The Moon Is Down, Antigone, And Invictus

In the book titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,an American Slave,the author Frederick Douglass shows how courage is a defining human element.Douglass continuously exhibits this throughout the book by doing many things that could get him in trouble. The author’s purpose is to show that courage is a defining element of the human spirit.

Many films or dramas about love always make me impressed by the power of love. Love can evokes people’s various emotions such as happiness, sadness and anger. Love encourages people to accomplish what they think is impossible or impracticable. In addition, love is an intense and direct feeling that I experiences the most in my life. It is Antigone and Death of a salesman that are the two plays which impress me with the expression of strong love among the roles. The play, Antigone, ends up with tragedy and creates two tragic heroes—Antigone and Creon. Arthur Miller takes advantage of memories, dreams, arguments and conflicts to make up the last day of Willy Loman’s life (Lifcharts.com). Love reflected in the two plays is various, complex and full of tragic feature. Haemon shows his love to Antigone by revolting against his father 's authority and committing suicide; Linda shows her love to Willy by defending him and protecting his American dream, and my friend shows love to his parents by quitting school to support his parents ' company.

In describing the land, Steinbeck is showing humanity is continuously immersed in a struggle of good versus evil; he suggests “the way in which this sense of opposed absolutes rises from deep within man, representing something profound and inevitable in human consciousness” (Owens).

  The books Brave New World by Aldus Huxley and Anthem by Ayn Rand are both valuable twentieth-century contributions to literature. Both books explore the presence of natural law in man and propose a warning for what could happen when man's sense of right and wrong is taken from him. In this essay, I hope to show how these seemingly unrelated novels both expound upon a single, very profound, idea.

Ayn Rand’s Anthem challenges the prevailing wisdom that selflessness and sacrifice are morally superior to selfishness and self-interest. In the 1937 novel, Rand depicts a future in which individual identity is erased and all action is collective in nature. The word ‘I’ has been eradicated and all people use the plural ‘We’ to refer to themselves, as it is the concept of self that a society based on selflessness must destroy. In Anthem, the banishment of individualism leads to severe dystopian consequences that are explored through their impact on the protagonist, Equality 7-2521, on the end of innovation in society, and as the basis for the collapse of society itself into a totalitarian dictatorship.

"Never make an attempt to gain our freedom or natural right, from under our cruel oppressor, and murderers, until you see your way clear [6]--when that hour arrives and you move, be not afraid or

Throughout time, countless surrenders have occurred, the most common in war. In John Steinbeck's novel The Moon Is Down, a small town surrenders to invaders that changes how the people act and think. In Antigone, Antigone never surrenders, trying to put moral beliefs before the law. The poem and movie Invictus suggest to never surrender and to control fate or destiny. This idea of surrendering is a motif in the works of The Moon Is Down, Antigone, and Invictus. In the face of adversity, the human spirit prevails in those who never surrender what they love.

Slaves suffered within a system characterized by undernourishment, overwork, harsh punishment, ill health, and despair. The purpose of this paper is to address the significant problems slavery caused the world in which talk of rights and liberties were increasingly popularized. Slavery divested lives of many African Americans who were sold into enslavement for many years.

Almost everyone faces some kind of hardship in their lifetime; however, only specific people can rely on their spirits to help them survive. Perhaps one of the greatest hardships started in 1619 when the first African American slaves were brought to the US settlements. Millions of slaves were treated horribly, even more were brutally killed in many different ways. In the book, Copper Sun, Sharon Draper proves that only certain individuals are given the strength of spirit needed to endure the difficulties of life by comparing how some slaves survived the “death ship” and others did not, how some became pessimistic but Amari stayed faithful, and finally how the people of Fort Mose were living freely even though each individual faced tragedy

Slavery was an unjust system that forever changed the course of American history. It was founded upon the belief that some people were worth less than others simply based on the color of their skin. The horrors that these slaves were exposed to on a daily basis revealed just how dark humans can be. Still, the testimony of survival in this text is truly remarkable. The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of a man’s life in slavery, his escape, and what his life was like when he was free.

Introduction “What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights” (Ambedkar, 1891). Inequality is defined in many ways, but the most unique thing the definitions all have in common is “unequal”. Inequality is used in society every day to discriminate against social groups specifically the minority and individuals that are not classified as wealthy. Having said that, discrimination and hate is what drives a nation's focus into complete destruction.

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” (Roosevelt). Since the beginning of time societies have existed, thriving among mankind. Societies dictate norms and regulations for the people living within them by establishing a status quo. Since the status quo exists, a large majority of people alter their actions and words they do and say to fit the societal norm, the status quo in order to seem “normal”. As common as a status quo is to societies, so is the reality of a rebel: someone who goes against the status quo, such as Antigone. Societies also have people who overly conform, in turn suffering negative consequences, such as Eve. If a comparison of both works (Antigone and Paradise Lost) are taken, it will remain obvious that Antigone materializes as a stronger, more self-independent character who is against the societal norms, whereas Eve lacks enough inner strength and willpower to avoid conforming to the origin of the negativity of social norms.

Sophocles’s play Antigone promotes a good life that, through careful analysis, is very similar to the Stoic theory of the good life. Antigone is a story about the members of the ancient Theban aristocracy vying for control of themselves and others; however, in its core it contains an exploration of the good life, that is trying to investigate what values will allow one to get what they want out of life.

Many media elements were chosen to enhance and reflect the selected literary sources and literary feature. The literary feature selected was the theme of love and loss. This theme was represented with quotes and images from three english works: Romeo and Juliet, Indian Horse, and Funeral Blues. The colours selected for the infographic were pink and black; pink because pink is often associated with love and black because it often identifies with darkness and emptiness that correlates with loss. Two hearts, one pink and one black, were also added to signify love because the heart is a symbol of love. The image selected to represent Romeo and Juliet is a picture from the 1968 movie version where Romeo has arrived at Juliet’s tomb and is reciting

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” declared by an influential leader Martin Luther King Jr. As a soldier againsts unfairness, King strongly states that people should fight for freedom. Driven by human nature, humans are always chasing freedom. In “A Century Later,” the Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker uses the poetic devices of symbolism, diction, and allusion to explore how perseverance drives freedom.