Nostalgia

those times from the 1940’s, a period brimming with strife and suffering, it is only natural that nostalgia plays an important role in defining his character and narration. However, it is not only Charles who seems to romanticize the past, but also two of the most prominent characters in the novel, Sebastian and Julia Flyte. Each of them is driven through life, for better or for worse, by blinding nostalgia for a romanticized past which creates empathetic, humanized characters whom…

Matias Miranda 10/17/26 For many people, different environments make them feel certain ways. In the essay Once More to the Lake by E.B White the lake holds a special place in the narrator’s heart because he spent summers there with his father. Nostalgia arises as the narrator and his son perform the same tasks the narrator did with his father: fishing in the lake, seeing a dragonfly, and talking with waitresses. He notices that a lot of the area around this lake has changed significantly,…

Nostalgia is defined as an excessively sentimental yearning for return to, or of some sort of past period or irrecoverable condition. Throughout human history, women have had a certain expectation placed onto them when they become a wife and mother. With the steps humanity has made in the right direction to create a better world and society, the stereotypes placed on women have not gone away due to nostalgia of the past. Judy Brady explores this in the article, “I Want A Wife” and she sheds on…

historical nostalgia or nationalism, The Princess Bride succeeds by using nostalgia in a unique way. Through the use of comedic devices such as mistaken identity, absurdity, and good old-fashioned slapstick comedy, The Princess Bride is able to parody the traditional princess film. In doing so it is able…

villager gets execute. The idea seems to be absurd by persecuting an innocent citizen but it’s a tradition to these villagers because everyone has to participate and not question about it. As for the black box itself, it represents a symbolism of a nostalgia that shows that this event is an annual tradition. No one knows who created the event or how, but it shows that they are living in a village where everyone seems to be contempt about the lottery. However, the children,…

Embarking in the first chapter, we immediately realize that Sasha is tempted by an opportune moment to snatch a wallet she spots in a public bathroom. She could’ve just walked away, however she failed to resist her kleptomania urges. In a split moment, she convinced herself that taking the wallet would serve a purpose: it would teach the stranger a lesson to not be so trustworthy. From this anecdote we know of her destructive disease, that not only affects her, but also the community around her.…

Adams in his article “The `Good War ' Myth and the Cult of Nostalgia”, he states that: “Americans had many reasons to feel positively about their participation in World War II. They were relatively united in a good cause: ending Nazism, Fascism, and Japanese Imperialism. Americans became spected as liberators, and…

Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker begins with a feeling of nostalgia as she remembers her father, there is a tone of regret in the first stanza, regretting the fact that her father is no longer with her. She wishes that her father “had not been so tired…” since they were suffering from poverty her father could devote much of his time to her, he was too busy “writing slips…” this clearly exhibits how he deeply cared about her to the point that he instructed her on financial matters. There is a…

In the book, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz, the author deconstructs various types of stereotypes and myths embodied by television shows that romanticize family life and gender roles. Coontz (1992) states that these idealizations promote the “traditional family” myth which she describes as “an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in time and place” (p.9). The notions derived from this myth are a…

others, the revival of these defunct shows is evidence of dwindling creativity or companies looking to make a quick buck. Through the definition of nostalgia, the current trend of reboots can be analyzed and split into two categories: enduring nostalgia, and pandering nostalgia. To properly classify a medium as enduring nostalgia or pandering nostalgia, the…