Sandkings By George Rr Martin Analysis

Conflict in The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree also reveals the theme that suppressed anger can sometimes lead to revenge which can result in explosive violence. The man vs. man conflicts in both of the writings are examples of revenge fueled violence.

In the sci-fi, horror short story “Sandkings” lives humans and aliens alike in a futuristic land of technological advancement. The main character, Simon Kress, lives in apparent abundance, with all the art pieces, ancient artifacts, exotic animals he wants in a sprawling manor. Such a convenient and indulgent environment deteriorates around him, however. He soon finds himself back in unforgiving nature, hungry and crawling due to his own actions. Through this development, George R. R. Martin explores the savage nature of humanity. Their fragile status at the top of the food chain is threatened by their thirst for entertainment and power, leading to the main character’s downfall at the hands of the mirrored sandkings.

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black. (Larson

“Far on the sands” is a reflective poem that emphasizes Smith’s heartache. Smith expresses her feelings of anguish through her interpretation of the landscape. The beautiful image of “The sighing summer wind forgets to blow. / As sinks the daystar in the rosy West, / The silent wave, with rich reflection glows;” (ll. 3-5). should inspire some feeling of serenity. Instead, Smith feels bitter that even this beautiful scene cannot soothe her. She states, “Alas! Can tranquil Nature give me rest, / Or scenes of beauty, soothe me to repose?” (ll. 7-8). The focus on Smith’s feelings of torment when viewing the

The “fear” of women is one of the novel’s most central features. As most of the male patients in the novel have been damaged by relationships with overpowering women. The hospital, run by women, treats only male patients, showing how women have the ability to emasculate even the most masculine of men. The narrator of the novel, Chief Bromden, witnesses the

As these cultural conflicts arose, the publication of “The Sandman” came out, illustrating characteristics that advocated for the Romantic era ideals, while also contrasting rational views. Within the story of “The Sandman” and as well as in his other novels and stories, E.T Hoffman depicts a duality between dream and reality, as it is a motif for his own life. Hoffman insists of there being an irreducible heterogeneity and dualism between the two realms of what is reality and what is a dream, which is seen through the dispute between Clara and Nathanael in “The Sandman.” Within this publication, Hoffman begins with a dispute between Clara and Nathanael regarding the death of his father. It then transitions into letter that were written between that of Nathanael, Clara, and Clara’s brother Lothar.

Heart of Sand, written by Anne-Marie Oomen, takes readers on a journey to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park. Though the title may sound like it is talking about sand, the essay has a much deeper underlying meaning then that of just sand. The author, having visited the area, allows the readers to use all of their senses throughout the text to get a vivid detail image of the area. This detailed image that we as readers can see, allows us to make a deeper connection to the text and to go beyond the written meaning. It also offers us new ideas that can allow the readers to make even further connections and to keep going beyond the written meaning.

Society thrives on pillars of morality, which could only be attainable from the people that thrive within it. Not all individuals appeal to morality. Some are born with predominantly immoral character traits. Due to this, they display various questionable behaviors that collectively lead up to the decline of the society and its values. All in all, multiple factors contribute to the decaying of community, one of which is violence. Violence takes up different forms, which primarily simulate a criminal nature. The vice has become so prevalent in society that creators of literature art pieces find it hard to resist incorporating concepts of violence in their work. In both The Cask of Amontillado and Trifles, the ability of violence to stand out as the central conflict proves the role that it plays in destroying the society.

Through the speaker, the reader becomes aware of how a woman looses her beauty. The speaker show how "a women bends over [it], searching [its] reaches for what she truely is" 10-11)only only to reveal how she has lost her beauty "like a terrible fish" (18). Yet, the woman "comes and goes. Each morning" (15-16) to see herself. It pains the woman, what she sees, because "she rewards [it] with tears and ... agitation"(14) clearly expressing her distaste for her looks.

Living to Love Throughout the history of mankind, people have always yearned for more. Whether that be materials, romance, or wealth, people have always pushed to fill the void in their meaningless lives, causing them to misunderstand what life represents. In the novel Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, Henderson’s luxurious lifestyle becomes meaningless as he struggles to find his purpose in life. His bitter and unhappy attitude leads him to pursue meaning by traveling to Africa. Through his adventures and experiences with the people of the Arnewi and Wariri tribe, Henderson learns how cooperation and friendships truly can last a lifetime.

By popular thinking of that day, disorientating violence exacted on the community can only be dealt with through an equal and opposite reaction of violence toward the exacter. An old saying throughout Europe goes ‘Do not hunt monsters, lest you wish to become one yourself.’ Yet, his order and disorder themes lend greatly to the senses of symbolism in the story.

Marlow first crosses paths with Kurtz’s African mistress in the Congo. “And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman.” Marlow’s description of her mirrors his feelings about the Congo, her beauty is appealing to him because it is foreign and unlike the European women he is used to. He further describes her, “She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress.” Though Marlow appreciates her physically, he equates her to being ‘wild’ and ‘savage’ and sees her as backward and uncultured. The word ‘ominous’ gives the sense that Marlow envisions her with darkness. In comparison, when Marlow meets Kurtz’s ‘Intended’ he is affected by her beauty in a different way. “She struck me as beautiful—I mean she had a beautiful expression. I know that the sunlight can be made to lie, too, yet one felt that no manipulation of light and pose could have conveyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed ready to listen without mental reservation, without suspicion, without a thought for herself.” Marlow describes Kurtz’s ‘Intended’ as innocent and pure. Though she lacks the excitement of Kurtz’s African mistress, she is the good homely wife a man would prefer. In comparison to the African mistress, Marlow envisions ‘The Intended’ with ‘sunlight’ and brightness. In this way, Conrad alludes that the only thing of importance to women is their physical beauty to please the eyes of

Again the description is bleak, (‘the sun beats .......the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief.’ ) Life-giving water is again absent, (‘the dry stone no sound of water.’ ) And moving transversally forward to section 5 brings the reader into the desertscape where there is an intensification of the oppressiveness . The absence of water is emphasised through repetition:

In the Victorian Age women were forced unto a bubble where they were only made for to please men and work for men. Women were to only take roles that were made for them like become a mother, clean the house or not work at all. They were to be taken care of men and let themselves be taken care of them. Elizabeth Barret Browning wrote these two poems to “George Sand: A Desire” (pg. 1128) and “To George Sand: A Recognition” (pg. 1128-1129). Barret Browning wrote these addressed to Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant’s pen name George Sand while she was in prison. She wrote to her to talk about how she questioned and fought against the gender roles and gender norms during the nineteenth century. I will also mention another one of Browning’s poems called Aurora Leigh (pg. 1138-1155) as it links with these two poems by showing how some of Barrett Browning’s work was contradictory to these gender roles being put on women during this era. Both poems themes were about how George Sand went against those gender norms and how Browning praised her for it. One of the themes we also see is women empowerment. Elizabeth Barret Browning idolized George Sand and how she held herself beautifully in a world were men dominated but she dominated it in a world of literature.

In Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2009), Michael J. Sandal argues that politics and society require a common moral purpose beyond the assertion of natural rights like life liberty and property or the utilitarian calculus of increasing pleasure and minimizing pain for the greatest number of people. He would move beyond both John Locke and Jeremy Bentham in asserting that "a just society can't be achieved simply by maximizing utility or by securing freedom of choice" (Sandal 261). Justice and morality involve making judgments on a wide variety of issues, including inequality of wealth and incomes, discrimination against women and minorities, CEP pay, government bailouts of banks and public education. Politics should take "moral and spiritual questions seriously" and not only on issues like sexual orientation and abortion, but also "broad economic and civil concerns" (Sandal 262). Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King added this moral dimension to U.S. politics in the 1960s when they criticized the Vietnam War, poverty and racial inequality and "appealed to a sense of community" (Sandal 263). So did Barack Obama in his 2008 campaign, although in practice achieving a politics of the common good in American society has been difficult, given the Lockean, natural rights basis of its 18th Century Constitution.