Saturday, January 25, 2020
The Purpose of Mother Night :: Mother Night Essays
The Purpose of Mother Night     Over the years, such world-renowned authors as Mark Twain and J. D. Salinger have shown readers how literature reflects the era in which it is written. Another author who has  also made  significant contributions  to American literature is Kurt Vonnegut, author of such well-known novels as Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle.      Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana ("Kurt Vonnegut, Jr."). Vonnegut attended Cornell University in 1940 where he wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun ("Chronology"). In 1943, Vonnegut joined the United States Infantry. He fought in World War II for the 106th Infantry Division until 1945 when he was captured by the Germans and shipped to a work camp in Dresden. It was here in the city of Dresden where Vonnegut witnessed the American/British firebombing that  killed an estimated  135,000 people. "[Vonnegut] tried for many years to put into words what he had experienced during that horrific event...It took him more   than   twenty   years,   however,   to  produce Slaughterhouse Five" ("Vonnegut in WWII").      Slaughterhouse Five is Vonnegut's most famous work. In this book, Vonnegut fictionally recreates his experience in Dresden. However this book wasn't published until 1969, and he had published several works before this. His first book, Player Piano, was published in 1952; and his third, Mother Night, was published in 1961 ("Chronology"). Even though Slaughterhouse Five was Vonnegut's only novel to re-create his experience in Dresden, a strong anti-war theme can be found in his earlier literature as well. A fine example of one of his works that fits this description is Mother Night. The novel takes place in an open jail in Old Jerusalem. The protagonist introduces himself by saying, "My name is Howard W. Campbell, Jr. I am an American by birth, a Nazi by reputation, and a nationless person by inclination, The year in which I write this book [is] 1961" (Vo nnegut 17). In first-person  narration Campbell  accounts stories from before, during and post World War II. The reader learns that Campbell lived in Germany before the war entertaining Nazis as a playwright. He and his wife Helga had no intention of leaving Germany once war became a threat. Campbell tells the reader that in 1938 he was recruited as an American special agent who was to pose as a Nazi propagandist during the war. The reader learns that this is the reason Campbell is currently behind bars in; he is to be tried by Israel for severe war crimes of spreading propaganda. The Purpose of Mother Night :: Mother Night Essays The Purpose of Mother Night     Over the years, such world-renowned authors as Mark Twain and J. D. Salinger have shown readers how literature reflects the era in which it is written. Another author who has  also made  significant contributions  to American literature is Kurt Vonnegut, author of such well-known novels as Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle.      Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana ("Kurt Vonnegut, Jr."). Vonnegut attended Cornell University in 1940 where he wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun ("Chronology"). In 1943, Vonnegut joined the United States Infantry. He fought in World War II for the 106th Infantry Division until 1945 when he was captured by the Germans and shipped to a work camp in Dresden. It was here in the city of Dresden where Vonnegut witnessed the American/British firebombing that  killed an estimated  135,000 people. "[Vonnegut] tried for many years to put into words what he had experienced during that horrific event...It took him more   than   twenty   years,   however,   to  produce Slaughterhouse Five" ("Vonnegut in WWII").      Slaughterhouse Five is Vonnegut's most famous work. In this book, Vonnegut fictionally recreates his experience in Dresden. However this book wasn't published until 1969, and he had published several works before this. His first book, Player Piano, was published in 1952; and his third, Mother Night, was published in 1961 ("Chronology"). Even though Slaughterhouse Five was Vonnegut's only novel to re-create his experience in Dresden, a strong anti-war theme can be found in his earlier literature as well. A fine example of one of his works that fits this description is Mother Night. The novel takes place in an open jail in Old Jerusalem. The protagonist introduces himself by saying, "My name is Howard W. Campbell, Jr. I am an American by birth, a Nazi by reputation, and a nationless person by inclination, The year in which I write this book [is] 1961" (Vo nnegut 17). In first-person  narration Campbell  accounts stories from before, during and post World War II. The reader learns that Campbell lived in Germany before the war entertaining Nazis as a playwright. He and his wife Helga had no intention of leaving Germany once war became a threat. Campbell tells the reader that in 1938 he was recruited as an American special agent who was to pose as a Nazi propagandist during the war. The reader learns that this is the reason Campbell is currently behind bars in; he is to be tried by Israel for severe war crimes of spreading propaganda.
Friday, January 17, 2020
The Cunning of Iago in Othello
So Iago is this extremely interesting, cunning, evil character. But over all of these trait’s Iago’s jealousy is what drives him to scheme and plot to take down othello and weave his elaborate web of destruction. Does anyone know exactly when in the play does Iago’s intense jealousy come into play? In the very 1st act scene one iago and roderigo are arguing in the streets and iago starts to rant about his hatred for Othello and how Othello passed him up over cassio for promotion to ancient.Iago had an enormous amount of battle experience, experience that Othello has witnessed firsthand â€Å"And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds Christian and heathen, must be belee’d and calmed†while cassio has no battle experience and only knows the theory of leading men into battle, â€Å"I have already chose my officer. And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician,One Michael Cassio, a Florentine(A fellow almo st damned in a fair wife)That never set a squadron in the field,Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinsterâ€â€unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he. Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.But he, sir, had th' election he has no clue how to put into practice this theory and is therefore unqualified according to iago. Later on in the play iago shows his jealousy of Othello because Othello is rumored to have slept with his wife toIago becomes jealous of cassio getting the promotion over him so he devises a plot to get revenge.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Providing the World with Clean, Decontaminated Drinking Water
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