The realistic novel “Maus” by Art Spiegelman is a rich and epic story. It pursues Art’s own parent’s story in Poland and depicts their experience of the Nazi's attack on the Jewish populace during the 1930s. Spiegelman tells his own story in a realistic structure, describing himself as a creature. Maus happens during two distinct periods in time. The present...
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The feeling of loneliness is an inevitable part of life, one of which many people struggle with. “People who are lonely often crave human contact, but their state of mind makes it more difficult to form connections with other people” (Cherry). The feeling of loneliness is hard to overcome, those who have the willpower will eventually make it out of...
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The American Dream is spoken about in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. In the novel Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the American Dream is shown as dead and unreachable. One of the characters in the novel is Crooks’ and his dream is to have full rights and to be equal to anyone who...
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Many of the characters in Of Mice and Men appear to be “lonely” to an extent, although, the theme of loneliness is extremely noticeable in Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife. These three characters all can be related together because they are all similar in that they are the same type of lonely, a physical lonely. Objective loneliness refers to the...
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One in six people murdered in the holocaust were murdered in Auschwitz this is where the main character Vladek from Maus spent a year of his life. Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman is a history novel based on real events and a real story. The graphic novel is about the author Art Spiegelman's father's journey through the...
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The graphic novel Maus was written by Art Spiegelman. The novel consists of two novels inside, the first novel My Father Bleeds History, was written in 1986, and the second, And Here My Troubles Began in 1992. The two novels were first combined and published as one novel in 1996. The inspiration behind the novels is to share the story...
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Piggy In William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies, Golding utilizes Piggy to portray how rationalization and order can be underspoken by savagery. Throughout the novel, Piggy is the only character who consistently exhibits thoughtfulness and logic even though the other boys gradually lose their civility. In a group meeting in which the boys discuss the organization of the...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, presents a world that is completely superficial and wholly controlled by the World State right from the point of human conception. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, published in 1949, portrays a society whereby the people are also entirely controlled by the government. However, in Orwell’s alternative reality, the government controls the...
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The other members of Ponyboy’s gang are Dally Winston, Darry Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-Bit/Keith Matthews, Steve Randle, and Johnny Cade. Dally Winston is confident, brave, and mean. Darry and Sodapop are Ponyboy’s brothers, Johnny is Ponyboy’s best friend, Steve is Sodapop’s best friend, and Two is the oldest in the group. During Ponyboy’s conversation with Cherry, one of the topics...
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The dystopian book Brave New World interprets the idea of freedom and social control in a society where the government shows freedom to people but when in reality controls their rights without their acknowledgment. Bernard Marx, who is an Alpha male, fails to fit in with his society because of his test-tube mistake which causes him to be short in...
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Many works of literature include a character with unusual origins to provide contrast to societal norms and to introduce complex relationships involving clashing morals and values. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicts John the Savage as an outsider because of his unusual upbringing and his headstrong morals in both the Savage Reservation and the World State society....
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The Holocaust was a extremely tragic event that occurred in history. Many of the tragic stories belonging to the jews throughout history were not told, and lost from generation to generation. Movies like Schindler's List or books such as Maus try to make sure stories like this will never be forgotten, and hopefully they won't. The movie Schindler's List was...
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in country Alabama during the aftermath of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Gender roles and the marginalization of women are a recurring and significant element in the novel. During this time people began to examine their roles in society, one of which is the moral obligation of a...
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Rousseau in his book The Contract Social argues that the individual finds his true being and freedom only in submission to the “general will” of the community. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. The fundamental purpose of the rule of law...
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The characters in Things Fall Apart each have their character traits as well as gender roles that they are expected to follow. In Things Fall Apart symbols are used to describe the behaviors and traits of the characters in the book as well as their fears. Three major symbols are used throughout the book, such fire to show the sullen...
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The last words by Aldous Huxley were about William Shakespeare, not being surprising that he alluded to the playwright in almost all of his novels and essays. Huxley uses Shakespeare to analyze society, through art, passion, and progress. The pattern used in his novels is not just technical or structural, but one from a creative artist like Shakespeare. The title...
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In the introduction, here we can see ample movements in American literature because of Edgar Allan Poe's works. First of all, I want to mention what is symbolism. Symbolism is a literary method that uses symbols, whether it is words, characters, marks, places, or abstract ideas, to express things beyond the literal meaning. It first originated in France. However,- American...
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What if someone told you that the love of your life is to blame for your death? Would you believe them? In The Great Gatsby Daisy Gatsby’s one true love, Wilson whose wife Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan, decides on Gatsby’s life. They all play a part in Gatsby’s death one of them being Daisy. Multiple things...
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“What Goes Around” By Justin Timberlake This song represents the overall theme of The Great Gatsby. This is because Justin talks about a girl he used to be with that is now with someone else. This coordinates directly with Daisy. The song also mentions how what goes around will come back around. Not only does this work with Gatsby and...
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A crucible is a container used for melting and purifying materials inside of it. Salem, where Arthur Miller’s play took place, was ruled by a theocratic society with no tolerance for evil. It had served as a crucible that put many through a server test. This play is about a series of witch hunt trials that were started by a...
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Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus has become engrained in the cultural consciousness since its publication in 1980. This is not only due to the content—the harrowing story of a man’s survival during World War 2 and subsequent life—but also the style in which it is presented. Spiegelman puts on a masterclass with his artwork, his utilization of speech and negative...
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Maus I and 11 is a publication by Art Spiegelman that illustrates how his elderly father Vladek Spiegelman survived the holocaust via a comical representation of the holocaust. This comic has been crafted as a masterly art that is filled with truth and is emotionally captivating. It has essentially, portrayed the actual families that were lucky enough to survive the...
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Our society as a whole is composed of various, and even contradicting ideologies, within our source we explore whether leading a life alongside personal freedoms and choices as being the path to happiness or if having security, control over you, and fewer freedoms for the greater good of the group as being more beneficial. The film Brave New World (1998)...
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Night, however, is completely different from Maus and is an autobiography. Elie Wiesel talks about his encounters during the Holocaust, and how it transformed him as an individual. It doesn't skip around forward and backward between the past and the present and does not even have the comical feel that Maus has. Elie writes his story in chronological order from...
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Regarding “Brave New World”, contemporary readers were as unsettled by the portrayal of polygamy as they were disinterested in the scientific detail. The novel is thought to have hit society too close to the bone, taking in mind the Great Depression economy, the rise of Fascism in Europe, and the First World War that ended just in 1918. Maybe the...
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Main Characters: Ponyboy Curtis: The novel's narrator who is fourteen years old and a greaser. He has 'light-brown, almost-red hair, and greenish-gray eyes,' and wears his hair 'longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in the back and long at the front and sides.' Darry Curtis: A muscular, tall man who has broad shoulders and dark brown...
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The text that my group chose was Maus by Art Spiegelman, which is a graphic novel about the experiences that the author’s parents lived through and after the war and Holocaust during World War II. Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek and gets his experience and own perspective of being part of the war and living through it and The...
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In 1992, an American writer and cartoonist, Art Spiegelman won the special Pulitzer Prize for 'Maus,' which was the first time a Pulitzer had been awarded to a graphic novel. Because the author abandons the traditional text and adopts the form of comics to present the holocaust which is narrated by his father with the animal image as the protagonist,...
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Literary works serve to trigger more thinking of several timeless questions by transcending their settings and lending themselves to more generic universal realities and meanings. As such, readers can take away many messages and values from a novel that was written more than a century ago and reflect on our contemporary world, which is the case with Mary Shelley’s thriller...
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The question is would you ever hide the truth from a friend, relative, or relationship? Would you sacrifice your happiness for the truth? Or would you sacrifice the truth for happiness? If you had the option to create a world based on lies for the benefit of peace and happiness, would you? Aldous Huxley created a world of his own,...
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