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Search term: reality-of-war
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" A masterpiece of modern writing
... not be broken by war, into sheepish followings as others, falls prey to the cold rules of war. But the war not only breaks ... surrenders, he lets himself be split by reality and the fantasy. Billy sees the paradox of modern technology; the fact that it can ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Nine-Year-Old He Carried: Linda's role in Tim O'Brien's They Things They Carried.
... of the depressing realities of war. She is an example of innocence in a world where men are sent away from home with the sole purpose of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Mask, an essay on the war aspect of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms."
... blinder of the mask, and resort to drastic and sometime painful methods to be spared the reality of the front. Frederic meets one of ... what war is actually like. A crucial part of the mask is the rigid structure of the army; it affects the lives of those ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad in "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot.
... War I. The imagery of barren land and tomb stones show both the physical bleakness of war-torn Europe and that of ... of dignified "desire", they deal with primal "spasms". Instead of contemplating "potency", they face existence; "the hollow men" live reality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Carl Sandburg's Motif of Blood as a Symbol of Both Life and Death" (Title pretty much nails it.) Didn't get as good a grade on this one. Lost pts for 1st sentence. Five Pages. American Poetry.
... of dying men, it is also commenting on the fact that the people applauding the war are not subjected to the reality of it. Again instead of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Dulce et Decorum Est : How does the poet use imagery and versification to get his point across?
... of an event in a day in the life of a solider, presenting the harsh reality of war. The poet, Wilfred Owen, is dismissing "the old Lie", war ... "incurable sores" also represent the never ending traumas of war, leaving the soldiers to suffer forever. Wilfred ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Style of Cat 2s Cradle
... lost in the illusions of Bokononism, which is full of lies in contrast to the painful realities of the current system of the world. ... order to help them in the turbulent times of the post-second World War years. Describing the modern world as a technological ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience demonstrate both the contrary states of innocence and experience and Blake's social criticism.
... the use of two categories of poetry, which shows two contrary states, Blake successfully illustrates the reality of hypocritical society ... two thousand five hundred years of Western thought that saw everything as composed of warring opposites, head and heart ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Critical Analysis of "Anthem For A Doomed Youth" By Wilfred Owen. This is an good paper by most standards.
... of life in World War I. This poem shatters the fantasized images of war by juxtaposing the opposite worlds of reality ... of war by juxtaposing the opposite worlds of reality and the romanticized rhetoric that distorts it. He writes about the true experience of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jim's progression from "a state of innocence" in the novel "Fly Away Peter" by David Malouf.
... of how each of us will, or already have, left the secure safety of our youthful thoughts to experience the uncertainty and shock of war ... possibilities of the new world with that of the old and the patterns of nature are disturbed. The present reality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers