2016 - 2017 The Sullen Panorama of the Ferocious Worlds in Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984: A Comparative Stylistic Analysis. Name: Nourhan Ragab Hafez Abdelall Supervisor: Dr. Bassma Talaat Outline Thesis Statement: If Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's technocratic purgatory, Orwell's 1984 describes a hell beyond Huxley's worst fears of the future as revealed by qualitative and quantitative comparative stylistic analysis of the two novels regarding nouns, adjectives and
dystopian novels and movies have been rendered to more researches and analysis from the different angles by readers and spectators from its genesis. George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New world had enlightened the debates in all parts of the world. In the year 1984, many dystopian fictions, to be precise, novels have been written by different writers evaluating the current status of the democracy in the world politics and the depth of totalitarianism that shrouded in the shape
the world will mark two hundred years since in 1827 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has first introduced the concept of World Literature (Weltliteratur in German) in one of his conversations with Johann Peter Eckermann. However, Goethe has never coined the term precisely. He was supporting an idea of exchange of knowledge between men, what in his time was known as a “Republic of Letters”, rather than of an exchange of certain productions or literary works. Knowing that, one can speak about World Literature
New Criticism vs Structuralism New Criticism · Focus on “the text itself”; don’t mind the author and his/her background/biography, trust the tale not the teller; must do a close reading; must be objective and put own ideas aside · Don’t pay attention to your feelings · Formal elements (plot, setting, characterization) · Timeless verbal object · Stick to the text, quote directly; NO paraphrasing · Intentional Fallacy: trying to judge a work of art by assuming
A Brief Analysis on Satan in Paradise Lost The Bible is one of the classical works in western literary circle even in world literary circle, so does Paradise Lost written by John Milton. At Milton’s time, works were almost influenced by the atmosphere of the bourgeois revolution. Therefore, works which can show a revolutionary enthusiasm were popular with people as an encouraging guidance. The book showed a revolution from primitive society to civilized society should depend on knowledge and labor
Plus, she rescues many elements of the first wave and she combines them with new ideas such as the mechanization of the female sexuality, women’s choice (maternity or no maternity), and sexual liberation. The metaphors about literary maternity and childbirth were quite numerous in both 18th and 19th centuries, trying to put in a parallel skeleton the process of literary writing and pregnancy. As Elaine Showalter claims, “feminist criticism written in the biological perspective generally stresses
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Are heroes born or made? Is it their destiny to live or die? Would they be successful or lose the battle? Most of the time one ponders about these questions upon reading narratives in books or viewing fantasy stories in films, one cannot help but ask what happens to the protagonist even though most of the time one already knows the answer. For a common cycle is already perceived that heroes are born through the signs of fate that they are inevitably
been the cornerstone of her tribal, familial, personal, and cultural, history, identity and survival. Harjo has written (and performed) many artistic works that combine and move away from traditional definitions of ‘genre’. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave, weaves multiple visions and experiences of her life into a beautiful and heartwarming story of birthing, becoming, and being one’s self. She writes in and out
Focus your analysis on three or four novels, though feel free to reference other books from your list. Contemporary Western and Arabic dystopian speculative fiction offer a powerful critique of politics, and they share several themes, including violence, torture, repression, surveillance, human rights violations, absurdity, surrealism, and futurism. Such themes are depicted in the Western tradition to warn against the realization of a totalitarian regime, the “worst of all possible worlds,” a nightmarish
souls of the poets listeners, leaving them in an adsorbed state. The epic was a genre of the past . Nowadays with the discourse of our time dictated by the academic institutes and the media, the world has been robbed of the rich poetic traditions of our ancestors. Information is transmitted from the news to our brains in an abrupt, undescriptive fashion. No feeling nor receptivity is brought by the delivering of information of the tragedies of our time. Although the culture of literacy has transformed