The Unknown Man

Statistics do reveal to the true identity of a man. In “The Unknown Citizen,” W.H. Auden presents a Big Brother like state that knows everything about its citizens except for what really matters; this state views individuality as irrelevant and judges citizens based solely on their relation to society as a whole. The bureaucrat leaves out important emotional events involving the unknown citizen that seem vital to the judging of his character. Auden uses a speaker whose viewpoints contradict his…

everyone and power corrupts him. Golding uses beasts that the stranded boys want to hunt down, however, the only true beasts on the island are themselves. The smaller boys are afraid of things they see at night; instead of being blind to the great unknown, they give their fear a name and a face to put in their minds. Piggy…

of the Augurs (main & right wall, Monterozzi necropolis, Tarquinia 520 BCE) depicts an elaborate ritual ceremony in which funerary games took place in honor of the dead. The entirety of this tomb consists of four walls, however, the artist(s) is unknown. The city of Tarquinia is one of the most powerful and prominent Etruscan centers known for its many fresco painted chamber tombs.0 An augur is a roman priest, however the Etruscan augur is an official who closely watches the game taking place in…

refers to them as The Boy and The Man as it is written in third person omniscient though it often seems as if the novel was written in first person which adds to the idiosyncrasy of the novel. On the contrary The Road is extremely detail oriented which immensely contributes to the overall theme and tone of the book in addition to putting the reader in the characters shoes. The Road is a fiction piece about a post apocalyptic desolated world centered around a boy and a man trying to fight…

Cormac McCarthy brings us into a world that has been morphed by an unknown catastrophe. This story follows a classic McCarthy structure by being as vague as possible with the names of the characters and the places they intend to go. A man and his son journey along a road in order to reach the coast where the weather is apparently warmer. Their current situation as they travel is to survive the cold, cannibals, and robbers. The man is very wary about his interactions with other and sees the worst…

Her attempt to disguise herself as a man to ensure her survival and safety in an unknown territory showcases the simple understanding that it is best to live as man during her time. Even if she doesn’t consider the fact that being a twin to Sebastian implies that her male look-a-like would look exactly like Sebastian, it illustrates to the reader that…

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” by Colin Wilson has a very strong meaning to it. Wilson is challenging the average man by stating that what he does is insufficient and that the average man should do more. He says that the average man just accepts it when bad things happen to him and he doesn’t do anything about it. Personally, I think that he is challenging people like the ones in his quote to step up and do…

In The Road, Cormac McCarthy portrays the story of a father and son duo surviving in a post-apocalyptic world that has been devastated by an unknown catastrophic event. The father and son’s journey southward towards the coast is horrific and harsh encompassed by external obstacles and internal conflict of malnutrition, thievery, and cannibalism. The two depend on each other to maintain their sanity and morality as they forge on in the destitute setting of the road. Although the young boy is born…

journey of a man and boy through an unknown wasteland to an undisclosed destination. It is evident that there has been a catastrophic disaster that has obliterated the land, as skeletons and corpses line the road they travel together. There is a foreboding sense of resignation and an absence of time and place. The reader never really knows where the man and boy are going; although, it is evident, that their journey is horrific. Along the way, we follow the relationship of an unnamed man and boy.…

through language and connotation. Though she pointed out that a lot of these issue have changed such as addressing someone whose gender is unknown as them instead of just referring to the masculine pronoun. Despite the progress there are still a lot of problems brought about by the english language one Nilsen mentioned that i found most interesting is the calling a man feminine is considered an insult. This ideology that is so deeply ingrain in our culture is what I believe is the root of a…