Herland is the story of an expedition group of men who seek out and discover an isolated society of women living without men or the trappings of male-dominated culture. The book covers themes of sexuality, romantic love, and patriarchy. The three male explorers react to the female utopia in various ways ranging from outrage to acceptance. Held prisoner, they observe the asexual reproduction of their hosts. It is an early example of white, heterosexual Western feminist literature.
MASCULINITY IN THINGS FALL APART Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s during the coming of the white man to Nigeria The novel portrays the clash between the whites colonial government and the traditional culture of the Igbo people The novel is about a very strong mans rise to great prestige fortune and power which in the end were overshadowed by his inevitable death Okonkwos demise was not because of colonization but rather his downfall was attributed by his obsession with masculinity Okonkwos
Chapter 15 of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very significant part in the story It is important in showing how much Okonkwo has changed since being exiled from his village and going to live in his motherland We heard in the previous chapter of his first couple of days but this chapter is set 2 years later when he has become accustomed to the very different atmosphere of the village of Mbanta During this chapter is his first contact with Umuofia his old village which comes in the form o
There are two accounts of every war one for each side No story is completely told without telling both accounts All Quiet on the Western Front is the German account of World War I The author Erich Maria Remarque tells the German account from the first person viewpoint of a German soldier named Paul Paul tells the horrors of the front line in battle as well as about life in camp The struggles and hardships Paul identifies show the reader in many ways the destructiveness of war and its lasting ef
Anne Frank Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born on June 12th 1929 in Frankfurt Germany She lived through the time that Hitler was ruling Germany She had a father mother and a sister who was 3 years older than her At a young age she had dreams of being a published author and her father Otto Frank supported and encouraged her On her 13th birthday her father gave her a diary that she later named Kitty Anne Frank was a social girl but she didnt really have real friends that she could share secrets wit
Blake and Wordsworth in London London the capital city of Britain is often referred to as the setting for poems by many English poets in their poetical works But it is perceived from different perspectives We see a different London in William Wordsworths Composed upon Westminster Bridge than in William Blakes London Blakes London was first printed in 1794 in Songs of Experience and Wordsworths Composed upon Westminster Bridge first appeared in the collection Poems in Two Volumes in 1807 publish
Cultural Revolution Downfall of a Nation The book Persepolis the Story of a Childhood is written by Marjane Satrapi She details the hardship faced by the people due to the outbreak of the cultural revolution in Iran The cultural revolution has been viewed by the author as one of the many invasions which brought about the downfall of the country on the country The growth of any developing nation depends on the type of education that the children in that country get If children remain uneducated
Courage Found In Those Labeled Weak One October day my cousins and I decided to go on a camping trip in Hocking Hills It was a lovely day the foliage could not have been more beautiful While hiking one day my cousins and I were so mesmerized by the woods exquisite beauty around us that we were completely oblivious to an enormous ditch ahead of us The next moment we realized we were all on top of each other in a ditch that was 15 feet below the ground The one who did not fall in was my youngest
Rebel and pioneer though he was Marlow was yet a product of his own age The introduction of the Good and Bad Angels of the minor devils and of the Seven Deadly Sins in Faustus links him with the drama of the later middle ages Faustuss inexhaustible thirst for knowledge his worship of beauty his passion for the classics his skepticism his interest in sorcery and magic his admiration for Machiavelli and for super human ambition and will in pursuit of ideas of beauty or power or whatever they may