V for Vendetta Dystopian futures in society often spring from conflict in society This often results in a vision of an authoritarian or totalitarian government and the resulting conflict that the two forms of government cause The graphic novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore is no exception This novel was also adapted into a movie In the process of adaptation the directors of the film version attempted to maintain the overall characters and anarchist themes of the graphic novel however the
Would There Be Ever a Room For Justice Julius Caesar is a tragic play written by the famous writer William Shakespeare The play is about a dictator called Julius Caesar who was assassinated in the fateful ides of March Brutus and Cassius the conspirators are both important characters in the misfortune of Caesar and in several ways are either similar or different from one another This was evidenced in their personalities and private thoughts on conspiring against Caesar Brutus is a well regarded
The Things They Carried Tim OBrien was an infantryman in during Vietnam War He used those experiences to write many short stories including The Things They Carried The story portrays how the things they carried were weightless in comparison to their feelings of love and loss fear and shame and the torturous memories of death They all carried emotional baggage of men who might die Grief terror love longing these were intangibles but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity they ha
The reader may disagree with Crosss conclusion that his fantasies about Martha leads to Lavenders death The text merely says that at the time that Lavender was shot Lieutenant Cross nodded and closed his eyes while the other men cracked jokes The crucial issue here however is not the physical realities of the circumstances surrounding one soldiers death but its emotional implications Cross sees the events in stark black and white terms Martha or his men There is no room for compromise in the wo
Men in the Vietnam War go through different actions like being ambushed and attacking the enemy which may make them feel different emotionally These men deal with everyday death and other horrific conditions of the war The soldiers in the novel The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien have been put through emotional and physical situations in and out of the battle field To keep themselves from breaking into post traumatic stress or any other kind of emotion the men joke about death instead of lett
The Red Badge of Courage Summary During the Civil War a Union regiment rests along a riverbank where it has been camped for weeks A tall soldier named Jim Conklin spreads a rumor that the army will soon march Eventually word gets to Henry Fleming a recent recruit with this 304th Regiment who is struggling to find his courage because he fears that if he were to see battle he might run Yet ironically the narrator reveals that Henry joined the army because he was drawn to the glory of military con
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane follows Henry Fleming a young Union Army Private through his experiences during the Civil War It focuses on the changes he goes through from first being excited about fighting then his feelings of fear and finally coming into his own and becoming a courageous soldier Henry Fleming is a 15 year old boy who dreams of joining the army because he thinks it will be exciting and will bring him honor and glory Once he joins he is stationed in Virginia and it i
Conflict brings out the worst in people Most of us consider ourselves pacifists and try to avoid conflict whenever possible However circumstances and chance often intrude themselves into our idyll and draw us into situations where we are faced with conflict The philosophers teach us that it is precisely such events where the steadfastness of our characters is put to the test and our better qualities are revealed History however has proven quite the opposite as humans when in fear often instead
Compare and contrast Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and Charge of the Light Brigade by Lor Alfred Tennyson Dulce et Decorum est was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917 Owen was killed one week before World War 1 ended and wrote this poem based on his experiences during this time He uses this poem to describe how different World War 1 was to any other war It was different as the war was fought in trenches and not on battle fields Also WW1 was fought between Britain France and USA this was the
The play Our Town by Thorton Wilder is a simplistic piece of literature with an outlook and overview on the larger and less prevelent topic of the need to look at what is infront of you the need to treasure the small pleasures that life has to offer Thorton accomplishes this modesty most acutly with three topics the first being the scenes following the friendship courtship and relationship between Emily and George The second is emilys untimly and dauting passing The third is the justly shown th