Themes Of Omoo And On The Road

Post-modernism was “a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality” (Public Broadcasting Service, n.d.). It can be suggested that reality is something that we each create and possess individually. Morimura took a work from the late 1500’s and changed it to fit his personal intentions and interpretations. It embodies post-modernist devices, such as stereotyping, the crossing of genre, and contemporary culture (Felluga, n.d.). By using these devices, Morimura transforms a work that could only seem applicable to the venerable and religious, to a work that is easily recognized and applied by the general public. He transforms the work from Bruegel’s reality to his own, in endeavour to resolve it. It is thought that appropriation is unoriginal, or possess aspects of plagiarism and negligence. However, the use of appropriation to give old works new meaning is justified in the sense that it allows the build-up and corroboration of ideas, supporting the growth and change of value systems as times and realities

By connecting, considering and concluding the response gained from literary works, the reader can obtain a deeper, analytical understanding of these techniques and tools used by the authors of the various literature forms. For this assignment, I have chosen to compare and contrast two separate literary works from “Journey into Literature” (Clugston, 2010), with similar themes. . The poems I will discuss are “The

Thus, the painting demonstrates an idealized view of the beginning of society through the formations of religion, logic, trade, and a human’s creation of their own fate. This theme can be seen

The ways that the Navajo and Judeo-Christians view the story of creation are starkly different, and they shed light onto the cultural differences between the two groups. Many things can be inferred from the ways these tales differ, but in this paper I will be analyzing the different things these stories imply about human nature. The Judeo-Christian story of Genesis describes humans as something close to the divine and different in nature from the beings around them. They are the center of the story, and the events they run into are about their relationship with their own humanity. The Navajo story of The Emergence treats humanity as on the same level as the rest of nature, and their struggle is one with the world around them.

In nature, the river is a powerful being that rushes and cuts through the earth with definitive curves that leave lasting marks even after it has disappeared. The path it follows is one that is reconstructive and continuous, a circular path, from the source to down a mountain, the ocean and back to the beginning. This circular construction is often mimicked in literature and is a critical factor in giving the reader a tighter grasp on the power behind individual events along with triggering their logos. In Hermann Hesse’s robust and thought-provoking novel “Siddhartha”, Hesse does a phenomenal job of describing the life of a man named Siddhartha who is born into a prominent and rich lifestyle yet embarks on a journey to seek out himself, who he is himself and all the twists and turns that burn into it. Through this he has written a piece of literature that forces people to see this world in another light and sometimes evaluate their lifestyles. Like the river, Hesse's use of circular construction is powerful and ensures a mental connection to the literature and provokes the idea that throughout every stage in his life. Even though he had certain aspects about him that separated him from society and put him on another level, he still lacked something, or instead had too much of it.

The contemporary genre, having a large array of works founded upon similar elements served largely as inspiration for this narrative - including texts alike ‘The god of Small Things’, ‘1984’, ‘100 Days’ of Solitude’, and ‘The Road’. Traditional literary devices within the contemporary movement alike the usage of an omnipresent first person narrator, varied form, intertextuality are further implemented. The usage of the window as a symbolic element, furthermore serves to highlight the barriers and constructs between God and reality, alluding to common themes while echoed effectively through the distanced narrative style, and lack of dialogue. The narrative registar and lexical chain, being descriptive is reminiscent of the Romantic style, to withdraw elements of nostalgia and the past, however is distanced mirroring the contemporary style further allowing the narrative to develop meaning on the detachment of God and the victory of all

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The imaginative foundation of a writer’s work may well be an inner drama or ‘hidden life’ in which his deepest interests and conflicts are transformed into images or characters; and through the symbolic play of these creations, he comes to ‘know’ the meaning of his experience; the imaginative structure becomes a means of reaching truth. . . . he lives ‘a life of allegory,’ and each of his works expresses one facet or another of the total structure. . . .heart-leading symbol. [The Heart became]

The subject undergoes a lust for knowledge. As he continues his “walk” through life he accepts the “call” that he will forever experience(12,11). There is no end point to his passion to fully chase life. He will continually follow his desires until death and he will become the sum of his experiences. The narrator finds that he is “richer” because of his “regret” (14).

Robert Gray’s Imagist poems, Late Ferry and Flames and Dangling Wire, and Tobias Wolff’s short story, Say Yes, are texts indicative of the relentless cycle of human experience – journey and discovery. A series of isolated discoveries can come together to show a result hitherto either foreseen or unexpected; the synergy between instances and patterns creates the journey of discovery that leads to closure or condemnation. Individual discoveries that lead to finality often have their own inciting moments. These discrete discoveries connect to indicate the final destination, the nature of which is very different from persona to persona. In some cases, the future destination can be discovered by extrapolating the pattern between such inciting moments.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a historical fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini, and “Journey Into the Interior”, a poem by Theodore Roethke, have thematic similarities in that both works share the message that one must go through hardship in order to discover oneself. However, Hosseini develops the theme through his characterization of his book’s protagonist, Miriam, while Roethke employs metaphors and vivid imagery to establish the common theme.

Simone de Beauvoir starts off Ethics of Ambiguity with central existentialism. Meaning humans create their own “essence” through the choices and actions they make. When Beauvoir is discussing the human essence she is not only talking about the concept but also Heidegger’s assertion in Being and Time. The creation of oneself is based on both the past actions and the future choices. De Beauvoir then continues with how there are different attitudes of men which are, The sub man, The serious man, The nihilist, and The adventurer. In this paper I will be discussing how De Beauvoir describes the attitude the adolescence, the serious man, and why she disagrees with how the serious man lives.

To this effect, I shall explore this text’s connections to Nietzsche's key intellectual influences. First, I shall address the impact of the Schopenhauerian view of the world on The Birth of Tragedy, in particular as regards the opposition between Apollo and Dionysus and the nature and goal of tragic art. Subsequently, I shall refer to the influence of Richard Wagner's thought in order to explore the relationship between metaphysics and art as humanity's "true metaphysical

In the poems “The Wanderer” and “The Dream of the Rood,” anonymous authors give way to the idea that an Almighty God will solve every problem a person has by doing two things: 1) drawing upon the memories of a warrior who has lost everything near and dear to him due to war, and 2) entering the dream of a man who has been exiled and isolated. Each piece takes its reader through the trials and tribulations that one may not relate to in this era, yet the reader is still there alongside the character wanting them to find peace with their world and themselves. Initially, it is believed that the characters will overcome their hardships and achieve the happiness they seek. However, as the reader delves deeper into the character’s story, there is an overwhelming sense of incompleteness. What actually happens at the end of each piece is not written in stone - telling us the story is not whole - nor has a conclusion been reached. The intrapersonal thoughts being shared with the reader reveal the obstacles that keep an overall wholeness from occurring.

It is interesting to read two pieces of literature on the same topic, but written in different manners to get a new perspective. For example, Clark’s focuses on the circular manner of the reincarnation, while Soyinka’s stanzas demonstrated the many lives of the child. While there are