“The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are.” (191) As a science-fiction novel, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? tackles the battle of what constitutes life through the allegories and social-indicators of androids, the humans and “specials” remaining on Earth, and the weight of an electric animal versus a real […]
Though Faulkner was far from the first author to utilize the stream of consciousness technique, it is impossible to read As I Lay Dying without confronting the form as a hinge for the ambiguity and complexity of As I Lay Dying. Defined as “a method of narration that describes happenings in the flow of thoughts in the minds […]
Steve was born in San Francisco, California, in nineteen fiftyfive; San Francisco that for a while was home to the Gold Rush and the population boomed during the Great Depression the banks never crashed and San Francisco built the Oakland Bay Golden Gate bridges. During the fifties San Francisco’s Treaty ended war with Japan and […]
While discussing Cather’s life in class, we have touched upon two areas that have particularly grabbed my interest: her relationships with gender and sexuality. With these to aspects still under much discussion in our modern present, I cannot help but take Cather’s subtle yet radical past into consideration while considering her characterization throughout the novel. […]
Wharton’s House of Mirth ends tragically, with Lily’s seemingly accidental overdose on chloral hydrate even as she plans ahead to her next day. The novel ends with Selden, appearing to finally piece together the truest representation of Lily’s reputation throughout the novel. Though he, Gerty, and the medical examiner all presume that Lily’s death is accidental, I […]