Why Is Atlantis Still Alive?

Mrs. Higgins’s drawing room. She is at her writing-table as before. The parlor-maid comes in.

The short story “The New Atlantis” paints a picture of a dystopian United States, where the government has become an overwhelming force. The people living in the States are left in a state of neglect, where harsh administration and forced ideals are the norm. Ursula K. Le Guin’s story follows Belle, a woman who leaves her memoirs to the rising oceans that are swallowing up the continent. Belle’s story records the struggle of a person’s life under the suffocating government, with her husband Simon attempting to gain political strength through his scientific vision. The themes of the story are based on “a damning critique of the direction that humanity along with science and technology have taken under capitalism” (Maxwell 15). With its heavy hand, civilization has consumed itself with conflict and consumption. By the end of the story, the United States has completely collapsed into the ocean, collapsed under the weight of its own government. The story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, also by Ursula K. Le Guin, tells the tale of an idealistic city called Omelas. Shoshana Knapp illustrates the lives of Omelas as a complex moral problem: “The basic situation . . . is the promise of mass bliss in exchange for a unique torment” (par. 5). When children become young adults in Omelas, they are shown a morbid truth about their society – the basis of Omelas’ whole existence relies on the suffering of one lonely child locked in a room. This dilemma introduces many uncomfortable

naval would symbolize the missing connection that she would have with not only her father, but

He reunited the east and west under his own rule. He also built a new capital at Byzantium, on the Bosporus. He named this city Constantinople. Constantine wanted a new capital that would be a Christian city, not a pagan one. He continued the policies of Diocletian. People saw no need to work hard with no chance of getting ahead. These reforms only slowed down the process of collapse. After Constantine 's death in 337 A.D., the empire was again divided.

She began to feel disheartened; when she says her ‘heart sank further and further’. This tells us that she was feeling disappointed and felt that she should give up but by telling herself that one day life would ‘feel life was approximately a hundred times better’ it kept her going because she thought it would be over at some point and her life would then improve.

John Galt was a worker at a factory called Twentieth Century Motor Company which implemented a policy that ultimately led the company into its own destruction. The Twentieth Century Motor Company operated on the radical plan of paying its workers based on their proclaimed needs, and those who worked the hardest were required to help those who did not. Outraged by this, Galt refuses to work and swears that he will “stop the engine of the world.” As a result, brilliant industrialists begin to slowly disappear out of society forcing the collapse of capitalism to give rise to bureaucrats, politicians, and looters who find government intervention as the only means of fixing the country’s economic situation.

      Atlantis is known to most people as a legend or myth written by the Greek poet Plato, but is it possible that this lost continent really existed? Is it all legend or could there be some fact to it? Contrary to common belief there have been numerous geological and historical findings that actually give proof to the existence of this lost city. In the book Imagining Atlantis it tells us the story written by Plato. "According to ancient Egyptian temple records the Athenians fought an aggressive war against the rulers of Atlantis some nine thousand years earlier

With the narrator being locked away, she starts to become more intrigued with the paper because she cannot fulfill her passion of writing. The narrator loves to write and she hides it from John because she does not like making him mad. Her husband is a doctor so she is compelled to believe everything he says regarding her own mental state. John insists that her writing is what makes her condition worse. Charolette Perkins describes this when she writes, “There comes John, and I must put this away,— he hates to have me write a word” (319). The most compelling fact about her slipping more into insanity is that she is almost forced to stay amused by the wallpaper. She starts to concentrate more on the pattern and slowly makes judgements of what she sees: “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” (320). There are multiple times throughout the story when she starts to see the wallpaper as something more than inanimate

The narrator says she can see the woman and that she gets out in the daytime and creeps. She notices little by little that if certain parts of the paper were not there she would be able to escape. Finally, on the last night john had to stay into town and she conveniences Jennie that she would rest better by herself. She knew she had one last night to figure out the mysterious yellow wallpaper and she knew it would be enough

She becomes possessive and secretive, but she is careful about hiding her increased interest in the paper and making sure that no one else studies it so that she can figure out on her own what is wrong with it. The narrator states, “life is very much more exciting than it used to be” (Perkins 653) now she has something to look forward to. At one time in the story, she catches Jennie, touching the wallpaper. Jennie mentions that she had found yellow stains on John’s and the narrator’s clothes. Since the narrator is so fixated on the wallpaper, she has given less importance to other things, and this makes her husband believe she is getting better. What is happening is that she developed insomnia and even believes she has developed a sense of

However, without John’s knowledge, the narrator keeps a journal to keep an account of her condition, as well as her feelings. Upon their arrival to the home, he brings her to the room all the way up on the top of the house. This room is quite small, but it was enough to keep her in there. There were drafty windows on the wall that had bars attached, as to keep someone inside of an insane asylum. To her dismay, the narrator is forced to stay isolated in this room the entire stay since John wishes for her to not wander around. She attempts to make it more comfortable, but she cannot help but notice the yellow wallpaper that encased the walls which led her to feel confined in a prison. During her stay in the room, her obsession with the wallpaper begins to grow gradually inside of her. This is seen in the story as she writes about John, the room, and mainly about the wallpaper. She complains about John’s belittling of her thoughts and how he is worried about

James entered the office. The room was organized, yet filled with clutter. Faded traces of smoke lingered among the accounts and reports stacked about the corners of the room. A balding, egg-shaped man with a compensating mustache slouched against an ornate armchair; his nervous blue eyes sifted through heaps of yellowed papers. He look up. Recognition.

It had been exactly two minutes since they had entered the flat, and he already knew there was something wrong. His chair was at a different angle, his violin on the other side of the room, his papers stacked up into neat piles, and that wasn’t the only thing. His books had been in alphabetical order by publisher, yet he now found them alphabetized by author. How was he supposed to find his books now? His drawer of perfectly arranged by color socks? Ms. Hudson had moved them. All of them.

I spent all Saturday and Sunday marching around San Diego. You may know the trip. Sea World, the Midway Aircraft Carrier, hotel pool with the kids and lots of tourists. If you ever find yourself in San Diego, thirsty, tired, and need some good beer, you need to find yourself a beer utopia.

“Ok, I understand Mrs. Evans.” He noticed the way she looked at her husband’s picture hanging on top of the chimney. It was like he was still there to watch her. Everything in the room was tidy and clean. She must have made time pass by cleaning up everything. He could see though that there was an unusually big pile of papers on the corner of the desk behind her seat. Maybe she had been busy organizing some things, a job or maybe a closer investigation on the case…