In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey, the patients in a mental institution were firmly controlled by Nurse Ratched, the head of the ward. ... She took notes on the happenings of the room, and she always seemed to know everything about the patients. ...
Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. ... This statement introduces a fundamental ambiguity that runs throughout the novel. ... Many events ...
In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky utilizes three unlikely characters to portray this same image of the Holy Trinity. ... Dostoevsky also notes Sonya as a dove when Marmelodov is talking again, "My little Dove" (28). ...
For over a thousand years, mankind has always feared the world of the unknown. Fear has always been man's most primal instinct since the dawn of time. Their irrational fear has led them to extreme paranoia and a strong feeling of hatred for anything that is unfathomable. But first, what exactly is the "unknown?" and why is it so frightening? ...
