Alan Paton

The Comedy of Nothingness: Nihilism of the Comedian in Watchmen In Alan Moore and Gave Gibbons’ 1986 comic Watchmen, a recurring theme throughout the novel is the use of Nihilism. I will be doing a close reading/literary analysis of how nihilism is reflected and used in the comic Watchmen. I will argue that doing a close reading of the character The Comedian in Watchmen, I can show how the philosophy of Nihilism is reflected not only in the comic but how that connection is represented in present…

TV Series Review: Empire “Empire’s are not built in a day but this one was created in one season. Writer and Producer Lee Daniels has once again out done himself with his creativity and adaption of his new hit series Empire which first aired on FOX news last spring. Daniels directed and produced many other hit movies such as Precious and The Butler which won several awards for its outstanding production and outstanding performance by the cast. Empire, a new television series created by…

On January 7, 2015 Empire premiered on Fox. The show quickly gained a strong fan base. Not far into the first season Empire was ranked one of Fox’s number hit television shows. Empire is about the hip hop and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family. It is about their fight for control of the company. It stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, who was a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and CEO of Empire. After Lucious learns that…

The Little Prince, by Antione de Saint Exupéry, isn't an ordinary story. In fact, it was tailored for the child inside of us, but even as grow-ups we can't seem to understand it fully. However, Saint Exupéry's use of Archetypal theory, the hero's journey in specific, assists the reader throughout the story and eventually reveals the meaning of it. There are conflicting opinions on who exactly goes on this heroic journey. In my opinion, it's only the the little prince: the pilot on the other…

Knowledge is what makes one thrive and grow, this is best done through the interaction of others. When the Little Prince and the pilot meet, the pilot had just crashed his plane in the Desert of Sahara. The Little Prince asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Since the pilot had only drawn two drawings in his entire life (a boa constrictor from the outside and a boa constrictor from the inside), he was really confused. When the pilot drew the first sheep, the Little Prince rejected it saying the…

intentions. In the contemporary South African novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton discloses through Polysyndeton how Apartheid creates an atmosphere of separation, inequality, and fear, and thereby reveals the inhumanity within South Africa. Segregation has an effect of misconception and division. In short, Kumalo feels "pleasure," as he communicates with the "small white boy," because he "speaks," Zulu (Paton 268). Such emotion evokes the language barrier and lack of mutual…

In Chapter 5, Msimangu voices his view on the mindset of the wealthy white citizens saying, “The tragedy is not that things are broken, the tragedy is that things are not mended again” (Paton, 56). Paton wrote this to show that the “white man” fears if, provided the opportunity, the natives will gain an education and become powerful leaders in their own right. This causes the "white man” to avoid truly helping the natives at any cost in order…

relocation of over 3.5 million nonwhite South African citizens to separate living areas. And so began the forty six year reign of the white government over the nonwhite majority. However, in the South African contemporary novel, Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton reveals, through moments of understanding between characters, that citizens can break the vicious cycle of social injustice that cost South Africa its land and its people. Social inequality dominates daily life during the Apartheid.…

that they are not mended again” (56). The chasm apartheid had created in South Africa did not only split the country in two, but left the people unwilling to pursue a change. Amidst the adversity, courageous black and white South Africans such as Alan Paton and Chief Meligqili have spoken out against the madness and have been determined to close the nation’s gap. Without the strength to administer a change, South Africa would have stayed in a lost state of confusion, misery, and hatred. In…

have a priest in the house” (Paton 51). Mrs. Lithebe is a Msutu, while Kumalo is a Zulu, but because she is a good member of the church, she lets Kumalo stay the night. This shows that faith seems to be a…