Cormac McCarthy

“House of Cards” The Heroes or the Villains in Charge of Our Democracy Beau Willimon in the television series, “House of Cards” (2013), asserts that manipulation, revenge and coercion are the way to lead a successful career in U.S Politics. Willimon supports his assertion by illustrating through the Netflix series the ruthless actions taken by a politician named Frank Underwood to rise in the power pyramid. The author’s purpose is to explain the role of the villain in the story, Senator…

what will happen if nothing is done to prevent communism from spreading. Another part of the ad shows a man with a shadow that does not correspond with him, to further warn people about communists. This part of the ad relates to a man named Joseph McCarthy, who accused many people of being communists. The fake shadow relates to the fact that anyone may be a communist or, a double agent. People even became ready to surrender their friends after seeing the deceptive nature of real communists in…

what led into the creation of McCarthyism. McCarthyism used the Red Scare in many ways to provoke the American people. There are at least 2 reasons from the documents which show how the Red Scare created McCarthyism. One way was through Joseph McCarthy because he was popular, fame, and power hungry so he used Americans fear of communism to climb in those three categories. Another way was through putting fear in the minds of many Americans.…

The McCarthyism Era symbolizes the pure terror of Communism during the time of the Cold War. The man associated with McCarthyism is named Joseph McCarthy. This time in history created pure madness in America. Joseph McCarthy upset our government by creating a fear of a Communist government and Victims of McCarthyism could never restore their reputations while the American Society locked into a time of uneasiness due to the fear of Communism. Most historians consider the man born on November…

Romance is an intense love that is pure and unconditional. This is shown in the romance novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. John Grady, the protagonist in the novel, goes on a quest for self-knowledge and along the way finds his true love, Alejandra. The series of events that follows after finding his love take him through death and sadness. To analyze this book we use Thomas C. Foster’s piece, How to Read Literature like a Professor, which provides us with direct insight on how to…

Religion in The Road In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, one of the most recurring themes is religion. Although it is an underlying theme, it is also one of the most critical. The author tries to show that even in a post-apocalyptic world, where everybody has nothing, and things are beyond tough, religion has a way of coming back so people have hope, and somewhere to put there faith into. Cormac McCarthy uses symbolism, metaphors, and imagery to strongly encourage this theme. In the…

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a story consisting of two main themes. They are violence and greed. The personality of one of the main characters provides an additional grotesque element as well. Each of these three topics are direct results of each other, the physical violence was a result of the greediness of Moss and the personality of Chigurh determined the amount of physical violence that happened in the story. The first theme in the story is greed. Llewellyn Moss came by…

During the reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, I was “stirred” by his absence of quotation marks. I thought to myself and I’m sure it crossed a few others minds, “what did McCarthy do to be able to write a full novel without any quotation marks?” Essay writing or just any writing at all would be a lot easier if we, like McCarthy were aloud to desert quotation marks. We would no longer have to worry about if we put a comma before or after the quotation mark or how to properly format it but…

While studying works such as The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, I found a sense of isolation directed towards the main characters. These authors often however tend use this method of isolation as a direct focus on the protagonist that without it, the reader would miss. My purpose of this paper is to bring more attention to this connection of isolation between The Scarlet Letter and The Road. To attain this purpose I have made my paper into two sections…

This research paper had the aim to outline the changing significance of masculinity in Western literature, exemplifying it by means of sheriff Ed Tom Bell in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. Traditional Western literature represents the Western hero as a dominant member of society, subordinating every other existing minority on a lower level. Consequently, high emphasis is put on the outward expression of masculinity, meaning the representation of extreme endurance, power and control.…