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It has been argued that “the late nineteenth century was a scientific age. Literature could not simply remain the same after Darwin: the rules had changed” (Link 75) and that is what naturalist did. They started to reveal the origin to people’s actions and beliefs, as well as the cause. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin discusses some of the most relevant actions and new beliefs, such as divorce, adultery or woman and feminity. Although the work was quite controversial when she first wrote it, in…

people do not need to eat certain stuff to survive since they are presented with much choices besides lobsters. People need to realize that if we only eat lobsters for selfish gustatory pleasure and we are totally cruel. In the essay, David Foster Wallace states that “As far as I can tell, my own way of dealing with this conflict has been to avoid thinking about the whole unpleasant thing.” (466) To…

hypocritical to me. He says within the article that he himself eats animals, which in turn means that an animal had to have been harmed in the process which he so easily compares to a “medieval torture-fest.” Within the same page of the article, Wallace calls exactly what he is doing himself “selfishly convenient.” I have a hard time understanding why he went to such great lengths bashing the Maine Lobster Festival and everyone at home who tortures lobsters for the sake of a pleasurable meal…

With everything happening in life, it is easy to focus on just ourselves and our own lives sometimes. However, it is important to not get caught up in the trivial aspects of life and lose sight of the bigger picture, or forget that “this is water.” In David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” speech, he states that “[Life] is about simple awareness - awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over. “This is…

Wallace effectively led both readers on and made them think that he was bias to one side before he stated facts going each what each group believed. He managed to stay in the middle of the debate and made the readers think about why the opposite group believes what they believe. His essay is subversive by putting possible doubt in the readers mind and made them actually listen to other viewpoints. When I say “other viewpoints” I am speaking about the viewpoints of people who think it is…

The essay, “Consider the Lobster”, written by David Foster Wallace is about him visiting the Maine Lobster Festival. He believes that the festival is more than about the food and entertainment. First, he goes into very specific details explaining the lobster. He stated, “Lobsters are both hunters and scavengers”, (page 2). I believe that the main purpose of the article is to tell people to look at reality and consider the lobster on what they have to go through to be cooked and eating. He…

As shown in William Golding 's Lord of the Flies, human beings ' desire to satisfy their physical needs tend to dominate their ability to think rationally. In the novel, Golding uses the way human nature works to show how easily society can fall apart and how that can affect the people in the community. He makes sure that the theme of a twisted and corrupt nature is the underlying drive of the story. He writes characters such as Jack, Roger and Ralph with this is mind. Throughout the novel, he…

The “Child” The literary representation and social construction of children is present in many different pieces of literature. The “child” is used in many different way, it is used in relation to others around them, such as their families and others around them as well as the society that they are living in. There is also a way to see that the child is a marker of past, present and future. When looking at childhood, we can also see that one of the main points is that it is a literary narrative…

In the article of natural selection by Charles Darwin there is a lot of strong points and powerful statements, but do we ever think about what makes them strong and powerful statements. You ever wonder what a theory really is? Darwin statement is considered a theory. It only became a theory through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. No matter what articles always use some sort logos, ethos, and pathos. This is how we make theories and get reactions like we do because we use logic which is…

believed true about the origins of adaptation, diversity, and complexity among the living forms on Earth. In his book, he tried to puzzle out the process that lead to such diversity and adaptation. In 1858, both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace simultaneously published the same theory that species evolve through natural selection,…