Nobel Prize in Literature

annoyed by these problems and you start to imagine things. You now blame these problems on something bigger than any of you could ever imagine, you blame it on “the beast”. This in fact is the exact storyline for a very famous novel that won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, this novel is called The Lord of the Flies. The first thing I believe the beast represents is the fear inside every boy and having to blame that fear on something. According to Document A “the young and old boys now…

The Truth: A Writer’s Duty Meaningful literature, in any form, has a purpose. Memoirs in particular often recount incredibly personal and vivid moments in one’s life. William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize speech mentions how literature needs to be uncensored and personal, as it is the writer’s duty to be honest and include all aspects of the subject of their writing, no matter how disturbing or gruesome. These universal truths are exactly that: the truth, and are necessary in order to write from the…

or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social- bureaucratic powers, and interprets as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt and absurdity. Elie wiesel was Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania. He was a Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist. He pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII. He was fifteen years old when his family was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz where he and his father…

Golding. As a child he attended Marlborough Grammar School, where his father was a teacher.1 When Golding was a boy, he was a talented musician, just like his father, Alec.2 While he was attending Oxford, he changed his focus from science to English literature after two years.3 As an adult, Golding wrote several books, including Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, Free Fall, The Spire, The Pyramid, The Scorpion God, Darkness Visible, Rites of Passage, The Paper Men, Close…

experiences with the world. There is a plethora of riveting novels and stories that have been written over time that truly capture the essence of the Holocaust and detail the atrocities committed during that time. Since the end of World War II, literature such as Night by Elie Wiesel, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry have chronicled the horrors of the Holocaust and touched both hearts and minds along the way. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is just one of the…

Ernest Hemingway can be seen as one of the greatest writers in not only American literature but in literature worldwide. The author of the novel The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway portrays the way of life of the ‘lost generation’ a term created by Gertrude Stein after World War One. The first world war shattered many people's’ ideas about life. In fact, they became lost, with no purpose or meaning. They searched for new meanings while spending much of their time enjoying the luxuries of life,…

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He was the third child of Olivia Hamilton and John Ernst Steinbeck, He had three siblings Esther, Beth, and Mary. As a child, John helped on a farm and during the summers looked at the culture around him where he got the idea to write the book Tortilla Flat. John had three wives, Carol Henning (1930-1943), Gwendolyn Conger (1943- 1948) who which he had his two children with Thomas and John IV, and Elaine Anderson Steinbeck…

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought” (Brainy Quotes). These are the words once spoken by Albert Szent- Gyorgi, the 1937 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for discovering vitamin C. With interests in biology, a large sum of my time is spent in the lab or on a computer doing research. However research doesn’t have to apply only to biology of other physical sciences. Research can apply to most aspects and studies in life. Although…

was a fascinating writer that became the inspiration of many others to follow and a proud example of American literature. ”Papa”, as he nicknamed himself, was an adventurer and as such tried to get by life with enthusiasm and live at its potential. He is part of the “Lost Generation” that included famous writers like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot. Their literature had similar themes like: lack of control, alcoholism, and gender. His works have a perfect balance of length,…

Sikhism is generally held to derive from the teaching of the first Guru, Nanak (1469-1539) who taught a doctrine of salvation through Divine Name. His oral versical messages in Punjabi attracted a larger section of people in India because simple Bhakti does not need any external arrangements for God worship. He proved that God is present everywhere, immanent in all creation, both within and without everyman. On the way of Bhakti, Kabir, actually, showed the way of internal peace which is very…