: Cautionary Tales In Logic, Math, And Probability As the title suggest, Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability, by Colin Bruce (Perseus Publishing, 2002), is a collection of mathematical tales set in the form of Sherlock Holmes adventures. ...
A fairy tale also contains a moral, or the story itself acts as a sort of cautionary or warning tale. ... This is fairy tale like as well because princes often fight off dragons in fairy tales. ... The family is living within a fairy tale in the beginning; therefore this story is a fairy tale in reverse. ... All fairy tales should have happy endings. ... In conclusion, Nadine Gordimer did an excellent job of using fairy tale elements to create her own fairy tale. ...
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian text which reflects on the perils of a monotheocratic fundamentalist society. ... The text is meant to be a cautionary tale as to what could have happened if these people succeeded in their attempt to gain power and had taken over US society. ...
" (p. 25) The story of Frankenstein tells a cautionary tale of a privileged, inquisitive young man who becomes obsessed with the origins of life and of how mankind- him- would obtain "glory if he could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable" (p. 26). ... Walton helps to nurse Victor to health and this is when he hears Victor's tale. ... His distance from the sinister ethical consequences of his research is surprising, He does not "ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition Now I was led to analyzing all the minutia of causation,...
Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not only weaves a subtle yet extravagant tapestry of blatant flattery and cautionary advice, but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. ... In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror offers a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen herself, one angle presenting a warped realm, the other a cautionary tale to his dismissive monarch. ...
Wells' 1895 science fiction novel The Time Machine is a cautionary tale of what will befall mankind if capitalism continues to exploit workers for the benefits of the rich. ... The futuristic tale illustrates the true essence of Darwin's theory: there is no guarantee that a species will evolve for the better, there is only the guarantee that successful species must continuously adapt to their environments or risk extinction. ...
With some persuasion from her husband the tale that began as "but a few pages" grew into an epic masterpiece. ... The question as to whether or not the wretch's behavior is justified is one such moral dilemma that haunts the readers of this gothic tale. ... It is almost a cautionary tale of the inevitable disasters that await when mankind attempts to play God, just as Victor tried to do. ...
In his work, Utopia, Book One Thomas More delivers a tale of the ideal place, which appears real in every way. ... The Achorians are a cautionary tale of what can happen if a nation and its leader care more about war than leadership. ...
Her strained marriage to Walter is a tell-tale sign that their socio-economic standing is starting to take a toll on the family dynamics. ... " We may not immediately refer to broken dreams as raisins, festering sores, or rotting meat; but these metaphors serve as cautionary statements to personify the consequences of not acting on your dreams. ...
Gothic, which defines as: "Tales of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural, usually landscapes. ... In common with the gothic tales, Frankenstein made use of the correspondence between theme, character and setting. ... Mary Shelley read and relied on the most recent findings and theories of science to create her tale. ... Regardless of label, it is a cautionary tale very much rooted in the Nineteenth Century but thoroughly applicable to our approaching 21st Century. ...
It is worth noting the conclusion made by modern scholars Travis and Barlowe who point out that by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can remind us all of the oppressive discursive practices involved in gender politics" (pp. 50). ...
Duggan also explains, "Rather than an advocate for pure aestheticism, then, Dorian Gray is a cautionary tale in which Wilde illustrates the dangers of the aesthetic philosophy when not practiced with prudence (Duggan, The Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray)....
Texts can use power to reflect things that have and can happen in real life. Power can be represented in many ways and shapes an understanding of events, personalities of people and situations. Power is an insatiable desire craved by countless people that can be achieved through numerous methods. I...
