An Unseen Enemy

friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting” (Sanction). Chambers, like many other Americans, was suspicious of the unseen evil that may be right in front of you, in this case, even a friend. To avoid being accused yourself you must be wary of every person around because they could be the “concealed enemy,” a communist spy. Instead of using the “innocent until proven guilty” principle, the…

found a new types of criminal activity throughout this time; specifically combatting terrorism. This situation is not as simple as it has been in the past, where people would single out a specific demographic of individuals and categorize them as the “enemy”. However, we can currently see U.S. citizens stereotyping Muslim-Americans throughout our daily lives, ignorantly muttering broken Arabic and cracking jokes about “suicide bombers”. Recently the reality has been brought to the forefront for…

BRAVE NEW WORLD & NIGHT – ESSAY The representation of political perspectives/acts and motivations are predisposed by the composer’s personal agenda to expose the destructive interplay between autonomy and control. Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel Brave New World (1932) examines the competing perspectives between individuality and control. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night (1958) criticises the relegation of Jewish society behind impersonal political regimes. Ultimately, composers manipulate their…

Throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five an anti-war tone is prominent without being blatantly stated. Instead, Vonnegut uses characters, events, and descriptions to clearly relay his opinion to the reader. He reveals the true horrors of wars by exposing the romantic delusions of war and how this misconception affect those fighting and the world around them. Vonnegut confronts the previously valiant outlook of going to war by illustrating people who held those beliefs and then…

he broke from his family legacy and created his own. Without the weight of his family legacy, he found his true light in The Rock. (The Monday Night War) In contrast to being viewed by millions, shadow can also represent never being seen by one’s enemies. The most well known and oldest example of staying in the shadows is the profession of the ninja. Without Hollywood’s production, the ninja was the deadliest assassin in all feudal Japan. Comprised of the peasant farmer class, the ninja turned…

against each other and force them to start a new chapter - to become an ordinary citizen of Oceania. The model of a perfect citizen is someone who is worshipful to Big Brother but at the same time infuriated with the thought of Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy of Big Brother. While researching about how freedom is affected by security, it helped prove that it’s a major…

The major themes of The Birds are fear and survival, likewise the themes of warfare. Not to mention people’s surprisingly similar reactions to the birds and warfare. The birds themselves represent a threat post by an unseen force that is impossible to fight against, such as fear, or more tangibly, bombing planes. These similarities combined with the published time of the novelette, as mentioned in the introduction, when authors took inspiration from war are enough to…

Rojava literally means west, it's a Kurdish region and one of the frontlines in the war against ISIS. Women played the central role in this movement both on the battlefield and within the newly formed political system which is completely new and unseen to the rest of the world. According to Dilar, Rojava revolution believes that having a nation-state isn’t a solution as no country or state is independent today. Abdullah Öcalan who was very fundamental to revive Kurdish culture was the pioneer of…

In January of 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new campaign strategy on the war against terror. The surge was a way forward to a more unified, democratic federation that can sustain, govern, and defend itself in future generations. His plan involved the deployment of 28,000 additional U.S. troops to the Anbar Province and Baghdad Area of Influence (AOI). The AOI strategy was based on six essential elements that derived from a proposal meeting with senior Iraqi officials; let…

privilege reserved for Party members. Furthermore, the constant watch of the screens restricts freedom of expression and therefore also prevents rebellions called upon by freethinkers. Orwell clarifies the negative connotations associated with an unseen and therefore unbeatable leader by describing Big Brother with traits similar to those of Hitler such as a middle-aged and a black mustached face with supporters that rave or scream or chant in rally. These tactics refer to what Thomas C. Foster,…