George Eliot

For more than a thousand years, writing has been used to communicate ideas and inspire people to think differently. In their respective novels, Brave New World and Kindred, Aldous Huxley and Octavia Butler both argue that reading and writing can cause rebellion from a dissatisfied group through the spread of ideas and information. The authors do this by creating leaders that deprive a group of people of reading and writing in order to maintain control over them, having the protagonists use…

It has been seen throughout history that authors of famous works of literature have used their platform to bring attention to challenging obstacles humans face in life. In “Animal Farm”, George Orwell critiques the history of the Russian Revolution. J.D. Salinger discusses the hardships of growing up in “Catcher in the Rye”. The stories “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin are also pieces of literature that bring notice to life’s challenges. Both of…

Technology is evil; it results to power, greed, and the fall of humanity. Fahrenheit 451 portrays a world where technology prevails and becomes a replacement of all mediums. The government of Fahrenheit 451 believes in equality and attempts to create a world that violence and evil are non-existent. To create a world of tranquility, the government must implement communistic ideals by heavily censoring their society and inevitably banning all works of literature. The society outlaws books, to…

Foolish Winston Winston’s psychological demise is caused from the people that surround Winston, leading him to believe that he is in control of his life but the truth is that the party is always in control. Winston’s love for Julia caused Winston’s psychological demise as Julia made Winston do things that he normally won’t do, Julia brings Winston from rebelling in a small way of writing in his diary to more extreme ways of rebelling, Winston sees the signs that something bad about to…

1984 built upon a negative utopian picture ruled by a rocky totalitarian government with a main male protagonist, Winston. In the novel “1984”, by George Orwell, not only winston but also the whole party look down upon the proles as insignificant, like animals. While in reality the party is the most animalistic.. In the novel, the party have only limited telescreens and spies in the proles because they’re deemed as unimportant. The proles therefore are presented with the secular dish called…

In the satiric novel entitled Animal Farm by George Orwell the character Squealer is a master manipulator, under the order of Napoleon. Squealer convinces the animals that Napoleon is always right. Squealer also alters the animal's memory to make up for Napoleon when he breaks the law. Squealer is loyal to Napoleon, and always does what he says. Squealer has to the look and the body language to persuade the animals into anything Napoleon wants. Napoleon and the pigs soon learn that they turn…

George Washington, our first president, had much to do in order to make the United States a successful nation. Before he became president, he was a surveyor in his late teen years. Not long after, he joined the military service. As a soldier during the French and Indian War, he served as a commander to the Virginia Troops. He also claimed himself to be a successful tobacco planter in his home land. Washington proved that he was a much better general than he was just a military man. He was not…

Out of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson the man who made the strongest President of the United states of America would have to be George Washington. For his achievements before and during his Presidency. Washington devoted so much to the United States and was the strongest of our great presidents. Even if he had wooden teeth. Before George was President he fought with nobility in the French and Indian War, he then went on to being the commander and chief of the…

Glampers, who is The Handicapper General in the story, shot and killed Harrison in attempt to maintain government control when Harrison set himself and others free of their handicapping devices and declared himself Emperor. Harrison is the son of George and Hazel Bergeron. He was removed from his parents’ home in April of 2081, at the age of fourteen, by government agents with the title…

French painter, Paul Cezanne, was a very large influence on art and artists during and after his time. He went through many different styles of Expressionism and inspired many artists. One painting that he is especially known for was created later in his life. It is called The Large Bathers, and the title reflects the work of art, since it is of women who are bathing that look large. (“Bathers”, 2015) One can argue that Picasso and Matisse took this concept and made their own works that both…