The Pleasure Of Books Essay

ideas of fear, technology and pleasure in a way that predicts how they see today’s society. Although Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley have valid points of fear, technology and pleasure, Huxley’s vision of the future is the most accurate in modern society in his book Brave New World. Technology in today’s society is coming very close to the technology in Brave New World and to Fahrenheit 451 but not in 1984. The Director is showing his students how factory nurses put books and flowers in…

Rodriquez, incorporates symbolism to represent the allegoric themes of inevitability of death, the futility of pleasures and transience of life. This photograph appears to be a Vanitas (from the Latin “vanity”). The main symbols that are used in a Vanitas artwork are usually, skulls to represent the inevitability of death; knowing that we cannot run and hide from it, the futility of earthly pleasures; whether using wealth or knowledge or arts to symbolize this theme and the transience of life…

about giving out information, but also having a full grasp of the idea and being able to recite it repeatedly. This is how Socrates was able to demonstrate his knowledge on the concept of education through the Apology and the Euthyphro. In the first book of the Ethics, Aristotle mentions that “one swallow does not make a spring.” This means that a…

Unusual Pleasures In the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, we learn very quickly that the main characters in the novel have what most would consider a very perverted relationship. Humbert and Lolita are the main characters in this tale. Humbert is a middle-aged man engaged to Lolita’s mother, Charlotte. This book is the story of Humbert’s intense love and obsession for Lolita, Charlotte’s daughter. Throughout the novel, we find out that Humbert’s pleasures and Lolita’s pleasures are far from…

In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, owning and reading books is illegal and if a citizen is caught, the book is then burned. Throughout the story, Ray Bradbury uses the literary device of symbolism; symbols ranging from certain aspects in the firefighter's uniforms to the actual fire itself, and the Phoenix at the end of the story. Guy Montag is first introduced in the beginning of the story as the protagonist. Firemen were common in his family; his grandfather and father were firemen…

Origins of Architectural Pleasure by Grant Hildebrand Is it possible that our emotions are influenced by certain architectural spaces? How do we find contentment in them? In this book, Origins of Architectural Pleasure, Grant Hildebrand suggested that the current artificial environment fabricated by human is largely related to the archetypal qualities in natural settings and the human’s needs since the origin of our species. The book is separated into four chapters and each chapter proposed new…

In his book, Pleasure and the Good Life, Fred Feldman introduces an idea known as Default Hedonism. Default hedonism can be broken down into three separate claims that tie together in a single formula. Before default hedonism is defined, Feldman shares that some assumptions about pleasure and pain should be made. The first two assumptions address pleasure. The first assumption is that pleasures are certain feelings or sensations that result in an “episode.” According to Feldman, “episodes” have…

only intrinsically valuable thing is pleasure. However, it does not mean pleasure in the sense it is typically thought of. Hedonists believe there are two types of pleasure: physical pleasure and attitudinal pleasure. Many people believe that physical pleasure is the important pleasure for modern Hedonists; however, this is not the case. Though physical pleasure may contribute to your attitudinal pleasure, they are not good in and of themselves. The type of pleasure which Hedonists feel is…

The opening line is, “It was a pleasure to burn” (pg. 3). But was it really? Did the instant pleasure dystopia really bring pleasure to the people in it? Fahrenheit 451 disagrees. It proves that knowledge and awareness of the world, particularly found in books, brings true pleasure. One way Fahrenheit 451 shows where true pleasure can be found is by using juxtaposition in the relationships of Montag and Mildred and of Montag and Clarisse. Montag and Mildred’s relationship stays stagnant…

In Book I part 8 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says that “to lovers of the fine what is pleasant is what is pleasant by nature” (1099a10-15). He explains that to the people who wish to act nobly and admirably, actions in accordance with excellence fall under this category of pleasant actions. That is, they are both pleasant to the lovers of the fine, and they are also naturally pleasant. On the other hand, some actions that people find pleasant are not, according to Aristotle, naturally…