Anthony Burgess

Setting is a very important factor in stories and also in life. It gives you a sense of who you are and where you come from and what matters to you. Where you come from has a big impact on who you are and what you hold dear. After reading the article “Geography Matters” and The Crucible I have gained an even greater understanding of why setting and where you come from matters. In “Geography Matters,” writers use setting in order to develop the text. Foster includes an example of The…

detailing his efforts to become a better human being. Franklin listed 13 virtues which he needed to improve on and intended to follow and he reflected on his experience. Being human means being able to improve; an author of one of my favorite books, Anthony Burgess, once wrote that humans are not like a clockwork orange, meaning due to our capability to change, we do not have to follow a deterministic mechanism; we have free will. For this paper, I will follow Benjamin Franklin's example and…

Amir Hakim CHA 3U1. Mrs. Cowling. Independent Study Unit Assignment. June 13 2016 The Cold War was a period of hostility, rivalry and tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1989 and was a conflict rooted from the radical differences in two ideologies: communism versus capitalism. It is known as the Cold War because there was no direct war between the two nations. The Cold War was a result of a series of chain reactions through the use…

Introduction “Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?” (Anthony Burgess) Colonialism could actually be perceived as the complete opposite of spreading reason, depending on one’s perspective. Colonialism is defined as one group, dominant and self-perceived as superior, imposing its morals, values, technology, and culture upon another group of people. This intrusion into an established identity of a people could instead be viewed…

Cyrano de Bergerac was a brilliant man with a hideous face who loved his cousin Roxane. In this amusing story, Cyrano wants to win Roxane’s heart but he “cannot” because he thinks that he is to blemished. In the first act in Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burges, Cyrano challenged a man to a sword fight while he recites a poem. In act two Roxane tells Cyrano that she is deeply in love with Christian who is very attractive. Little does Roxane know that Christian is as dumb as a rock. Cyrano helps…

Dystopian literature specifically looks at how political, social, and economic structures can go bad and oppress the people that they are meant to help. A dystopia is a general public portrayed by an attention on that which is in opposition to the creator's ethos, for example, mass neediness, open doubt and doubt, a police state or oppression. Most creators of tragic fiction investigate no less than one motivation behind why things are that path, frequently as a relationship for comparable…

It is inevitable to experience a series of conflicts throughout life. Anthony Burgess portrays different types of conflicts that Alex goes through in the novel “A Clockwork Orange”. Although the book depicts significantly horrific events, every human can relate to the overarching problems that Alex faces. The idea about being a good or bad person frequently arises throughout the novel. As Alex is out with his buddies causing chaos in the town, he starts to contemplate the choice of being…

The concept of love in our society can be seen through the combination of a biological and evolutionary perspective. In terms of the biological aspect, the release of different hormones creates an emotional connection and satisfies sexual pleasure, and through the evolutionary view, it provides a way through which individuals can maintain security and pave way for the structure of a family to raise children. In dystopian novels, however, writers take the normative images of values integral to…

The Unreliable Narrator: TED-Talk In most narratives, there is an element of trust between the narrator and the reader. Reading a novel temporarily places the reader in the hands of the narrator, intrigued and engaged, but how can we trust that the narrator is telling us everything they know? What limits does the narrator have, in terms of what they can perceive? Can we always trust the author’s words? Some literary critics argue that there is no such thing as a trustworthy narrator, since…

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