American science fiction writers

ABSTRACT This paper explores the allegorical aspect of Golding's novel 'Lord of the Flies', which is achieved in terms of character portrayal, narrative method, events and themes. Novel is a parable of life in the latter half of twentieth century, the nuclear age, when society seems to have reached technological maturity while human morality is still prepubescent. It is a sharp criticism on celebrated enlightenment rationality. Even in the late 21 century the lessons given by Golding is…

Tell Tale Heart, the insane story of a self assured sane man. This short story was published during 1843 by the eccentric author Edgar Allan Poe. In this short story, the frantic narrator diligently tries to convince the reader that he is a sane man, while providing contradicting details for his quest to murder an innocent old man. His reasons behind it? Simply because he is agitated by the old man’s eye and finds it distasteful. In this short story “The Tell Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe depicts…

Imagine living in a place where everything you do is heavily criticized and self expression is not allowed. A world in which everyone and everything is closely controlled and you get punished if you go against the rules. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, in the dystopian society of Gilead, the oppressive system forces its citizens to follow assigned roles and rules by being highly critical and manipulative. Throughout the story, Atwoods presents the characters through a series…

The novel When We Wake by Karen Healey is a captivating story that shows the author’s view on what the world will be like in one-hundred twenty years. The novel explores Healey’s view on the selfishness of mankind, and the fact that people will do almost anything to get what they want, including sacrificing our own planet. The author showcases this theme by presenting it throughout the description of the setting, the unveiling of the plot, and the development of the characters. The story takes…

referenced three times throughout the novel to express, joy, confusion and finally pain and sorrow. Sentiments that are strikingly relevant in today’s world. The birth of dystopian fiction could not have been possible without the pre-existence of utopian fiction. Thomas Moor is broadly considered the father of utopian fiction. Moor was responsible for creating the constitutions that formed the United Kingdom as we know them today. During his service to the country,…

How the novel delivered theme by connecting, relating to society's problems. Would our modern society actually sound fascinating, if we were to hear and told how it was? Book Legend by Marie Lu is a realistic fiction book that is set in future. United States is divided up with having two different regions, Republic and colonies. The story takes place in Republic. The novel shows two perspectives of people towards their thoughts as the novel is written in two different perspectives of…

The Fictional World of R K Narayan: A Study Metaphysical Novels The World of Nagaraj A. Phaniraja Kumar The World of Nagaraj, which is traces exceptionally incongruent period in Narayan’s literary career that starts together with…

Rashomon is another masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa, yet this film was also remained as a black and white classic film in movie history due to it’s epicness. Akira adapted this story from Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a well-known and talented writer in Japan. I had already read some of Akutagawa’s selected short stories before I watched this film. I found that Akira had combined two stories into his movie, which was “In a bamboo groove” and “Rashomon”. In fact, the main storyline in this movie was…

The essay focuses on the fear of the author that books like Harry Potter "- derivative, thematically inconsistent and stylistically flawed -" (Pennington 93) will shape the reading parameters and the aesthetic taste of the masses. After a brief introduction where Pennington reports a series of enthusiastic reviews of the saga, he argues that Harry Potter is "failed fantasy" (Pennington 78) and J.K. Rowling is incapable of abiding to the rules of fantasy literature. Firstly, Pennington claims…

Momento Mori is a short story written by, Jonathan Nolan in 2001. It published in the Esquire magazine and was largely accepted by the audience as well as accredited by the critics. The story revolves around a man named ‘Earl’ who is suffering from a disease known from the acronym CRS. This disease creates a situation of a short term memory loss (which causes Earl to lose his memories within ten to fifteen minutes), described in the story as “backwards amnesia”. Another element which complicates…