Fatherland

One of the overarching themes in the novel Things Fall Apart was that in Ibo society, anything that was considered strong meant having a manly characteristic and anything deemed to be weak meant having a womanly characteristic. The men of the village tend to keep their wives under submission, the wives are servile to their husbands. Also, men who are not successful, such as those without a title, are sometimes referred to as women in a demeaning manner. I found the treatment of the Igbo woman…

On February 14th 1917 a Chicago newspapers decided to change the papers name from The Fatherland to, The New World. The explanation for the change in named is described by the editor of the paper, George Sylvester Viereck, “We do not believe that we forfeit our right of free speech, because we are Americans of German descent…” also Viereck states, “We want to stress the fact that America is our country, not merely the country of those whose progenitors came with the Pilgrim Fathers. We are the…

the older generation of fighters, saying that the "death-throes" are stronger than duty to one's country making the young men question why they risk their lives for it • “With our young, awakened eyes we saw that the classical conception of the Fatherland held by our teachers resolved itself here into a renunciation of personality such as one would not ask of the meanest servant. “(2.5) I chose this quote because I feel that the characters in All Quiet on the Western Front are very simple,…

Aeneas is a man who is truly destined by fate. As mentioned in book 1, “I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known above high air of heaven by my fame, carrying with me in my ships our gods of heart and home, saved from the enemy. I look for Italy to be my fatherland, and my descent is from all-highest Jove.” This line represents his loyalty to the duty that is his fate. His decisions were not made for his own personal gratification, but rather for the good of all the Roman citizens. Aeneas was a man…

Anne Frank was one of the millions of jews wronged in the Holocaust during World War 2. She went into hiding in 1942, only 13. Anne kept a diary where she wrote about her experiences in hiding. On July 15, 1944 she wrote the following quote. “ It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in…

distinction could be a direct result of the Trojan’s ability to retreat to the comfort and safety of Troy after a battle. Unlike the Achaeans who have been living on a beach for nearly ten years. The beach is a self-inflicted alienation from their fatherland that transforms leaves the Achaeans into ruthless cold-hearted men desensitized to the act of killing. The concept of family and familial values have been lost to the ten years away from their respective homes and families, and to the…

attacked by the Greeks, fallen soldier Hector comes to Aeneas in his dream to deliver a message: “Ai! Give up and go, child of the goddess,/Save yourself, out of these flames. The enemy/Holds the city walls, and from her height/Troy falls in ruin. Fatherland and…

Introduction Nazi Policy in World War 2 was motivated by National Socialist ideology. From Hitler’s rise to power through the end of World War 2 things only grew worse for the Jews of Europe. The German promise to its people for living space was usually accompanied by ideas of Jewish slaves and German owners. The original Nazi policy was to turn Eastern Europe into plantations run by Germans with Jewish slaves. Germany used forced labor throughout the war to great effect. Eventually ethnic…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he introduces the Christian missionaries in chapter 16 that had an effect on the Ibo culture as a whole. Some of the tribe took on the new culture as their own, while others pushed it away, saying that it was going to “break their clan and spread destruction among them.” (133) The person that was most affected from their coming was Okonkwo, the main character of the book. Even though he undergoes losing family, friends and also his culture losing its…

War tends to incite very specific images: madness, mēnis, and mercilessness. All these concepts create an atmosphere of carnage; however, when reading the histories of great ancient battles like those of the Trojan and Peloponnesian Wars, it is clear that even during comparatively less “civilized” times, war was not an unstoppable force; across both cultures, it proved to be limited, most notably by the notions of honor and humility. In Homer’s Iliad, the tone of the story is characterized by…