Fantastic Four

Orwell’s novel 1984 is a great piece of literature that should included in a list of works of high literary merit. Approximately six months before Orwell passed away, he published the novel 1984. This book is taking place in the near-future, or what is the past to us now, in 1984. Its set place is Oceania, which is a large area comprised of the Americas, Australia, England, and part of lower africa, in a city called London. England is also renamed to Air Strip One and is known as the…

the Holy Trinity. Another number is four, which pops up when discussing how long Velutha disappeared for; four years (73). While this ruins the trope of a Christ figure disappearing or dying for three units of time (three days, three months, three years, etc.), it also gives us the opportunity to play with the number four. While quartets, inevitably, occur several times in a work as long as the Bible, the most symbolism-heavy one is the four horsemen. The four horsemen is a seriously morbid…

people only reserve beauty to himself or herself. This moral degeneration defies with the principle of beauty and love advocated by Wilde. Ironically, the dilemma of the giant alludes to the weary and complicated reality. The giant's possession of a fantastic garden as well as his assertion of his property closely resembles the bourgeois lifestyle existing in the realistic human world. His selfishness is partly a result of the existing law and order, since the giant can easily deny the…

Power is often gained through a sort of manipulation and ones ability to convince the audience they will put the people’s interest first. Throughout the years, political leaders hold grand speeches to advocate their ideas and why they will help better the society. In most cases, politicians will use tactics like repetition, persuasion, pathos, logos, ethos, propaganda, etc. These techniques are all used to connect with the audience and make them believe they are doing everything for the people…

Joseph Campbell’s seventeen stages of the Hero’s Journey can be applied to any piece of literature, movie etc. In The Stranger, Into the Wild, and Nineteen Eighty-Four the authors, Albert Camus,Jon Krakauer, write about characters’ adventures whether it is negative such as going against a certain set of rules or just simply straying from the normal way things are done in order to emphasize the different forms of adventure that can be experienced using the same concept. These novel’s protagonist…

of remorse. Or little girl raped and murdered, she had it coming. I have absolutely no empathy for these people and feel no emotion towards them at all but I wasn’t always like this. I grew up with my dad, a single parent. My mom left when I was four years old and to this day I don’t know why. The last memories I have of her is watching her…

our purposes. But we want to have a good choice. And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety. So we allow as many as thirty percent of the female embryos to develop normally. The others get a dose of male sex-hormone every twenty-four meters for the rest of the course. Result: they're decanted as freemartins—structurally quite normal (except," he had to admit, "that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards), but sterile. Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last,"…

Bhabani Bhattacharya was born in the same decade of the 20th century in which famous Indian Novelists Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao were born. He is strongly called as one of the four wheels of the Indian English novelist. The other three are Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the most famous amid the older generation of Indian English novelists. He was born on the 10th of November, 1906 in Bhagalpur (Bihar). Bhabani Bhattacharya belonged to…

The Hunger Games and 1984 are two great novels depicted of a dystopian lifestyle. Both have numerous similarities relating them and nevertheless differences that help show their individualities. The Hunger Games takes place in the totalitarian nation of Panem that is divided into 12 districts and the Capitol. Every year, from each district two young people are selected by lottery to participate and represent their district in the annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are televised games that…

In 1984, George Orwell portrays the dystopian society of Oceania through the eyes of Winston Smith. Winston is a “loyal” Party member, who works in the Ministry of Truth. Here, he changes historical files to fit the opinions of his “leader”, Big Brother. From the first page of 1984, Winston constantly portrays his hatred and distrust for The Party; however, he has one major flaw. That is, that he never acts upon his feelings. Compared to V and Edward Snowden, Winston Smith clearly does not…