This Perfect Day

Society has tried to achieve perfection in many ways, almost since the beginning of humanity, and it is almost impossible so many attempts fail and cause severe consequences. In “the perfect match” by Ken Liu, short story and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, short story. Perfection is people ignoring what really matter. People have lost their identity, they are not unique anymore because society is limiting with an idea that what is not accepted or normal is not perfect.

The theme of perfection is narrated throughout the story. The story describes the character Aylmer who is a man of science. It becomes obvious to a reader that Aylmer is a perfectionist when he states, ‘’ you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible

Everybody lives their lives differently. In the novel Every Day by David Levithan the main character, who goes by A, takes spending a day in somebody else’s shoes literally. Every day, A is someone else. He sees almost every situation people are put into including how they react to it. All of the things A sees impacts him as a person. A tries to help anyone he encounters for the better. People in general learn from what they experience or see and knowing what others around you go through can make you feel sympathy for them. The way different people act to different things is normally about what they have been through. A having seen what people have been though, tries to help the people he becomes, even if it is only for a day. If we could

From the perspective of a political vision, this novel shows the failure of civilization and democracy. This island novel is an ideal laboratory for the analysis of the human species. It is a testing ground for new forms of life in society, by destruction of the pre-established frameworks

To start off, I didn’t particularly enjoy the book. I found that the protagonist, Marion, seemed to drift throughout life being acting upon, rather than acting himself, while simultaneously blaming everything that seemed to go wrong with his life on someone else. On the other hand, it’s important to realize that no one lives in a bubble; who we are and what we do is influenced by others, and we exert our own influence on the world. Nonetheless, I think this irked me because I believe part of being able a physician is owning up to who you are, and what you stand for— “wearing your slippers” as Ghosh might say (Verghese 351). I didn’t feel like Marion did that.

The book is about a group of young children who are stranded on a deserted island after a tragic plane crash, without the care of any adult. Golding presents readers with the conflict of human impulses towards the savagery and how the rules of civilization can minimize and contain it. The children struggle to develop their own version of an established society, and the two leaders, Ralph and Jack, have distinct attitudes towards the authority of the children. Ralph is a boy who believes a community must establish rules, protect the interests of the people, and enforce ethical and moral codes to live by. Jack, on the other hand, believes that he should gain control over the other boys, and his hunger for power and savagery sets up a society full of exploitation and illicit power – a total totalitarian system. Through the conflict of power between Ralph and Jack, the book endorses that the savagery in humans is a fact of our existence and civilization must adapt around this. As the conflict between Ralph and Jack deepens, Jack gains control over the influence in the boys of the group, and there is a decline in the civilization of the island. I would introduce the people of the future with this book because it teaches very important lessons about the innate traits of mankind, struggles of power, and the ways in which we can prevent the inherent evilness of human nature. It shows that a society can form a steady decline if not carefully structured and the ways in which to prevent it from

The perception of what is deemed a flawless society is a concept that might not be adopted by everyone, there are those who do their best to ignore it, and other who are simply unable to comprehend its severity. Wyndham begins the progression of his protagonist, David

Perfection is the unattainable state or quality we strive possess. An individual’s freedom from flaws or defects is based on the views of the society he lives in. In addition, we often associate ideas of perfection with those of higher rank or with superiority. The minorities are then left as the undesired, the outsiders. But societal views are not completely accurate. Perfection seems to be about “having it all”.

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient may seem to be just another novel set during the time of the second world war, but it is actually much more. Living as a white male in Canada it is sometimes difficult to understand being oppressed or to be anything other than the majority. This isn't the reality everywhere, though, and certainly not with every person. The English Patient paints a picture of the struggle between the English, or Western nations. In particular, the mistreatment of the Indian people at the hands of the English and the lust for a nationless world, where there are no boundaries or war. This novel uses many different methods to get this point across. From methods of storytelling, intertextual references, imagery, and symbolism. We see the clash of the two nationalities and ideologies portrayed primarily through Kip and the English patient. Though for much of the novel it is just an underlying plot that builds into an integral part of the novel and eventually into the main principle behind the novel. We also see this desire for a

The novel demonstrates how society is changed and the way it can change one’s character over time. When fear on the island comes about, it creates unreasonable, foolish behavior. This shows how human nature relies on the society in which one lives in. With Golding’s usage of allegory, it keeps the book interesting and meaningful to the characters in the book and the reader reading the novel.

"The Island" investigates important science fiction topics that are reflected in today's way of life of corporate morals, restorative morals, jail populations, organ transplants, class warfare and others. The motion picture depends on the thought that, at some point, the well-off residents of the world may pay a private partnership to develop substitution body parts so that the customers may accomplish eternality even as they destroy their own particular organs through unfortunate way of life decisions, for example, rash drinking, celebrating, drug use, smoking and devouring junk food.

Through the Novel Island by Aldous Huxley the possibility and attainability of what makes a sustainable utopian society is explored. With the attributes discovered through Huxley’s writing the foundations and necessities of maintaining a utopia are defined, and under the correct circumstances could be successful. In Island Will Farnaby intentionally shipwrecks on the utopian island of Pala. His intentions are to get oil rights for his boss from the ruler of Pala. The Palanese do not want their oil exported, due to their ways of life. Throughout the novel Will evolves from his cynical pessimistic self, into an islander. Will is not the only character that evolves through the book Murugan does as well. With Murugan Island shows him evolving from

From the book’s beginning, until the end, Golding elaborates his idea of humans disintegrating a perfect society. Kids are the perfect subject to understand our true nature. Because kids have limited knowledge on good or bad behaviour, little bias is accounted for. In the start of chapter one, Golding describes the crash site, “All round him [Ralph] the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat” (Golding 6). The use of the word scar gives the crash site a negative connotation. A perfect island, previously inhabited by humans, now creates a scar. Golding demonstrates that humans are

Sir Thomas More describes a society on an imaginary island where all social issues have been cured, in his famous work known as Utopia. In this book More expresses his ideas in a captivating two-part novel that tackles social issues that More faced in his own life. Through the dialogue between two characters, Raphael Hythloday and Sir Thomas More himself; Hythloday, a fictional character, tells More about his recent voyage to the wonderful island of Utopia. All throughout the book, Hythloday describes the laws, customs, system of government, and way of life that exist in Utopia to an incredulous and somewhat condescending More. However, I found the book tended to focus on the social issues More faced in Part 1, and focused on how Utopia deals with those social issues in Part 2. Sir Thomas More illustrates a marvelous society that thrives on the brink of perfection, and although he makes it seem possible, I believe that Utopia wouldn’t function as a working social system in the real world.

In the novel, a number of themes have been outlined by Ondaatje such as race, ethnicity, identity, history, nationalism, Western colonialism, romance, war, and the human body. The setting also shifts to different locations such as Cairo, deserts in Africa and England. The problem of identity is one of the most important issues for the post-modern epoch. The English Patient is a novel that questions the nation and nationalism that shape identities through colonial and anti-colonial nationalisms.