Orgy

Brave New World’s dystopian society takes hold of many of the characters throughout the novel. Even Bernard who spends a majority of the novel running from the programming he’s been given finally succumbs to temptation of both the stoma and the “orgy-porgies”. Although Bernard wasn’t strong enough to withstand the temptation one character was, John. John the Savage was the only character to completely throw off the system imposed by the Controllers. John’s introduction into their “new” world…

are immoral we will not inherit the kingdom of God. “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (English Standard Version, Gal. 5: 19-21). God is very specific on what will happen if people throw their lives away…

Michaelmas, might have floated a king’s ship. Stryver never had a case in hand, anywhere, but Carton was there, with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the court; they went the same Circuit, and even there they prolonged their usual orgies late into the night, and Carton was rumoured to be seen at broad day, going home stealthily and unsteadily to his lodgings, like a dissipated cat” (Dickens 105). In this quote, it is shown that Carton is worthless man. He seems to be drunk all…

After strict moral standards established many years ago appeared to have failed, and science had proven that it could not prove the origin of the universe, a new philosophical and artistic expression moved in to fill the void of the Modernist Movement. The Postmodern Movement was born out of a lack of faith in society and the established way of life as a whole, and embraced the philosophy of meaninglessness and a rejection of the transcendental meta-narrative. This move has been fully expressed…

Don’t Fear the Witch There are many things that can come to mind when one hears “witchcraft”. Classic films like “Hocus Pocus”, “The Craft”, “The Blair Witch Project” and many more are famous for their plots that revolve around the antics of witches. The witches are shown to have supernatural abilities such as being able to shapeshift, levitate objects, turn people into animals, and invoke spirits. Delving into the darker side of the topic, the taboo word can incite thoughts of animal sacrifices…

FREDERICO ALBERRICI Alberrici an Italian-American, is identified as a footman called Frederick, employed by eminent surgeon and Ripper suspect Sir William Gull, at 78 Brook Street, by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper And The Royals. Alberrici is included, not because he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper himself, but because he was said to be part of the Masonic conspiracy theory, and was alleged to have aided Gull in his search for the prostitutes who knew of the alleged…

Motivation in Man From the Hamptons to the slums of third world countries, people are molded by the conditions they find themselves in. The starving seek food, the suffering seek aid, but to what deeper, less obvious ends do surroundings shape people’s motivations in life? How drastically does situation alter people’s entire lives? Psychology provides strong factual support that environment affects human motivations, but extending that base to more complex desires, whether it is a desperate need…

Emperor Constantine, unlike Alexius was not born a Christian, he became a Christian during his life. Eusebius’s description of Constantine’s moment of conversion is a very memorable part of the book: “Knowing well that he would need more powerful aid than an army can supply, he [Contantine] sought a God to aid him…This God he began to invoke in prayer, beseeching and imploring him to show who he was, and to stretch out his right hand to assist him in his plans…About the time of the Midday sun,…

Aldous Huxley foreshadows the dangers of communal identity and conformist behavior in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley creates an experiment within the World State, controlling factors such as birth in a test tube, predestined factions, color of clothes, sanitation and the rationing of soma. He casts his characters as the variables in the experiment, utilizing the outsider John, the neglected Bernard, and the indoctrinated Lenina to examine their responses to the World State. As every…

woman -- then sets them against each other. In a surrealistically close-to-the-bone sequence in which the characters spew their ugliest ethnic slurs, he shows how the same barely suppressed rage festers inside everyone. Lee's point in including this orgy of racist spleen-venting is to show how easy it would be to spark a full conflagration, and it's out of this observation that the rest of the movie springs (washingtonpost.com). In The Fire Next Time Baldwin informs his grandson…