Shunning

Mills argues, “[i]f all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” His justification of this is the belief that the loss of diversity in thought amongst society would deprive them of enrichment in knowledge. Mill believes freedom of speech should only be limited when harming others. In his famous corn dealer example (2002, pp. 46-47) he explains that individuals…

As the nation continues its incessant progression, one must not forget the foundational framework of history that influenced the structure of present-day America. Dismissing the 19th century and welcoming the 20th, the Progressive Era and the Gilded Age saw a rise in economical growth and brought an emergence of social advances that offered America the opportunity to flourish into the nation of achievable dreams. The “american dream” was desired by all, even by those across sea. It’s true, the…

Ever since Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, its political landscape has experienced seemingly endless sociopolitical and economic turmoil due to ethnic conflicts amongst the 570 different tribes with diverse sets of faiths, social backgrounds and cultures, and more so due to religious tensions and power politics between the dominant Arab-Islamic North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected…

Fahrenheit 451 And Saudi Arabia Comparison Essay “Of all dictatorships, a dictatorship sincerely exercised for the good of its people may be the most oppressive.” This quote talks about how the more tyrannical a dictatorship gets, the more strict rules and harsh consequences will be implemented to the people of their country. In Saudi Arabia, the people are living in a dystopian society as rules have harsh consequences, censorship of the internet, and the fear of ISIS. In Fahrenheit 451, people…

The novel The Grapes Of Wrath begins with solidarity between farmers, all of whom are interconnected through the land they till. This unity ends up transcending the boundaries of both physical and communal planes, as the farmers’ identities turn to those of migrants’. The removal of the farmers’ security, coupled with a communal sense of ostracization from society, created an identity of migrants that was both unique and similar to the community that was created by the farmers prior to the Great…

unresponsive to correspondence. He displays a disregard for community and social relations, which he should innately have as a human. Indeed, as George Levine, an English Professor at Rutgers University asserts, the ramifications of both Frankenstein’s shunning of and residing in society combined with his intrinsic character leads him to ruination; despite the fact that developments reflecting God’s banishment of Adam from Eden and Mephistopheles’s reaping of his deal with Faust exist throughout…

It is no doubt that the monster in Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, is a complex character. From murdering a total of six people, three directly and three indirectly, to having hopes to be accepted by society makes the monster a two-sided character. The monster shows his good side several times in the book and then taints his image by killing an innocent person. Despite the crimes he commits, the monster connects with the readers on an emotional level. Readers are instantly attached to the…

Language has been around for many a millennia, but written language has been in use for only the past 3,000 years or so. Written English has been in use for even less than that, but there are many underlying aspects of the language which are overlooked and underappreciated that should be observed more meticulously. Whether it is the medium through which we receive text, Innuendo, underlying connotative meanings, proverbial meanings, or even meaningless words. In today’s day and age, phones and…

As a child I can remember sitting on the floor in my living room playing video games with my three best friends. Regardless of the game none of us cared whether we were “button smashing,” by pressing random buttons on the controller in hopes of getting a kill, or playing seriously. To us we were just having a good time. However, as we made the gradual shift towards online gaming, we became exposed to the toxicity that thrived there. The level of which the environment is unwelcoming, harmful, or…

Fahrenheit 451 And Saudi Arabia Comparison Essay “Of all dictatorships a dictatorship sincerely exercised for the good of it’s people may be the most oppressive.” This quote talks about how the more tyrannical a dictatorship gets, the more strict rules and harsh consequences will be implemented to the people of their country. In Saudi Arabia, the people are living in a dystopian society as rules have harsh consequences, censorship of the internet, and the fear of ISIL. In Fahrenheit 451, people…