GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Some authors use things like satires to show the humor in how society acts. Sometimes even these satires are used to poke fun of government/establishment. Write an essay using Gulliver's Travels to show how satires are used to show the corruption of the government. Relate this to the meaning of the work as a whole.
Satirical humor is used throughout the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. This novel is one huge satire about how the government is when it comes to relating to the people that the government serves for. Throughout history authors of all sorts have used satires to make people realize how corrupt the government is or to make people see how they are getting screwed over or to bash on an opponent like in presidential elections. In Gulliver's Travels, Swift uses satires to show how the government controls it's people.
The main character of this novel ends up shipwrecked on an island of significantly smaller people, these people represent the government. Although Lemuel Gulliver is the largest person on the island the Lillputians hold a huge power over him. These people are able to lock him up and keep him as a captor even though Lemuel is obviously larger than they are and could easily over power them. In real government today it is a lot like this; the people in thought are larger than the government however the government seems to completely over power the people in every signal way. There is also a connection between the way that the Lilliputians raise their children and other novels such as Brave New World. They have a sort of caste system that they use to brainwash the children.
Swift uses satire to educate people on how their government really is. The problems that he tries to show people in this novel are the same kinds of problems that we are having with our government today. This novel is still trying to show us what the problems are so that society today can fix them. The solutions/problems were not exactly pointed out making it so today's people actually would have to look for the answers.
Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels uses satires to accentuate the problematic government of his time. These problems are problems that still exist today. Humor also helps make people learn about these problems quickly and easily making solutions come to the people sooner.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Create Your Own Writing Prompt #1
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
Some novels use female hystericsto show how society has become prone to believing a stereotype about the common day woman. Use Their Eyes Were Watching God and show how the author does this in this novel make sure to relate this thought to the meaning of the work as a whole.
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses the bad characteristics of her main character, Janie, to show how the common lifestyles are corrupt. Janie is depicted as an attractive, confident, middle-aged woman that returns to her home town of Eatonville with a mysterious background that has the whole town talking. As Janie unfolds her life to her friend Pheoby the reasons why women throughout history have been looked down upon by men as the softer gender becomes clear to the reader.
Janie being raised by her grandmother, who's mind was corroded by slavery and her own daughter, was forced in to the first marriage of her's that shows how women in society have been made to look bad. Her marriage was bad and she should not have married that man in the first place however running away with another man made her look even worse. After Janie and Jody leave for Eatonville and Jody becomes a "big voice" in the city Janie really starts to discover again that this is not the life that she really wants either. It seemed in the novel that Janie's life was ok while she was with Jody the only thing missing was really the love. This shows how women have become what they are seen as; by Janie running from a marriage that she knew there was no love to another marriage where there was no love shows the stupidity of some women and how many of them doing this around the same time creates an epidemic for women. Janie's marriage to Tea Cake is also something worth highlighting. It was an event that seemed rushed and also if Janie had not have shot him she could have found herself wrapped up in yet another loveless marriage where her stupidity would have had to taken control of her situation.
Janie is one of those stereotypical women that are seen as hysterical. Women like this seem to blow most situations way out of control and are very dramatic. Hurston's depiction of Janie was to show how women were ruining the way that they were seen in the public eye. Janie would do many things that were seen as societal no no's that would go on to hurt the following generations of women. Because of women like Janie most women are seen as dramatic creatures that blow things way out of proportion. This novel is explaining how women are viewed. The community in Eatonville that was discussing Janie's return represents how society now-a-days views women as a whole.
Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God had the dramatic Janie Crawford as the main Character, that show how women as their own society, have made themselves look foolish. The women of society over the years have made it so that the less foolish women of today have already started their lives off with crappy reputations.
Some novels use female hystericsto show how society has become prone to believing a stereotype about the common day woman. Use Their Eyes Were Watching God and show how the author does this in this novel make sure to relate this thought to the meaning of the work as a whole.
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses the bad characteristics of her main character, Janie, to show how the common lifestyles are corrupt. Janie is depicted as an attractive, confident, middle-aged woman that returns to her home town of Eatonville with a mysterious background that has the whole town talking. As Janie unfolds her life to her friend Pheoby the reasons why women throughout history have been looked down upon by men as the softer gender becomes clear to the reader.
Janie being raised by her grandmother, who's mind was corroded by slavery and her own daughter, was forced in to the first marriage of her's that shows how women in society have been made to look bad. Her marriage was bad and she should not have married that man in the first place however running away with another man made her look even worse. After Janie and Jody leave for Eatonville and Jody becomes a "big voice" in the city Janie really starts to discover again that this is not the life that she really wants either. It seemed in the novel that Janie's life was ok while she was with Jody the only thing missing was really the love. This shows how women have become what they are seen as; by Janie running from a marriage that she knew there was no love to another marriage where there was no love shows the stupidity of some women and how many of them doing this around the same time creates an epidemic for women. Janie's marriage to Tea Cake is also something worth highlighting. It was an event that seemed rushed and also if Janie had not have shot him she could have found herself wrapped up in yet another loveless marriage where her stupidity would have had to taken control of her situation.
Janie is one of those stereotypical women that are seen as hysterical. Women like this seem to blow most situations way out of control and are very dramatic. Hurston's depiction of Janie was to show how women were ruining the way that they were seen in the public eye. Janie would do many things that were seen as societal no no's that would go on to hurt the following generations of women. Because of women like Janie most women are seen as dramatic creatures that blow things way out of proportion. This novel is explaining how women are viewed. The community in Eatonville that was discussing Janie's return represents how society now-a-days views women as a whole.
Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God had the dramatic Janie Crawford as the main Character, that show how women as their own society, have made themselves look foolish. The women of society over the years have made it so that the less foolish women of today have already started their lives off with crappy reputations.
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