One of the most primal motivators that facilitate survival in people is fear. The two protagonists, the Man and the Boy, from Cormac McCarthyâs âThe Roadâ demonstrate survival and perseverance through their internal fears, motivating them to continue to âcarry the fireâ within such a hostile and frightening landscape. Their fear manifests in this novel in three main ways: their fear of loss, their fear of the unknown, and the fear of others. These three fears are demonstrated by both...
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The theme of motherhood is a key one in both the novel âWe Need to Talk About Kevinâ by Lionel Shriver and the collection of poems âThe Worldâs Wifeâ by Carol Ann Duffy. Motherhood is seen as a key element of the female experience, and both texts explore the connection between motherhood, femininity, and the way in which women navigate motherhood in a patriarchal society. In the novel âWe Need to Talk About Kevinâ, Shriver uses the epistolary narrative through...
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Generally, in industrial activity, the factors of production are needed in producing goods and services. Eyiyere argues that the factors of production are nature, labor and capital. Labor is an active resource which is one of the factors in the smoothness of a production process. Workers in their activity should be supported by good, human forms of management work so that they can work well. However, in reality, many employers exploit their workers. Exploitation of one social class by another...
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Feminist critics focus on the struggles that women face in society and ways these are questioned in literature. âThe Beginning Theoryâ by P. Barry, states: âTo put what I have just sketched in somewhat different terms: this type of feminist criticism leads to a thorough examination of gender roles. Gender has to do not with how females (and males) really are, but with the way that a given culture or subculture sees them, how they are culturally constructedâ. In other...
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Literature from Marxist point of view is a reflection of the human existence in such a society which is divided into different classes on the basis of economic conditions. This paper aims to explore various aspects of exploitation, systems of domination, oppression and socioeconomic conflicts that arise in the novel âMoth Smokeâ by Mohsin Hamid. The novel weaves a complex story of corruption, greed, unjust distribution of money and invites readerâs attention towards miserable characters, their wrong doings and especially...
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Ever since the Europeans landed on Indigenous Australianâs land they have lost so much of their identities. What started with their land being called Terra Nullius and being taken away from them, Indigenous Australians then had to endure years of loss because of colonization. Both the film âRabbit Proof Fenceâ by Phillip Noyce and âArthur Corunna's Storyâ by Sally Morgan depicts accurately the terrible situations they had to go through after their land was colonized such as experiencing a loss...
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The lead singer of the popular 70âs group the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter, once sang the words: âCalling occupants of interplanetary questâ. The human race has always had a desire to look to the stars in wonderment. Asking the question, are there any other beings out there within the universe? Is it actually possible to leave the planet to explore unknown worlds, in hopes that, one day, mankind will have another alternative for habitation because we have slowly destroyed the planet...
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