All Quiet on the Western Front I chose the book entitled All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. This book appealed to me because I am very interested in World War One. I wanted to learn more about the experiences of a German soldier who fought during that particular time period...
The historical novel, "A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway in 1929, uses a minor character as a foil to show the strengths and weaknesses of the main character. ... Hemingway uses the literary device of foil characters to show how opposites attract. ...
This is a reflection on the hierarchy of society, with God at the top, then the Monarchy, going to minor aristocracy the list goes all the way down to the working class "scum" at the bottom who comprised the majority of society. ... The inspector is a tool used by Priestley, used to literally question the position of the characters and what they represent. ... He is central to getting the characters to examine themselves and their actions and indirectly getting the audience to look at themselves make them think what they have done wrong and whether they can correct it. He moves from character ...
The conventions of Brechtian theatre are assisted by minor stage and direction sequences not normally used in "typical" theatre. ... In scene 1, he uses the peasants to portray his political position as a capitalist by manipulating the characters to believe the prince owned everything rather than the people, and this would be good to ensure there were no ownership disputes. ... The episodic technique has been used to shape most scene changes in all Brechtian plays, it is part of the alienation process, or the A-Process Brecht uses to cease audience/character emotion. Signs announcing scenes,...
These attitudes are best displayed through the characterization of the main characters - Gene, Finny, and Leper. Leper is the least important of the main characters, but his characterization still holds many important truths about war. ... (Gene 186) Another minor theme that comes from Gene is that what deceives him is his happiness. ... These main characters, Gene, Leper, and Finny, provide the attitudes that Knowles's has for war. ... Everyone should learn from all of these characters mistakes during a time of peril and never misunderstand the meaning of a war ever again. ...
REFLECTIONS OF HEMINGWAY'S LIFE Hemingway did not only create characters but created himself. ... Many of the situations and characters in A Farewell to Arms came from Hemingway's own experience with the war in Italy. ... "He also drew upon his love of fishing, hunting, and bull fighting, where his writings tell of men with simple characters and primitive emotions, such as prizefighters and bullfighters- (Roberts 8). ... Beginning with the illustrative story and perhaps this experience, Hemingway added deeper elements from the environment to flesh out Santiago's character and de...
The next minor theatre style to emerge, more of a theory, was Naturalism. ... Instead of identifying with their roles, actors were instructed merely to demonstrate the actions of the characters they portrayed. ... The characters have senseless conversations. ...
David Novak, a Jewish theologian, once said "The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it." The Holocaust has been described as the largest, most inhumane genocide of all-time. Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the rise of the Nazi party ...
The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by ...
The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of s...
Authority: the sound of it brings back memories of the teacher that everyone had; this teacher constantly thought they were better than their students, since they had gone to college and the students obviously have not yet. In these experiments, authority figures took over and used their power for m...
The Guns of August In her novel, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman reviews the strategic planning, misfortune, and pure luck that shaped the opening days of World War I. Most historians trace the origins of World War I to January 18, 1871. On that date, at the palace of Versailles#, diplomats...
The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of s...
Based in Geneva, the League proved useful in settling minor international disputes, but was unable to stop aggression by major powers, Japan's occupation of Manchuria (1931), Italy's conquest of Ethiopia (1935-36), and Germany's seizure of Austria (1938). ...
It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...
