The Great House, By Frank Herbert

Sometimes when I’m home alone with my younger siblings, I yell at them and threaten to hurt them if they annoy and distract me. Usually, I do this because I’m in charge and I know I won’t get in trouble for it and because I have work to do and I don’t want to get in trouble for not doing it. Similarly, some police (mostly white) abuse their position by shooting people when they think they are in danger. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of the Holocaust and Lord of the Flies is a novel by William Golding. Both texts show that humans can hurt others to save themselves and power corrupts us as human beings.

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you 've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

Harvey Milk once said “it takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.” He lived in a time when there was discrimination of homosexuals and he experienced it; being the first gay man elected to Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. In the 1940’s and 50’s homosexual people were discriminated it was viewed as a disease and was described as “sociopathic personality disturbance. Homosexual activities were illegal and people were imprisoned for having consensual sex with another man. Despite the dangers and difficulties, homosexual people found a way to meet and confide in themselves. Most wrote books as a way to express themselves; it gave

James Baldwin once said, “Everybody 's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ” From the moment babies are born, most parents treat boys and girls differently. One study says that parents have different expectations for boys and girls as early as 24 hours from birth, according to Susan D. Witt of the University of Akron. According to healthychildren.org, infants become aware of their sex within in the first year of life. Between ages 1 and 2, children begin to notice the physical differences between males and females, and typically by their third birthday they are able to easily identify themselves as a boy or a girl. People are faced with many obstacles that alter their life. Just like the many controversies in society, “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin discusses a young man being gay in a society and a family who are simply not ready to accept his sexual orientation and neither does he. This fiction also emphasizes the battle that he faces with self-acceptance. Gender identity and American norms in society is widely discussed almost every day. Americans are becoming more open and accepting of the LGBT community, as well as against the LGBT community.

In part one of the book Fahrenheit 451, Montag 's character is seen as a dirty, downright, beat up fireman. The type of fireman he is, is a fireman that starts fires he does not put them out. This novel is a dystopia which is a society that has tried to get better but failed miserably. The author Ray Bradbury, changes Montag 's point of view throughout the novel.

for anyone else’s approval” (DailykarmaQuotes.com). The main character, Guy Montag, in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury proves this point because he disregards society’s rules to find his true happiness. The book is about a society where books are burned and people are not allowed to think. The society has firefighters, but instead of putting out fires, they start the fires. The main character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter that meets a unique teenage girl named Clarisse, and starts thinking about true happiness. After seeing a woman get burned to death along with her books, Guy becomes curious about books. He starts reading them and showing them to Mildred, his wife. Guy eventually gets caught and has to burn his house down with all of the books in it. He then burns the fire chief and is on the run from the government. While he is being hunted like a deer, a war is going on and a nuclear warhead destroys the whole city. A strong message that Bradbury is trying to tell us is that people cannot let technology take over their life since it is only a cover up for true happiness. Happiness is based on one’s freedom because those who live outside of society and those who choose to defy the government are truly happy, while those who allow the government to control them are not happy at all.

People all over the world today try to escape their country to come to the United States so that they can be free and happy. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury set in 24th century America, tells about Guy Montag and what the future is turning into. Montag is a firefighter that becomes interested in books, which banned from anyone to read. Montag’s wife then turns him in because she thinks it is wrong to try and think and read; she thinks that she is happy with all the television they have and thinks they will be sad if they do read. Montag takes books during the times her is supposed to be burning down houses and keeps them covert form his wife because he does not want to be turned in and have to burn down his own house. Once Montag is caught he has to burns down his house. He ends up killing his chief and goes on the run and finds others that think books are going to help the world. Montag returns to the city after it got bombed and to show the people books and how they will make them happy. One of the main messages Bradbury sends future readers with his novel is that happiness is based on one’s freedom because those who live outside of society and those who choose to defy the government are truly happy while those who allow the government to control them are not happy at all.

Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, is a futuristic dystopian novel based upon science and technology. The society created in the work produces humans with specific qualities to make sure that everyone fits into the system. The overall happiness of the people is favored above the rights of the individual. “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. And of course whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered” (Huxley, 228). The women’s rights movement seeks the advancement of socialism and the expense of individual rights, just as the “Brave New World” described in Huxley 's book sacrifices the rights of man for the contentment of society.

The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932 is known for its social satire, utopian values, and unusual standpoints on stereotypical gender roles. In this time where futuristic technology has completely taken over, and men and women are given the same opportunities for everything, “the genders appear equal within the social order; both men and women work at the same jobs, have equal choice in sexual partners, and participate in the same leisure pursuits” (March 53). Huxley makes for a rather interesting feminist; “he was not only concerned about making women equal to men, he was also deeply concerned with the effects of technology and globalization on the quality of life for both genders” (Douglas-McMahon 21). However, there are many different sections of his novel that prove he was unable to fully rid of gender roles because of the time period in which he lived. Many of the stereotypical gender roles discussed in this book are also multiplied or switched rather than abolished. In his attempt to rid of stereotypical gender roles, Huxley manages to revolutionize, make fun of, and reconstruct them all in one breath.

Society can become dangerous when the government is in control of our lives. No one reads books, technology is minimizing relationships, and people don’t appreciate the outdoors as much anymore, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 begins to disregard the rules that the society has made. One person is able to change the way of a society by being willing to change and think for themselves. Bradbury is trying to predict and warn us on the dangers that are ahead if we keep continuing to rely on technology, machines, and forget the old ways of doing things. Those things such as reading books and newspapers, communicating face to face and not over social media or the phone, and figuring things out for ourselves. Bradbury wants to keep us

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather is a thoroughly Modern novel, saturated with the period’s characteristic indifference and sense of disillusionment with the contemporary social order. The novel is subtle, however – the literary Modernism of each character and theme is cloaked in nuance, and could go unnoticed by a casual reader. The narrative unfolds in a clear and explicit manner, but can be falsely assumed to lack a clear moral resolution based on the ambiguity of its conclusion. Gender differences and roles are central to the story, and serve to illuminate Cather’s ultimate conclusions. Through The Professor’s House, Cather advocates the reinvention of traditional gender models to combat Modern indifference.

Brave New World is based around characters who gave up the right of freedom for happiness; characters who ignored the truth so that they could live in a utopian civilization. The deceiving happiness was a constant reminder throughout the book. Almost every character in Brave New World did whatever they could to avoid facing the truth about their own situations. In this society, happiness is not compatible with the truth because the World State believes that happiness was at the expense of the truth. Aldous Huxley was a man ahead of his time in respect to his development and discussion of the incompatibility of happiness and truth in his 1932 novel, Brave New World.

Brave New World is a dystopian fiction by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. It takes place in a futuristic society, which is shaped by a political ideology, shared by all. The society’s (World State) motto – “Community, Identity, Stability”, sums up the purpose of the entire society. Although the novel was written several decades before, one can explore many similarities and differences compared to the modern society we live in. Furthermore, one can even analyze this once fictitious society by Huxley, to an ideal modern world society known as the caliphate, created by a terrorist group known as ISIS.

There are a variety of political and religious concepts throughout the Dune novels that varies so much through the novels which makes it a complex and cogitative science fiction series. The Dune novels are popular with many fans and partly this is due because of its political and religious structures. This essay will be focussing primarily on the first four Dune novels written by Frank Herbert.

Irony is common in realist novels that reveal the fall and/or rise of characters among other aspects. It is mostly shown at the end which is usually tragic but tell readers the fate of the characters. Realist novels have plausible events, with cause and effect in their stories — what the characters desire and the consequences they receive because of that. Realism in the novel, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, was clearly shown through Lily Bart's character with its ironic ending that had both her fall and rise as a character. She was known for her beauty in the novel; she made various mistakes in the process of entering the high social status. Her physical beauty was not enough to establish herself in society if her name was not