Decadence

With the power of wealth, an individual can try to win over their love but will fail in the end. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, talks about the West Egg and East Egg in the luxurious time of the 1920’s. The novel revolves around the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. This forbidden love is able to portray Fitzgerald’s message in the novel that money can buy an individual popularity in society but not sacrificial love. In society, money cannot…

The Weimar Republic was a period of cultural creativity amongst the environment of hyper-inflation and depression, but Berlin drew the talent and energies of the rest of Germany towards its enticing cabaret performances and sex tourism. This cultural creativity included a newly liberated female population in which films began to present their female characters in sexual ways. The whole period of the Weimar Republic was a time of sexual liberation. My research question for my paper is, how did…

The thrilling novel with its deeper symbolism portrays Fitzgerald as an avid chronicler of his time. The author both avidly participated in, and stringently criticized the prosperity culture and decadence, which marked the 1920s decade. I also liked the book for its relevance to the American society even today with insurmountable convenience and comfort levels. We seem to overly adore opulence and celebrity, despite the striking wealth inequalities…

The utilities of perfecting the "perfect crime" are denoted as lack of quality evidence. This term is often utilized in law and fiction to characterize crimes that are undetected. This phenomenon has fascinated thriller writers and enthusiasts for a long time. There are three cases of “perfect crime” which are the undetected crime, the loophole crime, and the pure unsolvable crime. The undetected crime classic example is a murder that 's passed off as a suicide, or maybe death by natural reasons…

In the first half of the twentieth century, the economic, political, ideological aspects all contributed to the skyrocketing and widespread imperialism, galvanizing developed countries to seek for more lands beyond the mainlands. However, the reasons are not isolated. The factor of economic pursuit, political ambitions, and ideological considerations were inter-connected, together strengthening the determination to expand territories. To begin with, the economic pursuit in the land overseas was…

first of all, what is “the ruling class”? The agglutination of segments that contains “rule” and “priest” may give the answer. The “ruling class” is the class dominant as signaled by Nietzsche in this. “Jewish instinct” is here transformed to “xxx instinct”, that is the rol of beliefs that makes the conduct automatized following the xxx religion, and in the case xxx = “jewish,” but may be “christian,” “buddhist” and so on. Thus, Christianity remains similar to Judaism. In conclusion, Nietzsche…

Melian Dialogue DBQ Rough Draft Claim Statement: The Melian Dialogue teaches the reader that, in 416 BCE, Athens’ foreign policy and actions were strongly informed by the Athenian belief and focus on realism, preserving the law of nature, and the natural order of events. In 416 BCE, Athens’ belief, policy, and ideal of realism is evident through their preference for knowledge-based spiritual faith and rejection of the metaphysical. The Melian Dialogue, recorded by Thucydides in 416 BCE,…

the early life of Caesar, because the beginning of Suetonius’s “Live of the Twelve Caesars” was destroyed. It begin to explain the origins of his name, and what his life may have been like as child. He comes from a patrician family, which claims decadence from Aeneas, and through him Venus. It then tells tales from Caesar being captured by pirates, to his survival during the time of Sulla. His path of power is mainly focused on his early offices, and his political opponents, like Cato and…

In the tragic play Death and the King’s Horseman by the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka in 1975, the author provides more insight into the periods of history by making clear allusions to the era of colonialism in Africa, and to World War 2. He is able to provide insights about the periods of history through his retelling of past events from the perspective of Africans. Given that Soyinka wrote the tragic play in 1975, he has been able to learn from others about the past and also lived through some…

Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is about cultural oppression. In an important passage of the story, Jackson meets his friend Junior covered in vomit and the three Aleut cousins. This passage, along with the story’s resolution, contributes to an important theme. This main theme is that the best way for people to recover from cultural oppression is to take appropriate actions. The story suggests that there exists cultural oppression. When Jackson walks to the wharf, he meets…