The Prelapsarian Analysis

An analysis of the key literary elements in “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn and “Jordon’s Water hammer” by Joe Mastroianni clearly illustrates the main characteristics and classification of the dystopian genre.

Where innumerous catastrophic events are simultaneously occurring and altering the mental capability of its viewers eternally, war is senseless killing. The participants of war that are ‘fortunate’ enough to survive become emotionally distraught civilians. Regardless of the age of the people entering war, unless one obtains the mental capacity to witness numerous deaths and stay unaffected, he or she is not equipped to enter war. Kurt Vonnegut portrays the horrors of war in Slaughterhouse Five, through the utilization of satire, symbolism, and imagery.

Penned during two distinctly disparate eras in American military history, both Erich Maria Remarque's bleak account of trench warfare during World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Tim O'Brien's haunting elegy for a generation lost in the jungles of Vietnam, The Man I Killed, present readers with a stark reminder that beneath the veneer of glorious battle lies only suffering and death. Both authors imbue their work with a grim severity, presenting the reality of war as it truly exists. Men inflict grievous injuries on one another, breaking bodies and shattering lives, without ever truly knowing for what or whom they are fighting for. With their contributions to the genre of war literature, both Remarque and O'Brien have sought to lift the veil of vanity which, for so many wartime writers, perverts reality with patriotic fervor. In doing so, the authors manage to convey the true sacrifice of the conscripted soldier, the broken innocence which clouds a man's first kill, and the abandonment of one's identity which becomes necessary in order to kill again.

A comparison of dystopian texts explores contemporary issues of society and integrates them into an alien world. The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood illustrates the nature of society as far from ideal, and the destructive nature of oppression. Similarly, Gattaca by Andrew Niccol epitomises the characteristics of a dystopian text, by highlighting the subversion of natural processes, suppression of identity and oppression present in society. Both texts explore similar themes that reflect a society 's deepest fears to the audience- dehumanisation.

In this final chapter, O’Brien strings the various threads of plot events together to form a cohesive message. Each of the major themes is illuminated as each of the major stories is retold mostly told about Vietnam and a younger version of himself

The Viet Nam War has been the most reviled conflict in United States history for many reasons, but it has produced some great literature. For some reason the emotion and depredation of war kindle in some people the ability to express themselves in a way that they may not have been able to do otherwise. Movies of the time period are great, but they are not able to elicit, seeing the extremely limited time crunch, the same images and charge that a well-written book can. In writing of this war, Tim O'Brien put himself and his memories in the forefront of the experiences his characters go through, and his writing is better for it. He produced a great work of art not only because he experienced the war first hand, but because he is able to convey the lives around him in such vivid detail. He writes a group of fictional works that have a great deal of truth mixed in with them. This style of writing and certain aspects of the book are the topics of this reflective paper.

was not the truth. This book showed the harsh reality of war that most people

Since the beginning of time, humans have sought after power and control. It is human instinct to desire to be the undisputed champion, but when does it become a problem? Warfare has been practiced throughout civilization as a way to justify power. Though the orders come directly from one man, thousands of men and women pay the ultimate sacrifice. In Randall Jerrell’s “The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner”, Jarrell is commenting on the brutality of warfare. Not only does Jarrell address the tragedies of war, he also blames politics, war leaders, and the soldier’s acknowledgement of his duties. (Hill 6) With only five lines of text, his poems allows the reader to understand what a soldier can go through. With the use of Jerrell’s poem, The Vietnam War, and Brian Turner’s “Ameriki Jundee”, the truth of combat will be revealed.

Jimin wakes up to the sound of explosions and fire. A thousand and some men meet their demise each day, and Jimin prays at night he’s not one of them. The war rages around him, and he gets off the make-shift bed to get changed into his gear to help out. He caps the patterned helmet and looks at himself in the mirror. His reflection stares back, sad and weary, a youth gone wrong. He smears camouflage onto his face, high on his cheekbones until there is nothing left of him but an empty vessel of war.

In this essay, I will discuss how Tim O’Brien’s works “The Things They Carried” and “If I Die in a Combat Zone” reveal the individual human stories that are lost in war. In “The Things They Carried” O’Brien reveals the war stories of Alpha Company and shows how human each soldier is. In “If I Die in a Combat Zone” O’Brien tells his story with clarity, little of the dreamlike quality of “Things They Carried” is in this earlier work, which uses more blunt language that doesn’t hold back. In “If I Die” O’Brien reveals his own personal journey through war and what he experienced. O’Brien’s works prove a point that men, humans fight wars, not ideas. Phil Klay’s novel “Redeployment” is another novel that attempts to humanize soldiers in war. “Redeployment” is an anthology series, each chapter attempts to let us in the head of a new character – set in Afghanistan or in the United States – that is struggling with the current troubles of war. With the help of Phil Klay’s novel I will show how O’Brien’s works illustrate and highlight each story that make a war.

However, MacLennan exaggerates on the negativity he is trying to convey to Timothy’s generation. Although, the author does get the correlation of the influences, such as music, of each generation and how it impacted the way people behaved. The rock and roll period energized people and empowered Timothy’s generation to revolt. Nonetheless, without the expression of voices, many of the changes that promoted equal rights could have occurred and the usage of media have over the years lowered the number of wars that occur as more and more people is aware of the consequences Thus, his generation is not all that bitter. On Conrad’s side, MacLennan portrayed the neglected side about World War II. It is commonly assumed that the entire population of Germany are the cause of the millions of deaths that occurred, however, the author puts forth the group of a society that helped the victims from Hitler and they was Germans, such as Conrad. Moreover, MacLennan writes about the age group wherein Timothy’s generation, age didn’t define success. By contrasting these two figures, young and old, MacLennan encompasses that there will be a generational conflict, however, unlike MacLennan’s portrayal, these conflicts would not bring the world down but rather keep the world

Good morning and welcome to “New Resolutions”, a contemporary podcast examining the burgeoning growth of dystopian literary works and their horrific comparison to the future that may be awaiting us. These dystopias are reflections of contemporary issues mirroring Camus’s absurdity of the human condition.

He uses two novels to better interpret how the traumas of the holocaust are anchored in western societies and to depict how the end would look like, namely like apocalypses that already occurred. In the third part, Berger turns to more recent post-apocalyptic phenomena of American culture, analyzing “Reaganism” as the “most conspicuous and politically powerful instance of [...] American post-apocalypticism” (134). Reaganism sees America as an already achieved utopia, meaning the apocalypse has already happened and therefore also traumas were generated, which were largely disavowed. However, Berger puts the 1960s in contrast to Reaganism as apocalyptic because of their critique of American history (cf. 140) and additional depicts the “social disintegration” of this period as its main trauma (156). The analysis of two post-apocalyptic novels concerning their historical traumas underlines his findings of the third part and give evidence of, nostalgia, the repetition of traumas and social movements. In the epilogue, Berger finally concludes that the process of rebuilding traumas continues in American post-apocalyptic culture and

One thing new in the novel is that here his canvas has grown larger. He turns his focus from the private to the public. Instead of his pre-occupation with the existentialist predicament of an individual, here he deals with the socio- political and existentialist crisis of the entire "City" and thus of the whole humanity itself. In this novel, too, he takes up his favourite existentialist issues of faith, commitment, choice, responsibility and identity but the way he handles them is somewhat different from that of his earlier novels. Here he looks into these issues with the spectacles of politics, an equipment he has not been used to, raising the novel to the level of political allegorical

Social reform after the end of the world is never perfect. Fahrenheit 451 and “By the Waters of Babylon” are two enjoyable, thought- provoking stories. The element that seems to drive this quality is found in the characters, especially the protagonists. They play a prominent role in clarifying the conflict and theme as well as bringing forth the main points of the plot. John and Montag, the protagonists of the two stories have nearly identical parts in their plots. What shapes the story are their different experiences and characteristics. While some differences between Montag and John are evident, the similarities are striking. The similarities are seen in the characters’ intentions and adventures, and the differences are seen in their sources of motivation.