I wrote this article at university on American myth of the wild west. Unfortunately I lost the works cited section. Therefore I don't remember who Fink was to whose work I refer several times in the article.Apparently the West had some sort of wildness. It was the region where “civilization” arrived later. It had been… Continue reading MILD MILD WEST
Month: July 2012
POWER AND SUBMISSION IN LEONID ANDREYEV’S THE MAN WHO FOUND THE TRUTH
How far canand should we be sure of our lives? You have a job, a good wife, and good prospects for the future? Are you sure you won’t lose them tomorrow? The story of the man, whose name we are never given, in Leonid Andreyev’s The Man Who Found The Truth is a story of… Continue reading POWER AND SUBMISSION IN LEONID ANDREYEV’S THE MAN WHO FOUND THE TRUTH
A Voyage to Brobdingnag
This, too, begins with realistic elements like "we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the Captain falling sick..". In this country everything is a scale of ten to one in relation to our familiar world. Gulliver is caught on the shore by one of the natives and brought to a farmer's house where he… Continue reading A Voyage to Brobdingnag
A Voyage to Lilliput
This part begins with some information that Gulliver gives of himself and his family: his family had a small estate in Nottinghamshire, he attended Emanuel College in Cambridge etc. He always had a desire to travel, which he later fulfills most effectively. In his first voyage he is shipwrecked. After some struggle with the sea… Continue reading A Voyage to Lilliput
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS AS A SATIRE
“Gulliver’s Travels” consists of four parts, each of which is about a different voyage to another strange place. The original title of the book was “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.”. This work is a famous satire… Continue reading GULLIVER’S TRAVELS AS A SATIRE