The Elder Brother

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, depicts a society under a corrupted political state. The corruption leads to a totalitarian regime. In the book society is divided in three classes. The proles, which represent the proletariat, they live in poverty and they are denied any access to information, education and they must abide by the rules that are dictated by the party. The outer party members, who are middle class. They work within the party however; they do not have any access to the wealth…

Fantastic Fantasy Figures Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Leprechauns are all figures loved, adored, and believed in by young children. Are these mythical figures crucial to children developing correctly? As children grow into adulthood, they have to make a choice; to tell their kids about fantasy figures or deprive them of this magical experience. Because fantasy is a normal part of child development, believing in holiday figures like Santa and the Easter Bunny is healthy…

a utopia is what the narrator, Winston, resolves to fight. The narrator’s resistance to the erosion of his individuality by said state is developed by Orwell as a main motif. Winston is initially shown to be loosening from the grasp of leader Big Brother and the Party, which he gradually rebels against by pondering about “taboo” subjects, writing in his journal, and acting on his lust, concluding with his diabolical torture at the hands of the Party. Orwell…

The Analysis of “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” Provoked by their step mother at the time of a big famine, their father leaves Hansel and Gretel in the woods. They come across a candy house by chance. Its owner hosts and feeds them. Later, she imprisons them and they learn that she is a child-eating witch. They manage to kill her and to escape from there. So is the story of Hansel and Gretel in brief. In its film adaptation , “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)”, the things are a bit…

COMPLICATED, yet eloquent. Breath-taking, yet unique. This is how I describe Super- Frog Saves Tokyo, a peculiar story which was written by Murakami Haruki and was translated by Jay Rubin. In connection with this, this story of Murakami proves his different and astonishing style of writing fiction stories. Moreover, this fiction story of him proves his expertise in depicting imaginary people in imaginary situation. On the other hand, there are hardworking people who are not acknowledged. There…

Little children loves to listen to fantasy stories about love between prince and princesses such as “Cinderella”, “Snow White”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and as you get old you might know more stories like “Romeo and Juliet”. When you are small you dream for experiencing love like in those stories, and even if you do realize that it is impossible to magically meet a princess or price, many still desire the romantic encounter with someone. Though, is that love? Or is it that act of loving just…

COMPARATIVE ESSAY ON ANGELA CARTER’S COMPANY OF WOLVES AND A.S. BYATT’S BAGLADY Milada Curtner Highlights of British Literature: Final Essay December 20, 2014 We all grew up loving fairytales told by our grandmothers who shared with us the ancient myths. That is why post-modern fairytales “Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter and “Baglady” by A.S. Byatt were selected for this essay. Although the heroines in The Company of Wolves and Baglady are two very different women and experience very…

The Brothers Grimm version of the fairy tale “Cinderella” is a perfect example of a person’s journey from dark to light, or, as Tatar says it, “a way out of the woods back to the safety and security of home.” (Behrens and Rosen 254) While there are many versions of the story across different cultures, this variant describes the journey not only for Cinderella, but for the desired path of the stepsisters as well. The idea of Cinderella being a story of a journey comes from Tatar’s idea, which is…

The Grimm brothers, the original authors of the story “snow white and the seven dwarves” released the fairy tale in 1937. It originated in Germany but later Disney gave them the first animated feature. The fairy tale highlights on some elements like a talking mirror, a poisoned apple, glass coffin and characters like snow white the protagonist, a prince, the queen and the evil queen or the witch and the seven dwarfs(Grimm & Grimm, 1991). At the beginning of the tale, a queen sitting at an open…

Neil Postman, a contemporary critic, contrast George Orwell’s vision of the future with Aldous Huxley vision of the future. In other to do this Postman uses the ideas expressed in 1984 by Orwell and Huxley’s novel Brave New World. Postman believes that Huxley’s vision is more relevant today than Orwell's vision is. Huxley believed that people will love their oppression, and Orwell believes that society will be overcomed by an externally imposed oppression. Huxley displays this through the novel…