Category: Social Issues

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many real-life issues made from the 1920s. In the time Gatsby was set, many social issues were relevant or still going on such as prohibition, racism, women’s rights, stock market and also later the great depression, throughout the novel there are examples made…

This assignment will explore exploitation primarily throughout ‘Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens and ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee, hereinafter referred to as HT and TKAMB, while slightly touching on hypocrisy in some parts. This assignment will also apply Marxist, Post-colonialism, and colonialism literary theory throughout the texts and include an analysis of…

Although The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn combats racism through its use of satire, its effect is one that reinforces racism due to its racist portrayal of Jim, its use of the N-word, and its lack of concrete racial enlightenment for Huck. Jim’s portrayal as the stereotypically childish, minstrel black man reinforces racial stereotypes. From the…

Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a satire that comments on American ideals in the 1920s. He shows the carelessness of everyone during the time by portraying them in the community of East and West Egg. Fitzgerald conveys two different themes throughout the story. One is “the American Dream is corrupted by the desire for…

Discrimination can be described as having a prejudice ideology towards a certain group of people. Often it is based on factors that a person cannot control, such as their race and ethnic group. Rita Joe’s poem “I Lost My Talk”, Gord Hill’s short fiction comic “The ‘Oka Crisis’”, and the Facing History and Ourselves excerpt…

The idea of the American Dream has shifted from century to century. Specifically in the 1920’s, it shifted from having a happy family, to striking it rich. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby focuses on these immense changes people faced in this postwar era. Despite the economic flourishment, the 1920’s was an era of the…

Fitzgerald explores the toxic nature of money in society through his depiction of social worlds where much of the action takes place in. Whereas, Stone demonstrates a more individual experience of the corruption of money in society. The Great Gatsby by Scot Fitzgerald was written in 1925 during the Jazz age. Following the war, America…

Virginia Woolf’s books are great examples of showing what women go through when trying to be successful in the world, especially aspiring female role models. In A Room of One’s Own she discusses a typical Victorian woman’s relationship with the men around her and how she is so often interrupted, leaving her unable to think…

‘Feeling foreign’ is an experience not uncommon to the human condition. This experience of surfacing as a reaction to how one perceives oneself about society is often explored in literary works, an example of which can be found in Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing. Adopting a feminist lens, the following essay will analyze the use and…

The main task in everybody’s life is to find his own identity. It is not that easy as it may first seem. Once this task is fulfilled, strange as it may sound, man is no more ‘invisible’. What is ‘invisibility’ in this concept? It is not the physical absence of the body, nor the only…