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In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Wang Lung, a poor peasant, buys a wife and experiences upward mobility during the peasants’ revolution. The story depicts key aspects of ancient Chinese culture, including the social order, the treatment of women, and the significance of family in daily life. The movie begins with a quote that conveys…

Holder’s red hunting hat reveals his sympathy within himself and his surroundings. Not only does the red hunting hat describe Holder, but there is a connection made between history and people. To Holder, The Museum of Natural History represents consistency. Everyone wonders what will life be like once graduating high school but almost everyone has…

In the depths of a hypothetical world, a futuristic society achieves perfection through “sameness”. In this social system, sameness is reflected in the human’s lack of choice and freedom. By eliminating differences among mankind, sameness upholds social structure, keeps order, and emphasizes the ideals of equality over individuality. This world is portrayed in Lois Lowry’s…

Ethics is the system of moral principles. Ethics is dealing with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy. Ethics covers what is ‘right’ and “wrong.” Our concepts of ethics come from religions, cultures, traditions, and philosophers. Ethical theories are divided into two parts: normative ethics and meta-ethics. Herman…

The mere mention of the name Joan of Arc brings us pictures of a lady leading soldiers to battle. Many books have been written about her heroic exploits in the French and English battle fields. Her storybook legacy climaxes with her being tried by a bias court where evidences are fabricated and other cards stacked…

In Life of Pi, when Pi was a young boy, he was dared by his brother Ravi to “Run into that church and drink the holy water” (Life of Pi). As he attempts this, a clergy confronts him in a respectful and polite manner asking him if he is thirsty. This interaction abolishes Pi’s preconceived…

Struggle in class is a central element in the analysis of social change in western societies; the basis of the perspective is economics. This is known as the Marxist theory. Marxism was created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism was a philosophy that said that the current government systems of the time (capitalism and…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a very high controversial piece of literature that is to this day analyzed by academia. Stoker’s Dracula touches on many different types of critical theories, this is the prime reason the novel is used so much for analyzing. This section, however, is going to focus on on critical theory called Feminist…

Introduction The Grapes of Wrath is a novel which radically analyzed the exploitation of agricultural workers and the culmination of the racist emphasis on whites as victims in the thirties. It argued that Anglo-Saxon whites were the main subjects who deserved worthy of treatment. The novel attacks the assumptions with respect to class difference and…

Emily Bronti wrote Wuthering Heights, and was born on July 30th, 1818, and was the fifth child to her mother and father. Her older sisters Maria and Elizabeth both died of tuberculosis in 1825, which was the disease Emily herself also died of, many years later. Frequently, Emily was encouraged to work, or learn away…