Babylon

Throughout Alas Babylon, Pat Frank uses third person omniscient as the point of view. The use of the words they, them, their, him/her, he/she, and the characters’ names. For example, “Florence gathered her pink flannel robe closer to her neck. She glanced up, apprehensively, through the kitchen window. All she saw were hibiscus leaves dripping in the pre-dawn ground fog, and blank grey sky beyond.(3)” Frank uses Florence’s name and pronouns such as she or her rather than I/me or you, which are…

F. Scott Fitzgerald & Willa Cather Vanda Mallo Keiser University Babylon Revisited Charlie Wales is the protagonist of "Babylon Revisited" (Fitzgerald, 1931), a former drunk and self-absorbed party-goer who returns to Paris, the site of his past 1920s decadence, to retrieve his daughter Honoria. Charlie sees his formal life with sober eyes, and is both shocked and appalled by its extravagance. At times he appears to come to terms with his mistakes and its consequences but sometimes…

Scott Fitzgerald they think of the roaring 20’s and his famous novel the “Great Gatsby”, what many tend to not recognize or acknowledge is Fitzgerald’s skills of capturing the mood of the 1930’s as well. Written in 1930, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” is a perfect example of his writing about life after the 1929 stock market crash. The short story introduces readers to Charlie Wales, the main character who lost everything after the stock market crash. Wales has returned to his old…

The short story that I found to be most interesting in the aspects to elements of fiction was called “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author uses many strong elements that help grant the reader the full picture of the story from many different angles. The unique way F.Scott Fitzgerald is able to shift his dictation and syntax brings the reader to morally question things going on in their own life, producing provocative ideas and new ways of thinking after reading the story. The…

don’t have in pursuit of impressing people they often don’t even like. Ultimately it seems the vicious circle ends in regret and self-loathing. This seems to be a pressing theme presented in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby and in Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited. Charlie and Jay Gatsby share many similarities throughout their stories. However most obviously they were both wealthy and well-known yet they are stuck on mistakes they had both made in their youths. The time periods they were in…

reflection of culture life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. With that being said, Fitzgerald not only wrote stories that reflected general aspects of culture life, but also wrote about his own personal struggles with alcohol and family. Fitzgerald composed “Babylon Revisited” as reminisce of his complex life that he once lived during the 1920’s that focuses on the destructive power that alcohol had over him. The symbolic complexity of alcohol…

learn about Babylon(Nardo 37). Babylon was first apart of the Tigris-Euphrates plains until the Babylonians replaced Sumerians and became the largest city in Mesopotamia(Nardo 33). Babylon and other empires have been profoundly impacted by different rulers and time periods such as Hammurabi, Kassites, and the Persian Empire. Hammurabi first got the throne of Babylon in 1792 B.C when he turned on his ally Mari and took Mari’s throne. Hammurabi made alliances with city states and put Babylon on…

Babylonian Chronicles were written from the reign of Nabopolassar up to the Parthian Period by Babylonian astronomers and record major events in Babylonian history and events mentioned in the Bible. It was excavated by Robert Koldeway in the late 1800s in Babylon and is now located in the British Museum. The Babylonian Chronicles record major events in Babylonian history and events mentioned in the Bible. The Chronicles tells, among other things, 3 main events; the capture of Jerusalem by…

Hawthorne utilizes sly allusions and implications from his character to imply the whorishness of Hester Prynne. Hawthorne, through the mouthpiece of the Governor, labels Prynne as “...worthy of her type of Babylon!” (Hawthorne 106). This provides a clear allusion to the biblical Whore Of Babylon mentioned in the…

marrying a lady from a different place was very smart and helpful to Nebuchadnezzar overtime. Once he married Amytis, an alliance was created between Babylon and the king of Medes, who is the father of Amytis and his people, but when Medes started to expand it became a problem. Nebuchadnezzar noticed that Medes was coming very close to the Babylon border with their expansions outward. Nebuchadnezzar thought this could be a sign of attack and he didn’t want to take any risks, so before Medes…