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9. Juli 2024 · Inside the whale, about which I’ll talk today, is of that latter category. 1. George Orwell. This essay consists of three parts (we’ll go over them later in great detail). In the first ‘chapter’ of the essay, Orwell discusses the novel Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller — an American novelist.
Vor einem Tag · As he reflects on his time in the meadow, he recognizes that "the place he was now in was... inside the whale" (Orwell, 1984, p. 245). This metaphorical image of being inside a whale conveys a sense of entrapment and the realization that the Golden Country was merely a trap set by the Party to ensnare rebels like Winston. The once beautiful and hopeful symbol of freedom becomes a haunting ...
Vor einem Tag · Orwellian. Orwellian is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, denial of truth ( doublethink ), and manipulation of ...
18. Juli 2024 · A George Orwell Companion. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982. Features pictures of Orwell spanning his career and gives an extended reference to characters and events of Animal Farm as they...
25. Juli 2024 · Moby Dick is a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Moby Dick is generally regarded as Melville’s magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels.
- The action of Moby Dick takes place largely on Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, while sailing in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
- When Moby Dick was first published, the public was unimpressed. It sold fewer than 4,000 copies in total, including fewer than 600 in the United Ki...
- The whale Moby Dick has been interpreted as a metaphor for a great many things, from the Judeo-Christian God to atheism and everything in between....
- Moby Dick gained recognition as an important American novel in the 1920s, more than half a century after its publication. Its fame subsequently gre...
Vor 2 Tagen · In the case of the fin whale, pictures of their dorsal fins are compared to discriminate between individual animals, making it possible to measure and track their population sizes and migratory behavior. But comparing them with the naked eye is both tiresome and time-consuming. Attempts at automatic whale identification, e.g. with the aid of artificial intelligence, have been around for years ...
26. Juli 2024 · It validated for me the experience of confusion, of exploring something as stupid and vast as a white whale, as an ocean. Or, at least, it made me feel okay about the philosophy major I'd settled on after failing all my classes in chemistry, first, and then economics. Equipping teenagers to sniff out the nonsense of society, I told myself, that was the logic behind this new curriculum. I ...
