Death of a Naturalist

and social judgment, asking the reader to reflect on how we personally feel towards the accused and how we would deal with the case ourselves, were we to be in the position of the magistrate. A strong realist piece, also demonstrating evidence of naturalist and surrealist influences, this story - which seems on the surface to be rather simple - hides complex questions on morality and society to which Schwob does not really provide an answer. We, as the reader, are instead encouraged to form our…

long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (284). The irony is that her prayer was answered on her husband 's behalf, but not for her in that she died from a heart attack. In addition to this irony of life and death, the readers are confronted with yet another strong use of irony in this short story. The oxymoronic “monstrous joy” that describes Mrs. Mallard 's initial elation with the news of independence from her husband differs from the joy that is…

The purpose of writing Into the Wild is not relate the facts of a true adventure, but to show people that there is an escape from reality. Through McCandless, the wild was initially portrayed as harrowing and unpredictable, but as time went on McCandless learned to adapt to the wild, and bury himself from the flow of civilization. In the middle of McCandless’s travels, he encounters an elderly man named Ronald Franz. Franz, a man who seems to think he has fully lived, his life, sees a new…

America. The age of industrialization brought these issues, lower class citizens had poor living conditions, consumers had no protection to the products in which they brought, and workers endured long days in brutal conditions that sometimes ended up in death. These so called progressives set out to make America “exceptional”…

Throughout the culture of western civilization, science and politics have been through a lot of ups and downs, just because people were not quite sure, what their purpose was. However, these subjects also have been consistently two of the most important and helpful subjects because they helped define and marked an era, where the human race was uneducated of its surroundings. Thanks to several scientists and political philosopher such as Charles Darwin and John Locke, today the human race has…

Our Being in the Natural World David Attenborough, an English Naturalist, once wrote, “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” The beauty of nature is that of a timeless art piece. Mother nature has brushed Earth with vibrant skies, cascading mountains, roaring rivers, and a sea capable of easing the…

Charles Darwin a 19th-century English naturalist once said, “The only difference between humans and other animals was a difference of degree, not kind” (Levine). These words brought Americas and Great Britain’s attention to the use of animals in testing and the inherent cruelty of it. The French Philosopher, Rene Descartes, believed that “animals were incapable of feeling pain” (Levine), but Darwin’s idea brought about that animal testing is inhumane, does not benefit humans, is inconsistent,…

It provides explanations, among others, for birth, death, and disease. The function of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death when it is important to do so. Science and technology have been supporting these goals. The medical treatment themselves many not 'cure' the condition, but do restore the body's self-healing…

Fairy tales have historically played an important role in many different cultures. From Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose’s rhymes, the idea of using stories to pass on knowledge and ideas, and to comment on culture, has spanned through the ages. With the exception of the tragic ending, the story Ethan Frome is like a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm because it has a hidden moral and it uses a story to reflect and discuss the culture of the time period in which it was written. The Brothers Grimm…

When characters of different class interact in literature they often show the Authors thoughts on class system in their society. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrays a world isolated to a ranch and nearby town and this opens up a dialogue between characters of different standing on the class system and shows the futility of the working man’s dream by showing the evolution of two characters dream and the eventual demise of that dream. In contrast, George Orwell’s Animal Farm provides an…