Essay on Rudyard Kipling

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?”. Rudyard Kipling, the Arthur of the short story How the Leopard Got His Spots argues that there will always be a need of change in order to survive symbolizing Charles Darwin theory of Evolution. Kipling shows in How the Leopard Got His Spots how people can improve the way of living through positive change and learning how to adapt to environments. With the use of incorporating religion and society issues into a tall tale to make it believable

a hero in the story. He killed the cobra snakes to protect his family of birds from the whispers of death. Rikki Tikki Tavi is hero for many reasons in this story. One reason is Rudyard Kipling wrote “it must be the head,” he said at last; “the head above the hood. And, when I am once there, I must not let go” (Kipling 129). Throughout this scene in the story, Rikki was suffering in pain, attempting to kill Nag knowing he what could happen to him was pure torture for him but it

In this written work, Kipling declares that taking control of other, less developed countries is not only the white man’s responsibility, but also their burden. “Take up the White Man’s burden,” is repeated as a motif throughout the poem, emphasizing the fact that the white man is apparently obligated to control and transform other cultures. Kipling goes as far as to say that, “your new-caught, sullen peoples,” or the natives the white

In Lord of the Flies, Golding subverts the morality espoused by Ballantyne and treats the boys as ordinary human beings and more importantly, as children divesting them of the “White Man’s Burden” (term used by Rudyard Kipling in his poem of the same title). Instead of coming across primitive tribes and their evil practices, the boys confront the evil within them. They are no longer seen civilising the primitive. On the contrary, they themselves revert to a primitive and savage lifestyle of the early

William F. Halsey explains, "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them." This shows that facing a difficulty face to face will help it go away. In Speak, mute Melinda was unable to overcome her struggle since she attempted to “dodge” the truth. However, when Melinda finally spoke out about what happened to her, she immediately felt better about the struggle she was dealing with. The main theme of the novel and ancillary texts is overcoming obstacles. This theme is expressed

Le Khuc Hoang Uyen – 1AH “The White Man’s burden” by Rudyard Kipling is a poem that, at face value, looks like a rhetorical command for white men to take up the grave responsibility of colonizing other nations for their own benefits. The poem thus does display certain social characteristics of the period, illustrated through some of its major themes like colonialism, racism and religion. Colonialism is the most overarching theme of the poem, especially when the poem focuses on white men’s burden

War came to an end, many people in the U.S. believed it was our country’s duty to help “civilize and educate less fortunate countries” (PW political cartoon 2, 10). In February of 1899, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands. “In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations (History Matters). Many other men thought of it from a business standpoint, believing it would

their writing. Rudyard Kipling, known as one of the best-known late Victorian poet and a great story-teller also penned down his experience in his poems. Born in Bombay, a small child he was sent to England for education. He was primarily educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho. He is best known for his classic children's books - especially the Jungle Books (1894, 1895). In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . Most of the interesting poems of Kipling are the result

Additionally, the book reflects the European standpoint on colonialism presented in Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden.” In the poem, Kipling implies the necessity of white men “To seek another’s profit/ And work another’s gain” (Kipling). In Conrad’s book, Marlow notes that first and foremost, “the company was run for profit,” and its main goal is to collect vast amounts of ivory (Conrad 10). Correspondingly, Kipling uses the words “Your new-caught sullen peoples,/ Half-Devil and half-child” to

Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem “The White Man’s Burden” epitomizes the European man’s view on imperialism, Euro-centrism and social Darwinism. Four centuries before 1899, such ideas were briefly hinted in the letter from Christopher Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, however by 1899 these attitudes strengthened and developed fully into their complete meaning. The U.S and Europe’s imperialism in the nineteenth century were the most influential ever in the history of human civilization. The