arrested for the killing of and innocent animal, or even the seemingly never ending brutality of the police forces going viral on YouTube yet again. Of course we have the do not touch subjects, such as war. The constant debate over is killing innocent people okay, just because it’s war. Jack London really brings this point alive in his short story “War”. In this thought-provoking piece of literature the odd uses of characterization, symbolism, morals, and irony lead a reader to an overall statement of theme that simply war is cruel.

Many people say that the metal of a man is found in his ability to keep his ideals in spite of anything that life can through at you. If a man is found to have done these things he can be called a hero. Through a lifelong need to accept responsibility for all living things, Robert Ross defines his heroism by keeping faith with his ideals despite the betrayal, despair and tragedy he suffers throughout the course of The Wars by Timothy Findley.

Our history books continue to present our country's story in conventional patriotic terms. America being settled by courageous, white colonists who tamed a wilderness and the savages in it. With very few exceptions our society depicts these people who actually first discovered America and without whose help the colonists would not have survived, as immoral, despicable savages who needed to be removed by killing and shipping out of the country into slavery. In her book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Jill Lepore tells us there was another side to the story of King Philip’s War. She goes beyond the actual effects

In this essay we will cover three topics centered around Vietnam Prisoners of War and will discuss two books that are, in ways, very similar, but very different due to a variety of things. One of the two books being compared in this essay is titled “Defiance” by Alvin Townley and was written quite recently in 2014. The other novel that was chosen for this essay was written in 1971 is titled “Five Years to Freedom” and it was written by James N. Rowe. These two books were focused on the capture and the treatment of American Prisoners of War during the Vietnam War, more specifically based on the lives of each of the men as they meet up in the prison camps and have to survive torture which was brought upon them because they are questioned by the Vietcong and will not give up military secrets. The Vietnam War started in 1954 and ended on April 30, 1975 totaling over twenty years. Each book has its idea of the incidents that happened and in “Defiance” there are several stories of a gang eleven American soldiers that was known famously as the Alcatraz Eleven. This essay will talk about the different accounts the American men endured, the two very different writing styles of each of the authors and the main themes we can see in each book.

The Wars, written by Timothy Findley, is a story about World War I, and consists of many shocking images passed over to the reader. Findley accomplishes to pull the reader into the narrative itself, so that the reader manages to feel an impact upon him/her-self about what is read. If it was not for this specific skill, or can also be seen as a specific genre, the novel would not have been as successful as it is now. Also, something that helps the book be so triumphant, there is the fact that Findley never overwhelms the reader with too many gruesome details about the World War I. Instead, he breaks the book down to help the reader calm down from everything that is happening. Throughout the essay, there is going to be some commenting on a

Joseph Conrad once observed that “a belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” As a result of the violence that is necessary during wartime, soldiers are permitted to engage in savage behavior that is normally forbidden in society. In The Wars by Timothy Findley, however, soldiers act in violent ways even when they are not actively engaged in battle. The inherently savage nature of humankind is evident when Robert Ross kills the German soldier after the gas attack, when Robert is raped in the baths, and when Robert kills Captain Leather. These violent events that occur outside the direct action of the war demonstrate the evil inherent in

The Butter Battle Book by Dr.Seuss is a deceptively childish book about a war over what side one should butter their bread. While a good bedtime story, anyone with knowledge of the Cold War will immediately pick up the similarities between this book and the actual war, along with Dr.Seuss’s message behind the text. His excellent use of craft puts his view across and solidifies what he believes about the Cold War. Dr.Seuss uses allusions, irony, and hyperboles to portray his beliefs about how silly the Cold War really was.

The four elements of earth, air, fire and water are universally embedded in societies around the world. These elements are simple, yet fundamental principles, to humanity. They are all inadvertently important in all aspects of life and are extremely vital in building the basis of the more complex concepts that are known today. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, the presence of the four elements act as leit motifs in the novel and help shape the central themes that the novel is based on. Findley uses the elements to enhance certain portions of the story, painting an image for the reader. Water is one of the more recognizable elements of the four, as many people do not consciously think about the air they are breathing or the ground they are standing on. The element of water’s role in The Wars is to assist in the development of characters, mainly Robert Ross, and is shown through the novel’s tropology, weather, and various events that involve water throughout the story.

Kindness is no doubt a virtue, yet in a state of conflict, it may be viewed as a hinderance as it is only possible for violence to exist when the idea of kindness is corrupted or eradicated. In Timothy Findley’s novel The Wars, the character of Robert Ross undergoes the transformation and corruption that embodies the effect of war on the human spirit. Initially, the idea of violence and conflict is viewed as a concept that is unthinkably cruel, yet as Ross personally experiences the cruelties and insane nature of war, violence becomes an act that is crucial to one’s survival but detrimental to one’s spirit. The only way Ross is able to preserve his humanity and his sense of justice, is through an enduring perception of hope and kindness in

These lines are taken from The Wars by Timothy Findley. In the Part 1, As snow falls, Robert holds up at the railway station with a bag kept really close to him. He is mindful so as to ensure nobody sees him. He jumps at the noise of the train. This shows that he is very cautious and watchful. He waited until the point that every one of the men have come off the train and wishes for nobody to see him. He sees three ladies, one of whom looks at him. He looks at the other way which exhibits that Robert is quite shy, want his privacy and does not trust women. He is helped to remember Heather Lawson, a lady he once knew who had demanded that he fight another man since that man was attracted towards her. Robert recalls that he found the entire

Dr. Karen E. Peterson is a psychologist, novelist, public speaker (with extensive media experience), and a former university writing instructor (with a M.A. in English) (2006) and Rosanne Bane (2012; Rosanne) is a creativity coach, veteran teaching artist, speaker and author. She taught artist for more than 20 years at the Loft Literary Center, StoryStudio, University of St. Thomas, University of Minnesota and other places. She has helped thousands of writers, artists and creative people of all sorts achieve their professional goals and make their creative dreams reality. They both talk about the fight-or-flight response. Bane calls this response “Resistance” (p.29) and Peterson renames it the “write-or-flight” (p.17) response. This is how the fight or flight works:

It is difficult to argue whether strategy is an art form or science because it can actually be both. Sun Tzu’s text, “The Art of War” is an example of an ancient humanism text about strategies of war. Humanism by definition is, “an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems”(Dictionary.com). Therefore, humanism is much like philosophy which is related to science yet influenced by the skill of art. Thomas Cleary starts off the text with a quote from “The Book of Balance and Harmony” which states, “To know after seeing is not worthy of being called knowing”(qtd. in Cleary, xv-xvi), but since Sun Tzu’s teachings are philosophical the text renders itself as war knowledge. In “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, author and biologist Richard Dawkins would greatly disagree with Cleary’s quote because Dawkins believes that, “Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results”(Dawkins 33). According to Dawkins, Darwinism has the power to explain natural occurrences in the universe and his mission is to disprove supernatural views of creation and the world with observable scientific knowledge. Although, military strategies are intuitive there are also observable scientific aspects to the art of war which follow the scientific method.

I'm certain that this article is very helpful for creative professionals from my junior tough experience at SVA. The most straggle that I experienced was 1. the mental block. Once I decided what design or what idea that I want to work, it's not very difficult because I just need to move my hands on my laptop. However, to get there is always the straggles. Especially, when I feel like I am creative block, my brain starts to slow down worse and worse. To solve this problem, I try to change my mood such as going for a walk, or getting something to drink and eat, or having a totally different conversation with people. And most of time, they help to me to get out from that block. However, since I know some other solutions, I am going to try some

In his book The War of Art, Steven Pressfield talks about resistance. He defines resistance as self-sabotage of anything in the lines of creativity, art, music, spirituality, and more. Pressfield describes many characteristics of resistance in the first half of his book.