For my final project I read Primo Levi’s book Survival in Auschwitz. I had just started reading the book and was reading the author’s preface and I was extremely taken back by something that he said. ” It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944, that is, after the German […]
Shipwrecked and forced to live on a deserted island. Enslaving men for personal gains. Facing moral dilemmas that involve saving others’ lives. The idea of providence. All of these motifs exist in both Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Sy Salkowitz’s The Swiss Family Robinson. While there seem to be many liberties taken with Defoe’s original […]
“There was, too, a feeling that as long as I remained my normal self things might even yet, in some inconceivable way, return to their normal” (Wyndham 39). In The Day of the Triffids, Wyndham creates a story to explain what would happen if civilization were to fall under bad circumstances. This is a pretty common theme throughout […]