Essays Tagged: "alienation"

Mänsklig missär i det moderna sammhället. En analys av Lars Noréns "Ett sorts Hades"

las till viss del av titeln. Som bakomliggande tema i alla dialoger har den moderna människans alienation i ett högteknologiskt och sofistikerat samhälle setts. Inom denna ram har olika ...

(15 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jul/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Cost of your diet

umption. Our insatiable appetite for gluttony in the western world has become a way of life for us. Alienation from the food system has blinded many people morally to the costs of their diet. Diet pla ...

(6 pages) 419 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Alienations and "All Quiet on the Western Front"

All Quiet on the Western FrontAccording to the Webster's New World College Dictionary, alienation is 1. Separation, aversion, aberration. 2. Estrangement or detachment. 3. Mental derangem ...

(3 pages) 51 0 3.4 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Isolation and Emily Grierson: A Deadly Combination

William Faulkner, one of the most famed writers of our times, explores in his writing the themes of alienation and isolation. He interweaves these themes with his female characters. In A Rose for Emil ... tion is the focal point of the story, since it is what drove her to her madness.Faulkner's theme of alienation comes up many times in his writing. In the book The Major Years, Melvin Backman states th ...

(3 pages) 121 0 4.2 Dec/1993

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Effects and Implications of Sin in the Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne

ter, the characters' livesare controlled by the sin they commit.Hester Prynne's adultery causes her alienation from the Puritan society in which she lives. After the term of her confinement ends, she ...

(3 pages) 52 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Existentialism. Mentiones Dostoyevsky

re common amongst philosophers and authors: moral individualism, freedom of choice, responsibility, alienation.Fundamental to understanding existentialism is the conception of moral individualism. Exi ... rt stories include themes of moral individualism, freedom of choice, and responsibility, as well as alienation from the world, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, incorporated subjects of existentialism. I ...

(4 pages) 111 0 3.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

George Orwell, expresses a feeling of alienation throughout "Such, Such Were the Joys...."

George Orwell expresses a feeling of alienation throughout "Such, Such Were the Joys...." He casts himself as a misfit, unable to underst ... m as guilty for another inexplicable crime. Alone and battling all of reality, Orwell completes his alienation from society.Orwell inserts in his essay on childhood the musings of his rational, contem ... n and author. He relates to the reader his necessary evolution in thought from misunderstanding and alienation to a state of mind which produced such novel works as "Shooting an Elephant," Animal Farm ...

(7 pages) 70 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The metamorphosis" by Kafka

me one of the most popularly read and analyzed works of twentieth-century literature. Isolation and alienation are at the heart of this surreal story of a man transformed overnight into a kind of beet ...

(7 pages) 338 0 4.8 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Marx v Weber

lism as motivating whereas Marx views it as something that is quite the opposite. With his ideas on alienation, Marx embraces the notion that capitalism is not only less than ideal, but responsible fo ...

(7 pages) 424 0 3.6 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

The Qeustion of Equality

is born but capitalism corrupts him: In order to destroy the system of oppression, exploitation and alienation development by capitalism, violence must be used. Violence against the state, in the firs ...

(4 pages) 78 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Karl Marx: Alienation

ory of increasing control of man over nature at the same time as it was a history of the increasing alienation of man. Alienation may be described as a condition in which men are dominated by forces o ... pitalist society, such as religion, the state, and political economy, were marked by a condition of alienation. Moreover, these various aspects of alienation were interdependent. "Objectification is t ...

(4 pages) 246 0 3.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Graham Greene: The Destructors, A Shocking Accident, and The Blue Film. This is a biographical essay on Graham Greene, which critiques as well as explains three of his short stories.

English family in 1904. He preferred reading rather than physical activity, which helped aid in his alienation. He read mostly adventure books by such authors as Rider Haggard and R. M. Ballantyne. Th ...

(10 pages) 161 2 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Modern Writing - This essay describes how modern authors such as Ernest Hemmingway, Robert Frost, and Anne Sexton. This essay describes how dark and depressing modern writing can be.

freedom. The disturbing passages of modernist authors can be credited to feelings of loneliness and alienation.In a poem by Robert Frost, Acquainted With the Night, a rainy street sets the scene for s ...

(2 pages) 98 1 3.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

To what extent do survival strategies help counter worker alienation.

To what extent do the 'survival strategies' counter work alienation?This title is self-explanatory and can lead into discussions about the many types of surv ... tory and can lead into discussions about the many types of survival strategy and the theory of work alienation. Throughout the first part of this essay I will be defining and giving brief information ... ny of the studies and theorists that have been concerned with the notion of survival strategies and alienation. However, my main arguments will not be centred around these individual phoneme, but whet ...

(13 pages) 116 0 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Managing human resources in a cross cultural context: A case study of South Africa

r people in organizations, then incompatibilities will be manifested through lack of motivation and alienation leading to low productivity and labour strife. (http://www.africamanagement.org/Resources ...

(18 pages) 602 0 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, and overview. Thats basially what this essay is about...enjoy.

t, the materialistic world causes him to feel increasingly alienated from himself. Escape from this alienation requires a revolution. Together, Engel and Marx worked on the Communist Manifesto. The wo ...

(3 pages) 228 1 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Alienation in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A" for AlienationAlienation is a common theme in all writing; however, in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel H ... is a common theme in all writing; however, in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, never has alienation been so vividly accounted. The Scarlet Letter is a story about Hester Prynne, a woman who ... rs back in town hiding his true identity; it climaxes on a scaffold where all secrets are revealed. Alienation is a heavy theme throughout the book, and it adds an incredible twist to see it's affect ...

(5 pages) 42 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay analizes how the movie "Kafka" is Kafkaesque. That is to say how the movie conveys the theme that Kafka puts out in his works, esp. in The Metamorphosis.

definition of Kafkaesque are: comic absurdity, weariness of routine or meeting peoples expectations alienation, disconnectedness and futility. Through use of setting, characters, and plot, the creator ...

(2 pages) 54 0 4.9 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Coping With Alienation in "The Metamorphosis" By Franz Kafka, and in Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird"

tamorphosis, and in Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird, the protagonists are subjected to a societal alienation. However, Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis, and the boy in The Painted Bird, cope with t ... is not only alienated by the people, but by religion and superstition. However, he deals with this alienation accordingly and doesn't let it get to him. He feels incredibly foolish for having believe ...

(8 pages) 106 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Examine the theme of institutional conscience versus private conscience in Billy Budd.

spoil-of-war in the conflict between institutional conscience and private conscience because of his alienation from civilization. Dubbed the "Handsome Sailor," Billy was liked by his companions for hi ...

(3 pages) 56 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American