STRUGGLE IN H. G. WELLS’ NOVEL THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

This study constitutes an identification of the protagonist’s struggle in H. G. Wells’ novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. This study discusses the story of an English shipwreck survivor named Edward Prendick who is rescued from an accident and taken to an unnamed island to be mended by Montgomery. He is a man of science who works for Doctor Moreau in the island. The story deals with Prendick’s struggle to maintain his sanity due to Doctor Moreau terrifyingly peculiar works of vivisection practices. This study focuses on Doctor Moreau through Prendick’s point of view. Prendick, as the protagonist, experiences both internal and external struggle. He has to choose between saving his life or to obey Dr. Moreau to do his evil bidding. Otherwise, he has to keep his composure to blend with the island people. This study adopts descriptive qualitative method to characterise the mental struggle experienced by the protagonist. The study concludes that the protagonist experiences significant amount of both internal and external struggle throughout the story. The recommendation of this story is a moral lesson. The lesson is to face struggle head-on so you can defeat it. Hopefully, this study can be of relevance in future studies regarding the topic discussed in this study.

F. M. Dostoevsky – great human-lover, expert in human, well-wisher of human, sage and visionary

The philosophical meaning and humanistic pathos of F. M. Dostoevsky’s work is revealed, embodied in his novels and «The diary of a writer». The depth and bottomlessness of a person – the writer’s symbol of faith – are presented. The philosophical, ethical and psychological generalisations of the Russian writer are presented as the central point of the metaphysical problem of man as a personality, her life, quest, suffering, love, faith. The theory of F. M. Dostoevsky’s creativity is reconstructed, for which a person is interesting when he embarks on only his own, individual path, but passing which, highlights something typical for the entire people, its historical fate and destiny, strength and weakness. Only in the personal identity of each person is the general identity of the nation embodied; to defend in any circumstances the honour of the Russian man and the honour of his people – this is precisely what the citizen writer saw as the vocation of Russia. The dialectic of love, freedom, beauty and immortality as components of the meaning of human life is revealed. Against this background, death is presented as an inevitable moral lesson, the meaning of which is to sharpen the feelings of love and humility: love for man and humility before God. This understanding of life and death is opposed by demonic, a phenomenon devoid of love and humility. For F. M. Dostoevsky, who had an acute presentiment of future social upheavals in Russia and Europe, devilry is embodied in the revolutionary ideas of seizing power, restructuring society and man according to the patterns of political leaders who only yearn for domination and submission of others to their will. The prophecies and premonitions made by F. M. Dostoevsky about the future of Russia and its place in world history are characterised. The emphasis is on the writer’s rejection of the revolution as a fratricidal war and the denial of the viability of communist ideas and ideals. Only religiously coloured humanism can be opposed to these gloomy forecasts: a better future will come when people, based on the implementation of the main Christian thesis, to love their neighbour as themselves, will be able to unite into a single harmonious whole or the paradise of Christ.

In the Face of Fear, Rebellion (Liv., IV 49, 7-50)

This work aims to show that the Livian text of the patrician M. Postumius Regillensis was created as an exemplary tale with the intention of offering a moral lesson on the political concept of moderation (moderatio). Through the configuration of the bad ruler, who acts based on emotions such as anger, the author illustrates the fatal consequences for the ruler himself, as well as for those ruled by him, who let themselvesbe dragged by similar emotions.

(Re)Defining Fairy Tales: A Deontology Ethical Approach to Oscar Wilde’s Selected Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are often used by authors to impart their moral values and principles. This is commonly done through the portrayal of their main characters, including their personalities, actions, and the consequences of their actions. In some cases, authors use death as a moral lesson due to its connotation as a form of punishment for a character’s misdeed. However, Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales contradict the conventional aspect of death in classic fairy tales. His main characters experienced death or physical disfigurement in the end despite their actions which readers would perceive as good or morally permissible. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the theme of morality in Wilde’s selected fairy tales through a Deontology Ethical approach. This study addressed the relationship between the personalities and actions of Wilde’s selected characters, as well as the consequences of their actions. Furthermore, using Kantian Ethics, the study evaluated the moral permissibility of the characters’ maxims underlying their actions. The findings showed that the personalities of Wilde’s characters could be categorised into those who adhere to or oppose Kant’s definition of personality based on their actions. The study also highlighted the varying deaths that Wilde’s characters faced in the end. Additionally, the analysis suggests that the reasons behind the actions of Wilde’s characters could be categorised into “for duty” and “for other means”. At the end of this study, readers would be introduced to a different moral theory in understanding a character without justifying it based on the simple “right versus wrong” principle.

A re-visionist Her-story of De cierta manera ([1974] 1977): Reading Yoruba myth in Sara Gómez’s revolutionary classic1

Recent scholarship on Sara Gómez has expanded upon existing discourse on her work beyond her singular feature film, De cierta manera/One Way or Another ([1974] 1977) to examine not only her earlier documentary shorts of the 1960s, but to demonstrate the impact that her body of work has had on a subsequent generation of Cuban filmmakers who continue her mission to critique the Revolution through an antiracist and feminist lens – contemporary filmmakers such as Gloria Rolando, Sandra Gómez and Susana Barriga. This article seeks to push this conversation forward by arguing several interrelated points: (1) that De cierta manera contains symbolic, visually embedded references to a specific patakí (myth) about the Afro-Cuban orishas Ogun and Ochún; (2) that De cierta manera holds this in common with Gloria Rolando’s Oggun: An Eternal Presence (1991), which tells the patakí in a more explicit manner, and therefore the two films warrant comparison and (3) lastly, that this interpretation of De cierta manera offers a novel take on a ‘classic’ Cuban revolutionary film, offering additional interpretive layers that do not change the message of the film, per se, but complicate it by adding an additional filter through which to view and interpret it: that of Yoruba moral philosophy. The Afro-Cuban word patakí in Cuban Lucumí liturgical speech refers to a parable with a moral lesson, and is derived from the word pàtàkì, which means ‘[something] important’ in the Yorùbá language of West Africa. This article will attempt to answer how and why this particular myth is ‘important’ (pàtàkì) to the reading of De cierta manera and argue for a broader re-centring and privileging of African-derived philosophical frameworks within Cuban intellectual history and popular culture.

Doing Stylistic Versus Critical Stylistic: An Analysis of If by Rudyard Kipling

This paper displays the ideological positioning as found in Rudyard Kipling’s poem If. It is a poem published in 1910. It presents the embedded ideologies and shows how the poet used the available linguistic resources to achieve his goal. The models of analysis adopted are Critical Stylistics as proposed by Lesley Jeffries (2010) and Stylistic Analysis as submitted by McIntyre (2010). The paper aims at identifying the poet’s beliefs to show that success is the outcome of self-control and a real sense of the values of things. It is a try to discover how the poet used various linguistic choices to build a message telling us how to deal with life confidently and identify a line of ideological positioning through Critical Stylistic strategies. The paper presents a theoretical background of the term stylistics and critical stylistics, explaining the adopted models; Analyzing the poem stylistically with a focus on critical stylistic regarding two tools: Representing and Negating for their dominant use in the poem and their effectiveness in interpreting the hidden ideologies. Stylistic devices are used because they steer the text to enable the writer to reach the intended goal. In conclusion, the paper displays that the poet uses the stylistic tools in a brilliant way that leads All, not only his son, to follow and consider it a moral lesson of life.

Opera as a Moral Vehicle: Situating Bellini's Norma in the Political Complexities of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires

On 25 May 1849 Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma was premiered at the Teatro de la Victoria in Buenos Aires. It was performed four years before the downfall of Juan Manuel de Rosas, Governor of Buenos Aires for more than 20 years, in what it has been considered in Argentine historiography as a ‘terror regime’. The success of the opera combined with the political situation enables the understanding of Norma in political terms. A year prior to the premiere of the opera, the story of the elopement of a young, aristocratic, federal girl, Camila O'Gorman with the priest Uladislao Gutiérrez, had shocked local society. It was followed by another shocking event when, once the couple was found, Rosas decided to have them executed. I argue that the inadvertent similarity between the plot of Norma and the events in relation to Camila O'Gorman's death led to possible interpretations of the opera performance as a justification of Rosas's decision to execute Camila and her lover, whilst also providing a moral lesson to young aristocratic women. In this article, I therefore explore the plausible political overtones hidden in the performance of Norma by comparing librettos and analysing the opera's reception between 1849 and 1851 in the periodicals of the time. In this way, I cast light on a heretofore overlooked, but undeniably rich, period of operatic life in Buenos Aires.

Exile

This chapter examines the way the poet represents his exile. It is composed of three parts: the first considers the way Dante handles his exile in relation to authorship, and reveals how he constructs his authority from his position as an exile in the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and his Epistles. The second analyses exile as a major element of the autobiographical dimension of the Commedia. It shows that the necessity to grasp the moral lesson of the exile constitutes the very heart of the poem. The third part explores the relationship between exile and pilgrimage, the latter being, from the Vita Nuova onwards, a symbol of the human condition, and demonstrates how Dante interprets his experience both as an exile and as a wanderer in the other world in the light of pilgrimage.

STORYTELLING USING RECONSTRUCTED INDONESIAN FOLKTALES IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION TO IMPROVE THE READING SKILL OF PRIMARY 2 STUDENTS IN SCHOOL X

<p>Folktales are stories originating in people’s culture, typically passed on by word of mouth before writing systems were developed. It has been known that children stories are never simple stories. The stories generally contain edifying elements and moral lesson to educate children and shape their characters. These elements are even stronger in folktales as they are potential medium to carry moral education from generation to generation. Unfortunately, not all of them contain teachings that are relevant to today’s values and even contain teachings that have unconstructive values. This study used reconstructed folktalesNilam Kandungas the purposes of this study were: (1) to describe the use and implementation of storytelling using Indonesian folktales in order to improve English reading skill towards English comprehension text, vocabulary and fluency of primary 2 students, (2) to analyze primary 2 students’ reading comprehension, vocabulary and fluency as they engaged in reading the Indonesian folktales through storytelling method, (3) to identify problems and obstacles that happened during the implementation process. The subjects of this study are Primary 2 students consist of 26 students. The research used classroom action research design and the instruments are tests.The results showed that (1) students’ vocabulary, comprehension and fluency as parts in reading skills are enhanced, (2) students’ sense of moral education is enhanced (3) storytelling using Indonesian folktales is attractive to students in reading English texts.</p><p><strong>BAHASA INDONESIA ABSTRACT:</strong> Cerita rakyat adalah cerita asli dalam kebudayaan, biasanya diteruskan dari mulut ke mulut sebelum sistem menulis dikembangkan. Sudah sejak dahulu diketahui bahwa cerita anak-anak tidaklah pernah cerita yang sederhana. Cerita-cerita tersebut pada umumnya mengandung unsur-unsur yang dapat mempengaruhi pikiran dan pelajaran moral untuk mendidik dan membentuk karakter. Unsur-unsur ini bahkan lebih kuat di dalam cerita rakyat karena cerita rakyat adalah perantara yang berpotensi untuk membawa pendidikan moral dari generasi ke generasi. Sayangnya, tidak semuanya mengandung pengajaran yang masih relevan dengan nilai-nilai kini dan bahkan mengandung pengajaran yang memiliki nilai-nilai yang bersifat tidak membangun.Studi ini menggunakan cerita rakyat terkonstruksi ulang <em>Nilam Kandung</em>karena tujuan dari studi ini adalah: (1) mendeskripsikan penggunaan dan penerapan bercerita menggunakan cerita rakyat Indonesia untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca Bahasa Inggris dalam memahami bacaan, perbendaharaan kata dan kelancaran membaca dalam Bahasa Inggris siswa kelas 2, (2) menganalisa kemampuan membaca bahasa Inggris siswa kelas 2 ketika mereka sedang terlibat dalam membaca cerita rakyat Indonesia melalui metode bercerita, (3) mengidentifikasikan masalah dan rintangan-rintangan yang terjadi selama proses pelaksanaan.Subjek dari studi ini adalah siswa kelas 2 yang terdiri dari 26 siswa. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan penelitian tindakan kelas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) keterampilan membaca siswa perbendaharaan kata, memahami bacaan dan kelancaran membaca meningkat, (2) pendidikan moral siswa meningkat(3) bercerita dengan menggunakan cerita rakyat Indonesia lebih menarik bagi siswa dalam membaca teks Bahasa Inggris.</p>

Doing Stylistic Versus Critical Stylistic: An Analysis of If by Rudyard Kipling

This paper displays the ideological positioning as found in Rudyard Kipling’s poem If. It is a poem published in 1910. It presents the embedded ideologies and shows how the poet used the available linguistic resources to achieve his goal. The models of analysis adopted are Critical Stylistics as proposed by Lesley Jeffries (2010) and Stylistic Analysis as submitted by McIntyre (2010). The paper aims at identifying the poet’s beliefs to show that success is the outcome of self-control and a real sense of the values of things. It is a try to discover how the poet used various linguistic choices to build a message telling us how to deal with life confidently and identify a line of ideological positioning through Critical Stylistic strategies. The paper presents a theoretical background of the term stylistics and critical stylistics, explaining the adopted models; Analyzing the poem stylistically with a focus on critical stylistic regarding two tools: Representing and Negating for their dominant use in the poem and their effectiveness in interpreting the hidden ideologies. Stylistic devices are used because they steer the text to enable the writer to reach the intended goal. In conclusion, the paper displays that the poet uses the stylistic tools in a brilliant way that leads All, not only his son, to follow and consider it a moral lesson of life.