Science fiction

Imagine your life going from perfectly normal to anything but that in a matter of seconds. "Zero Hour", written by Ray Bradbury tells a story of an alien invasion that takes place in an ideal neighborhood. On the other hand, "War of the Worlds", written by H.G. Wells, tells a story about aliens invading a realistic Earth. H.G. Wells and Ray Bradbury wrote two different stories that bring to life alien invasions in different ways through setting, events, and characters that ultimately demonstrate…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a dystopian society that occurs when a conservative party takes control of a nation. Offred is the main character who is subject to this government. It changes her life in a way that completely displaces her from her old life in a negative way. Offred is shaped by her cultural surroundings. Specifically, the religious components of the world around her and the harsh government guides her thoughts and views. She is psychologically and…

When reading The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood capitalizes on the uses and misuses of language in Gilead, as well as our society. In the book, she demonstrates that language is vital for any form of power, whether in the privacy of a bedroom, or in the public streets of the republic. Atwood demonstrates how language can undermine the human condition, namely self identity, community and self expression. However, the use of language that can enrich lives, can revitalize memories or communities…

Did John "Overcompensat[e] for Misery"? "In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", one may ponder if would-be hero John Savage could have had any other possible outcome other than his unfortunate suicide at the closing of the novel. Although one may argue that suicide is always preventable, because of John's unique conditioning, his ultimate demise could not have been avoided by any other possible situations. His expectations of the new world-his supposed Shakespeare world-are much too extremist.…

I decided to write my review on the fourth Transformer movie, the age of extinction. I found this movie to be very entertaining, and interesting. I decided to use four major themes when writing this review. The four that I chose are Bodies, The Smurfette Principle, Damsel in Distress, and Women in the Refrigerator. When watching this movie I feel like these four concepts stood out to me the most. These four concepts refer to the people in this movie and the Transformers in this movie. Here is a…

An executive editor of Wired, Kevin Kelly in his “Better than Human: Why Robots Will – and Must – Take Our Jobs,” published on December 24, 2012 address the topic of how robot can improve our lives and argues that robots will execute human’s jobs in the future. Furthermore, Kelly acknowledges how robots replacing human for their jobs is similar to the industrial revolution in the 1800s. As Kelly supports this claim by providing the abilities a robot has, he predicts automation will replace…

The novel Brave New World shows that in order for a utopian society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoings of Mother Nature must occur. That being said successfully engineering these conditions produces a world of hope where the people are finally living a "happily ever after", but at a great cost. Community, Identity, and Stability is part of the conditions that plays a major role in the novel Brave New World. Community did not have the meaning that we…

Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury that focuses on the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his struggles with wanting to read in a society that has declared that illegal. Ray Bradbury got his inspiration from the historical book burnings that have occurred, like Hitler burning books in the streets and the burning down of the libraries in Alexandria. He thought that if those things have happened in the past, what’s preventing them from happening again in the future? So in…

As one analyses Ray Bradbury’s classic work, Fahrenheit 451, one can easily pinpoint several motifs alluding to censorship, government suppression, and other concepts. However, in evaluating the novel as a whole, these ideas tend to fade into background in comparison to Bradbury’s central message. In its entirety, Fahrenheit 451 stands as a commentary on the struggle between the feigned sense of intelligence, known as ignorance, and the active pursuit of substantive knowledge, known as…

Offred’s constant contemplation over her words and actions when she is with other Handmaids relays her paralyzing fear of betrayal. The reader wonders whether Ofglen is really as pious as Offred judges her to be, or if her statements, like Offred’s, are just carefully constructed ways of protecting herself. Even those who do manage to find friendship in Gilead understand the dangers their friendships pose. When Offred first joins the mayday resistance, former Ofglen explains, “It isn’t good for…