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Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis In the year 1625, Francis Bacon, a famous essayist and poet wrote about the influences of fear on everyday life. He stated, “Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other” (Essays Dedication of Death). Clearly, external surroundings affect perceptions of fear as well as human nature in general. Although C.S. Lewis published the novel, Out of the Silent Planet, over three

Understanding Technology in Neuromancer Neuromancer, written by William Gibson in 1984, is a novel well ahead of its time. The book predicted many concepts about the internet and cyberspace that exist today. Neuromancer, of the prophetic genre, is a novel that accurately describes and predicts what will happen in the future. Characteristics of the prophetic novel include: dystopian societies, technologies, and progressive thinking. Neuromancer is considered a prophetic novel because it contains

Mehtasim Mahfuz CCS 394 Professor Pi-Ju Liang Socio-Political Allegory in Park Chan Wook’s Oldboy 10 December 2015 Abstract One of Director Park Chan Wook’s most renowned works is the film Oldboy (2003). At face value, this film appears to be a regular mystery-thriller film. However, after further analysis, there are many parallels to contemporary Korean history and society. These parallels, or allegories, become more apparent upon review of the film. The film contains references

In the book Neuromancer by William Gibson, the technology and violence shown by the people and AI demonstrate that with the progression and evolution of technology, the cruel nature of humans progresses and evolves with it, and vise versa. This shows that we should be weary and careful of letting our technologies evolve too fast until we depend on technology too much for bettering our lives and get controlled by AI 's for their own interests. Neuromancer is set in the distant future where technology

The Risks Associated With Mars Colonization For 28 months NASA’s Curiosity rover explored Mars and provided data for scientific research. The reason why this research is being conducted is because NASA wishes to colonize Mars, which means to come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area). In order to do this we would need to terraform Mars which means to (especially in science fiction) transform (a planet) so as to resemble the earth, especially so

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies explores the theme of Psychology through several characters. Each character has a certain archetype which will affect how they think, showing different psychological effects. Specifically, the archetypes mentioned are the introverted, the confidant, the egotist, and the saint. These four archetypes correlate to being the side character, the secret keeper, the self-absorbed brat, or the painfully charitable woman respectively. Davies attempts to explore the relation

“Guilt” means that a person feels regret after doing harmful to other people or himself. This can be found through the feelings and behaviours of a person. In the novel of Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, the theme of guilt is demonstrated through a number of events happened in this story with many characters. First of all, the incident of snowball leads to a great guilt to Dunstan. As Percy attempts to throw snowball to Dunstan, it accidentally hits Mrs.Dempster. The result of throwing snowball

Guilt is the regret one experiences when they realise their action was not appropriate according to a lawful or moral standard. In Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, guilt was a major theme and was essential throughout the novel. Davies used the three main characters, Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton, and Paul Dempster to illustrate the different effects of Mrs. Dempster’s incident. The way one is raised, the key disciplines they have developed and their way of thinking reflects how they deal with

that instant you have established the master and servant relation. Of course it could be reversed, by you asking a friend to hand you something, you make them your “servant” for that simple task. In Jonathan Stroud’s first book in his Bartimaeus trilogy, Stroud entertains us through this story by introducing young Nathaniel who lives in a world of magic. In the story, Stroud shows how having an undependable master could make the “servant” go through wrong paths, shows a comical relationship between

The Bartimaeus Sequence is a series of magical, fantasy and alternate history novels byJonathan Stroud the British novelist. First intended to be a trilogy, the first novel in the series The Ring of Solomon was published in 2003 followed by two more titles in 2004 and 2006 and a prequel in 2010. The lead character Bartimaeus from whose name the series is named is a five millennia old djinn with a reluctant and boisterous spirit. The novels are about Nathaniel a teenage magician who learning magic