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Discuss how the historical and/ or social context has influenced the construction of ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and gattaca. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” The historical context has a large influence on the construction of texts. Fahrenheit 451 depicts an epiphany for a politically correct firemen. He has a realisation of the ignorance and a growing distain for conformity in a claustrophobic society. Through…

This piece of paper will examine the problem aspects of the Bulgarian translation of chapter 1 of Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy. 1. Cultural Aspects: the transmitting of the clothes Myra and her husband wear might be a bit problematic. In the original text, the reader saw Myra Henshaw in black, velvet dress. The translator decided to put on Mayra not velvet but a silk dress (“жена в черна копринена рокля”). Perhaps, this was done because the image of a velvet dress in the Bulgarian reader’s…

Modern literature has presented various examples of futuristic universes that are maintained through the perfect or imperfect conditions of law, government, and customs; societies where people live an unexcelled life or where people live a degrading life due to the horrific conditions they endure. These utopian or dystopian societies are throughout literature to raise questions about the future as people continue to experience domination by speech, individuality, and corrupted minds. Dystopian…

In a pre-modern world, women existed to do nothing but remain obedient wives and mothers, and today, women are known to be much more than this. The reasoning behind this tradition alteration of gender roles is women taking a stand and exercising the power they partake in, and using it to make themselves conspicuous in a man’s world. Renowned female icons today all inherit the same quality; their ability as women to exercise power successfully in a man’s world. In Jane Austen’s, Pride and…

Each and every day, we spend hours on various forms of technology, instead of spending that time with family and friends. Our lives are so ingrained with technology, that one of our most natural reactions is to look at or phone after finishing with a task, or grab the TV remote when we get home. Even when we are away from home, some people are even thinking about the next time they are going to be using technology. It has become such a large part of our lives it can only get larger. In…

The narrator was blinded so much by the illusion of love, he never made his feelings apparent; he would simply fantasize as he “lay on the floor in the front parlour [and] watch[] her door” (Joyce), waiting for Mangan’s sister to walk out so he could follow her. When he finally was able to talk with her, she asked if he was going to the Araby and his response was "’If I go,’ [...] ‘I will bring you something’”…

The stage directions tells us a lot that you may wonder about in the world of the play. Priestly hints out that “[it has to be set in] the dining room of a fairly large suburban house.” This suggest that the Birling family is rich but not fully rich because they are not living in a mansion so they are not the upper class in the class system. The word ‘fairly’ is an adverb the writer as put the word fairly in because it conveys that Mr birling is a business man who still works this helps the…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a significant Colombian novelist of the 20th century, is well known in the Spanish language. Trading in the source for living, he left law school to pursue journalism. In 1972 and 1982, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding works. Garcia Marquez’s favorite style of writing is known as magic realism, which consists of “magical moments and events of realistic situations,” (Gabriel Garcia Marquez,…

The sound techniques used throughout the film contribute to the construction of Norman as an evil person. When Norman is sitting in the parlour with Marion there is no music playing for most of their conversation, that is until Marion brings up the idea of sending Norman 's 'mother ' to an institution. Norman 's reaction to this is not pleasant and he begins to speak of how awful asylums…

Beautiful old colonial buildings near the water, endless beaches, and magnificent lighthouses are just some of the charms of Laguna, Brazil. Laguna is perhaps most famous for the symbiotic relationship between local fishermen and a pod of dolphins which frequents the waters near Tesoura Beach. As the dolphins chase fish toward the shore, fishermen throw out their nets to catch the incoming fish. The wild dolphins snap up those which escape the nets and then head back out towards deeper waters.…