Prospero’s Use of Magic as Technology in The Tempest
Technology in its broadest sense is the craft of using knowledge and tools to control or adapt to a certain environment. This idea of technology can be understood as the central theme of William...
View ArticleVictor Frankenstein as a Creator
Victor Frankenstein is characterized in many different ways. We can read him as obsessive, shallow, driven, vengeful, and generally unaware. He over setps many boundaries by setting out to be the...
View ArticleMost Disturbing Scene From The Jungle
I have chosen two quotes to illustrate the disturbing nature of The Jungle because both of them equally made my heart grow sick and my stomach turn. Chapter 7 “There were many such dangers, in which...
View ArticleWho is Gatsby?
There are two technocritical ways in which I understood the characters and society in The Great Gatsby… POINT ONE Social class and money are obvious themes in the book. The residents of West Egg and...
View ArticleNighthawks
Hopper’s painting, Nighthawks expresses a mood of opportunity. The light in the piece is very symbolic, and represents newfound freedom in technologically advanced, urban areas. The diner Phillie’s...
View ArticleJohn Betjeman’s “Slough”
This is a poem that I really like that deals with the issues of industrialization in great way. Slough Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now, There isn’t grass to graze a...
View ArticleTechnocritical quotes from Food Inc.
“There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like...
View Article17th century poetry other than Milton
17th century poetry other than Milton Metaphysical poetry -Term coined by Samuel Johnson to describe certain British poets during the 17th century. -Not an actual school or proper movement, but rather...
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