Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

However, by the end of the novel these values are healed through the effect McMurphy’s individualism has upon her dictatorship and the rest of the patients within the asylum and this is most accurately represented through the character of Chief Bromden who turns from a shadow of his former self, who would rather be assumed…

Within the novels of “1984” and “One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” both George Orwell and Ken Kesey use symbolism to explore a number of different themes and messages, however oppression and the effects of confinement are two which dominate both texts. Each story expands on the messages its author expresses on the impacts of…

Like many of Ishiguro’s novels, Never Let Me Go focuses on one individual lost and adrift in their own existence. His characters navigate a world in which they are immensely familiar but in which they are so diligently oppressed they can hardly begin to understand what has happened to them. The unwavering conformity of the…

In Marxist ideology a Capitalist hegemony describes the domination of a culturally diverse society dominated by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of that society so that their world view is accepted and imposed as the cultural norm. This is the case in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go where a system of exploitation…

I am currently on part 3 of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me GO” and I am no sure on my choice of Marxism as the theme my coursework will be based upon. I am particularly interested in the theory of how it is the way we are brought up and the surroundings and soicety we…

Currently, I am in the last remaining pages of George Orwell’s 1984 and in all honesty at the beginning it was very much a struggle, specifically in terms of interest. However once Orwell has fully introduced his new world upon the reader it becomes more and more interesting. The themes of Marxism are clear, and…

Currently, I am reading George R.R. Martin’s book “A Game of Thrones”, the first novel of the franchise which was used as the base of interpretation for the first season the hit HBO television franchise. On first glance a fantasy thriller which involves dragons and magic does not seem to even come close to coming…

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