American science fiction writers

along with the name tag of “handmaid”. In this society women are judged on what color they wear. Yet, if none of them were to wear a color, no man or authority figure would be able to tell the difference between them. Once again looking back on the American Gothic era, the Puritans held a similar class system to this one. With a government of both combined church and state, men held the most authority and women come in a far-off second place. It is cruel for anybody to judge a person 's ability…

are different from our own society, but also include elements that we are familiar with. These dystopian societies will not be far from our own future if we abuse the powers that we posses. Margaret Atwood claims that she is not a science fiction writer. Science fiction suggests things that humans are not able to do. (Atwood) Both books have things that we are capable of doing through our technology and government. In Oryx and Crake, the technology they have is not far from what we have now. In…

STRUCTURE The events of The War of the Worlds progress primarily chronologically. The novel began with the Martian cylinder crashing from the heavens to earth. In the end the narrator is joyously reunited with his wife. The book itself was a large paperback. It contained 136 pages separated into two books, the first of which was comprised of seventeen chapters, and the second of ten chapters. Each chapter was comprised of five pages on average. IMAGERY The War of the Worlds overflowed with…

I believe that the main theme in H.G. Well’s The Time Machine is that a view of something can be so certain and simple but it can have many different meanings, most importantly the idea of time. Time begins the discussion in the beginning of the novel where the Time Traveler is explaining that you can travel through time. Now, this has already been proven by Einstein that if you can travel faster than the speed of light then you can travel through the future, creating his equation E=mc2.…

Before proceeding any further, I want to first acknowledge the sources I used during my research: Saul Friedlander’s Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt, Paul Peters’ “Witness to the Execution: Kafka and Colonialism,” and Richard T. Gray’s “Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in ‘In der Strafkolonie’.” Compared to other canonical authors, evaluating Kafka’s literature in the context of his life proves to be a more illuminating pursuit because of the tremendous amount…

How will our future be affected by the rapid growth of technology? Well the two short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét. both deal with this topic.The story “By the Waters of Babylon” was written by Stephen Vincent Benét around the time of WWII. With “By the Waters of Babylon” by Benét being written at this time makes a very ominous tone. Where “Harrison Bergeron” is set in 2081 and was written in the late 1940’s.The two…

The Use of Irony A Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is bursting with irony. Poe includes both verbal and dramatic irony, which is developed to grasp the audience’s attention. The names of the characters contain irony too. For example, Fortunato’s name means the “fortunate one” however, unless being left in a catacomb to die is something to be fortunate about, he is not. Montresor uses verbal irony while luring his “friend” Fortunato into the catacombs using his vanity of wine.…

Comparing and Contrasting Two Futuristic Stories Ever wondered what the future might look like, bright and wonderful, or gloomy and dark? Well in the story’s “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Bennett, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, they tell about the future and what seems to be in the stories future. The futures in both stories are equally creepy and equally interesting at the same time. The stories unquestionably are interesting as they are also scary, but it would be easier to…

In her novel, When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka explores how people’s identity can be forced to change due to fear. Fear causes people to change because people may not be able to handle all of the pressure and stress. In the novel based around WWII, the family is split apart from each other. While the father goes to prison,the mother and the kids go to an internment camp close to Utah. While they are in the camp the pressure fear has put on all of them leads to an unstable life…

Interpersonal Communication in Songs: Believer by Imagine Dragon In my essay, I have chosen Believer by Imagine Dragon to be my song of choice. Imagine Dragon is a rock that consist of Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben Mckee, and Daniel Platzman. This band is known for their hit song Radioactive and their contribution to Sucker for Pain. The reason I have chosen this song is because of the deep meaning that is being told in the song and exposing the communication that is being told through the…