Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Within the two novels Colonialism, and Catholicism run as underlying metaphors throughout. Within Ishiguro’s novel the use of the “country house” detective genre creates a both gripping narrative and an extended metaphor for the effects of colonialism. Greene uses a third person narrative and looks at the effects of a loveless marriage and pity on…

How do the authors use metaphor to show the effects of control in Graham Greene’s “The Heart of the Matter” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “When we were orphans”? Within the two novels Colonialism, and Catholicism run as underlying metaphors throughout. Within Ishiguro’s novel the use of the “country house” detective genre creates a both gripping narrative…

To class the quote as an accurate assessment can be questionable, as the narrator Nelly admits that she has a dislike towards other characters such as Catherine, the language she uses to describe her can be potentially bias. The majority of the novel is told by Nelly in retrospect and the accounts we get of all…

‘Burmese days’ portrays the expansion of the British Empire into the third world during the 1930s presenting Colonialism’s constraints through the protagonist “Flory”. Orwell uses a third person narrative to explore themes of desolation, despair, love, and oppression. In a Marxist reading, Flory fails to revolt against the Capitalist hegemony that conditions him; this eventually…

‘Burmese days’. A novel portraying the expansion of the British Empire into the third world during the 1930’s presents Colonialism through one protagonist named “Flory”. In a third person narrative Orwell explores themes of desolation, despair, love, and oppression. In a Marxist reading, “Flory” fails to revolt against the Capitalist hegemony that conditions him. “The…

Without giving it away to those who haven’t read it it explores ideas of isolation, desire but mainly despair. A book that follows the life of a woman who throughout reminisces the good times she has had from when she was a little girl to the present day. I am going to use this book…

These are some of the notes I have been taking whilst reading ‘Never let me go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro

a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. The abyss, the void, the unknown.

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