That Hideous Strength

When we think of childhood we think of blissful, exhilarating moments, like being pushed on a swing higher and higher feeling as if you could stretch your hand and grasp the clouds, as you experience the cooling air of a hot summer day on your blushed face, as you yelped to be pushed further into the clouds. We do not think of the anguish and questions that the sight of death brings. But that’s exactly what happens to six year old Antonio Marez in the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. When

Jungle are not just convenient targets for Sinclair to expose to the public. They also serve as a larger metaphor for how American business treats its laborers, by luring them into unsafe working conditions and then consuming their dedication and strength just as they did to the livestock. In the novel, Sinclair blames the mechanisms of capitalism on the tricks that the meatpackers use to sell spoiled and contaminated meat. In an effort to squeeze every dime that they can out of the meat packing process

The restrictions on the women movement in the world and the movement of women easily facilitates the mobility of men. Equality requires women to live in a society with no legislation on their bodies and to be able to live free of the sword and threat of sexual violence. It is not just the feminism of gender, it is also about racial and ethnic equality, equal capacity, gender, spirituality, class, and all the signs that define one of us. As we see the feminist novel deals not only with what we

Hero, the word strikes a universal chord making us think of exceptional and spectacular stories or deeds that far surpass any common feat. To the Greeks and many other cultures, the birth of these heroes is important. The birth of a hero sets them, apart often even before birth, from common mortals in Greek mythology. Birth is the first of many major events in our lives, our entrance into the world (Leeming). For heroes, that entrance must be as special as their lives will prove to be. A mundane

Love begets hate, while hate thrives on the death of love. This relation makes them single most powerful and destructive forces both on their own and in conjunction. The destructive and repressive qualities are explored in the 1984 by George Orwell. The protagonist name is a middle aged man named Winston, who lives in a totalitarian society in which most human interactions have been dehumanized, the people are constantly monitored, and hate is the driving force in society that is in perpetual war

We deceive ourselves each and every day into thinking that we are something truly extraordinary when in reality, we are nothing more than the white lies we tell ourselves. J.M. Coetzee explores the aspect of self-deceptive thinking through a withdrawn and vacant character underneath the power of a manipulative oppressive empire in his novel Waiting for Barbarians. Coetzee's protagonist, the Magistrate, always believed himself to be the pleasure-loving identity of the Empire, the exact opposite of

George Orwell was a very famous author, he developed most of his fame in 1946 when he wrote the book Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a book about how animals can really talk and they want to rebell against man, and run the farm themselves. Orwell was actually really smart. The story was so much more than that, he hid a metaphor behind it. Do you wonder what his metaphor was? In his life he strived hard to have a good education. Orwell was actually born to the name of Eric Blair, then later decided to

The 1818 novel, Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, is the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with creating life. Victor spends time traveling, studying, and collecting information to make his creations. He positions different body parts together and creates his monster. Immediately after he comes to life, Victor hates what he created and abandons him. The monster felt rejected and lonely, so he sought revenge and came across as evil. One of the main lessons throughout this

Victor abandoned the monster both emotionally and physically. Physically he avoided the monster as much as he could and as often. “Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall.” (Shelley, 10.87). Frankenstein would rather be vanquished by an eight-foot tall monster than to communicate with the abomination of his own creation. He was hesitant to give the monster a chance. Victor spent

yellow wallpaper The restrictions on the women movement in the world and the movement of women easily facilitates the mobility of men. Equality requires women to live in a society with no legislation on their bodies and to be able to live free of the sword and threat of sexual violence. It is not just the feminism of gender, it is also about racial and ethnic equality, equal capacity, gender, spirituality, class, and all the signs that define one of us. As we see the feminist novel deals not