Charles Dickens portrays Madame Defarge, Sydney Carton, and Charles Darney as morally ambiguous characters. Dickens’ background as a muckraker dissected into it to reveal the hidden story boiling underneath human nature. Muckrakers are incredibly objective, as was Dickens’ writing style. His past experiences gave him an insight of morally ambiguous characters to use in his novel. Madame Defarge can clearly be described as hasty, vengeful, whatever nasty adjective seen fit.…
In the American Presidency, Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer illustrate the scale of American Foreign Policy greatly differing from 1789 to 1861, with some presidents such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe practicing Isolationism, and others such as James Madison practicing Foreign Involvement, and certain presidents such as Abraham Lincoln practicing a degree of both foreign involvement and isolationism. Many early presidents practiced isolationism because the United States was not in any position to be intervening in any foreign affairs. In Washington's farewell address, he stated that the United States should not get involved in any European affairs. During John Adam's Presidency, he was able to avoid bad relations with France despite having to deal with the XYZ affair, in which French…
What type of essay is Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain? Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain is a descriptive essay. Descriptive essays revolve around an author describing something, whether that be an object place or in this case Jessica Mitford describing the routine of a funeral home concerning how they prepare and present a corpse. What method(s) of developing an argument or organizational pattern(s) has Mitford used in the essay?…
1. How does the idea of good versus evil come into play in this story? Use examples from the text to explain your answer. The idea of good versus evil can be seen within the characters.…
Response to MNCASA website At mncasa.org, I found a lot of information I did not know about sexual violence. There is so much that I didn’t understand and even more that I never will. I can relate much of what happened in Bastard out of Carolina to the information I found. In this journal I will apply my newly found knowledge to the book.…
Reading Notes – Week 8 – DYER-WITHEFORD: John Gould While I am still reflecting on Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex, and am not entirely finished reading the first five chapters, I have taken Dyer-Witheford’s main argument to (big surprise!) revolve around this idea of the vortex and how it is altering the middle class. Dyer-Witheford argues that capitalist production is best characterized as a spiral that is “self-expanding in value, taking the form of commodities, exchange into money, then re-coalescing as new objects and actions to be in turn volatilized into yet more money” (p. 22) To me, this is such a brilliant use of a metaphor which simultaneously acts as a perfect frame of reference for what Nick Dyer-Witheford…
To begin with, Jensen argues “would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery?”. Dumpster diving may not have stopped Hitler, but by getting a mass to recycle with dumpster diving you can change the mindset of people and enact huge change by influencing lawmakers. Composting did not end slavery, but Harriet Tubman, an individual, saved more than 70 black people while making a big impact in the abolition of slavery. Jensen argues how all the solutions for climate change have to do with personal consumption, like shorter showers, and not with shifting the power away from corporations. However, as individuals and consumers, we have the power to make an impact in corporations…
This comes to show how much of a morally ambiguous person she…
Namely, Flannery O’Connor is known for her southern gothic style and her sense of religious morbidity. O’Connor uses persistent themes of dishonesty and mockery to portray religious righteousness and the downfall of the phony throughout the majority of her short stories. In “Greenleaf”, “A Good Man Is Hard to find”, and “Good Country People” O’Connor uses religion to highlight the good and bad within society, which is reflected upon each character through deception and irony. ggggggIn “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” O’Connor uses The Misfit as a symbol of morality to highlight the Grandmother’s religious deception.…
Decisions made by leaders around the globe affect at least one person each day. These decisions are not necessarily achieved by rational individuals. If people are placed in positions of power without the incentive to make the proper decision, then the scenario will end up appearing similar to that which is seen in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Within the story, the grandmother sees herself as a lady that can manipulate her family in any way she pleases. These same values are upheld by Red Sam, the owner of The Tower, a restaurant that the family stops for food at.…
Scout has told us many stories of her life from when she was young till now. Since many of her stories are from when she was young it is quite difficult to tell if her stories are true or not. From what has happened so far, all of her stories are from her point of view, so you never really know how her family or friends really felt. Also, some of the stories she told are from when she was really young, so not every detail she told might’ve been correct. Finally, since she is the narrator of the story her emotion does affect the way she tells the story.…
A Home for Maisie 212417193 1 A Home for Maisie 212417193 A Home for Maisie 212417193 2 THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH Maisie's behavior can be interpreted in many different ways, for example using the multidimensional approach we find that there are some similarities between Hutchison's definition of Personal dimensions and Maisie. The psychological person consists of cognition, emotion, and self identity (Hutchison 2013). Maisie is very emotionally unstable, and has little sense of identity.…
In this short story written by Flannery O’Connor, a family sets off for Florida only to be murdered by an escaped convict. Throughout their journey they encounter many people and places that let you in on the family’s morals and attitudes. The family has six people traveling with them, this including; the grandmother, a couple, and their three children. Bailey is the father and accompanying him is his wife. They have three children, two older children and a baby.…
Bandy, Stephen C. " 'One Of My Babies ': The Misfit and the Grandmother. " Studies in Short Fiction 33.1 (Winter 1996): 107-118. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed.…
Sophie’s’ Choice Sophie’s choice is a film adaptation of the novel Sophie’s Choice by William Styron. In the movie adaptation, Sophie, which is played by academy award winner Meryl Streep, is a polish immigrant, and survivor of the Nazi invasion. The most known and shocking scene from the movie was when Sophie made her infamous choice. In the movie, she was forced to choose which of her two children were to die in a gas chamber. This scene is a common topic discussed in Ethics.…