Decadence

dirty one, the change resulting from the incident at the lake on that particular night and the resulting effect. As the narrator said “There was a time when courtesy and winning ways went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like taste” (189). Privileged young folks may choose rebellion to transition to adults, this is the case of the three characters of Greasy Lake. The narrator says “We were all dangerous characters then. We wore torn-up leather jackets….…

1.2 Influences on Nietzsche Nietzsche as a young philologist had some people whom he loved and idolized. These people influenced his thought pattern, behaviour and charism. In the world Nietzsche lived in, one could observe, think, and express his thoughts freely; a tradition which was passed onto him first during his youthful age by German culture with its humanistic schools, its patriotic traditions and its poets. At the age of twenty-five, Nietzsche left Germany for good and was viewing it…

Eliot’s The Waste Land is often a confusing and difficult poem to understand. However, in terms of its style and content, it is clear that the poem speaks about the decay of the periods culture. The Waste Land is a eulogy to the decaying society of modern Europe post-World War One. Eliot’s use of fragmentation made him infamous in the literary world; and it is through this use of fragmentation that we the learned find it very daunting to appreciate. The poem consists of five sections, all of…

Good design is complex and contradictory this is supported by the statement “less is a bore” and that less doesn 't mean more. By having less you lose the interesting aspects of complexity. Venturi points that the richness and complexity of modern experience needs to be expressed in our architecture. This is further supported by the statement that function doesn 't follow form and that ornaments are valuable for architecture. Ornaments in architecture have meaning, is intrinsically symbolic, and…

As a writer during his time he took a bold stance against war, which in turn gave rise to other authors of resistance. As a way of coping with the brutality of war, following World War 1, the American society gave way to decadence. The “Lost Generation” was a term coined by Hemingway’s friend, Gertrude Stein, which was used to describe the people of this era. Stein was inferring about the youth that was unhappy with life after the war that drank alcohol and had numerous…

dream in his novel. James used the image of America as the youthful innocent land. James himself lived in Europe and he knew the rigidity of European culture that the rules under which it lived did not allow any change, and vitality. He saw the decadence of the European culture at that time. But later his view became more complicated. The author seemed to value both…

Book burning refers to the ritual destruction of books or other written materials by fire. Often carried out in public areas, book burning represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials being destroyed. During the nineteenth century in Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime strategically implemented this method of oppression to demoralize any potential protests and to spark fierce nationalism into the hearts of the…

his time in power “in a strange mixture of paganism and Christianity” from ancient mythology to the Passion. Though his passion for the arts and the extravagant brought about more loyalty and prestige from amongst his closest followers, but his decadence proved to be his only forte; through his political ineptitude he would further prove to be the undoing of a unified…

When thinking of the Gilded Age, at first I often thought of money, wealth, and the beautiful mansions that we are surrounded with here in Newport. The Gilded Age actually stands for a period that meant growth of the amount of immigrants in the United States along with the growth of industry in general. Throughout this period production spiked for materials such as iron and steel, which were used to build railroads and means for transportation at this time. Resources such as lumber, gold, and…

The life of cosmopolitan women in late-antiquity has remained something of an enigma to scholars. Perceptions of general decadence and moral impoverishment date back to the early research of historians like Edward Gibbon, who argued that a loss of virtue-ethics plagued the secular government. Authors of the 5th and 6th centuries, like Procopius and St. Augustine, offer little to undermine that notion. One would be quick to assume that the general decline in quality of life in the late…