Abstract This book analyzes the character Lady Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises", a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The paper describes her as a strong and independent female that is comfortable with her sexuality. The author considers Brett an early feminist and describes her flighty behavior and relationships with men. The paper also explains why, despite her questionable behavior in the novel, Lady Brett Ashley can still be considered a sympathetic character.
From the Paper "She is the dominant figure in her relationships and she does not permit herself to be pressured into a relationship. Brett also has a soft side that is displayed by the way that she shows kindness to the men in her life by breaking things off early on. If she married them, they would certainly be miserable because of her flighty behavior. She is unhappy with her circumstances and frustrated that she is unable to be with the one man that could possibly bring her contentment. Despite her questionable behavior in the novel, Lady Brett Ashley can still be considered a sympathetic character."
Abstract This paper looks briefly at the background of the Spanish painter Salvador Dali and the Australian painter Brett Whiteley, two extraordinary artists from the surrealist movement. It details their artistic influences, views on life and makes an attempt at finding method in their madness. It discusses how it was an 'insatiable craving for sex', money and fame that drove Dali to artistic genius, while for Whiteley, it was alcohol and narcotics. It compares and contrasts some of their famous works, their styles and their perceived meanings.
From the Paper "Dali was a Spanish painter and writer who played a very significant part in the surrealist movement. From youth onwards, he was a very talented and recognised artist, with many of his works being displayed and published. He was an artist whose life was dominated largely by an 'insatiable craving for sex', money and fame. Dali was also fascinated with the aspect of death, combined with the popular beliefs of society. Much of his work was based on influences gained from other artists as well as both contemporary philosophy and science. His role models were Goya, El Greco, Durer, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Velaquez. In all, this represented the characteristically wide-ranging nature of Dali's way of thinking: the comic and the diabolic rub shoulders with serious classicism, with levity and gravity reflected to an equal degree. It was written that "Dali uses realistic items to reveal his dream-like ideas. His paintings are executed with infinite care and sometimes depict minute detail... The imaginary things depicted are presented in startling, distorted and fantastic ways, or else in natural, incredible combinations of parts of the human figure in tortured, writhing gestures." "
Abstract The paper looks at the leadership style of Brett Favre and compares his leadership skills to those of medieval leaders. The paper explains how Favre embodies many of the essential qualities of a medieval leader. The writer relates that he chose to focus on Favre because he is brave, a risk taker, an inspiration and a person who gives back to his society.
From the Paper "I chose Brett Favre because I admire him on and off the football field. I believe he is a strong and vibrant person, and that he has leadership qualities that help him with his football career and in life. I also admire him because although he is highly paid, he has started many charities with some of his money to help people that need it, and I think that it is an important quality of a good leader to give back to the community and to use some of their wealth to help others.
"I know that leadership is an important quality in anyone who hopes to lead others and reach the top of their chosen field. I think that Brett Favre embodies this, but the literatures we have studied indicate this is not a new idea. In medieval times, leaders had to lead their men into battle to keep their castles and lands together, and they had to be shrewd and noble leaders to get the men to follow and support them."
Abstract This paper analyzes the character of Lady Brett Ashley and, in contrast to some analyses, which hold that Brett is a positive character trapped in a bad situation, concludes that her character is a negative one. The paper highlights Brett's negative qualities to support this conclusion.
From the Paper "The next negative characteristic of Brett is her dislike for other people and her ability to hurt them. This is made especially clear when Brett speaks of Jake, who she does seem to have some emotional connection to. At one point Brett describes herself laughing at Jake's wound. At another point, she refers to the time she tried to have sex with him saying, ?I don't want to go through that hell again" (Hemingway 26). This statement is harsh and cruel and shows a complete lack of regard for Jake's feelings. This shows Brett to be the kind of person who is able to knowingly hurt people and feel no guilt for doing so. This also shows that Brett has no sympathy for the very real struggles that other people are going through. One author describes Brett's role in the novel as partly being to force him to relive the war wound, specifically the emotional aspect of it (Adair 74)."
Abstract The paper describes the character, Lady Brett Ashley, in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" as having an aimless and unsatisfying life. The novel has a post WWI setting and the paper shows how Brett's search for love and the general aimless mood of the characters in this novel are said to be symbolic of the entire Lost Generation's search for the values of love and romance before the war shattered their belief in justice, morality and manhood.
From the Paper "Brett is viewed as an apprentice, rather than an exemplar or anti-exemplar, it is not because of her aimlessness, but due to her obsessive need of companionship. While Jake may wander from bar to bar, he knows himself, and is coming to terms no matter how painful with his lot in life. Brett, on the other hand fears her own self, her own strength. She knows the power she has over others but she is afraid. She is not comfortable with who she is even though she plays the part excellently. She is still searching for the part of herself that will allow her enough peace to be alone. Brett is studying human nature. She is an apprentice of life and her own powers and strengths. She is an expert only at playing the part she has come to play so well."
Abstract This paper shows that despite Jake Barnes' physical and mental disabilities in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", he, more than any other character, virtually embodies the new breed of hero, the survivor, of the twentieth century.
Paper Outline:
I. Jake as the new hero
A. Problems of Jake
1. War wound, impotency
2. Numbness, emptiness
3. Unsureness of how to cope
4. Fear of getting hurt
5. Moral vacuum, wasteland
6. Night demons
B. Strengths of Jake
1. Presses on
2. Aficionado
3. Adaptable
4. Will to find a way to live
5. Accepted truth of his fate
II. Comparison of Jake to other characters
A. Pedro Romero
1. Is classic hero
2. Can provide Brett with what she needs
B. Lady Brett Ashley
Conclusion: As times change, people, ideas, and standards all need to adapt.
From the Paper "Jake was a World War I veteran who, sometime during his service, was wounded and left impotent. This enormous defilement to his manhood was a fatal blow to his dignity and self-esteem. He became unsure of how to cope in this new, morally bankrupt, world as numbness, emptiness, and apathy invaded his heart, mind, and soul. Jake was scared of getting hurt, so he avoided personal relationships, alienated himself from people, and stayed on the outside of reality, playing it safe. As one critic described, "The fear is not of hidden presences, but of emptiness, universal absence, oblivion" (Butterfield 197). The daily distractions of company, small talk, food and especially alcohol temporarily eased his mind, but they were only that, temporary."
Abstract This paper examines how an important theme in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" is the ability and need for one to find pleasure in the small things that life has to offer. It looks at how Hemingway believed that, in the big, noisy and chaotic world of the early twentieth century, it is essential for one to find meaning and value in small things, such as a good meal or a cool evening breeze. It discusses how Jake Barnes is able to do so and, thus, emerges as the most likeable and heroic character in the novel. It analyzes the way in which Jake Barnes is able to find pleasure in the simple things that life has to offer, such a good meal or bullfighting, and considers the significant disappointments and frustrations of his life, i.e. his ill-fated love affair with Lady Brett Ashley, and the way in which his ability to find contentment in life's small pleasures allows him to deal with such problems.
From the Paper "Jakes Barnes is an American journalist who spends most of his time vacationing in Europe with friends. Early in the novel, the reader is introduced to the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley, who is obviously the love of Jake's life. The conversation between the two has a maddening aimless quality to it, but the reader is able to learn that while the two love each other, they have never, nor will they ever, achieve happiness together. The reader also learns that Jake has suffered a war injury which leaves him unable to fulfill his sexual desires. Jakes tries to forget about his injury, as he tells Brett ?? what happened to me is supposed to be funny. I never think about it? (Hemingway 26). However, it is obvious throughout the novel that Jake is frustrated by his injury and by his hopeless love affair with Brett."
Abstract This paper examines how "The Sun Also Rises" by Earnest Hemingway is a mental-emotional road map through Hemingway's own consciousness, deconstructed only where his own mind is puzzled, mythological only where his own mythologies lie, and above all, guided by his own psychological and biographical auto-eroticism. It looks at how many of the characters represent various facets of Hemingway's own self and experience and how their inability to form lasting unions may, in fact, reflect his own inner turmoils, a point which is especially fascinating in relation to the events of Chapter 3 and Brett's gender-transformations.
From the Paper "If Jake is Hemingway's impotent ultra-male self (he is one of the least effeminate characters in the book, despite his wounds), and Brett is Hemingway's sexually aggressive female self, then the book may take on a whole new and unexpected tension. Jake's willingness to consistently come to Brett's rescue, and his abidingly unjealous love for her makes far more sense when they are seen as elements of the same being. Likewise the pain she gives him by refusing to live with him takes on a far deeper significance, as does the insistence on both sides that maybe they should separate. This putting-away of the inner shadow self is a frequent feature in the dysfunctional mind, of course."
Abstract This paper discusses Brett Pulley's book, "The Billion Dollar BET," a rags-to-riches biographical story of Robert Louis Johnson. The paper takes the reader on a journey along with Robert Johnson from Mississippi and the little that he had to 'Black Entertainment Television' and the success that came about with it, along with the controversies that made Johnson a billionaire.
From the Paper "Brett Pulley is a Senior Editor at Forbes magazine and has written the book titled The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television. The Billion Dollar BET is an unauthorized biography of the founder of Black Entertainment Television, Robert Louis Johnson. The author traces the blazing path of Robert Johnson through social and economic barriers with his charm and intelligence to firmly ensconce himself into the politics of Washington and the media business. This rag to riches story should have been inspiring, but then the author has painted the methods employed by Robert Johnson as anything but noble. The sale of Black Entertainment Television to Viacom in 1999 made Robert Johnson a billionaire and many consider him the first black billionaire. (Editorial Review: The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television)"
Abstract This paper looks at the female characters in the novel "The Sun Also Rises." It examines the post-war era when morals were put to one side and apparently the fashion was to stay drunk most of the day. It discusses how immoral women moved from man to man and how their actions were the driving force behind the male characters? behavior. It discusses how one of the women is obsessed by a relationship that she cannot have due to the male's impotence. The paper gives an account of the story and all of the major characters relationships.
From the paper:
?The setting of "The Sun Also Rises" is Paris, following World War I, and its very busy social atmosphere where a lot of young people who had been greatly affected by the war were either unwilling or unable to return home. Therefore, there were many Americans there at the time of the novel's setting. The main character is the narrator of the story, Jake. Everything is seen through his eyes.
"The main female character is Brett Ashley, who has the English title of "Lady" following the second of her two failed marriages. She is a Lady in title, only, however. She is currently engaged to be married for a third time, this time to a character named Mike, but she is regularly seeing other men, as well.
"It is Jake, however, the protagonist, with whom Brett is truly in love - in her own strange and somewhat warped way. For Brett, being ?in love,? does not mean forming a commitment or entering into a lasting relationship. It also has nothing to do with family life, with motherhood or with being a decent spouse - all of which she openly despises. It simply means wanting to have a brief affair with someone. ?
Abstract This is an essay that compares Ellis's novel "Less Than Zero" and Mason's novel "In the Country". It shows the similarities of how the characters are adversely affected by socioeconomic conditions and wars that rip society apart. The author also discusses some differences in the writing styles of the novels.
From the Paper "In both books Less Than Zero and Bobbie Ann Mason's book In Country, characters are adversely affected by socioeconomic conditions and wars that rip society apart. There are significant differences between these two novels. Less than Zero's protagonist is the son of a wealthy family while In Country's lead character is not. Moreover, Less than Zero war is a societal one against drugs. Contextually different, In Country's conflict, stems from the Vietnam War. Each character struggles to overcome their image of an outsider and gain freedom through community, love, and genuine acceptance."
Tags: society, socioeconomic, character, war, impact, family
Abstract This paper explores the idea that Ernest Hemingway may have been chauvinistic, through an examination of his novels. The author, however, argues that although Hemingway's main characters were always male and he portrayed his females as background characters, Hemingway was not a misogynist; rather, an author only capable of speaking in a male voice.
From the Paper "To give Hemingway his due he was a product of his times. No matter how critical the reader gets the fact is that Hemingway's women had more character than many others portrayed during his time. The woman may adhere to the traditional scenarios and Hemingway may have focused on the male protagonist more in comparison but truth be told that was his prerogative. It is not necessary for him to be a woman hater just because he writes a story about a man. The scholar?s, men and women alike have agreed that women have their place in the Hemingway novels. The men are not complete without the woman and just by portraying this facet Hemingway redeems himself."
Compares views of male-female relationships and marriage in Hemingway (Brett and Romero), Woolf (Clarissa and Richard) and Austen (Elizabeth and Darcy).
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, 1999, $ 63.95
From the Paper "This study will examine and compare the views of male-female relationships and marriage in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Brett and Romero), Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (Clarissa and Richard), and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth and Darcy). The study will show that the Brett-Romero relationship is the most passionate, shallow and brief, while the Elizabeth-Darcy and Clarissa-Richard relationships are relatively without passion and yet will probably survive precisely because both partners seek a long-term union with stability and security rather than short-term passion. In all three relationships, the more fascinating and more fully examined member is the woman, with each reflecting a different level of passion, liberation, and self-knowledge.
Hemingway portrays the brief and sexually charged..."
From the Paper "The novel American Psycho, by Brett Easton Ellis, has raised a great deal of controversy because of its graphic depictions of violence. The story is about an investment banker named Patrick Bateman who is secretly a psychotic murderer. Using the techniques of "black humor," Ellis describes many of Bateman's tortures and slayings in intricate detail. Despite Bateman's daring escapades, he is never caught. In fact, some of the black humor of the novel centers around Bateman's frequent confessions which are utterly ignored by his friends. In one passage, for example, Bateman looks an acquaintance right in the face and admits that he has killed and tortured many people.. However, perhaps because the confession is shockingly unbelievable, the information goes unacknowledged. "
Abstract Up through the 1970s, teenage resistance to social authority was such a pervasive motif in American fiction that the adolescent struggle for autonomy embodied for many critics the national myth of self-reliance. The paper shows that in contemporary novels, however, youth's disaffected disposition is credited not to the oppressiveness of adult authority but to a lack of it. The voice in both "Catcher in the Rye" and "Less than Zero" is a detached, ironic voice that demonstrates a need for security and for home. The paper shows that by implicitly endorsing an idealized, nostalgic vision of family, these narratives split with the genre's antiauthoritarian tradition and re-script the utilization of adolescent disaffection. Whereas the teenager once intuitively asserted youth's moral supremacy over their elders, today's aimless, amoral kids cry out for adult intervention as they beg entry into the shelters of home. This paper examines the similarities and differences in the discourse of the young in both "Less Than Zero" and "The Catcher in the Rye".
From the Paper "In the penultimate chapter of Catcher, Holden declines to run away to California in order to spare his younger sister Phoebe from the cynicism and despair he suffers. He does so because he understands that if he lets Phoebe follow him westward he will fail in his dream of protecting her innocence; instead of preventing her terrible fall into adulthood, he will be just as guilty of pushing her over the edge of childhood as the anonymous "pervert" who scrawls profanity on her elementary school walls. Therefore, to save her, Holden must sacrifice his passionate disdain for adult phonies and submit to the indignity of their "asking me if I'm going to apply myself" (213). Through this concluding gesture, Salinger insists that adolescent rebellion is guided by moral intent and is not symptomatic of the narcissism and selfishness so closely associated with this stage of life. The intuitive morality that this plot ascribes to its teen protagonists implies that "if the young demonstrate their inability to accept the code of civilized society, the fault cannot lie in them but in those who have failed to provide acceptable values. By extension, youth's rituals of disaffection are not expressions of antisocial behavior but confirmations that they are engaged in an arduous quest, searching, seeking, grasping, testing in an effort to find the proper moral course in life (265, 269)."
