Our group at The Discussion asked local English Professor Blake Hurford to contribute a short feature article to our collection of narrative comparisons that analysis how literary works have the ablity to shape our views of what it's like to be human. using the textual detail from Shakespeare's Hamlet and Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea.
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Text and literature flows continuously throughout history as a cornerstone to the development and significance of the greatest nations to exist on this planet. The ideas and representations reflected in these texts, fulfillment of archetypal roles and genres, intertwining features that produce an individuality that differentiates the plethora of works. However, key features relating to the human struggle, enforcement of the ideas of hardship, suffering and triumph as burdening features of the human condition, relatable timelessly with any reader, allowing for certain texts that display these ideas to traverse unbound audiences, acting as critical components in the transformation and improvement of society in reflecting these values as a community.
The overall effect of these key features and ideas furthermore identify ways that could improve our foresight into our own lives and develop further understanding into the shared fate of an inevitable death and a life of suffering and hardship, the human condition. |
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"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio...a fellow of infinite jest...borne me on his back a thousand times...and now how abhorred in my imagination it is!" - Hamlet (Act 5, Scene 1)
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