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    Throughout history, writers have used humor and satire to address quite serious political and social concerns. Understanding how satire and other humorous devices function are essential to fully comprehending these writers’ aims and determining whether their works successfully accomplish their goals. satire is the literary form or technique in which a writer employs humor or irony to criticize people’s foolishness, vices, or other shortcomings. Satire may be brutal and scathing or gentle and…

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    When it comes to symbolism in films, whole books have been published by various authors on their speculations as to the meaning of the symbolism contained in Stanley Kubrick’s recondite, enigmatic, philosophical, science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Most obviously from the title, much of the symbolism is derived from Homer’s The Illiad and The Odyssey. Other authors theorize that the film is an allegory to Arthur Clarke’s (novelist of the literary version of the film and co-writer of the…

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    Overcoming the Fears of Being Tiny In a Giant World In “Gulliver’s Travels: Into Several Remote Nations of The World” by Johnathan Swift, several ways are shown as to how Gulliver’s interaction with Glumdalclitch and the queen develop a theme of overcoming fear. First, Gulliver is not frightened of Glumdalclitch. Secondly, he continues to dine with the queen despite his fear of their knives. Lastly, Gulliver begins to fight back against the massive flies by cutting them with his knife. First,…

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    Throughout his story The Time Machine, H.G. Wells expresses his concern on how the victorian era will affect the future. Traveling to 802,701 A.D., the time traveler meets the eloi and morlocks, who seem to be the descendants of humans. Throughout his travels, Wells includes hints on how he thinks the social class and industrial revolution of the Victorian era will affect the evolution of humans. Although there are people benefiting from the social classes and technology advances, lower classes…

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    Swift however, does not intend us to emulate either Yahoo or Houyhnhnm behavior, but rather to take the positive aspects which each portray, and dilute them into a compromise that befits the healthy functioning of a human being. Williams agrees that Swift is creating a novel whose moral is to say, “Passions and affections, carefully guided, are treated as necessary in creatures who are imperfect and interdependent” (Williams 286), and likewise the “Houyhnhnms, far from being a model of…

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    Time may seem the same anywhere a person travels but different cultures understand time in different ways. Robert Levine with Ellen Wolf in their article, The Heartbeat of Culture, published in the March 1986 issue of Psychology Today. They argue that in spite of clock similarities in terms of telling time globally, social aspects of time such as being early, late and very late are more of a cultural variable rather than a time accuracy concept. Therefore, in the article, the two writers argue…

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    Dino Hunter's facility could possibly not be much more easy: quest as well as reduce tiny as well as big dinosaurs of one of the most diverse varieties. To do this, we will certainly relocate to a neglected by time as well as space-most antediluvian like Head Island of King Kong island, however no large apes that burglarized the lady of turno-, filled with wrecks as well as holy places of the past and also Harmful theropods. The technicians of Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores brings us initially…

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    The protagonist in my novel is the time traveler himself. I feel he is the protagonist because he drives the action. If it wasn’t for the Time Traveler than the novel wouldn’t have as much action. Example is when the Time Traveler goes in to time and meets the morlocks and he has to go underground to retrieve The Time Machine because the morlocks took it. I feel that The Time Traveler is a believable character. I believe that he is a believable character because he is an inventor. Inventors…

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    nationalism caused many conflicts which would affect his entire life, and his career. Published under the pseudonym, Lemuel Gulliver, Gulliver’s Travels is considered Jonathan Swift’s greatest work. In this novel, he uses satire to show the world its wrongdoings. Many people consider it a classic, and some claim that it was shaped by Swift’s experiances. Gulliver’s Travels shows evidence of Swift’s personal life in three ways; his episodic life, religious career, and persecution for his beliefs.…

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    particular story. In some instances, intertextuality used in the more modern stories helps make the story seem more believable to certain readers. Kindred by Octavia Butler, shows intertextuality by working off of the concept of time travel; however the time travel in this story does not require any kind of machine the way stories such as The Time Machine, and All You Zombies. Kindred plays on the idea that the main character is the only one who can keep their future the way it is by making…

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