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- Thesis statement
- Writers tend to represent the society and the value of people in it by pointing out distorted views and suggesting replacements hoping to make an impact.
- In this poem, the speaker begins by recalling a young athlete who won a small-town race. He was celebrated by everyone around him. Now, in the present, the athlete is being celebrated in a very different way. He’s died and is being carried back home. He died gloriously and the speaker seems to praise him for it. The speaker follows this up by providing the reader with a series of dark and thoughtful images that allude to the loss the town has suffered and the future the young man will never get to have. He also brings in images of the afterlife and the crown the young man will be wearing there. The speaker describes youth as a period of time that goes by much too quickly, based on the society, and death comes whether one is ready for it or not. The image of the funeral initially appears celebratory, but it is far from it. The speaker is disturbed by the death and only paints it in an upbeat life in order to catch the reader’s attention and compare it to the previous celebration
- Victorian- "To an athlete dying young"
- a play of five acts written by George Bernard Shaw that portrays the social condition of British society at the era when capitalism reached its height. This reflects the how many in the Victorian era, like today, held contradictory beliefs. This includes the idea of pitying the poor but blaming them for their poverty and despite high intolerance for crime, many were involved in criminal activities, such as prostitution and domestic abuse. Shaw is critiquing the absurdity of these positions. The writer uses the characters to communicate an important message to his readers that the society in which they live, Victorian society with its social hierarchies and prejudices is wrong and should be dismantled. Shaw wants the audience to reform themselves and judge people based on attributes, not class, a very egalitarian point of view.
- Modern-"Pygmalion"
- Postmodern- "1984"
- The society portrayed in “1984” is one in which social control is exercised through disinformation and surveillance. The telescreen displays a single channel of news, propaganda and wellness programming. It differs from our own television in two crucial respects: It is impossible to turn off and the screen also watches its viewers. In the U.S. the information transmitted over television screens came to constitute a dominant portion of people’s social and psychological lives. Many viewers conform by measuring themselves against what they see on television, such as dress, relationships and conduct. In Miller’s words, television has “set the standard of habitual self-scrutiny. The kind of paranoid worry possessed by Smith in the novel – that any false move or false thought will bring the thought police – instead manifests in television viewers that Miller describes as an “inert watchfulness.” In other words, viewers watch themselves to make sure they conform to those others they see on the screen.
- Relationship between literature and Society
- The poet expresses his feeling and we who read his poetry are interested and feel at one with him and ourselves. After all, society is this bond of fellowship between man and man through communication that the poet or writer seeks. If literature expresses social sympathies, naturally it is bound to exercise some positive influence on our mind and attitude. Society reacts to literature in a living way. An inspiring poem creates general influence on society. It rouses our feelings and enthusiasm for welfare.
- Impacts on the society
- literature mirrors the ills of the society with a view to making the society realize its mistakes and make amends. It also projects the virtues or good values in the society for people to emulate. Literature, as an imitation of human action, often presents a picture of what people think, say and do in the society. In literature, we find stories designed to portray human life and action through some characters who, by their words, action and reaction, convey certain messages for the purpose of education, information and entertainment. It is impossible to find a work of literature that excludes the attitudes, morale and values of the society, since no writer has been brought up completely unexposed to the world around him. Writers of literature transport the real-life events in their society into fiction and present it to the society as a mirror with which people can look at themselves and make amends where necessary. Thus, literature is not only a reflection of the society but also serves as a corrective mirror in which members of the society can look at themselves and find the need for positive change.
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