CHAPTER I INDRODUCTION ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERN NOVEL It is rightly said Aldous Huxleys writings express the disillusionment of the 1920s the cynicism of the 1930s and the questioning of the 1940s 45 Paul W P S Huxley was the product of the times and his novel and essays are the expression of his beliefs and concerns Huxley was twenty when the First World War began in 1914 His book of stories Limbo was published in 1920 and his last novel Island in 1962 His work covers forty there years whi
Illusions Selfish Creations to Please Ones Self Bending the truth happens so frequently that often times others do not even realize it has happened A little lie never hurts any one right Life without honesty can be seen every day though identity theft and unchecked white lies In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare reforming of the truth happened almost routinely Furthermore a few of the characters lies became so excessive that illusions were born These illusions were the cha
The short story The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant follows the life of a woman and her husband living in France in the early 1880s The woman Mathilde is a very materialistic person who is never content with anything in her life Her husband a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education is not a rich man but he brings home enough to get by He enjoys the simpler things in life yet his wife Mathilde cannot Nothing is good enough for her Her selfish ways are evident in her attitude toward the material t
PROMPT Excessive pride is the main cause of the tragic outcome in Anouilhs Antigone The play Antigone depicts characters showing strong attitudes and beliefs towards one another The author Jean Anouilh portrays this through the use of two protagonists Antigone and Creon These characters show glimpses of excessive pride thus leading to the deaths of Haemon Eurydice and Antigone herself In addition to excessive pride both fate and love play a role in the causes of the deaths of loved ones These d
As We Like It In his play As You Like It William Shakespeare slyly conveys an underlying theme that addresses the social convention of placing people into categories of fixed identities This period in history demanded acceptance of ones personal social and economic status Those who dared to protest or attempted to step outside the parameters set by social convention were harshly punished Shakespeare observed and recorded these rigid categories that limited self definition and individual freedom
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Both novels are set in the town of St Petersburg Missouri which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River At the end of Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father and his friend Tom Sawyer a middle class boy with an imagination too active for his own good found a robbers stash of gold As a result of his adventure Huck gained quite a
Beowulf is a story of lifes journey from adolescence to adulthood to old age These changes occur through wisdom acquired from the pain and triumph of personal experience At a young age Beowulf encounters sea monsters At adulthood he faces the notorious Grendel Finally at his last battle when he is old he fights the dragon Through these experiences Beowulf gains wisdom and allows him to move on to the next stage of life or in the last battle to death When Beowulf is young he is haughty and impul
When we crossed the sea my comrades and I I already knew that all my purpose was this to win the good will of your people or die in battle pressed in Grendels fierce grip Beowulf is a hero in the eyes of his fellow men through his amazing physical strength He is able to use his super human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself He stumbles upon monsters and vicious beasts but he never fears the fact that he might face death His leadership skills are amazing and he is eve
Survival of the Fittest Where does that saying come from It should seem familiar to you because it is one of the greater scientific discoveries that has been made Its one majorly reoccurring leitmotif so it must mean something Survival of the fittest is a phrase a man named Charles Darwin came up with when he was studying species on the Galapagos Islands This saying basically means that whoever can adapt to their surroundings will live longer than those who cant In The Call of the Wild by Jack
Chaucer and Marriage in the Canterbury Tales Chaucer has written many stories of literature in his time of the middle ages The Canterbury Tales is one of the many pieces of literature he has written In these stories there are many themes we see One of these themes that we acknowledge is marriage In three of his tales The Wife of Bath The Merchants Tale and The Clerks Tale we see this theme of marriage In The Wife of Bath we see a marriage where we have a wife who is controlling her husbands She