Fatalism

--“Text to World” Connection #1 As most know 1984 was written during World War II and published shortly after it ended. During the time 1984 was published, Totalitarian Governments (i.e Fascist, Nazi, or Socialist) were in control of cities known as the Soviet Union, Germany, and Spain. Big Brother, the controlling system in 1984 is compared to leaders accordingly like Stalin and Hitler. The Party can be associated with the Totalitarian Government for their power of controlling what their…

The 1955-75 Vietnam War, known in Vietnam as the “Resistance War against America”, motivated by the United States’ doctrine of containment of communism, represents a remarkable turning point in this doctrine’s implementation. The doctrine of containment had the goal of “[preventing] the Soviet Union from […] reshaping the postwar international order”, a prospect as dangerous to the West as Germany’s or Japan’s attempt (Gaddis 4). World War II, and more precisely Pearl Harbour, had also “ended…

Chapter -4 Conclusion This study was set out to explore Estella Havisham as a Gothic Femme Fatale, set against the backdrop of Victorian era. Albeit a few studies have showed up in the course of the most recent decade or so, on female characters of Victorian fiction, but, minority has completely alluded to the relationship to some of them as gothic women. Along these lines, this research paper investigates about the part of breaking down the "underhanded" representations of 'Estella Havisham'…

As defined in Marcuse’s (1997) article, “A ghetto is a spatially concentrated area used to separate and to limit a particular involuntarily defined population group (usually by race) held to be, and treated as, inferior by the dominant society,” (p. 231). Marcuse further broke down ghetto into two categories: the outcast ghetto and the classic ghetto. The outcast ghetto is the most commonly referred to and understood in the context of the American society, where most black are populated. Like…

The philosophy of karma and rebirth explains the most important dissimilarity between Western religious views and the great Indian religious perceptions. Western philosophy also makes use of a retributive description of evil in which a person’s suffering is recorded for by his earlier misconduct. But mentioned the properly wrong correlation between suffering and sin in a person’ lifetime, Western religions have supported other definitions of suffering. Though, Indian views merges this view with…

Annie Hall, directed by, written by and starring Woody Allen follows the life of Alvy Singer, a neurotic New-Yorker. Throughout the movie, he narrates his experiences as he ponders on the meaning of life and his failed relationship with Annie. The intellectual but comedic urban romance marked a turning point in Allen’s career earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1977. Yet, this paper focuses on his counterpart played by Diane Keaton and how her performance shaped both the story’s…

be taken as the era of humanism where a human being is considered to be the greatest value. However, things not always were the same. Throughout centuries society has been changing its attitude towards a human being and its value., starting from fatalism of middle ages and ending with more reasonable approach of the New ages. However, in all times people bewailed about their relatives or close people as it is an integral part of human nature. Yet, very often this feeling was rather outward as…

Film Noir and Neo-Film Noir: The Revival of the Film Genre From the 1940s through the 1950s, Film Noir became incredibly popular and people thought that this genre of film would never end. Unfortunately, as the present became the past, people had a change in taste resulting in the demise of Film Noir. At the turn of the millennium, a revival of Film Noir started to take place called Neo-Film Noir. Even though Film Noir movies, including “Illegal,” and Neo-Film Noir movies, including “Bat-Man:…

research into this long-standing conflict. About half of its volume is devoted to finding answers to only two key questions: what led to the Cold War, and whether it was possible to stop it at the initial stage? Gaddis is not inclined to historical fatalism and, apparently, does not believe too…

wise society devoted to their elimination (Cahn & Markie, 2009). Mill goes on further to say that life without happiness is not worth living (Cahn & Markie, 2009). He argues that life without happiness brings one to an unnatural state of misery, fatalism and even suicide (Cahn & Markie, 2009). Mill explains that happiness is not about pleasurable experiences; rather regarding reaching a state of well being for one’s self and one’s neighbour (Cahn & Markie, 2009). The greatest happiness principle…