Marxist Criticism In Time Of The Butterflies

They cut her tongue so she can’t speak” (Collins 77). Avox is a person who the Capital considers to be a traitor or sees him or her as a threat. So, instead of killing them, the Capitol brutally cuts their tongues as a punishment. This shows how torturing the Capitol’s laws are and the fact that they try to threaten anyone who dares to raise a voice against them in the near future. Thus by imposing strict punishment on the people, the Capitol threatens the citizens to maintain their

Penelope's suitors had the right to be put to death. Odysseus wanted his house to look the way as it was when he came back. They mistreated his home like old garbage. They broke the love for each other in the house. The suitors lead the maids to disobey Penelope.

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Miller uses one of his main characters, Abigail, to cause fear among the townspeople due to witchcraft. Abigail takes advantage of everyone's fear, and gets the townspeople to turn against each other or to take her side, however in the end the results are disastrous as 19 people are left dead and many remain in prison due to the accusations. Arthur Miller does this to demonstrate to his audience the dangers of using fear to motivate an audience to confront a threat. On the other hand, Franklin D. Roosevelt uses the Pearl Harbor incident to cause fear among his audience. Roosevelt uses his audience's fear of being attacked unexpectedly, like the Pearl Harbor incident, in hope to persuade them to support the war and volunteer to go to war, and the result left over 100,000 military personnel dead at the end of the war.

Thesis: In George Orwell’s 1984, symbolism of Big Brother is used to illustrate the recurring motif of propaganda used to control reality through the rise of surveillance, ultimately instilling a sense of devotion through fear in the citizens of this totalitarian government. Throughout the novel, these effects result in complete government control, thus illustrating how surveillance ultimately leads to tyranny. Body Paragraph 1: Big Brother is the symbolic figurehead of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the Party has complete control over all citizens. The citizens are taught that Big Brother is the leader of the Party, and will administer the torture of anyone who rebels. Winston Smith, the main character of the novel, learns that Big Brother is not a real person, but an invention of the Party that functions as a focus for the citizen’s inherent feelings of fear and terror.

But a mob without any man at the head of it, is beneath pitifulness.” After the death of Boggs, the mob ends up at Sherburn’s house ready to kill him. However, Sherburn steps out of his house with a gun and kindly responses to the mob by humiliating them. Sherburn mocks the mob for not being courageous enough and had to borrow their motivation from the public.

An example would be from where the circus went through a series of destruction every time Celia and Bowen united. Through the Marxist analysis, the destructive forces occur in the moments because of the conflicts between the characters. • Both the history and the reality are affected • Another aspect that a Marxist would look at is how the pressure from the magicians’ society affects not only their personal powers but also Celia’s powers • If the magician’s powers are weakened, their society would collapse Novel 2: • A Hundred Years of Solitude through the Marxist view shows how the Buendia family’s authority would lead to destruction and could essentially alter the outcome of their town,

Salander discovers that her father has been plotting against her and she searches to find him. Once Salander finds her father things go left, and she is shot in the head by her father and buried alive by her brother. Violence is inherent in the Zalachenko family. Too, the Vanger family exemplifies violence by the way the men rape and treat those girls. There are the continuous acts of violence against women that is enable by men.

Atticus knew that it would take a lot of work to find a black man not guilty vs a white woman. There was a mob that showed up at the county jail where Tom Robinson was and wanted to kill him. The mob was telling Atticus to stop defending Tom and his son Jem spoke up. That made the mob mad and they picked Jem up. Atticus’ daughter Scout spoke out to the mob unhappily.

Another Act was the Massachusetts Government Act. The act was designed to punish the residents of Boston for the incident of the Boston Tea Party. Another Act was the Boston Port Act in which the king shut down the port of Boston to all trade separately from that with Britain until they pay back all of the tea that was lost. Another Act was the Administrations of Justice Act, this allowed British officials to get away with almost any crime they have done. The colonists called this the ‘’Murder Act’’ because they were worried that the British officials would be able to slaughter crowds without any trial.

He kidnapped Richards and made him feel like he was anything, but a human being. Matt was possessed with the guilt of not being there for Frank and felt sorry for his wife having to constantly see Richards around the town. “He walks the goddamn streets”(Dubus,63). Matt suffered through many conflicts and finally decided to pop the bubble of problems by killing Richards. This act of Matt taking law into his own hands explores both the ideas of justice and revenge.

When in truth, he was at fault for refusing to comply with the suggestion of having his door changed that he lost the store his whole

In The Time Of Butterflies was written by Julia Alvarez. Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. She wrote In the time of Butterflies in 1994. The book divided into four sections, which make the sisters to have their own sections. The story took place in Dominican Republic during President Trujillo’s dictatorship government.

In this episode of The Twilight Zone, a man named Henry Bemis cannot stop reading despite everyone’s best efforts to stop him. A Marxist criticism could be done for this episode since the boss talks down to him and orders him around unfairly simply because he is of higher rank. A gender criticism could also apply since his wife is the one who orders him around and the roles are reversed in a way, but Bemis remains the one who works. This episode plays on people’s fear of the H bomb causing complete destruction during the cold war in 1959. The villains are the stereotypical boss, and the mean, controlling wife.

All teens are separated into categories and stereotypes, or so you think so. The breakfast club is fit for the Marxist lens because of how the movie represents socio-economics issues, class issues and wealth issues. The principal said to Bender that he should not mess with the principal, how Claire is considered “ rich”, and the stereotype class of each student. The principal is trying to make Bender behave.

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently” (Andersen). Spoken by Henry Ford, the creation of the Model T gives Brave New World its sense of century placement. In Aldous Huxley’s work, a new society where Ford is referred to as a god, history and relationships do not exist and suffering is unknown due to a mainstreamed drug created due to failure of the Before Ford society. This advanced dictatorship proves technologically savvy, as people are created through a scientific process, leading to thousands of identical people. Bernard Marx and John the Savage are fortunately questioning the way this world works, and ending in suicide demonstrates the citizens reciprocal effect on government institutions.