The Primal Urge

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, the reader is taken through the slow mental breakdown of the main character of the novel. This nameless narrator goes through several mental changes that can be reflected in the environment that he surrounds himself in. Also, Marla Singer is portrayed as the only tangible thing that connects him to the real world and acts as a mirror reflecting his lies. As the novel progresses, the narrator starts to sleep earlier and earlier thus giving the opposite personality of…

George Orwell’s 1984 is an oppressive world that drains the citizens that live under the INGSOC regime. The citizens of Oceania become repurposed by the Inner Party into tools that exist to perpetuate the class disparity between the Inner Party and the Proles. To summarize, sexuality’s importance to the narrative of 1984 concentrates on the dynamic thematic representations throughout the novel. This essay will highlight several examples of sexuality and sexual expression within 1984 and how…

In Ava DuVerynay’s Selma, themes of racism, racial brutality and the hierarchy of the races are challenged through the catalyst of Martin Luther King’s struggle to rid the corruption of the voting system towards black people in 1965. The film follows several people, with MLK as the protagonist. However, instead of the story revolving around him, we get many people’s stories and see all the sacrifices, murders, and violence that went behind making the world as it is today. While the first…

Jimmy Romanowski uttered a sigh of disgust at the once-prized Mustang. He bought the ailing jalopy wicked cheap, considering metallic rheumatism ran amok among its mechanical parts. Apparently, its previous owner, a man in debt to his uncle, Devin Flynn, and in serious trouble, eschew maintenance. To mitigate the overheating, debilitated rubber arteries, and rusting exterior, he applied an effort unmatched since he helped paint the Our Lady of Sorrows church, which hadn’t been such a filthy job.…

2. I believe the significance of this scene is stressed on Hamlet’s soliloquy, but there is also, a great deal of importance in other aspects of this scene, such as his interaction with Ophelia and the plan Polonius and Claudius devise. Hamlet’s famous, “To be, or not to be…” speech is plastered everywhere and I never knew what it meant as a child, but given that even the media makes references to this soliloquy it must be significant. In this scene, Hamlet expresses his contemplation of suicide…

cost, to both the natural world and human world. The movement to protect our environment is at an all time high, and for good reason. Our natural world has been colliding with the ever expanding human impact zones at an exponentially growing rate. The urge to preserve the natural world has resulted in a large ecotourism sector within the US. People…

At first glance, it seems deceptively incongruous to assume any explicit degree of corresponding resemblance between the three given forms of narrative media, but upon closer examination, a number of similarities and understated analogies emerge, despite the stark contrast in the overall tone, setting and characters. By comparing these works on the basis of their shared deployment of identifiable narrative techniques, disregarding criticisms based on character development, plot and authorial…

controversial. Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous zones. This psychosexual energy – “libido” – was posited as one of the basic primal instincts. Psychoanalytic theory suggested that personality is mostly established by the age of five. Early experiences play a large role in personality development and continue to influence behavior later in life. If these psychosexual…

The book is so seamlessly written that it is not merely lifelike but also, in the best sense, novel like. It narrates a story in a skillful manner, with much attention to character. DeLillo makes us familiar with some peculiar habits of the characters. Like Everett cannot make himself go to bed at night without checking that the oven is off, and then sometimes double-checking, and reminding himself as he climbs the stairs that he has in fact completed his check. No doubt DeLillo has chosen such…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…