Wright brothers

Within every folktale or legend, there is a quest for a hero to complete. Although the hero in most of these stories are male, there is always a sense of importance with the hero even if they are female. Therefore, in order to identify how the quests differ based on whether the hero is male or female in the Slavic culture, one must analyze both the hero and the quest in the Slavic folktales “Baba Yaga,” and “llya the Murom.” In the Slavic folktale “Baba Yaga” there is a quest presented…

If you could make everyone in your society be equal, would you? Well in the short story "Harrison Bergeron", the year is 2081 and everyone is equal. Anyone that is considered better, has to wear special handicaps. One day he breaks out of jail and into the newsroom. He intimidates everyone and eventually gets shot. In "Harrison Bergeron", the character, Harrison Bergeron is a clear danger to society. The first reason why Harrison is a threat is because he broke out of jail. In "Harrison…

In the book 1984 by George Orwell various methods of propaganda are used to control the Party members and Proles of Oceania. The main type of propaganda used in 1984 is a glittering generality, “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (Orwell) glittering generalities have positive implications and are valued in society. Another type of propaganda used in the book is bandwagon hate. All Party members and Proles are taught to hate Emmanuel Goldstein, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each…

The Disney Movie Cinderella is a classic children’s movie based on a poor mistreated girl that meets a prince who sweeps her off her feet and they live happily ever after. The movie stars a young girl named Cinderella that lives with her evil step mother and step sisters, who treat her very poorly and as if she’s the house maid, living in the attic. Her father passed away after remarrying a woman and moving in with her and her two daughters. Cinderella spends her days cleaning up after her step…

My connections examined the portrayal of alienation in mainstream society. I chose to use texts from a modern time period to help create more concrete conclusions about mainstream society. My texts were Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy, Sad Joke on a Marae by Apirana Taylor, District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp and Barton Fink directed by Joel Coen. I expected all of my texts to be able to reflect one another as they were all from a similar time period. In particular, I expected…

Throughout the years, Walt Disney Studios released many animated feature films such as The Lion King, Frozen, and etc. Some viewers have argued that these animated films affect the development of children negatively because of the context consisting of violent situations and disruptive elements such as the portrayal of a “bad” character. Because of the distinctions between the “hero” and the “villain”, some psychologists have argued that Disney animated films promote negative morals to children…

This passage is a description of Winston’s fellow employee, Mr. Parsons, who is condemned for blindly following Big Brother and acting without questioning his orders. His character acts as a foil for Winston, and it is through his moral inferiority that the superiority of the individual revolutionary (in this case, Winston) is highlighted and made obvious. 1984 condemns…

The Need to Ask Why In “Harrison Bergeron” Vonnegut uses the character Hazel to show that if people cannot question people and concepts then they will blindly follow any figure of authority. When Hazel is watching the ballerinas on the television, and her husband George hears a noise in his ear radio from questioning the dancers’ handicaps: “Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been” (Vonnegut 1). Hazel does not have the ability…

Over the past few decades, the media has grown to be the most powerful source among society. As Alan Ginsberg said, the culture is greatly influenced by the media, The world will live in today, filled with social media, controls what we believe is to be normal. This state of what we call “normal” is what the ideal is for our society, and if others are not normal, are punished in one way or another. In the world of 1984, everything was embodied by media. As a society, we are constantly affected…

When The Truman show was released back in 1998, who could have imagined what reality TV would be like in 2017? We’re talking nearly twenty years! Back then, it wasn’t really a big deal – they weren’t many reality TV shows at all! Though today, it seems like every time you switch on the TV there is at least one show that centres on the everyday lives of people. Whether it be The Bachelor/Bachelorette or The Real Housewives – the list just goes on and on, television today is simply flooded with…