Both the reading and the lecture are about whether content in the Chevalier’s memoir is conveyed in a truthful manner. While the article suggests that the Chevalier have fabricated some of the stories in his memoir, the lecturer argues that the Chevalier’s memoir is accurate and refutes each of the author’s reasons.…
I am choosing to respond to the two following texts, “The orchid thief” and Diogène ou la Lucidité, the picture provided. The connection between the picture and the story is that no matter what you choose to do with your life, as long as your living your dream as you see fit without acting on shame.…
As I was reading I felt that there was a ton of practical advice about how to live in this life. He provides a detailed range of thoughts and ideas about how children and young adults develop. Rousseau was the father of Romantic emotion, even though this movement existed before him; he was the first to give it full delivery. When reading Rousseau's work, his style comes off to be personal, straight to the point, and informative. I think that he put so much into this novel because he did not have any parents to show the right way to go and he wanted to share what he always wanted and that was direction to the right…
The narrator acquiring the knowledge of individualism changing his perspective on life hence the maturing of his mind. “But Jean-Christophe, with his fierce individualism… was a salutary revelation. … my poor educated and re-educated brains had been incapable of grasping the notion of one man standing up against the whole world.”(110,Sijie). The narrator was born and raised China during the Cultural Revolutionary period which in turn limited his knowledge of the world as compared to kids in more stable, rich countries. Through the consumption of western literature, his views on the world changed and he was able to recognize his place in the world and his ability to stand up against…
Autobiography is a method which allows the reader and the writer to reflect on a personal, and factual journey through the past. The creation of the autobiography opens up new doors which enlighten the reader into the development of history, which is a uniquely western idea. Augustine’s Confessions uses this story as an autobiography to describe his distinctions between his ideas of Inner and Outer Man, which he reflects through his various books. He also uses the distinction between his books to describe his life as a pilgrimage from the City of Man to the City of God.…
The title sets the tone and style for Jean-Jaques Rousseau autobiography. Confessions strays away from the Enlightenment movement and discusses different aspects of human beings. Unlike Benjamin’s Franklin’s autobiography, Confessions embraces humility and embarrassment. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is more didactic, emphasizes the importance of learning how to write, read, and speak well. There are natural laws emplaced and systems that should be followed, but Confessions disrupts the ideas of the Enlightenment movement and ignites the start of romanticism.…
Albert Camus had his own personal meaning of life, a revelation of his own, “I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.” The meaning of life, in the world’s eyes, is a fleeting thing, ever evolving and changing like the days in a year. Many authors have broached this elusive topic but none have been as inventive or done so with quite as much success as Albert Camus in his book The Stranger. Camus, the man who brought notoriety to the absurd, used this book to explore humanity in “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd,” (Camus). Camus took this journey through the eyes of the main character Meursault as well as through characteristics within secondary characters such as Raymond and Marie. Through Camus’…
Albert Camus creates a paradoxical situation in The Stranger that seamlessly meshes pleasure with disquietude. Meursault’s moral development solidifies his “strangerhood” in society, but that realization solidifies his moral development. However, this epiphanic moment, while transformative to one’s view of the novel, only reveals itself after several other moments of disquietude.…
"On Boy Trouble"� Essay In the essay, "On Boy Trouble"� by Margaret Wente, many points were introduced to the readers. Margaret Wente lures the readers to her article by using an opening sentence such as "They are tormented by unattainable ideals,"� (pg. 427). Wente attracts the readers by exercising her writing abilities and using effective and efficient words and phrases. Also, the use of allusions are very effective. Margaret Wente's charismatic style of writing is very helpful to the readers in a way that differs from most other writers. With Wente's style of writing, the reader does not get bored or sidetracked while reading her craftsmanship. Margaret Wente opens up about her research on the male society. She proves a somewhat non-biassed point about what type of torture and anguish most adolescent males go through in order to "fit in"�. Wente expresses her points in a very effective manner by issuing facts, and examples, that seduces the reader into reading more. This is a magnificent piece of writing and is easy to read. One who is not very eager to pick up a highly intellectual piece of writing because of being in fear of becoming lost or confused while reading, should not worry about this piece. Wente does not use too many "big"� words in her essay, but does include some very effective ones. The article, "On Boy Trouble"� by Margaret Wente is a highly educational piece of writing, that tests the brain power of the reader, but does not stress it.…
Kate Chopin is an author that tends to relate the books that she writes to her own life. In “The Awakening” this style of writing is very apparent. To demonstrate these many similarities I have written a type B psychoanalytical analysis of this book. “The Awakening” reflects Chopin’s life, views on life, and places she’s lived in many obvious and subtle ways.…
Our story begins with young Christophe (a name which people constantly get wrong or misspell, which is perhaps a foreshadowing of the confusion that is to define his life later on ) in his boyhood home in New Jersey. He is a happy, healthy, growing young boy with a large and…
Montaigne's stated goal is to describe humans, and especially himself, with utter frankness. Montaigne's writings are studied within literary studies, as literature and philosophy. Inspired by his consideration of the lives and ideals of the leading figures of his age, he finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features. He describes his own poor memory, his ability to solve problems and mediate conflicts without truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for the human pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to prepare for his timely death. He writes about his disgust with the religious conflicts of his time, reflecting a spirit of skepticism and belief that humans are not able to attain true certainty. The longest of his essays, Apology for Raymond Sebond, contains his famous motto, "What do I know?" Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked strong feelings of passionate love because he saw them as detrimental to freedom. In education, he favored concrete examples and experience over the teaching of abstract knowledge that has to be accepted uncritically. His essay "On the Education of Children" is dedicated to Diana of Foix. The Essais exercised important influence…
In the novel, Thérèse Raquin, the author, Émile Zola, presents the reader with a story of characters that undergo the fight between free will and fate. The principle of free will is reoccurring in the realm of naturalism, which is the foundation of all of Zola’s literary works. Thérèse and Laurent, the main characters, had committed adultery, murder, and then had to deal with the consequences of their actions. Zola brings the reader to analyze what had motivated them to commit this immoral behavior and what it did to torture the rest of their lives. He presented the characters with a lack of control over their instincts which emphasized the strength of fate over one’s free will. Zola writes with a scientific approach as there are emotional events yet it is vacant of any emotion. He portrayed the characters as human brutes and their functioning resembled that of a machine. This principle of fate overpowering free will had an impact on the characters lives both physically and morally as it is evident throughout their miserable existence preceding their crimes. The consequences of their animalistic actions left them with horror filled hallucinations, physical ailments, unhealthy relationships, and no will to live. Zola explains this questionable behavior by attributing a lack of control over their decisions and a 3 of emotion in their reaction to what they had done. This brings the reader to discover this battle between one’s free will and the uncontrollable fate present in their lives…
Disclosure’s debut album was a massive success, and in more ways than one. Not only did it take the charts by storm, inciting a new wave of electronic-inspired pop music in the process, it did so by paying homage to the golden age of house music - it was as if late-1980s Chicago packed up and moved to early-2010s London. The duo of Howard and Guy Lawrence faced a new challenge with Caracal, their sophomore album - with one foot in the underground and one foot firmly in the contemporary pop scene, Disclosure were seemingly faced with a dilemma. This expressed itself in the singles leading up to this album - “Bang That” was a crude, while album singles “Holding On” and “Omen” both felt rather like a retread of Settle’s poppier hits. However,…
Hypocrites can be the hardest people to deal with. They claim to be good people, but their actions portray them to be something else. They are obnoxious because they go around proclaiming their piety, while those…